The Crane Pool Forum

The next 13 games the Mets play will be against the two teams that fled New York City for California after the 1957 season.

How many of the 13 games do you think the Mets will win?

Big sloppy kiss to whoever took 10. I took 8.

I'm predicting 3-10. These teams are much better than the Mets and they're in a hot race where every game counts.

Hope I'm wrong but fear I'm right.

ALL THIRTEEN.

YA. GOTTA. BELIEVE.

Lefty Specialist wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:56 pm I'm predicting 3-10. These teams are much better than the Mets and they're in a hot race where every game counts.

Hope I'm wrong but fear I'm right.

I fear it will be somewhere between the 3 you predicted and the 6 I (hopefully) did.

Later

I voted 5, but I'm hoping for 13!

1 at a time as the saying goes

The first 13 votes give us an average of 7.54.

Rounds up to 8. If the Mets win 8 of 13, I think that would be acceptable. Any more than 8 would be delightful.

I'll settle for nothing less than 1 more game than the Phillies and Braves win over the same stretch.

kcmets wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 10:39 amBig sloppy kiss to whoever took 10.

Lefty Specialist wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:56 pmI'm predicting 3-10.

No slobber for you! lol

I voted 4. And I think we will be 6 games out after the stretch.

I went for 8-6 because things rarely play out the way the pundits and experts and everybody, really, thinks they'll play out.

Also, I was thinking of starting this exact same poll/thread for the last few days, down to the 14 choices, one for each W-L possibility.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:17 pm I went for 8-6 because things rarely play out the way the pundits and experts and everybody, really, thinks they'll play out.

Also, I was thinking of starting this exact same poll/thread for the last few days, down to the 14 choices, one for each W-L possibility.

It's like none of you have been watching. They're clearly only getting 12 games in.

7-6.

I picked the 8 option but I don't think I can change my vote. 7-6.

It's Key-Runch time fer sure.
Seven games against the defending champs who score the most runs while allowing the fewest, this despite losing Kershaw, Bauer, and Dustin 'Gingergaard' May off
their rotation for long stretches of time. And then we have six more games against the team that's currently better than them and has been for much of the season.
Max Scherzer gets traded out of the division and yet we'll see him twice in a week anyway.

I hadn't realized until today that these next two weeks are in an odd Home - Away - Away - (off day) - Home set up, meaning, among other things, that, in addition
to 11 of the 13 being night games* (Wednesday the 18th in SF and Sunday the 22nd in LA are late afternoon starts) five of those will be late night starts EDT,
creating a strong possibility that this season could well go down the drain with me missing most of it.



* Your schedule might say that this Sunday is a day game in CitiField but, as ESPN mentioned a few dozen times during the FoD telecast, it's been shifted to their night game
All six games at CF are 7:10 starts.

Those of you who picked 13, please report to the front desk to collect your losings.

Thank you.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 6:25 am Those of you who picked 13, please report to the front desk to collect your losings.

Thank you.

BLARGH

Late to this. But I’ll stick to my original prediction of 5.

"Hey @MLB @ESPN whose dumb f--king idea was it to change tomorrow's game to a night game when we're traveling to the west coast after ...
Won't get in until Monday morning. Take on the 1st place Giants later that evening. Brilliant." -- N. Syndergaard (on his Instagram account)

I thought that was against some rule or something. Maybe it's only for
teams travelling West to East? Either way, unfair and stoopid.

yes, just traveling west to east but can be waived for ESPN regardless.

It's not a great situation, but East to West you get almost 24 hours to get from end of one game to start of the next across the country compared to 18 the other direction. It's not great, and Thor has a point, but at least you have the time to actually have a full "night" sleep.

So maybe I was a bit optimistic.

I suppose a thread to predict how many games out we'll be on 8/27 would be
morbid overkill... train wreck before leaving the tunnel. #lgm #ygb #ymdyf

HEY IF WE JUST WIN THESE NEXT TEN, WE'RE RIGHT BACK IN THIS THING.