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I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Already satisfied to have made it to the WC game

16 votes

Must Win WC Game For Satisfaction

6 votes

Must Beat Cubs in LDS

0 votes

Must Beat LA/Wash in LCS

2 votes

Must Win WS

2 votes

Fman99 Oct 05 2016 08:45 PM

How far do they need to go?

Fman99 Oct 05 2016 08:46 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I could have added a whole nother layer of answers, where they advance to a round, and play well, but lose, and maybe you say, well, I'm satisfied that they at least played hard and made it competitive in the LDS/LCS/WS round, but, hey, let's not get all complicated.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 05 2016 08:49 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I picked the first item, but it's a very low level of satisfaction. Advancing to the NLDS will be much better.

TransMonk Oct 05 2016 08:52 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I'm satisfied with them just playing tonight considering they were dead in the water six weeks ago. It was not what I expected at the beginning of the year, but much better than I expected on August 20. That being said, I would love to see them advance to play the Cubs. I think these Metsies could give them a run for their money.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 05 2016 08:56 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

My attitude seems to be the same as last year's, once the division title was won. I'm happy to be where we are, but I still very much want more!

A Boy Named Seo Oct 05 2016 08:56 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

As long as we're alive, I want it all.

Frayed Knot Oct 05 2016 09:02 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Getting the WC was nice and all, but the difference between advancing past tonight or not is bigger than any other and losing here would make it seem like you weren't really in the playoffs at all. Not complaining, that's how it should. I just don't want to be the one that goes home so 'Must Win WC' is my satisfaction level for right now. Losing in a round past this one, while disappointing, would be less crushing especially given the relative seasons of the Mets and Cubs, and would at least give us another week of baseball to sink our teeth into. Getting past the Cubs, on the other hand, would suddenly make me one greedy bastard.

d'Kong76 Oct 05 2016 09:10 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction? Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 05 2016 11:19 PM

I'm on the fence but took #2. On some level I feel 2016 was a successful season given the odds in late August and of course the number of players the Mets had to use all year. I didn't look, but they must have used about 50 players. But they're here, and losing tonight would make it feel like not making the playoffs (which I suppose that's what it really is) so I want to play the Cubs too. Losing to the Cubs who had such a crazy year would still give some satisfaction. Waffles anyone?

TransMonk Oct 05 2016 09:20 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

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Chad Ochoseis Oct 05 2016 10:01 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

It's more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow. And it's more fun to watch a team that had so-so talent and crappy luck win 87 games than to watch talented teams like the 2007 and 2008 Mets underachieve with 88 and 89 wins. It's been a good season, and anything after today is gravy. Funny thing - since the Mets and Giants were both 87-75, we'd still be playing this game under the old single wild card playoff rules. But it would be regular season game 163 instead of post-season.

A Boy Named Seo Oct 05 2016 10:23 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Chad Ochoseis wrote: It's more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow. And it's more fun to watch a team that had so-so talent and crappy luck win 87 games than to watch talented teams like the 2007 and 2008 Mets underachieve with 88 and 89 wins. It's been a good season, and anything after today is gravy. Funny thing - since the Mets and Giants were both 87-75, we'd still be playing this game under the old single wild card playoff rules. But it would be regular season game 163 instead of post-season. I agree with all of this. I want them to win the WS as much as I did last year, but I had a CAHNfident expectation with the '15 team that I don't have with this bunch. These guys are just a slot machine that keeps spitting out coins. Can't believe they even won this many, but I still want 12 more.

Edgy MD Oct 05 2016 10:54 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

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themetfairy Oct 05 2016 10:58 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I'm satisfied. Which doesn't mean that I won't be pissed off as all Hell if they lose tonight. But considering the injuries and where they were in August, I'm thrilled that they made it to the postseason!

Gwreck Oct 05 2016 10:59 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

A successful Mets season is defined as making the postseason. A team must either win the divison or win the wild card game for it to meet the definition of "making the postseason."

Lefty Specialist Oct 05 2016 11:13 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Winning tonight and taking one game from the Cubs and I'll be very happy.

Frayed Knot Oct 05 2016 11:25 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Chad Ochoseis wrote: Funny thing - since the Mets and Giants were both 87-75, we'd still be playing this game under the old single wild card playoff rules. But it would be regular season game 163 instead of post-season. And I still pretty much treat this as Reg Season Game #163, the only difference now is that the top two teams in each league play it whether they wind up tied or not. It's like we're in the playoffs but we're not yet in the big boy playoffs.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 05 2016 11:45 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

as CAHNfident as i was last year it still took an unbelievable and afaiwc, completely unexpected Muffy performance to get us ahead. Anything can happen.

Mets Guy in Michigan Oct 06 2016 12:23 AM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

It was a great run to get here despite everything that went on. But I wouldn't feel good about buying one of those postseason caps yet. Winning tonight would be tremendous.

Nymr83 Oct 06 2016 12:30 AM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

must win WS. those are the expectations I had going into the year. injuries derailed that for awhile, but hey, we're here. lets do this. with Matt Harvey limping out to pitch the 20th inning of game 7 - theres nobody else left - Willis Reed style!

Rockin' Doc Oct 06 2016 01:53 AM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Given all the injuries to the team has had to overcome just to get here, I am pretty satisfied with what they accomplished. If you had told me prior to the season, that the Mets would lose Harvey, Wright, and Duda for most of the season as well as losing Walker, Lagares, De Grom, and Matz for large chunks of the year I would have probably expected them to finish at or below .500 for the season. So, I am happy. That said, I want more now that we are in the post-season.

Fman99 Oct 06 2016 11:43 AM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I want to say that I'm satisfied but I can't, not yet. I really wanted to see them play the Cubbies.

bmfc1 Oct 06 2016 11:57 AM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Fman99 wrote: I want to say that I'm satisfied but I can't, not yet. I really wanted to see them play the Cubbies. Me too... the Mets would have won that series.

Lefty Specialist Oct 06 2016 01:02 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Cubs would have crushed them like a bug, which is what I hope they do to the Giants.

seawolf17 Oct 06 2016 01:08 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I'm satisfied. Could it have been better? Absolutely, but if you told us in April that TJ Rivera would be starting the last game of the season and our rotation included Gsellman and Lugo, we would have thought we were finishing in fourth place. So let's retool and do it again next year.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 06 2016 01:15 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I think I have to root for the Giants to win the pennant now. Can't root for the Cubs. I'd hate to see their long losing tradition end. Dodgers have Utley. Nationals are a division rival. The Giants seemed like well-mannered opponents. I have no reason to root against them.

TransMonk Oct 06 2016 01:16 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I'd rather have won and it was a tough way to lose, but I'm satisfied, too. While the stakes were not as high as October baseball, I feel like Mets fans were treated to a few solid weeks of entertaining and meaningful baseball in September of 2015.

Frayed Knot Oct 06 2016 01:32 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction? Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 06 2016 01:33 PM

The pressure in these next two series will definitely fall more on the Nats & the Cubs. The Nats have been a good to very good team and often a betting favorite for five seasons now including three 95+ win seasons, but have won a total of just 3 post-season games over that time so far and have not yet advanced a single round. Now they've managed to update their roster and farm system on the fly during this time and so aren't necessarily looking at a rapidly closing window or anything, but a loss to the Dodgers here and another season of going one-and-out would really start to darken the 'LOSER' stamp on their collective foreheads. If they survive the Dodgers and face the Cubs then they'd be the ones playing with house money, but not here in Round 1. Losing Strasburg and Ramos so late in the year is definitely going to hurt. The Cubs, by virtue of having been the best team nearly wire to wire this season -- plus all that history shit you may have heard of -- have to at least make it to the WS without this season feeling like a failure and reviving all those 'Same-old-Shit' feelings. That will at least bust the 71 year curse even if not the 108 year old one. Going forward, their hitting looks in good shape but their pitching less so and I remember chastising those Met fans who justified feeling OK about losing to the Cards in 2006 with the idea that that year was merely a step up on the escalator which was only going to travel upward for as many season as the eye could see.

HahnSolo Oct 06 2016 01:33 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Lot of pressure on the Dodgers too. They keep getting to the postseason and falling short.

Frayed Knot Oct 06 2016 01:38 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

HahnSolo wrote: Lot of pressure on the Dodgers too. They keep getting to the postseason and falling short. Yeah, between all that spending and this being the fourth year in a row for them in the post-season, they can't afford to blow too many - although at least they won a round recently (although just one). I almost think there's maybe more pressure specifically on Kershaw who's been positively ... ordinary in October in the same way that Greg Maddux and to some degree Peyton Manning are always going to have those "yeah ... but!" comments tacked onto their HoF careers.

Fman99 Oct 06 2016 01:52 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Wow I hate the Giants, Nats, and Dodgers all so much, I'd be hard pressed to root for any of those teams.

metsmarathon Oct 06 2016 01:56 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

on august 19th, we had a 6.7% chance to make the playoffs. then we lost degrom and matz. and then we had a wild card game, in our home stadium, that went scoreless to the ninth. you're goddamn right i'm satisfied with this season. with everything we played without this season, we were fortunate to have finished above .500. hell, it would've been all too easy for this team to crumble and fade, but it... uh... battled. hard. to be upset for not having more seems just a wee bit greedy. yeah, at the start of the season, we were eyeing a return to the world series. but where we went from there, to where we ended up...! i'll fuckin' take it! go cubs!

Centerfield Oct 06 2016 02:00 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

seawolf17 wrote: I'm satisfied. Could it have been better? Absolutely, but if you told us in April that TJ Rivera would be starting the last game of the season and our rotation included Gsellman and Lugo, we would have thought we were finishing in fourth place. So let's retool and do it again next year. This. Exactly. Hell, TJ is actually the better Rivera. We had Rene Rivera as our #1 catcher. So I jump into my Delorian and tell you guys in March that: *Harvey will suck for 3 months, then be lost for the year. He will suck so bad he will lead the team in losses, even though he doesn't make it to the all-star break. *We will also lose deGrom and Matz to season ending surgeries. Matz will fight a bone spur even when he is able to start. *Syndergaard will pitch with a bone spur all season. *Wheeler will never make it back *Antonio Bastardo will suck. He will suck so bad that we will trade him mid-season for Jon Niese. Niese will suck, then join the rest of the rotation in suffering a season ending injury. *Lucas Duda. Broken Back. Gone in May. *David Wright. Broken neck. Gone in May. *Neil Walker. Herniated disk. Gone in August. *Asdrubal Cabrera will hurt his knee in spring training. The injury will linger all season. Even a DL stint in the middle of the year won't cure him completely. *DL stints for Cespedes, Lagares, d'Arnaud, Flores and Jose Reyes. Oh yeah, we re-signed Jose Reyes. Flores will hit great after coming off the DL, but then we'll lose him in September to, say it with me, season ending injury. *Conforto, after a great April, will suck and get demoted. He will never find his swing again in 2016. *At the trade deadline, we will trade Dilson Herrera for Jay Bruce. Bruce will suck so bad they'll compare him to Jason Bay. In September, we will pinch hit Eric Campbell for him in a big spot. *Eric Campbell will get 85 PA's. He will OPS .511. *d'Arnaud will try 75 different batting stances. None of them will work. You would have guessed we would lose 100 games.

HahnSolo Oct 06 2016 02:08 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Fman99 wrote: Wow I hate the Giants, Nats, and Dodgers all so much, I'd be hard pressed to root for any of those teams. Don't worry, the networks' Cubs narratives will have you sick of them within a few innings of the start of game 1.

Chad Ochoseis Oct 06 2016 02:34 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Other than the fact that they beat the Mets yesterday, what's to hate about the Giants? I'll root for them over the Evil Dodgers, Eviler Cubs, and Evilest Nationals any day.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 06 2016 02:35 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I'm with you! Go Giants!

d'Kong76 Oct 06 2016 04:37 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I'm not particularly satisfied for some reason but I'm sure that will improve the next day or so. Of all the NL teams, I'll root for the Giants but ultimately will root for an AL team come The World Series.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 06 2016 04:40 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I think I'm gonna support the Indians. Rooting for the Cubs is cliche. And I can assure you Cubs fans don't want or need a bunch of sympathizing bandwagoners.

d'Kong76 Oct 06 2016 04:49 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I could never root for the current Cubs and Maddon. Fuck him. What would really give me some satisfaction is if they got swept again.

Chad Ochoseis Oct 06 2016 05:03 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think I'm gonna support the Indians. Rooting for the Cubs is cliche. And I can assure you Cubs fans don't want or need a bunch of sympathizing bandwagoners. As a Cleveland resident, I'm all in for the Tribe to win the WS now. It'll be tough - they've had more injuries in their starting rotation than any other team in the majors this year except for, um, you know. And their best catcher has turned into Rene Rivera without Rivera's offensive skill (talk about low bars). But I'm rooting for the Giants in the NL. The Cubs are deserving. But they're still the Cubs.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 06 2016 05:08 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

d'Kong76 wrote: I could never root for the current Cubs and Maddon. Fuck him. What would really give me some satisfaction is if they got swept again. Why the mad-on for Maddon? Maybe this makes me a sadist, but I think it would be kind of hilarious watching the Cubs make it to the cusp of a WS championship, only to lose it to the Indians.

Centerfield Oct 06 2016 05:10 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: I could never root for the current Cubs and Maddon. Fuck him. What would really give me some satisfaction is if they got swept again. Why the mad-on for Maddon? Go Injuns. Like so douchy. I'm all cool and chill and cerebral. Fucking annoying. Give me Bobby Cox any day.

G-Fafif Oct 06 2016 05:29 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I wanted, at minimum, to win last night and then not get swept by the Cubs, preferring to take the NLDS back to Wrigley so nobody who wasn't the Mets would be celebrating at Citi Field. Anything else would be a jar of gravy. So much for that plan. I'm satisfied the Mets got as far as they did. It's gonna gnaw at me as I glimpse at the series ahead. Don't know how much I can watch knowing we were there, but now we're gone. One of the strangest realizations came as it occurred to me that two years ago I was watching the Royals and Giants in the World Series, never dreaming that in the course of the next two postseasons, a) we'd be playing in both of them and b) the teams from 2014 would serve as our respective final obstacles in 2015 and 2016.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 06 2016 05:48 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Well, the bright side is, now that the Royals and the Giants have both played their spoiler role, there won't be any remaining obstacles for 2017!

d'Kong76 Oct 06 2016 05:54 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Why the mad-on for Maddon? The way he quit his last job and was hired like an hour later for the up-and- coming Cubs was pretty douchey. I mean, in real life I wouldn't judge someone for bettering themselves employment wise but baseball's not real life? Maybe I'm wrong, but fuck him anyways haha...

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 06 2016 06:28 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I tell ya who can go fuck themselves? The Dodgers, that's who. Could have cleared a much easier path for us had they bothered to win only 1 of their goddamn games vs. the Giants last weekend. I sure as hell don;t like the nationals but will tip my cap to them as they took a hellacious beating last year from the Mets, made an honest effort to fix the problems they thought they had, then proved over a long season they did. If they happen to beat the living shit out of the Dodgers in this series, boo hoo for the fucking Dodgers. I feel about them like I feel about Milwaukee when they had a chance to all but eliminate Philadelphia one of those years we didn't make the playoffs (08 I think?). If they'd only beaten them once, everything would be different. I've hated them for 8 years because of that.

G-Fafif Oct 06 2016 06:31 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I tell ya who can go fuck themselves? The Dodgers, that's who. Could have cleared a much easier path for us had they bothered to win only 1 of their goddamn games vs. the Giants last weekend. I sure as hell don;t like the nationals but will tip my cap to them as they took a hellacious beating last year from the Mets, made an honest effort to fix the problems they thought they had, then proved over a long season they did. If they happen to beat the living shit out of the Dodgers in this series, boo hoo for the fucking Dodgers. I feel about them like I feel about Milwaukee when they had a chance to all but eliminate Philadelphia one of those years we didn't make the playoffs (08 I think?). If they'd only beaten them once, everything would be different. I've hated them for 8 years because of that. The Brewers beat us out of the Wild Card in 2008, which was reason enough to resent them, but they were just doing their job in that case. As for the Dodgers fucking themselves, I'd like to think Vin Scully would come out of retirement to announce that.

G-Fafif Oct 06 2016 06:31 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Well, the bright side is, now that the Royals and the Giants have both played their spoiler role, there won't be any remaining obstacles for 2017! "Our evil job is done here."

HahnSolo Oct 06 2016 06:37 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

That was '08. They lost four in a row in Philly in September, right about when we started our fall off the cliff. They of course recovered in time to beat us out for the WC.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 06 2016 06:41 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Hope the Mets don't ever wear these jerseys anymore. [fimg=666:3glq0wur]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1979322.1413687139!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/451399394.jpg[/fimg:3glq0wur] Oh ... and I'm rooting for Murphy.

MFS62 Oct 06 2016 06:49 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Fman99 wrote: Wow I hate the Giants, Nats, and Dodgers all so much, I'd be hard pressed to root for any of those teams. Same here. Go Cubs! Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 06 2016 06:58 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

HahnSolo wrote: That was '08. They lost four in a row in Philly in September, right about when we started our fall off the cliff. They of course recovered in time to beat us out for the WC. Thanks for the context. I knew the Phillies were involved, just had the results backasswards

Frayed Knot Oct 06 2016 07:30 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

I'm kind of in a fuck the Dodgers mode too, both on the end of this season and on just general principles. And nothing against the Giants, except they've won three times in the last five years. A winning season for the Nats would do a lot to help steal a little bit of attention towards baseball in that town now that the Redskins are into their third consecutive decade of sucking (and I won't be forced to listen to their announcers crow about it) ... although there's always that in-division thing Which means I'm probably pulling for the Cubs, not in any weepy/jump on the bandwagon/break the curse way, but just as the best alternative.

seawolf17 Oct 06 2016 08:18 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

Rangers > Jays > Indians > Giant Meteor > Cubs, I guess? > Giants > Sox > Dodgers > Nats

Ceetar Oct 06 2016 08:20 PM Re: I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

think I'm pulling for the Cubs, think it'll be fun to watch the best team dominate. Am really fine with any of the AL teams. Between last night and the Chris Heston (chris right?) game I don't know that I can forgive the Giants. screw 'em.