31-32.
They need 59 more wins to get to 90 wins.
Thats 59-40 ball.
Which is .595 ball.
When I wrote this at 9:45 no MLB team had played .595 for the season.
The season is fun but the math is the math.
I hope I am wrong, they make the playoffs and you all mock me. I want to be wrong.
Well, I think the ‘given’ behind your theory — that it will take 90 wins to grab the NL WC is incorrect — that being said, there are 5 teams ahead of them, 3 of those are 2 games or less back in the loss column, the other two only 4 games ahead. Just think relative to the field, it is far too early to lament the math.
However, I will mock you either way it goes, just to make you feel better, MP
hey now, someone kick your dog tonight? OPTIMISM!
They still control their own destiny, and will for a while. Get the wins when they count, against the right teams, and 90 won’t even be the number they need.
“You are what your recoed says you are!”
We can do it if we play the PIRATES EVERY night!
LETS GO METS!
Your record says how many games you won and lost this year, that’s it.
Look at it this way there are about 16 weeks left in the season. If we play 1 game over 500 for each of the next 16 weeks, we’re at 87 wins. 87 gets us in the conversation.
There’s no reason to even address this until the team stays at .500 for more than 24 hours.
Speaking to Rich’s point, are the Brewers, Braves, and Rockies the only above-.500 teams against whom our guys have won a series so far, or am I missing some?
No one is going to hand the Mets the trophy, but there is enough time. With Santana coming back, there is reason for hope.
A ten-game win streak would change the thinking substantially.
Don’t forget the Marlins were a +.500 team who we beat in a series.
Nah, that was 2 out of 3 in the opening series of the season, thus they were sub-.500 at the time.
The Fish came into the next series above .500, but that resulted in one Mets loss and one rainout.
As I’m sure most of us Mets fans painfully recall, the Cardinals won the World Series by limping into the playoffs with 83 wins in 2006.