7K

Edgy DC
Aug 09 2005 01:11 PM

According to Jason at Faith and Fear:

]Based on Ultimate Mets Database plus my calculations, tonight is the 7,000th game that counts in the history of the New York Mets. 6,934 games, which includes eight ties, through July 26; 11 games since then for 6,945; 54 postseason games (in which we're 37-27) for 6,999.

MFS62
Aug 09 2005 01:13 PM

I wonder. Has Mom ever run a 7K?

Later

Johnny Dickshot
Aug 09 2005 01:30 PM

That's pretty cool.

metirish
Aug 09 2005 01:39 PM

Super cool, it will be interesting to see if the TV or Radio crew knows this information.

Edgy DC
Aug 09 2005 01:41 PM

We started this season 370 games below .500.

On one level that seems about right and what the team deserves. On another, the idea that we need a decade averaging 37 games above .500 is a little tough for me to confront.

Vic Sage
Aug 09 2005 01:52 PM

Then think of it as only needing to win every game for 2.3 seasons, if that makes it any easier for you.

Rotblatt
Aug 09 2005 02:07 PM

We could start this year by finishing the season with a .666 winning percentage.

Where's that Payton picture?

Edgy DC
Aug 09 2005 02:15 PM

Vic Sage wrote:
Then think of it as only needing to win every game for 2.3 seasons, if that makes it any easier for you.

You know we'd only blow it by losing every game for the next 1.7 seasons and dropping back again.

ScarletKnight41
Aug 09 2005 02:59 PM

MFS62 wrote:
I wonder. Has Mom ever run a 7K?

Later

I've run 10K. Twice.

Which is nothing compared to metsmarathon, but for me it's a long run.

Vic Sage
Aug 09 2005 03:05 PM

]I've run 10K. Twice.

so that's, what... 20K, right? sounds expensive.

Deal me out. I'll be the one sitting on the couch washing down his donuts with beer, and cheering you on. You go, girl!

TheOldMole
Aug 09 2005 03:07 PM

10K out and 10K back?

Johnny Dickshot
Aug 09 2005 03:23 PM

My new goal in life is to survive until the Mets reach .500 all time.

Edgy DC
Aug 09 2005 03:49 PM

It's my old goal. I should make a website about it.

Vic Sage
Aug 09 2005 04:48 PM

in the movie THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY, the badly wounded civil war captain is hanging on just so he can hear the sound of Blondie and Tuco blowing up the bridge that his army had been fighting and dying for. When he hears it, he smiles and dies.

that could be us one day.

But i think the idea of staying alive till they make it till .500 could actually make us immortal.

Yancy Street Gang
Aug 09 2005 08:41 PM

Actually, I just looked into this...

Game 7000 was a little over a week ago. The Mets have played 64 post-season games, not 54.

8 in 1969.
12 in 1973.
13 in 1986.
7 in 1988.
10 in 1999.
14 in 2000.

soupcan
Aug 09 2005 10:53 PM

Yancy's a buzzkill.

G-Fafif
Aug 10 2005 02:40 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote:
Actually, I just looked into this...

Game 7000 was a little over a week ago. The Mets have played 64 post-season games, not 54.

8 in 1969.
12 in 1973.
13 in 1986.
7 in 1988.
10 in 1999.
14 in 2000.

]* This blog entry comes with a healthy portion of Jace Math (TM), meaning everything in it is probably wrong.

When we started Faith and Fear, Jason understood there was to be no math. Can't say he didn't warn us.