Mets 2024 Season

Anyone know if Gary Cohen is… healthy?

He has a massive lump on the side of his face that I’ve never really noticed until he’s been on this SNY postgame crew
 
There was some nervous energy in that building tonight but cometh the hour, cometh the man! Not enough superlatives in the book about #12.

You don’t have to believe in destiny but there is something special that’s gone on here since June and unlike anything I’ve ever experienced in my 36 years rooting for this team. Hopefully I can get to another game, that was one to remember!
 
So this is what it feels like to win important games! What a hit by Lindor. For all the crap he got in the past, he is beyond all that.

I work for a Philly based company. The dad of my colleague who sits next is a sports reporter for one of the area tv stations. Should be fun today.
 
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Btw, what is up with bullpen games in the playoffs? I don’t count Senga/Peterson as a real bullpen game. But rather the LA/SD game or the Det/Cleveland game where they are throwing 8/9 pitchers. Both Detroit and Cleveland look pretty bad. I have a hard time not seeing the WS champ coming from the NL.
 
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Dodgers/Padres playing a do or die game 5 is chef’s kiss for the Mets. Both of their pitching staffs are on fumes.

Of course, everyone said that about the Mets and well here we are.
 
sjc88 said:
Dodgers/Padres playing a do or die game 5 is chef’s kiss for the Mets. Both of their pitching staffs are on fumes.

Of course, everyone said that about the Mets and well here we are.
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There were 15 pitchers used in game 4, only one pitched 2 innings, 2 pitched 1.2 innings, 4 pitched 1.1; the remaining 8 pitched an inning or less. Of the 15, 8 threw less than 20 pitches, one threw 29, one 30, one 39; the rest were low 20’s. With a day off, I don’t think the staffs should be anywhere near on fumes. But admittedly I don’t buy into even a little bit to the modern view of pitching activity, to emphasize, not in the least.
 
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There were 15 pitchers used in game 4, only one pitched 2 innings, 2 pitched 1.2 innings, 4 pitched 1.1; the remaining 8 pitched an inning or less. Of the 15, 8 threw less than 20 pitches, one threw 29, one 30, one 39; the rest were low 20’s. With a day off, I don’t think the staffs should be anywhere near on fumes. But admittedly I don’t buy into even a little bit to the modern view of pitching activity, to emphasize, not in the least.
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I agree with you re:today’s baseball. They create these crazy pitch rules and up/downs nonsense.

However, here is Dodgers Manager regarding who starts Game 5. Not clear who is starting game 5 and he may do bullpenning thing again.

Keep in mind the Padres brought back Dylan Cease on short rest and they pulled him early. He got beat up. Padres are using Darvish for Game 5. Neither Cease or Darvish will be available for Game 1 vs Mets.

 
Great night at Citi. Strolling across the wooden walkway from the railroad on the way in, the jerseys fans wore spanned the history of the Mets. Agee, Seaver, Strawberry, Hernandez, Carter, Piazza, Wright, deGrom, Syndergaard, Lindor, Alonso and many more.

It has felt different for a few weeks now. Fans are so locked in to the overachievement and surprise of this group that even a loss wouldn't change that. Certainly would hurt, but the fear and negativity that exists in every Mets fan was largely gone. It was like a kid in a street fight with nothing to lose because they are outmannef but instead of cowering fight like hell and expecting to win.

I've been there through the generations. Bought box seats in 1969 for $3.50 when the ticket sellers at the booths would even take a buck or two from a little kid to give you better seats. (Mostly sat in the nosebleeds clipping milk carton coupons for those $1.25 seats.

I was at the Pete Rose playoff game in 73 when Buddy was my favorite Met - the only player close to my skinny 145 lbs. Same season was at Willie Mays "Willie, it's time to say goodbye to America" night.

Then it was pure fun back then. We foolishly expected to win but weren't afraid to lose. We could slay beasts and dragons on the arms of great young pitchers while unlikely heroes drove in big runs.

From then on, that kind of feeling has been vacant. The Wilpons took over and with them the sense that owners loved the team and winning more than anything.

It is now back after 50 years. Even down 1-0 and Sanchez in a groove, it didn't feel like Bumgarner mowing us down hopelessly in the 2016 playoffs. Fans in the seats, which were totally excess because everyone stood all game, were counting pitches, waiting for our moment to break out.

They didn't disappoint. I ran to the men's room with the bases loaded and a pitching change and said jokingly to the guys in front of me on the unusually short line, "I hope I miss this home run" and they laughed.

The food line was empty so i risked grabbing some things when Lindor strode to the plate. Then i heard the stadium explode as they brought my food and knew it was a homerun cheer. I celebrated with the counter girls who were jumping up and down. Magical moment.

Of course Diaz provided 9th inning drama before getting it in gear.

I've been to division clinchers at Shea, in Chicago in 2015 when we won the league, and a bunch of great moments. Last night was special for more reasons I can share. An all time great moment in Mets history.

LGM!!!
 
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Now that we have some “moments” again with the Mets (still waiting on the big prize), the Knicks seem headed for bigger things wouldn’t it be something if our beloved St. John’s team has a big season or at least a good tournament “run” in them?

The Mets are making me believe that anything is possible again.
 
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Steve Cohen on Mets advancing to NLCS: ‘I’ve been waiting for this for years'

After the Mets clinched a place in the NLCS, owner Steve Cohen is excited for the postseason run to continue and praised the atmosphere at Citi Field during the 2024 MLB postseason.
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"I’ve been waiting for this for years,” Cohen said. “I wanted this place packed. I want to slay the negative Met fan perception and we’re on our way to doing that. Let’s keep it going.”

What makes this even more exciting to me is that we finally have the triumvirate of Cohen-Stearns-Mendoza to make this sustainable and long-term. This feels more like a beginning to a new Mets era than desperately winning in a small championship window.
 
sjc88 said:
I agree with you re:today’s baseball. They create these crazy pitch rules and up/downs nonsense.

However, here is Dodgers Manager regarding who starts Game 5. Not clear who is starting game 5 and he may do bullpenning thing again.

Keep in mind the Padres brought back Dylan Cease on short rest and they pulled him early. He got beat up. Padres are using Darvish for Game 5. Neither Cease or Darvish will be available for Game 1 vs Mets.

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Not at all unusual, and I think the norm, that pitching rotations are out of whack from the optimum the deeper a team goes in the playoffs. That is different than a staff operating on fumes which is the point you made I was addressing.
As an aside, managing a pitching staff is arguably a managers main responsibility so if Roberts has problems 4 games into the playoffs having the time after clinching and the 5 days off until they played while the wild card series was decided to figure it out he has no one to blame but himself.
While I didn’t always agree with Mendoza’s decisions, the bottom line reality is he figured it out quite well while playing 9 games in the same time span.
 
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