Notes And Not The Integrity ?– Regarding Mets at Atlanta Make Up Doubleheader Tomorrow

Tomorrow, the Mets and Braves will have to play the 161st and 162nd games of their season, in a doubleheader, commencing at 1 P.M. or so, (at) Atlanta time.

Each team needs one win to qualify and only if one or the other, wins both games, would Arizona, last season’s baseball runner up, make the 12 team tournament, that begins Tuesday.

Rather than rip into the preposterous, almost, “The Postman Always Rings Twice” situation, involving Manfred, I go the route of “Who but me notes!!”

The Mets have had success in these situations before, each on a Monday (maybe they can, unlike in the great “Mamas And Papas” song, “trust that day.” I did have the beautiful, talented, classy Michelle Phillips’ L.A. home # but ….) as needing one of two, as will be the situation tomorrow, they won game 161, in a high noon start at Wrigley Field vs the Cubs. Game #162 was not played.

That Mets’ team, I believe (“Ya or you gotta believe,” was the team slogan) has the worst record, for any pennant winner, going (82-79).

25 years ago in 1999, Al Leiter was brilliant, pitching the Mets to a win in a one game, Monday playoff at Cincinnati vs the Reds.

Alas, history and it repeating, doing so, as 62 years after it also occurred in the Mets’ (40-120) first season in 1962, the team again plays only 160 games through the last scheduled day of the “reg.”

Then of course there was no need to play those 2 games but now there is.

Also the White Sox deserve some credit, winning 5 of 6 after passing the Mets with their 121st loss and in doing so, their final record of (41-121), is actually better than that of the ’62 Mets.

A wish: Manfred after this scheduling fiasco, not all his fault sees the light and declares Pete Rose, involved in a Mets’ Monday ’73 NLCS game 3 altercation with Bud Harrelson, who sadly we lost this year, is now in the not so hot Baseball Hall of Fame.

I know–you have swamp land you think I ought to buy.