Mets suicide watch

Very much so.

 

Gotta agree with spnited on this one. Phils' collapse was far worse precisely because they were fighting for one spot.

However, the fact that the Mets aren't even going to make the postseason ... when they do have that safety net ... catapults them past the '51 Dodgers or '78 Red Sox when it comes to this discussion.

So Bunning and Short, pitching three times apiece in that final week ... weren't as "toast" as Mahaffey on full rest? I find that hard to believe.

But, of course, I wasn't alive in '64. So how would I know, right? Glad to know I can't have knowledge of history unless I was alive for it. Guess I'll bone up on the last quarter-century now, since that's all I'm allowed to understand. :

 

7-games lead, 17 to play
6 1/2-game lead, 12 to play.

DO THE FUCKING MATH DICKHEAD!

A choke of epic proportions, to be sure. Not as bad as the '64 Phils.
Not as bad as up 3-0 in a best of 7 and leading Game 4 in the 9th inning.

 

Yeah but those other guys were toast. Mauch always thought he was a genius, smarter than everyone else. He got a wild hair up his ass and it backfired. Years later, Short and Bunning said they didn't hold a grudge at the way they were used.

 

Stick to figuring out if the 1990 A's were the biggest World Series flop of the last 25 years, buckdubs.

 

Last week, Sen. Jim Bunning said even if the Mets don't make the playoffs it won't compare to what we did... Mick Vaccaro column when the Mets were in DC.

 

Well, since I can only go back to Cards-Brewers, that's all I have to work with ... 8)

 

You were quoting me stats of something that I saw first hand. My perspective is entirely different than yours.

 

Ha! You don't ever get to talk about Fernando-Mania!

 

It's been years since I've talked with Bunning but from what I've been told, he's not exactly playing with a full deck mentally these days.

 

True.

buckdub knows what he's talking about.