Mets And S.D. Have (2-1) “Div” Series Leads

Both the New York Mets and San Diego Padres, each a wild card entrant who have done this before, won home game 3’s yesterday and lead their best of 5 division series vs teams that finished well ahead of them in the ought to count for more, I say all regular season, the Philadelphia Phillies and L.A. Dodgers (their situation is a “joke” as year after year they finish ahead in their one eighth “div” only to be toppled by a team with a lesser record) respectively.

Let’s give Mets notes. They are in their 11th post-season in this their 63rd season, 62 completed (no completed season in ’94) as they started, 62 years ago in 1962 with me having good memories of listening to their games on radio, having loved their broadcasters, unfortunately a near opposite is the case now.

In their previous 10 post-season appearances, twice with legitimate 100 or more wins teams (100 in ’69, 108 a magical good luck # in ’86) they won it all.

Twice they lost early in bogus, even more so than “div” series, in which they are (4-0) in previous and up (2-1) in this (by the way, I predict a la 2015 they will lose #4 today at home but win on the road in decisive #5) 10 to 8 in 2016 and 12 to 8, 2 years ago in 2022.

They lost thrice each in LCS (there they are (5-3) and World Series play (2-3) having lost in the ’88,’99, and 2006 NLCS in respectively 7,6 and 7 games while their W.S. losses were in 7 games to the second of three straight Oakland A’s title teams (now again playing off Gertrude Stein–there is no A’s team THERE) in 5 to a Yankees team under former Mets manager Joe Torre won a third straight crown and 4th in 5 seasons and to K.C., their second, 30 years after their first, that in 2015.