{"id":2657,"date":"2016-09-18T08:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T14:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2016-09-18T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T14:29:31","slug":"ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"Ten!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As I\u2019ve said all year if and when\u00a0they puncture that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2650\" target=\"_blank\">10-games-over plateau<\/a>, maybe the temperature rises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well. Here we are on September 18, and there they are, and I guess I&#8217;m all in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10.gif\" alt=\"10\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s another weird thing. When in the same post I suggested\u00a0a 21-12 finish over their last 33 games was\u00a0what they would need I hadn&#8217;t realized that was also their precise record through their <em>first<\/em> 33 games. That day (May 11 after a 4-3 win in Los Angeles), the Mets reached nine games over .500 for the second time in the young season. They were also nine games up at 20-11 two days before.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets this season in fact knocked on the Magical 10-games-over barrier eight times before finally breaking down the door last night: May 9 (20-11); the aforementioned May 11 (21-12); May 27 (28-19); July 7 (47-38); then a long break till four more tries &#8212; Sept. 9 (75-66); Sept. 11 (76-67); Sept. 13 (77-68) and Sept. 19 (78-69).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As for my\u00a021-12 goal, they&#8217;re on their way at 12-6 though the first 18, and just\u00a09 of the last 15.<\/p>\n<p>Figuring out who pitches Game 4 of the division series requires\u00a0a whole different set of complicated arithmetic, but I&#8217;m glad today has arrived. Onward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve said all year if and when\u00a0they puncture that 10-games-over plateau, maybe the temperature rises. Well. Here we are on September 18, and there they are, and I guess I&#8217;m all in. Here&#8217;s another weird thing. When in the same post I suggested\u00a0a 21-12 finish over their last 33 games was\u00a0what they would need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ten!&#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":[439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","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=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}