The Dord of Darien

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lol @ Mets

Well that’s just Schadenfreuderiffic. After a whole season of leading the NL East, after being up seven games just two weeks ago, the Mets are now officially out of the postseason. They needed to win all of seven of their last seventeen games to be guaranteed a postseason berth, and they couldn’t do it.

Meanwhile, the fucking Rockies may not have won 14 straight to steal the wild card from the back of the pack, but they only missed one which was good enough for a draw. So we’ll see if they can finish stealing the Padres’ season from them tomorrow. I say signs point to yes.


October 1st, 2007 Posted by | Baseball | 4 comments

4 Comments »

  1. As a Red Sox fan, I enjoy seeing the Mets lose (less so now that 2004 has taken most of the sting out of 1986, but still), but what I don’t get is all the people crowing that this is the “worst collapse EVAR” or some such. Sure, it’s pretty bad. 7 games up with 17 to play and you blow it. But the ’64 Phillies blew a 6 1/2 game lead with only 12 to play. That has to rate as a worse collapse than what the Mets pulled off this year.

    And of course, if we’re going to talk about collapses, we need to mention the 2004 Yankees becoming the only team in over 100 years of pro baseball to blow a 3-0 lead in a best of seven post season series. That’s pretty EPIC right there.

    Comment by Dave | 1 October 2007

  2. Yeah, I wouldn’t call it the worst collapse EVAR, but it’s definitely a bad one. I mean, even coming from the perspective of a Cubs fan, that was a harsh collapse – they had the whole division locked down all season and then they cracked in the last two weeks and lost their postseason spot to a team that just recently made history by being the first team to post 10000 cumulative losses?

    Harsh.

    Comment by Darien | 2 October 2007

  3. I don’t watch sports but the Rockies are some pretty sweet mountains.

    Comment by Eric | 4 October 2007

  4. Baseball > mountains.

    Just FYI.

    Comment by Darien | 5 October 2007

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