Dave Rudden

Congrats on your 2026 World Series victory.

Having not played Fortnite since literally the week it launched (ie, back in the pre-Battle Royale days), I thought I could wait for the Back to the Future content to launch and play the Simpsons stuff too. But... you can't... right?

Heck of a series, lots of drama, everything I love about baseball... I am now ready to not care about baseball daily for five months (or however many weeks it takes before the Mets sign or lose Diaz/Alonso).

Welp, at least the Yankees didn't win this year.

Thought I feel like the drunk bad husband cop lead character can't have any positive responses when speaking to his wife (only on the phone).

Every year in the MLB playoffs my rooting interests go in this order:
1- The Mets (this rarely happens)
2- Whoever opposes the Yankees (this frequently happens)
3- Whoever has the longest playoff drought.

So at this point... go anyone except the Dodgers or Phillies!

Eh, baseball giveth and baseball taketh away. Last year was their best season in at least a decade, this year just... wasn't. Their billionaire owner is dedicated to (eventually) getting a World Series win and I do believe it will happen... it just won't happen as soon as we thought.

Outside of the Soto/Lindor/Alonso/Diaz core (the latter two of whom the Mets desperately need to resign), the Mets really need an overhaul for 2026. McLean has a ton of promise, but the rest of the rotation is meh. And IF the bullpen can get proper rest you still need lights out guys to set up Diaz.

Didn't even have a proper starter for the biggest game of the year so of course the overtaxed bullpen failed. Couldn't hit in the clutch. The only solace I can take is that this team would have been massacred in the playoffs. Maybe could get a fluke WC round win, but a 5/7 game series? Hell no.

True to form, it's fitting that the Mets 2025 season came down to the team failing to execute (rather than the Reds clinching). Had the easiest schedule of any playoff contender and couldn't win against sub-.500 opponents.

I really think the Dodgers are beatable this year by the Mets or Reds, especially in a Wild Card series if the right starters are lined up. You only need two decent ones, which is exactly what the Mets have right now (and it seems like the Reds do too)

Oh whoops! But they were hyped for that Pirates series, that catch in the finale was a season-saver that they can build off of. Even tying the game that went into extras was clutch. A great way to end the regular season and hype up a possible return for the NLDS.

Plus the Reds have been on a roll ever since they got swept by the A's, they seem motivated as hell and have a pretty rabid home crowd cheering them on (at least it's seemed that way on TV since I started watching them... like four days ago)

Also tough to say how much the Brewers are going to put into the final two games. I'm sure they want to have home field for the entire playoffs but they're not gonna push starters too hard and might give some bench players more opportunities.

The only Mets starters who have pitched into the fifth inning more than once since August pitched the last three days. Tomorrow's game is a bullpen game but everyone in the bullpen outside of our closer is unreliable. And who knows who will be left for Sunday if the Mets somehow stay alive!

Though unlike 07 and 08 where the team performed well for much of the season, this season's Mets have been destined to fail. Streaky, unclutch offense, nonexistent starting for the last two months, and possibly the worst trade pickup class for a buying team, ever?

Looking likely that The Mets will miss the playoffs due to a freefall punctuated by losing to a sub-.500 division rival in their last series, just like in 2007 and 2008. Oh well, there's always next year...

where their final series of the season is against a likely sub-.500 division champion rival.

How the 2024 Mets made the playoffs: gutsy comebacks, clutch hitting, amazing team chemistry.

How the 2025 Mets might make the playoffs: did you know if a player on the opposing team falls into the stands while making a catch, everyone gets an extra base?

Thank you to your Dodgers for your part in keeping the Dbacks out of the Wild Card spot. Please look forward to seeing a lifeless Mets team that has limped to the playoffs next week. Unless the Reds jump past the Mets, then you guys are in trouble.

Was it a Gilbert Gottfried USA Up All Night night or a Rhonda Shear USA Up All Night night? Inquiring minds want to know.

So I guess I just need to make doomer posts every time the Mets fall behind for the rest of the season #lfgm #lgm

Um I would be very glad to be completely wrong about this

The Mets have figured out how to make 2025 feel worse than 2007. They're just going to play the Glavine game six days in a row while the Reds lose them all too.

It's shades of 22 where they are at their coldest at the end of the year & the exact opposite of 24 where they were riding a wave of momentum for months. This team has been sad to watch the entire summer. They need to be better than The Reds for the next week which is pretty much impossible, IMO.

Man, I do not want to see this year's Mets in the playoffs (which they are on the outside of, after todays loss) If they somehow make it in, I cannot see the pitching making up for their un-clutch hitting far past the Wild Card round and even their rookie staff doesn't seem built for a long series.

I realize that was an awful run-on sentence but the Mets don't deserve proper proofreading right now

I get the feeling Juan Soto will become the first Met to join the 40/40 club... after stealing third base when the Mets are trailing 11-3 in the 8th inning against the Marlins after they've been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention

I had a Trader Joe's peanut butter cup last night that had THREE wrappers on it, which seems like the least interesting kind of 0.03% RNG that could happen in real life.

If you are a parent and your child loves Bluey...

I regret to inform you they will not care about Bluey anymore by the time this comes out.