There isn’t really any correlation between September performance and playoff success.
The Mets are doing there best to prove momentum doesn’t exist alternating great wins with terrible losses. They should be in good shape though if they can take 2 out of three this weekend. I mean what are the odds of a historic collapse two years in a row…
Which means the team missed a golden opportunity of growing their fanbase.
I hope it’s unique. I’ve been pulling for Tampa Bay.
The Yankees cannot be the recipient of any positive vibes whatsoever. You’ve got to keep 'em down and pound that stake into their hearts.
Let’s hope the big event for Yankees fans for 2008 turns out to be the enormously expensive free agent signing of CC Sabathia, after which he reverts to some of his unspectacular Cleveland Indians form under the harsh glare of New York publicity.
White Sox are still in first, despite losing the last 6 of 10. The last two to the Indians were just out right ass whoopings, though I thought they could’ve won the series against Tampa Bay. The Angels will be tough to get past, and I wouldn’t be surprised with a sweep knowing how well the Sox do out on the West Coast. Twins should look pretty good against the Tigers. Didn’t the Sox do this last month? Hopefully, after a slow end, the month starts off hot again. It doesn’t help, though, that the Red Sox still win and at this rate will get the wild card.
Why? Are you worried about a sweep?
Go D-backs!
Let’s just say I see a very good opportunity for this weekend to end with a different team in first place in the NL West…
Don’t worry. No positive vibes. It’s more like: “oh crap, the Yankees are winning. Oh well, I guess that’s better for us. shrug”
I wouldn’t worry about the Colorado Rockies. That was so last year.
Once the D-backs sweep the Dodgers, we’ll take the NL West division win on to a World Series victory.
I’ll be attending my first* and only* National League game of the year when I visit the US and spend a week at my folks place in LA.
We have tickets for the Dodgers-Gints (not a typo) on Friday the 19th. It’ll be the first time I’ve sat in the right field pavilion (for the All-You-Can-Eat special) since I was a kid.
Hopefully the Boys in Blue will have captured first place by then. GO BLUE!
Well, the Dodgers won’t get first place. But, enjoy the game. The NL West has great stadiums. I’ve spent some happy days in Dodger Stadium. If they include Dodger dogs in the all you can eat special, be sure to have one.
Thanks. I visit Dodger Stadium once a year when I go there to see my family. I try to catch an Angels game too, but they’re out of town that week. Oh and yes, I read that Dodger Dogs are included in the deal. I’ll probably get more than one. Hehehe. 
Not really alternating – since August 5th, they haven’t lost more than two in a row, and are 21-8 in that stretch. Most of those eight losses were due to the bullpen collapsing – not unexpected with your closer on the DL – but the bullpen has been good enough the rest of the time. Not lights out, but able to keep the other team just at bay.
Offensively, the team has been getting great production from some of their rookies (Daniel Murphy in particular), and now had gotten the starting right fielder back from the DL. Carlos Delgado has regained his stroke (there’s talk of him being MVP, but that’s ridiculous) and even Luis Castillo looks like he’s coming around.
And, next week, they’re bringing up Al Reyes from the minors, so they’ll have three Reyes in the lineup: Jose, Argenis, and Al. We’re trying to figure out scenarios where you have a Reyes to Reyes to Reyes double play (most possible: men on first and second, liner glances off Al’s glove to Jose, who tags the runner and tosses to Argenis at second).
Too bad they didn’t make a trade with St. Louis for Anthony Reyes when they had the chance. You can’t have too many Reyes in the bullpen.
And for those of you scoring at home, too bad.
This being baseball and all, that’s probably a good thing for both of them.
Well, there are 2 men named “Ambiorix” in the farm system right now, though, so there’s hope for a 2-Ambiorix team. There’s also a fair chance the Martinezes will outnumber the Reyeses soon.
RealityChuck “stole my thunder” as they like to say on WFAN (I don’t really have any thunder, I’m actually just partly cloudy), but Mets seem to me to be bouncing back from bad losses, and have been playing well above .500 for at least 2 months (18-8 in July, 18-11 in August). It’s heartening that they just swept the Brewers, a tough team that seems like their mostly likely opponent should they win the East. It would be more heartening if they can take 2 from Philly and if Johann Santana can beat Cole Hamels on Sunday. Should be a great game for those of you who like pitching and hate cheap home runs.
Are Saturday and Sunday’s Mets/Phillies games on Fox and ESPN for the whole country? That seems like overkill for out-of-market fans, and like most humans with functioning ears I hate the games on Fox and ESPN. Now, if we were inflicting Gary, Keith & Ron on the whole country…
For eons the numbers of Mets fans at Marlins home games and Yankees fans at Rays home games has been shameful. I have to say I’m rooting for the Rays to get to the Series, but the end of the Yankee run isn’t bringing me the bitter thrill of schadenfreude than it would have, um, 7 years ago. Don’t know why that is – I guess it’s been such a long, slow anticlimax since 2003.
You know if Boston doesn’t remember how to lose soon, the Yankees are not going to be able to stage their dramatic comeback this year.
Jimmy baby, it’s okay, because we’re both on the same delusional short bus.
Only I’m the one who has been saying since June, " Yah, TB is gonna fall off the number one spot any day now."
Well, for all the Cardinal fans, let me say it was a fine run up until last weekends face plant against the Astros. I don’t see any real shot at the wild card at this point.
My friends that are Cubbies vacilate between elation and dread. They hate it when I mention goats, black cats and Bartmans. They just don’t understand I do it with love, so they aren’t crushed under their high expectations when something really strange happens to the Cubs.
As a Brewers fan, I’ve personally been invoking the name of Murphy/Sinovia/Bartman since about the All-Star break.
I’m a Braves fan, so this year has been pretty depressing, but there have been a few highlights for me, at least -
I have a (perfectly rational, I assure you) hatred of Francoeur, so in a season like this, when the difference between first and (ugh) fourth place is greater than the difference between a lousy right fielder and a good one, I’m happy to watch him suffer.
The off-season ought to be interesting, since Wren has essentially declared the whole team (sans Chipper, McCann, Escobar, and presumably Kotchman, as lousy as his first month with the team was) on the trading block. Meanwhile, the ownership has given hints that they might finally pay up for free agents. Knowing the Braves, though, they probably won’t offer enough.