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In short<\/a>: New York Mets sweep Chicago Cubs, advance to World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s a good thing that I\u2019ll mostly be offline throughout the next week, and if all goes\u00a0really\u00a0<\/em>well, will basically miss the World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not that I\u00a0hate\u00a0<\/em>the Mets, it\u2019s just the fact that they\u2019re the Mets; in the same division with the Braves,\u00a0 they\u2019re supposed to suck, LOLMets, etc, etc\u2026 and seeing them storm their way through the playoffs and now into the World Series?\u00a0\u00a0 Sure, there\u2019s some jealousy, resentment, but there\u2019s also a good bit of awe, disbelief, and wonder at the fact that the scary thing is that they\u2019re exhibiting a lot of patterns and trends that typically go hand-in-hand with previous World Champions; all the pitching coming together to form these chains of dominance, Yoenis Cespedes has been playing out of his mind, since arriving in New York, in pursuit of both a ring as well as a huge fatty contract at season\u2019s end.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And then there\u2019s Daniel Murphy, whom probably nobody expected would go all Carlos Beltran on the playoffs this year; hitting home runs in six straight games at the time I\u2019m writing this.\u00a0 Surely, nobody would have imagined the guy that once had no position or role on the team, to be the biggest contributor to the offense during this entire run, but that\u2019s what sometimes happens when the slates are wiped clean, and players have a chance to do the biggest good when the stakes are the highest.\u00a0 Ironically, I\u2019m sure this little offensive outburst isn\u2019t necessarily going to result in a Carlos Beltran-like contract from anyone at season\u2019s end, but it\u2019s still a nice little story for those who are Mets and\/or Daniel Murphy fans.<\/span><\/p>\n Did you know that one thing in common that lots of championship teams have in common are pitching rotations that miss a minimal number of starts?\u00a0 And the Mets fall into that same category, with the exception of seven fairly mediocre Dillon Gee starts, having the same five pitchers, Harvey, deGrom, Syndergaard, Niese and the ageless Bartolo Colon basically pitching every single game this season?<\/span><\/p>\n Yeah, all of this is gross, to me.\u00a0 The fact that we\u2019re this close to having a baseball season where the Mets could potentially be the World Champions, is just a little bit nauseating.<\/span><\/p>\n Imagine what it\u2019d be like, if I were still at my most maniacal baseball fandom; I\u2019d probably be wanting to slit my wrists and be trying to make voodoo dolls of David Wright or something.<\/span><\/p>\n At the time I\u2019m writing this, the Royals and Blue Jays have yet to settle up in the ALCS; it goes without saying that I\u2019m most definitely pulling for the Royals, and actively hoping that they go all the way; it\u2019s rare that baseball fans get a second chance, and that\u2019s just what the Royals might get, if they can just put the Blue Jays away, and advance to the World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n But a Blue Jays and Mets World Series?\u00a0 Bleh.<\/span><\/p>\n Have one game in Las Vegas, and one game in Buffalo; the two cities intertwined between the two of them as current\/former homes of their Triple-A affiliates that they basically fought over, and then maybe there would be some drama worth watching.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless, I can\u2019t help but have this sinking feeling in my gut that regardless of whomever comes out of the American League, personally, I\u2019d have to give the edge to the Mets, because their pitching is just so locked in right now, and I\u2019m having flashbacks to like the 2005 White Sox, where their starters just kept delivering shutout after shutout en route to the World championship, and the Mets are simply playing like a team of destiny that just might do the same.\u00a0 The old adage of baseball is that good pitching always prevails over good hitting, and the Mets just made it very literal, with their dismantling of the Cubs and their lineup of supposed great young hitters.<\/span><\/p>\n Like I said, I\u2019m going to be offline pretty much all of next week, so hopefully the Royals finish off the Blue Jays, and go into the World Series, defy sabermetric-Moneyball convention further, and sweep the Mets and win it all.\u00a0 Barring that, hopefully the Mets get the job done quickly, while I can\u2019t see it happen, and then the celebrations and pizazz over the World champion Mets begins is fading away by the time I get back.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In short: New York Mets sweep Chicago Cubs, advance to World Series. It\u2019s a good thing that I\u2019ll mostly be offline throughout the next week, and if all goes\u00a0really\u00a0well, will basically miss the World Series. It\u2019s not that I\u00a0hate\u00a0the Mets, it\u2019s just the fact that they\u2019re the Mets; in the same division with the Braves,\u00a0 … Continue reading Gross<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,15],"class_list":["post-41477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41479,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41477\/revisions\/41479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}