Lets Go Mets Go // Playoff Predictions ?? If you'll recall, last summer (2005) I wrote about the Mets quite a bit. I didn't that much this summer. That is not because I was not following them, but instead because I was following them so intensely that were I to try to write about them, I would go on and on, endlessly, pointlessly, and lose the few readers I have (at last count, the number was somewhere under 50,000). Because of that, and also because my intense coverage of the US Men's National Team at the World Cup seemed to, um, not exactly bring them success: I will not write much aboout their playoff run, however short or long it may be.

That said, please enjoy the writing at one of my favorite Mets blogs, Metstradamus, and his game by game predictions for the Mets-Dodgah's NL Divisional Championship Series. I particularly like his prediction for game 2 (not the result, just the prediction):

Game 2 (Time Change): The game time of Thursday's Game 2 is changed from 8PM to 1PM ET. FOX execs explain because the late switch of Greg Maddux in favor of Hong-Chih Kuo, there isn't enough time to think of new angles to replace the Tom Glavine vs. Greg Maddux storyline. FOX instead runs the Derek Jeter Yankeeography three consecutive times at 8PM.

Glavine goes eight strong innings giving up three runs, prompting Daily News scribe Bill Madden to write that the Mets starting rotation is the worst he's seen since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. But Kuo exploits the Mets weakness against lefthanded pitching and goes eight shutout innings to preserve the 3-0 victory, tying the series at one game apiece. After the game, Kuo goes to his locker to find all his clothes missing, with a note taped to his locker that reads "KNOW YOUR PLACE, LEFTY...from: your opponents."

See, right there, I can tell there is too much "inside" Mets joking going on with that. Sorry. But you get the Jeter thing, right?

For some brilliant Mets-inspired writing: Faith and Fear in Flushing.

PLAYOFF PREDICTIONS

What are your playoff predictions? Leave them in the comments, if you so choose. Even if you just want to say, "The Yankees will win the World Series."

My predictions: Yankees beat Oakland to win the AL, Mets beat St. Louis to win the NL, Mets beat the Yankees to win the World Series, and Derek Jeter is apprehended by the NYPD before he can conduct a suicide bombing mission against the Mets ticker-tape parade. Derek Jeter will then be exposed as a Hezbollah freedom fighter with loose ties to Syrian intelligence. You think not?
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