{"id":2438,"date":"2015-10-22T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2015-10-22T09:18:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:18:50","slug":"the-better-team-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"The Better Team Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/broom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/broom-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"broom\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/broom-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/broom.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look, <em>any<\/em> way a Mets team gets\u00a0to a World Series is just fine with me, but wanted to remark for posterity how convincing an expression of &#8220;may the better team win&#8221; this club has demonstrated in these playoffs. We withstood\u00a0doubleshots of Kershaw and Greinke and a cheapshot from Utley and marched on ahead; and have now beaten the Cubs so thoroughly, in every aspect of the game, there&#8217;s just no ambiguity about it: The Mets are the best team in the National League in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Soak that\u00a0in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/28.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/28.gif\" alt=\"28\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Readers will surely know I&#8217;ve never been Daniel Murphy&#8217;s biggest Met supporter, but would never deny his overwhelming Met-ness, and couldn&#8217;t be any happier for him or more in awe of his performance. He&#8217;s outsmarting the other guys now? Keep it up!\u00a0And what of David Wright? The play I&#8217;m going to remember from Game 4 was that fantastic catch with the bases loaded that had to have all but killed whatever feint beat remained in the hearts of Wrigleyville. From a guy who missed nearly the entire year with a back injury and is the only remaining member of the last Mets team to play an NLCS. Jon Niese with a big strikeout in Game 2.\u00a0Duda and d&#8217;Arnaud. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/48.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/48.gif\" alt=\"48\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Flores driving it into the gaps. Granderson leading off. Nieuwenhuis and Lagares. Syndergaard, Familia and Harvey blowing guys away, and deGrom &#8212; counting the postseason, now the Mets&#8217; winningest 48 ever &#8212; destroying them without his best stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years ago I rooted with everything I had but was never convinced we had the best team in the tournament, much less the Series. The &#8217;06 juggernaut for all its potential played its way out.\u00a0We need to go back 29 years, until&#8230; Yup.<\/p>\n<p>So congrats Mets, and congrats to all of us who&#8217;ve hung in there. Especially us geeks who visit this site, this incredibly will be the second Mets World Series in the MBTN Era. More news on\u00a0that soon, btw. Let&#8217;s Go Mets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, any way a Mets team gets\u00a0to a World Series is just fine with me, but wanted to remark for posterity how convincing an expression of &#8220;may the better team win&#8221; this club has demonstrated in these playoffs. We withstood\u00a0doubleshots of Kershaw and Greinke and a cheapshot from Utley and marched on ahead; and have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2438\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Better Team Won&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}