Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

ESPN write about a great site called Cool Standings.  

Basically it simulates the season one million times a day, uses some stats you can read about there – and spits out a number.

The Mets have a 9.2% shot at the division, only a 5.2% shot at the Wild Card for a total 14% chance of making it.   

I hope that Cool Standings are wrong and that the Mets do make it, but then again I was the guy who spent most of the 1990’s telling friends the Mets “were done” on April 30th because Bobby V always had them 8 games back.   I was also always right.

Yankees fans (10%) might hate this site, but it’s looking good for The Rays and for Joe Torre’s Formerly Brooklyn Dodgers.


http://www.coolstandings.com/baseball_standings.asp?i=1

I was looking at the standings (I need to know how the Rays did, they won), and I see that the Formerly Brooklyn Dodgers are a half game out.  I thought that might make Fred Wilpon happy.

I was wondering who manages that team – turns out the guys name is Joe Torre.   Joe was an available manager during the past offseason when Omar decided to keep Willie Randolph.  

I always think of the great fireworks game from 1985 when I think of Juky 5th.  Sure the game started on July 4th and lots of people brought this up yesterday, but I want to sleep in this morning so here’s a generic pre-post.

MLB.com’s 30 years of TBS

July 4, 1985 — Braves-Mets July 4th marathon game (fireworks at 4 a.m. ET). Rick Camp kept the Braves alive with his two-out 18th-inning homer and then allowed the Mets to end this marathon contest with five runs in the 19th inning. After this twice rain-delayed game concluded at 3:55 a.m. ET, some Atlanta citizens were awoke by the Independence Day fireworks display.

Mets Police are off to enjoy fireworks but come on guys, did Charlie Samuels not realize the $35 hats would look better with gray than black.

Idiots. Over and over and over. Never ends. They yet again look like the Dunder Mifflin softball team.

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I kinda like these (it is blue) – and I like charity but $35 for a cap?  I’ve been looking around, it’s $35 everywhere.  

Normally New Era Caps are $25….so I guess we’re donating $10 to charity?   New Era couldn’t knock off a few bucks?