I removed the Magic Number, because a) it is essentially meaningless when up a half-game in the standings with 13 games left, and b) because I can no longer waste hours upon hours 
of my day dealing with e-mails like the this:
“SO U PUT UP THE STUPID @#$%& MAGIC NUMBER AGEIN AND WHAT HAPPENS METS BLOW 2 @#$%& GAMES ONE IN THE 8TH NOW IN THE 9TH THE FANS VOTED NOT TO DO IT AND U JUST DON’T GIVE A FLYING @#$%& YOUR A COMPLETE @#$%& I HOPE THEY DON’T MAKE THE @#$%& PLAYOFFS SO U CAN LIVE WITH IT FOREVER YOUR NO BETTER THEN BARTMAN U CAN TAKE YOUR @#$%& WEBSITE AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR @#$%&.”
I know, and you thought I was a bad speller.
Anyway, I do not believe in jinxes. I do, however, believe in hard work and getting things done during the day, which has been nearly impossible when having to field e-mails like the above over and over and over again.
So, while I realize that the majority of this site’s readers wanted the Magic Number to be posted, my inbox needs break.
I hope you understand.
While I had originally voted for the magic number, the results since it went up do seem to justify its removal. Sure, there is probably no jinx, but why mess with fate? If we’re playing Chicago and the number’s at 3 or something, I’m fine with putting it back up, but right now, it’s pointless, and worrisome.
Shut up.
NO U
This idiot Matt received this email from owes him an apology. And yeah, you know who you are.
Absolutely unbelievable. It’s one thing to voice our collective frustrations at this pennant race. It’s another thing all together to make Matt and this ridiculous talk about a jinx the focus of all that’s wrong with the Mets….
Keep up the good work, Matt. I, for one appreciate all you and your crew do for this blog.
The writer of that e-mail seems to have the intelligence of a Yankees fan.
While I understand his POV, being belligerent does not solve anything. Matt, this is your site, and if you deem appropriate to post the magic number, then so be it. The writer purely is ignorant. While, I admit to being a bit superstitious, I am a Met fan. We live and die by the sword! Go Mets!
I agree that the emailer was childish and acted inappropriately in sending that ridiculous email, but I guess in this case being belligerent does solve something in that the magic number is now down………
Had to throw in the “majority of MetsBlog readers wanted it posted” line.
Sigh. This post is the blogging version of getting the last word.
No, this post is the blogging version of the “Squeeky wheel gets the grease”
I guess I’ll have to read a different site to get my Mets information.
I couldn’t agree more. See my post below for further information.
Please do so. Bye.
This.
It never should of been up… we where nowhere close to a dvision title..
Has nothing to do with a jinx…
nuff said
I agree, and I think most fans agree, that’s why the one who voted for it to be up voted for 10 or less games.
That’s the main point a lot of people seem to be missing.
Magic numbers are for runaways. In a race where anything can happen, jinx or no jinx, it just isn’t the place for it.
stilltheEWM,
Were you the emailer?
Your grammar and spelling seem familiar.
“should have”
“we were”
“division”
“nuff”
And Matt, you could’ve just filtered your mail to delete anything with “Magic Number” in it.
That email is awful! It just goes to show the maturity level of some of the fans out there. Wow.
That is one downright tragilarious email. Thanks for sharing.
You must have read my post on the magic number being meaningless. And you’re jinx Matt has entered the veins of our warriors as evidenced by our 3,4, and 5 batters last evening going 0-11. They would never have done that in a big game! You ruined the season you closet Yankee fan!
I would have taken a begging approach about removing the magic number. But that’s just me.
I find it hilarious that the most talked about thing on this blog is the Magic number picture…how lame
Would rather talk about Pedro getting bombed? The offense going to sleep? Or Brandon Knight starting on Wednesday?
or, how about the lack of a closer and how the wild card is something to “shoot” for now?
YES!
Well this blog has become rather void of interesting content in the past month or so. Doesnt leave much else to debate when everything is being linked to SNY.tv of some other blog.
Thanks Matt for hitting into those double plays yesterday and for blowing the two run this weekend.
It’s all your fault.
HOW DARE YOU REMOVE THE $@&!! MAGIC NUMBER WEHN THE %**#@ FANS WANTED IT POSTED!!! NOW YOU JINXED THE JINX TO THE JINX, MAKING A TRIPEL NEGITIVE JINX THE WURST KIND OF &@!!#@ JINX!!!
Right, we need 1 more jinx to make it an even jinx, which means no jinx at all.
It seems odd that Matt claims not to believe in jinxes yet takes a lot of time to continually note (once using an entire post) to shift ‘responsibility’ to the people who voted in an anonymous poll.
I mean, at first, I thought he was obviously joking, but it appears I was mistaken.
I guess that maybe Matt has temporarily lost a bit of perspective; could be from the hate mail, and he mentioned a letter to his house – so it is certainly understandable.
“it is essentially meaningless when up a half-game in the standings with 13 games left to play”
That’s what everyone was trying to tell you in the first place, and that’s why people wanted it posted much later. But you seem to refuse to accept that part of it.
what a bunch of loser? who would send mean e-mails or letters to matt over a magic number? go committ yourself to an institution. please.
“when having to field e-mails like the above over and over and over again”
who said you have to field them? If they’re from obvious psychos like that, just delete them. Who said you have to read or answer any emails? You’re running a Mets website, not Dear Abby.
WOW what an idiot. It’s not Matt’s falt that the team is not playing well. What can he do, he or us are not on the field playing so we can’t change how the game goes. A little graphic with a number posted on it has no effect. Matt does a great job with the site and a dumb graphic should not change that.
Matt, you are wrong. Unless you did another poll I don’t know about. The poll you took, the majority voted for not putting it up ever. Don’t hide behind this false statement. Just admit that it’s your site, you wanted it up, and you did. I have no problem with that logic, but you’re trying to justify it by saying we wanted it, when we did not vote that way.
I agree with apingicer. Matt, just apologize to all your readers for your mistake and everything will be back to normal.
It’s like Delgado when he refused to take the curtain call. After he did it, he was forgiven.
Er, you guys are confusing a plurality with a majority.
If you added up all those who voted to put it up immediately with those who voted to put it up at X games left (I believe he had two options there)….it was a majority.
Matt,
You should not be receiving meaningless and terrible e-mail over the magic number. There is more serious problems we should be screaming about. But I agree with both Dwright and apingicer, majority of the reader voted not to post the magic number up. However, I also agree with apingicer you should just say that it is your site and you wanted it up. It is sad that both that you have to post this up and you have to focus more on this than Mets possible repeat of collapse (which I don’t want!!). Thank you for the blog and effort.
??? How is 44 percent the majority?
66 percent voted for one of the multiple options of putting it up.
44+64=110, not 100.
I liked the first one you put up with the phanatic behind Mr. Met. C’mon people with this jinx talk. You believe Matt is the sole reason the Mets stink in september then you might as well believe in santa claus. Any of you attend the soccer match in africa where fans thought one of the players was using witchcraft? Rumors have it that it was actually Metsblog’s own Matt Cerone who was on the field casting his witchcraft on the players. Unbeknownst to him, it’s somehow working on the Mets now. Matt put that pixie dust away for Pete’s sake!
“So, while I realize that the majority of this site’s readers wanted the Magic Number to be posted, my inbox needs break” …. Matt, AGAIN, NO, we DID NOT!
The MAJORITY DID want it posted. Just because the #1 vote option was “don’t post it” doesn’t it mean it was the majority.
If there were 5 choices of WHEN to post it, and 1 choice of DON’T post it. The Don’t post would obviously win, even if it only had 30% of the entire vote. 70% of the people wanted it posted, but didn’t agree on when.
In the actual poll, I think 40% said don’t post it, and the 60% that said to post it were just split on WHEN.
Well a plurality said don’t post it. It wins in a runoff election.
Matt, you took down the magic number and because of that, you are solely responsible for the coffee I spilled this morning and the garbage bag breaking en route to the trash can outside. Absolutely pathetic.
I’m just really curious as to why Daniel Murphy and Nick Evans are not getting the playing time they were getting the a few weeks ago. Ever since the platoon has gone away in left field, it seems as if the team has stopped playing well. Those guys added a certain spark to the lineup that I’m not currently seeing. Could someone do some research and find out what game the platoon in left field stopped and see what the record is since then?
In other words – I agree the magic number should come down because a 1/2 game lead with 13 to go definitely means there’s no reason to post it – but in no means do I think metsblog, it’s editor, or its commentors are responsible for the latest 4 game stretch… seriously guys, how ridiculous is that!
And beyond that – there was a company that has already printed 2008 NL EAST Champions Phillies shirts… is that a jinx too? If so, does that mean the Marlins are going to come out of no where to win this thing?
Well i dont curse in my posts but they still do not appear…and when i copy and paste what i wrote(in the event it does not appear) a msg comes up saying “you have already said this”. My post adhere to your rules and regulations about posting but some still dont go through? Is there perhaps another reason for this?
I dare the sender of that email to show himself
Wow! Along with jinxes, I hope zombies, vampires, the wolfman, Sasquash, and the boogyman don’t get the Mets, they are having enough trouble with the Braves and Nats right now.
Eh, there is no jinx…
there is just a terrible team that lays down when the money is on the line… Did it in Game 7 in 2006, did it last September and obviously are doing it again this September…
God it is terrible being a Mets fan… These two weeks are going to be hell… Can you imagine the Shea finale actually meaning something? That place will be as quiet as a morgue…
“That place will be as quiet as a morgue…”
Shades of ’07. God that was terrible. Watching these Mets is like looking at a car wreck on the LIE. You can’t help it, your jaw drops at the scene and then you’re mad you just spent all that time in traffic. Sounds like bein a Mets fan to me…well it’s how I feel every year, dunno about my fellow drivers.
Huge payroll = no playoffs again. Joke! Hopefully the Wilpons, in their infinite wisdom, draft up a better plan for 2009? Perhaps one that includes a new look bullpen, and to stop throwing money at these washed up free agents. Looks like they got something good from down on the farm with this kid Murphy, who knows maybe there are other viable kids down there yearning for a spot.
I can not believe that this is even an issue. I mean, do people really think that Matt putting up a magic number graphic on metsblog has anything to do with the Mets winning? The Mets winning and losing has to do with only one thing and that is THE METS. It comes down to hitting, fielding, pitching and coaching and that is it. Matt could put up a picture of anything he wants and it will have no effect on what the Mets do on a day to day basis. How old are you guys???
It is sad that Matt has to actually deal with ridiculous e-mails like the one posted above. Grow up people and get over your jealousy and your childish superstitions.
Thank you for so very accurately expressing what I would think about 99% of us should be expressing here lately, with the unbelievable stream of childish nonsense that has been polluting this excellent site.
if you think posting a number online affects how a team plays on the field you are crazy
The best route to take Matt would just never even mention this ridiculous subject again. I, personally, would put the word “MAGIC” in a huge, bold font and have an enormous number span the length of the page. People who get upset about a magic number posted on a blog are incomprehensibly stupid.
THAT would be perfect!
Well said!
How did all of the Phillies and Braves fans get your email address.
In 1973 the slogan was “You Gotta Believe”
The slogan for this years stretch run should be “You Gotta Relieve”
The only magic numbers are the ones in the Win column.
Let’s Go Mets
Lets Go Mets
OK, the above was a test since nothing I posted with my “Free Aaron Heilman II” username would go through. And I have no clue why. I made one post all day yesterday simply saying I liked the new magic number — Fonzie’s uniform # — and that was it. No cursing in it. And now I can’t post anything with my old username.
And Matt took away the message box (which I can understand) so I can’t ask him why. Why, Matt? Please reinstate me.
What happened to Free Aaron Heilman I?
That one got banned I think because I cursed just once — at Keith Hernandez for getting on Reyes. I asked Matt why FAH I got banned and he never replied.
But now FAH II won’t work and I have no clue why. I’ve been extra careful not to use even disguised curse words and I made just one innocuous post all day yesterday with FAH II.
If you believe in jinxes, you basically equating yourself to having the mental capacity of a mildly retarded 10 year old (which is further supported by that email Matt received). Superstitions and jinxes are for the weak minded, for people who can’t deal with reality and need excuses for the world around them. Grow up, enter reality, and finally, just shut up.
Hey, nothing like a cold ole annual Mets collapse to start making fun of the mentally handicapped. Well done DarkStar, well done.
“Anyway, I do not believe in jinxes. I do, however, believe in hard work and getting things done during the day, which has been nearly impossible when having to field e-mails like the above over and over and over again.”
…like taking news from other people’s websites and writing an intro paragraph and placing it as your own?
As long as you source and link to the article what in the hell is wrong with that? You know a lot blogs exists as a means of linking news and information throughout the internet?
The problem is, Cerrone has one of the best jobs in the world. He isn’t a reporter, he doesn’t have deadlines, he posts what he wants when he wants. I’m tired of Cerrone acting like running Metsblog is his cross to bear. Maybe its the rise in popularity or having to answer to a corporate sponsor, or having to answer to angry fans but Cerrone has taken the joy out of reading this for me. Every post seems to be angry and self defeating. After defending Cerrone last year I took a step back and looked at the direction of the site. Maybe the angry fans have made Cerrone angry and disillusioned, but of late his posts have been two-sided, angry, and childish. And I hope that Cerrone this off season can take a step back and understand that his job really isn’t all that bad and he should bring the joy back to the site. He can’t control the comments, but he can control the content.
Who is forcing you stay here? There are other blogs. Or, start your own.
This is Cerrone’s site. If you do not like his just leave. I have no problem with his response to these absolutely juvenile readers apotheosizing “The Magic Number.”
The Mets need to get their act together because their play is despicable.
The “lets blame Matt Cerrone for putting up the Magic Number” game is plausible only to the idiots.
Dont worry Matt, you’re not the jinx. I am. Thats right, you can exhale. I am a 20 year old college student who has given his life to Mets fandom and have thus recieved nothing in return (Born in ’88. just missed.) I am studying abroad in London and thus am without the privilege (pain) of watching the mets daily as i have 162 times every year since the cradle. Well, as an uncompensated fan I reserve the right to hope that this year is not the mets ‘year’ if for only the selfish reason being that I would not be able to be there with the rest of the Shea faithful to enjoy it. I know this is irrational and self centered, but it is what it is. So rest easy Matty, I’m the one with the voodoo doll this september.
heres lookin forward to the spring,
Mike K
So apparently you don’t root for the Mets, but for yourself to have something to enjoy.
That’s too bad.
What? Can’t you find a cricket team or something?
Here’s the thing. The reader that wrote that e-mail is a half-wit, obviously.
However, there’s a few things you should keep in mind before pushing blame back on the reader’s without actually coming out and saying it.
I’ll preface by saying I voted to put the magic number up, and between 15-20 games, or whatever the long end of it was.
1) You run a blog, and you don’t want to deal with the “annoying e-mails”? I mean, its your site, you put the number up, regardless of what the fans voted for. Its Matthew Cerrone’s metsblog. If you put it up with your name it, the e-mails come with the territory.
2) If we are being technical as others have posted, the correct thing to do was put up the number on the lower end of the spectrum, which was under 10 I believe? Majority voted to it up at some point, so it should;ve gone up, but not at 17 games.
It should not have gone up and it was a mistake, it would probably be a better idea to address it as such instead of blaming the voters.
Regardless, the number has nothing to do with the Mets wins or losses. If you really believe it does, you need to re-evaluate your hobbies.
Your first part is right, your second part not so much. There never should’ve been a vote. Once the PHillies series was over and we all were counting down the wins we’d need to make the playoffs, it should’ve gone up, or not at all this year. one or the other.
I don;t disagree with your opinion at all. The second part was jsut speaking technically absed on the fact that the poll was run.
its not the magic number its Luis Castillo, the mummy
If you’ve been a frequent visitor to this site for the past 3 years or so, can you really say that you’re surprised by this e-mail? I am amazed at the lack of maturity of quite a few of the posters on this site. I’m sure that is 1 of the 100 e-mails he got just like it.
Perhaps you’re not superstitious, Matt, but it should be realized that many baseball fans, and for that matter, many baseball players, are VERY superstitious. Maybe that shouldn’t necessarily affect whether or not you post the Magic Number, but since you did post it, things have gone badly. Why not take it down, just in case.
the emails you’ve received are from disrespectful and irrational people who I would hardly call fans. They’re maniacs – thankfully not representative of this sites fans.
I think I have been on this site for too long, cuz I know exactly who wrote that email to Matt. Grow up, man. It’s a free website, he can do what ever he wants.
Please…the real reason that the magic number was taken down was to make room for his next corporate sponsor…
Hey Idiot–
You called me out on the other thread for not studying how good Anderson Hernandez’s minor league stats are….they actually stink, and he hit about .200 this year with about a .262 OBP and not much better in 2006. Maybe that’s why he couldn’t get to Shea when 2B has been a huge problem for years??
Have you done your research yet?
Or are you busy trying to remove Cerrone’s good name from your handle, so then you will be more accurately described?
Its easy to point out just the bad years isnt it…they didnt stink the years he hit 301 and 326 did they…but you forgot to mention those….do your full research…moron
God forbid people make some money…it doesn’t impact you…at all.
are you sure about that…are you sure that by me watching SNY and having to see his ads and his cut of my mets expenses doesnt impact me…
Yes…I’m quite sure it doesn’t impact you in any meaningful way. If it does, you’ve made your life waaaaay too complex
But you said “at all”…meaningless or not, it has an impact….just because you have a mancrush on Matt does not mean that I have to enjoy the sponsorships…to each his own…
yes…you’ve outted me. Maybe it’s a man-crush OR maybe it’s an absolute loathing of malcontents who displace their obvious issues with themselves, and life in general, on things like Cerrone posting a magic number and how he makes his living. I’ve read way too many postings laced with idiocy to continue to not say anything.
It’s interesting that you enjoy the free content, but cannot tolerate those big bad sponsorships. You’re the guy that goes to the restaurant orders waters, eats the free rolls and splits an appetizer 3-ways before leaving without tipping aren’t you? I knew it…
What, pray tell, is wrong with Matt finding more sponsors anyway? Are you THAT envious of others’ success?
Isn’t having a dream of a new service or product, working hard, creating something people like, and making money doing it the American dream?
Sheesh.
i’d really love to read more of these emails. they are more entertaining to read than the mets are to watch.
Seriously….just from an anthropological / psychological study standpoint.
Met fans have serious issues if they are sending you E-mails like this
you people amaze me…really people? are you really upset with Matt for posting a magic number? Why is it even a subject of conversation? You people really need some perspective in your life. C’mon…grow up.
I cannot believe that any rational person could think that having a number posted on a web page could affect the outcome of a professional sports game.
Obviously, these aren’t rational people!
I think the problem was that the people that voted for it didn’t have especially strong feelings, while the people who didn’t want it REALLY didn’t want it. Not all votes are created equal.
Two questions:
1.) Do you have psychic powers to know what people felt about their votes?
2.) Logic is not your strong point, is it?
This might be the stupidest comment ever on MetsBlog. Not every vote is created equal…Ummm, didn’t we have a civil war – Umm, didn;t the civil war and the civil rights movement solve this question?
People really get fired up about this blog…Wow.
Test
When its all said and done, if the Mets free fall for the rest of the season, it will be hard to ignore the correlation of posting magic numbers and bad luck.
This can be the start of a new curse: Matt’s Magic Number Curse
My blog taps into an XML feed for the standings. Every year in late august the feed integrates the magic number of all the first place teams. So I created a plugin to show the magic number once it appears if the the team is in first place. (If the team isn’t in first place then there is no magic number.) There is zero maintenance on my end. It’s either there or it’s not.
Matt,
I think you should post some selected e-mails you get and rip them apart…..just like Simmons does (I think it’s Simmons……) but its hilarious seeing the garbage people write on a weekly basis. Everyone has a lot to say when they’re hiding behind their keyboards.
I, for one, will more than likely point to the series, against San Diego that Wagner blew, or the sweep by houston, or…ummm…the first part of the year where the Mets didn’t show up to play baseball before I blame posting the Magic number. Call me crazy
You’re crazy. Isn’t it obviously Matt Cerrone’s fault? Or, at least. Bill Webb’s?
Not at all!
Matt, there are a few that need to get a life! Arguing over the “Magic Number” statistic and the charactarizations of Mr. Met and the Philly Phanatic???
If some fans express their frustrations over every little thing on how you do your job, then try this:
Get a Mets uniform, a bat, and go down to Washington withthe intent for joining the team. Last night, the line up was 5 for 29.
Specifically, Church, Wright, Beltran, and Delgado were 2 for 18!
The heart of the Mets line up is not doing its job! Less time should be spent venting at a journalist and putting the spotlight on where it belongs!
Well, there was a 1-0 loss tonight. The Mets got pitching but he “invisible men” weren’t there at all. Tonight, Church, Wright, Beltran, and Delgado went 0 fer 16, which means 2 fer 34 for the two games! Jose Reyes was 0 fer 4 also. his is the most gutless team I have ever seen since the ’69 Cubs!
You know that we will run off 3 or 4 straight victories now that the Magic Number is gone. I don’t believe in jinxes, but this will just be a strange coincidence.
Seriously, folks, tonight is as big a game as there is. This team has shown the ability to bounce back, in big ways. I was surprised they didn’t win last night, but they have been hitting pretty well and you knew that one of these days they were going to get shut down, and Lannan showed why he has a lot of promise. That being said, they should be able to pound Perez tonight. On another post, Matt said they should probably sit Church- I would play Evans and Tatis, and maybe even A. Reyes at 2B. Also, I think we will see more of Parnell.
Prediction– Mets win tonight, 8-3.
It’s a bit rich to post this morning about Pedro “making excuses” and then give us this. Your wriggling out of any responsibility with this magic number fiasco is becoming kind of a hoot. I’m not talking about any jinxing. You put it up way too early. If you’d just say, I put it up way too early, my mistake, you wouldn’t have these hundreds of comments and all the emails.
The situation the mets were in when you put the number up did not begin to warrant it, as we see now just a few days later, and your readers did not demand it — some 8 percent wanted it up before it was at 10?
You had your epiphany last week about this team not being last year’s team. You got a little excited – understandable – and jumped the gun with the magic number. Man up, for pete’s sake.
Matt needs to apologize for nothing.
The lineup, bullpen, and pedro are the ones who need to apologize for not doing their job.
Matt did not cause this, therefore there is nothing he needs to be sorry about, apologize for, or man up to. Some sites automatically list magic numbers for the team in first…..and if/when that changes, then the magic number switches to the new team in first……..
The magic number had NO – ZERO – NADA – impact on anything related to anything, other than some whiny Mets fans on Metsblog.
He doesn’t need to apologize. He needs to stop with these ridiculously defensive posts pretending that he was just responding to what his readers wanted. It’s been discussed ad naseum – there was no majority that wanted it posted when he posted it.
He removed it today because “it is essentially meaningless.” If it can be essentially meaningless now, it was essentially meaningless then, and this is what so many of his readers were trying to tell him — it was too soon. (With lots of talk about tempting fate, of course, and that’s baseball — curse of the bambino, goats, etc etc etc.)
I didn’t think that it was a matter of jinxing the team, and don’t think so now. I just didn’t want to see something reminding me – with such vivid echoes of last year, that damned Phanatic – that it’s nowhere near finished. But it’s his site. He can post what he wants, when he wants. But when he realizes that it was a dumb thing to do, he should not try to pretend that he only did it because the people clamored for it. He wanted to post it, and now the situation has forced him to realize that he posted it way too soon.
LOL
Wow.
What possible difference can it make as to when (and, for that matter, if) Matt posts the magic number?
Exactly JefJarrett
My post is not going through, anyone else having that problem? It was very long, maybe they review long posts?
Anyone?
Maybe because the system knows how stupid the post was and disallowed it to save some face for the intelligent mets fans…who are few and far between….
Um, what? My post wasn’t bad? I just voiced an opinion. I think it might be reviewed because it was pretty long, that is my only guess.
Matt – i understand.
Is anyone else just enjoying a good old fashioned pennant race? Geez folks, its baseball, try to enjoy it!
YES! 13 games left……this is going to be great. ENJOY IT and stop crying about stupid frigging stuff…..jeeze.
Hey Jefjarrett….how’s your wife and my kids?
All of you guys are so absent minded its not even funny…… What makes you guys think that Matt posting the magic number is affecting the Mets? I doubt the Mets take the Field everyday going ohh crap you see what Matt put up today?…. The Magic number now im nervous… NO The Mets go out there everyday and try to win ball games. Guess What no team will ever win 162 games and go undefeated every team loses ball games. So everybody stop with this B.S. Matt put the Magic number back up but I have a suggestion, dont put the Phillie Phanatic standing behind him looking like he is ready to Stab Mr. Met in the Back on the spot. This is about the Mets. Now that this has all been said THE NEW YORK METROPOLITANS WILL WIN 5 STRAIGHT STARTING TODAY AND WILL WIN THE DIVISION AND EVENTUALLY WIN THE WORLD SERIES IN 2008 AND THE FINAL GAME AT SHEA WILL END WITH THE METS HOLDING THE WORLD SERIES TROPHY HIGH ABOVE THEIR HEAD FOR ALL TO SEE AND TO SHOW THEY OVER COME LAST YEAR AND ALL THE DOUBTERS LIKE YOURSELVES.
A True Met Fan,
Chris H.
“LETS GO METS”
How old are you people? Twelve?
There is no such thing as jinxes!
And, not to burst your bubbles, but you can step on sidewalk cracks without breaking grandma’s back.
Also, there is no tooth fairy.
Immature morons.
Thank you!!!
The only thing I can possibly blame Matt for is to get drawn into this whole debate in the first place. Yes, a majority wanted a number posted at some point. The bulk of that majority wanted it posted lower than when he actually posted it….
The bottom line is….who cares. It does not effect anything.
By getting these nasty e-mails and seeing the fan overreaction, I feel Matt was forced into defending himself….which he took a stance fans aren’t going to understand. (See Glavine, Tom devastated vs disappointed).
The Magic Number means nothing other than the number of games your team needs to win and the other team needs to lose to clinch whatever spot you’re going for.
People need to just CALM DOWN.
Amen.
Hey! Matt posted my e-mail!
(Just kidding)
Again, attributing it to us. We get it, we voted. Who owns the site again?
Matt sorry that you have to put with emailers that have no life and find it necessary to use profanity to get their point across. Just goes to show their IQ level. Up or down the magic number has nothing to do with Mets performance. The BP is the reason and the lack of tack on runs when avail is another reason. Also I think that Jerry is over analying his bp, if the reliever got the 1st 2 guys out leave in him there to get 3rd out. Match ups are over rated. Thanks LaRussa. Love your site Matt, first one I chk every morn.
I’m sorry you have to deal with people like that. That’s unbelievable. I love he compares you to bartman, Yeah it’s exactly the same thing except he physically interfered with a game and you run a sports blog website
Crazy stuff. Matt, your hard work is appreciated, and also that you have to put up with a lot of bull. Thanks for creating this place, I’m a regular and an addict!! (I don’t read the comments too much though, they seem to get inane rather quickly). Love the content, it doesn’t get any better than what you guys put out. LET’S GO METS!!
This is easily the most entertaining collection of comments in the history of this blog.
Sorry guys. I forgot to wear my lucky mets shorts last night. Send me the hate mail.
He should change the site to meltblog.com at this point… it’s your (((blog))) dude, do whatchalike. Half the people are probably just f’ing with you to begin with. You’re running a blog that covers a team in the most brutal media market in the world… may want to thicken up that skin a bit or you’ll have gary cohen’s hairline in no time.
Absolutely ridiculous that Matt has to put up with stupid emails like that.. I
cant help but being a little superstitious sometimes but to think that Matt
posting the magic number on the site has ANYTHING to do with a team losing
games is completely moronic and absurd. Although… that been said.. here is a
creepy one for you guys.. the curse of the seven:
- Mets blew a 7 game lead with 17 to play in 2007
- Reyes (#7) was blamed for the collapse
- Glavine #47 gave up 7 in 1st inning of last game last year to complete
collapse.
- Mets go give Johan a 7 yr deal .. # 57
- This year.. Mets blew a 7 run lead to Philly winning pitcher was RUdy Saenz
#57..
- Last game mets – Philly was Sept 7th
- Phillies completed sweep of Brewers winning 7-2 and 6-1 while Mets lost 7-4
- last night on 1st game of Mets 7 game road trip, they lost 7-2.. Nats blew itopen in 7th inning .. their starter went 7.. 97 pitches struck out 7 Mets..
- and.. finally…
Mets finish the season with the last 7 games at Shea…
and there u have it.. I know I sound like Jim Carey in that really bad movie couple of years back…
** (disclaimer: Yes, the above is trivial and to show how STupid this whole idea of jinxes is… ) you can really make this to look anyway you want… truth of the matter is.. games are won on the field.. and yes, I still believe this team will do it.. and I’ll be there 3 more times to root for them… not bailing out now.. LETS GO METS!!! Bring it home!!!
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again.
ANYONE, ANYONE, who actually believes outcomes of games are not determined by 25+ athletes on each team competing, the choice and location of the pitchers pitch, the read and reaction of the hitter, and the skill of the fielders reacting to the play, but instead the existence of a number on a webpage, should go for mental health counseling.
Can we keep a list of such people somewhere on this site so I know to ignore anything else that minds like these have to say? Maybe an icon next to their name “Magic number jinx”
Again……. This was the vote…… How is this the voters wanting the magic number posted at 17 games??
44% never
41% between 0 & 10
8% between 10 & 15
8% between 15 & 20
and my interpretation of this would be that 85% of people did not want the magic number put up so early, if at all!
So it was put up with what 16 games or so to go which was far too early imho!
Sigh………..
Matt said…..A majority of the voters wanted it posted….period.
Which he is correct.
Your argument will be that the bulk of those who wanted it posted, wanted it posted between 0-10
Which you are correct.
My argument is that this had nothing to do with anything and people should get off Matt’s back about it, and Matt should stop trying to blame the readers because it is NOBODY’S FAULT BUT THE NEW YORK METS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I am correct….
so you don’t believe in curses and the baseball gods?
try tellin’ that to a cubs or red sox fan
Just sayin’! LOL!
LOL……..then we’ve created our own right here at Metsblog and it should get national TV coverage. ESPN people read this blog…..they should cover this! hahaha
where’d my post go? it was real good. :(
Why is everyone defending Cerrone? Granted this is a phenominal site but he is jinxing the team and bring ignorant about it. He types again and again how he doesn’t believe in jinxes. Thats like walking under a ladder or opening an umbrella inside. It’s asking for trouble wether you believe in it or not. **** the magic number. Aren’t standings enough?
Thank God. If I had to hear about “the majority of readers” one more time I was going to start screaming.
Not that it matters. The damage is done.