What's the magic number?

Or according to the ESPN, the tragic number?

So which one of you did I see with the 4' X 4' NY emblem on their SUV this weekend? It was a homemade job that really should have been left to professionals. I guess I should hand it to him, he is very enthusiastic, albeit, somewhat child-like.

Huh?

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What?

We have to save our money for playoff tickets.

Touche. Our staff ace Gabbard pitched pretty well last night.

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I knew I could count on you.

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12 (magic number) with a 10 game lead.

Up 9-1 in the 7th...I'll go out on a limb and make it 11.

It is 11 now.

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Lights out for the Sux. Enjoy the golf.

YIIIIPPPPPEEEE!!!!!!

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Could be over this weekend...

YANKS WIN! YANKS WIN! THEEEEEEE YANKEES......WIN!!

Ballgame over...World Series over...The Marlins win. Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Marlins win!

Division hopes over....Wildcard hopes over...Red Sox suck...Theeeeeeeeeee Red Sox suck.

I'm not a Sox fan...

Welcome to life as a Mets fan. Big payroll underachievers who find a nut once in a while. It's so bad, you have to use a team from fukkin' Florida to have a comeback.

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Lets go back one year from your call (2000):

Ballgame over... World Series over... The Yankees win. Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Yankees win! Yankees beat the Mets!

History will repeat itself 6 years later no doubt if they meet again!!...

one game behind the mets for best record in baseball, god I hope they overtake those poseurs from the bad side of NYC! GO YANKEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

ps, I am happy for ex-yankee, Willie Randolph!!!

Wait, Queens is the bad side of NYC as compared to the Bronx?

I'm quoting Mr. John "I am the worst announcer in the history of baseball" Sterling. Don't you remember the game where Josh Beckett lit up the Yanks like Christmas Trees?

Must be nice when a team spends 200 mil a year.

I feel so happy for this long-suffering Yankee fan in particular. Has it been two years already?

Like the Mets homer announcers are any better. Sterling is a guy that yes, goes over the top at times, and yes, he can be a homer no doubt, but if you really listen to him as a baseball fan instead of a Bitter Mets fan, you will see the Sterling will give other teams and players credit when credit is due.

Mets fans cannot talk about the Yankees $.....Mets fans think they are right there with the little guys in baseball, like KC, Florida etc....news flash: When baseball fans think about teams spending a lot of $, granted the Yankee$ are front and center, but the Met$ are right there too. The Mets are part of the problem now.

And always remember, the Mets lost in 5 games in the World Series to a team who won the World Series with the 2nd fewest wins in the history of baseball, the 87 win 2000 Yankees!

And another thing, Mets are having a GREAT season, why do Mets fans here seem more concerned about the Yankees, you guys have an awesome team this year. It speaks volumes.

it is nice that they spend 200 mil a year to put a winner on the field, while other owners spend 70-90 mil on the team and the rest on themselves, shows how much they want to win! Until they set a salary cap, i want to see George outspend the rest of the league by leaps and bounds trying to put a winner on the field! BTW why is it that yankee bashers always throw the past in our face? considering the pasts of some of the other teams.....

Right, George is just the picture of charity.

The reason Steinbrenner succeeds is not because he spends money, but because he can afford to retain good baseball people. You guys should realize how lucky you are to have Cashman and Torre. It's probably the best front-office/management combo in the game. You need look no further than Peter Angelos, who has spent tons of cash on a consistently underachieving team because his front office (and his own decisions) suck. If George was running the ship entirely and spending in the same way, you and I both know that you Yanks fans would be in for a world of disappointment. The 1980s all over again.

You're correct.

George is a philanthropist- and he does it when the cameras are not pointed his way

I'm sure most owners are, to some extent. You have that kind of jack, even outside the thrill of success and excess, and the thrill of victory, there's got to be just so much money that you have to put some of it toward some good for others.

I'm just saying if anyone is going to present the case that the guy has not dedicated his life to making money they're just flat out wrong. And to say that other owners are holding onto theirs (sure, some are -- but the teams spending $70-80MM?) while George just "puts it all into the team"? Not quite.

The thing with me is I hold the same ire for guys like Jeffrey Loria / Huizenga in FLA who have a different business philosophy that I feel is equally detrimental to the game, and then find success. It all pisses me off. It's within the rules, but it makes the game less about the game -- to me. I like the NFL's salary cap model.

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Hell yeah! A win today and it's what, 2?

Nothing funnier than Yankee fans trying to deflect criticize over payroll.

First, please link to any post ever, where a Met fan insinuated that the Mets were one of the 'little teams' in baseball. The Mets are with the group of a dozen teams in the high $80MMs to low $100MMs. Only the Red Sox by 20% and the Yankees by 100% exceed the core group of bigger teams.

So now, how exactly are the Mets 'right there' with the Yankees in payroll? You could fund the entire payroll of KC, Florida & Tampa Bay with the difference between the Yanks and Mets. In fact, the difference between the Yankees and the #2 Red Sox is bigger than the team payroll for more than half the teams in MLB!!!





Hey, if Yankees are your team than just enjoy their success -- don't feel guilty about it and feel the need to justify their payroll!

I don't feel guilty about it at all. Nor do I think Mets' fans have a right to bitch because their team has underachieved for a decade.

Well yeah, but you don't feel guilty about running over kittens either!

I'm not sure the Mets actually underachieved for the past decade. They just made a lot of really, really stupid signings!

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It's too bad the Mets already hit theirs.

Whoop-dee-doodle-doo. They play in a division with the Phillies, MArlins and Braves. AND IT STILL TOOK THEM 18 YEARS TO WIN A DIVISIONAL CROWN.

Yeah, because Tampa, Toronto, and Baltimore are contenders.

Bastard.

Is that why the Mets have a record of 6 wins, 9 losses against the AL East?

Yeah.

So, you're going to use 15 games as a barometer, huh?

Good lahjik!

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