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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5150197, member: 289"] [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5737213/2024/09/01/mets-playoff-odds-white-sox/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] "The [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/mets/']New York Mets[/URL] closed August feeling good about themselves. Bring on September, they say, and all that comes with the final month of the regular season amid a push for a spot in the playoffs." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5738659/2024/09/01/mets-sean-manaea-edwin-diaz-francisco-alvarez/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] " In a three-game sweep over the historically bad [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/whitesox/']Chicago White Sox[/URL], the [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/mets/']New York Mets[/URL] showed a different level of resolve. Veterans acknowledged before the weekend that such games against poor clubs in lightly-attended stadiums at the end of long road trips can present a mental challenge. After playing back-to-back, drama-filled series against the [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/padres/']San Diego Padres[/URL] and [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/diamondbacks/']Arizona Diamondbacks[/URL], two teams ahead of them in the wild-card standings, it would have been easy for the Mets to lose some focus, take things for granted. Instead, the Mets handled the assignment." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5738953/2024/09/02/this-week-in-mets-wild-card-race/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] "The [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/mets/']New York Mets[/URL] did their part. Over the weekend and indeed over their entire three-city trip, the Mets handled their business to improve their position in the National League wild-card race. A sweep of the moribund [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/whitesox/']Chicago White Sox[/URL] capped off a 7-3 trip, and while, yes, you can lament that they were mere outs away from going 9-1, you can still concede you’d have taken 7-3 a week and a half ago. Especially when that weekend sweep of the White Sox is paired with [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/braves/']Atlanta[/URL] losing three of four to the [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/phillies/']Philadelphia Phillies[/URL], trimming a four-game lead to one over four days." [I]Remember that this was an uncertain year, when the Mets were seen to be gearing up for 2025 or beyond. They insisted they could contend this as well but there were many doubters. [/I] [/QUOTE]

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