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The Official 2024 NY Mets Thread

storrsroars said:
I probably know more Mets history from 1962-2002 than you, Mr. Fat Jack Fisher.

Do you even know who Emmanuel Clase is?
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He barely recognizes the good players on the Mets, he's a few decades away from knowing the best RP in baseball. Who also happened to give up 60% of the runs he allowed all season tonight. It turns out being a RP is hard
 
storrsroars said:
I probably know more Mets history from 1962-2002 than you, Mr. Fat Jack Fisher.

Do you even know who Emmanuel Clase is?
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Bet Tigers because of Skubal moneyline and cashed in as your boy spit the bit.
 
Deepster said:
He is still only 30. And he threw 100 pitches over a 5 day period. I am NOT ready to lump him in with Armando Benitez....god, my therapist just got me over Benitez, I can't go back there right now.
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We won't even mention Braden Looper's name then...
 
FanInNC said:
We won't even mention Braden Looper's name then...
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I'll do you one better. I used to have a Doug Sisk baseball card voodoo doll I stuck pins in his elbow and shoulder.

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Ha. That's before my memory - John Franco is the closer I first remember. Looper is the one that gives me nightmares still.
 
geez, it's almost 8:30pm and not a peep from y'all. You guys all passed out already?

Congrats, btw.
 
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I thought tonight “the Phillies have no idea who they’re playing”. It’s like they’re in shock at how we are overmatching them in every aspect so far. Like our chemistry and mojo have them silenced.
 
Pete and Winker setting the tone early with those big shots and Manaea throwing like an Ace!

Man, what I’m most impressed with is how this staff is performing. In the off season these guys were risks. Severino with injury issues on a 1 year prove it deal. Manaea on a 1 year prove it deal. Peterson I don’t even think made the opening day roster. Quintana in the twilight of his career after an injury last season. This was not Verlander and Max or Thor, Harvey and DeGrom. Very much a patch work staff with its “ace”, Senga, on the shelf.

Manaea was fantastic last night. Sevy was amazing for 5 2/3 last game. Peterson and Senga were awesome game 1. Quintana was masterful against Milwaukee.

Our bats have come alive late in these games and provided the highlights and memories but the starting pitching has kept us in these games and given us a chance.

1 win away from the NLCS! Let’s finish them off tonight! No need to go back to Philly! Hope Quintana delivers another gem and maybe tonight it’s Lindor and Alvarez’s turn to have the big hits to push us over!
 
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up 4-1 give me 5 insurance as diaz will surely make it interrsting.
 
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Get that pumpkin a seat for the trip to SoCal!!!
 
Love these lefties. My god they have been great. Not good, great.
 
Just watched all the post game. The theme that came out of it was a real bond of family and love.

1) Mendoza spoke about doing this for the family that supports them all and the fans that pushed them all year, then popped the bottles.
2) Lindor said he's never said "I love you" to so many guys like he has the last couple weeks.
3) Nimmo really soaking in being a lifetime Met and enjoying the moment.
4) All the families on the field with the players, the kids everywhere, Lindor and his daughter at his presser. Mendoza made a comment that this is what it means to be a Met and part of this franchise.

I know my head is in the clouds, but I can't help but feel they're building something real special here.
 
Deepster said:
Just watched all the post game. The theme that came out of it was a real bond of family and love.

1) Mendoza spoke about doing this for the family that supports them all and the fans that pushed them all year, then popped the bottles.
2) Lindor said he's never said "I love you" to so many guys like he has the last couple weeks.
3) Nimmo really soaking in being a lifetime Met and enjoying the moment.
4) All the families on the field with the players, the kids everywhere, Lindor and his daughter at his presser. Mendoza made a comment that this is what it means to be a Met and part of this franchise.

I know my head is in the clouds, but I can't help but feel they're building something real special here.
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Good thing Frank Cashen is dead so he can't dump Lindor in favor of Zach Neto.
 
We blew so many chances with runners on early in the game that I thought it was just going to be one of those nights where we can't get it done. Then for some reason, when Tyrone Taylor grounded that ball just barely foul down the 3rd base line, I got oddly confident. It just seemed like things couldn't keep going against us, that at some point the dam would burst. I was expecting an RBI single or double though, not what Lindor did. What an incredible year he's had.
 
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Lindor is quickly becoming my favorite Met of all time.

What a game! All of those blown chances early, Quintana was GREAT. Peterson has been GREAT. The pen has had it's issues but Peterson has been a machine out of there!

Hopefully Diaz will gain some confidence from getting out of that jam and finishing it off. We need him to return to form next round.
 
Is it prisoner of the moment to think Lindor's homer against the Braves, Alonso's homer against the Brewers and then Lindor's grand slam against the Phillies are all top 10 homers in Mets history?
 
FanInNC said:
Is it prisoner of the moment to think Lindor's homer against the Braves, Alonso's homer against the Brewers and then Lindor's grand slam against the Phillies are all top 10 homers in Mets history?
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There haven't been many more post season HR's with that level of magnitude and timing.

For instance, I've always said Dykstra leading off Game 3 of the 1986 WS with a HR was a huge, huge moment for that team. They lost the first 2 in NY, went to Fenway and Dykstra set the tone in the first at bat. They won the game 7-1 and you know the rest. You could argue, that hit started the ball rolling and was key for what eventually happened. But......it's nowhere NEAR any of the 3 mentioned from this season already.
 
Deepster said:
There haven't been many more post season HR's with that level of magnitude and timing.

For instance, I've always said Dykstra leading off Game 3 of the 1986 WS with a HR was a huge, huge moment for that team. They lost the first 2 in NY, went to Fenway and Dykstra set the tone in the first at bat. They won the game 7-1 and you know the rest. You could argue, that hit started the ball rolling and was key for what eventually happened. But......it's nowhere NEAR any of the 3 mentioned from this season already.
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I'd agree with this. The only walk off HR I can recall in an elimination game was Pratt's. Nails bomb in game 3 in '86 was big as it changed momentum. I'd argue that Al Weis' two bombs vs Orioles in '69 belong because Al Weis home runs are demoralizing to opponents, lol.

I don't know everything that's gone on with the Mets since 2007 when I switched allegiance to the Pirates, but during the 40+ years I was a die hard Mets fan, I'm hard pressed to think of more than seven game/series changing bombs that would eliminate any of the three mentioned above from the top 10.
 
The timing of these were all so clutch. All were close out games. The first closing out the season and punching the ticket to the playoffs in the 9th inning against the divisional rival Braves. Alonso's obviously in a do or die game in the 9th while trailing, season on the line. And while Lindor's grand slam was only in the 6th, we were losing and it proved to be the winning hit to advance.

Ventura's grand slam single against the Braves comes to mind although we lost that series. Todd Pratt's walk off to advance to the NLCS comes to mind as well. Not sure I can come up with another in my lifetime at least.
 
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