The Mets Season Is Not Over

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The series against the Braves was a fucking disaster. The Mets scored a total of seven runs over the weekend and managed to somehow pull off looking like they were both pressing and lifeless. It was a brutal series that the Mets had their great starting pitchers lined up for and they all failed one by one. The Braves are 77-32 (.706) since June 1st and outplayed the Mets in every facet of the game all weekend.

The mood in the office today is…not great.

Frank was absolutely right about the Mets not winning the division. He's been preaching that for a few weeks now that the Braves don't lose and they will catch the Mets. I do think he's wrong that the Mets won't beat the Padres and I don't think this season is lost despite the nightmare weekend.

Here's why:

-It's not that the Mets choked. They've been 34-24 since August 1st. The Braves just became the 1927 Yankees when the calendar turned to June and were unbeatable. The Mets are still a good team.

-The Mets will beat the Padres in the Wild Card round. All the games are in Citi Field. The Mets are 51-27 at home this year and will have deGrom/Scherzer/Bassitt ready to go.

-Much has been made of Yu Darvish being 5-0 lifetime against the Mets. I'm not sure how relevant that is. How Darvish did against the 2017 Mets when they had Jay Bruce and Neil Walker in the lineup doesn't matter much to me. What does matter is his ERA is almost a run higher on the road this year. 

Mets Twitter has almost become the sports version of political twitter. One group of fans is negative about everything and you have the other group of ultra-positive fans who make every loss sound like a victory. The Frank's of the world were absolutely right about this weekend and the division. The Mets made a panic movie calling up Francisco Alvarez and expecting a 20 year old kid to cure the offense. The lineup hasn't been right since Starling Marte got hurt. The Frank's of the world are correct to point that out. 

Some of his other predictions might not come true.

But if he's right about this one, I'll believe he is a sorcerer and it sounds like I'll have to start looking at potential new teams to root for in 2026.

The Mets are in the playoffs for the first time in six years. They already have 98 wins and could finish with 101. These are great things for this fan base. If they do lose to the Padres or the Dodgers, then we'll have all winter to do the autopsy and discuss why the trade deadline deals went wrong or this last dreadful weekend. But the playoffs start Friday and since 2016, every Mets fan has been waiting for these postseason games. The last Mets playoff game was so long ago that Barack Obama was still president.

There's something to be said for enjoying the moment. I don't think it'll be another six years until the next postseason trip but I wouldn't have ever thought it would be a six year wait when Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom were both elite and in the same rotation and Yeonis Cespedes was still hitting over 30 home runs a season.

Enjoy it. There is a whole winter ahead of us to be disappointed. Why start now?