amLinks: Elite, October, Puppies and Daffodils
The first-place Mets (79–61) will begin a three-game series against the second-place Phillies (76–64) in Shea Stadium tonight.
Steve Popper lists three reasons why the Mets will win this series, in a post to his blog for the Bergen Record.
In a post to Amazin Avenue, Eric Simon writes, ‘However reluctant we may be to admit it, the Mets are one of the elite teams in baseball,’ noting how there are no true powerhouse teams in baseball.
Adding to this point, in the New York Post, Joel Sherman writes, “The world has opened up to the Mets, or more appropriately the World Series has. Suddenly their road to the NL championship looks so much different than it did just a few days ago. It has to do with them playing so well. But just as vitally it has to do with what has befallen the competition.”
Nevertheless, according to Ted Berg, in a column for SNY, “If the Mets win two of three, everyone will holler about how they’ve finally gotten past last September and they’re a new team under Jerry Manuel and everything is puppies and daffodils. If they lose two of three, we’ll say they’re the same old Mets and they’re bound to blow it again. If one team sweeps the other, all hell will break loose.”
