So Much for a Pennant Race

After losing 5 of their last 6, the Mets have dropped to 5 games behind the wild-card leading Astros, and they don't appear to have any life in them. And their bullpen is awful; the closer, Looper, had two chances last night, in the 9th and 10th innings, to pitch one scoreless inning and thereby secure a victory for New York. And twice he fucked up. So, two blown saves (one for Looper, one for Takatsu, who came in after Looper loaded the bases with no outs and actually managed to get the first two outs without allowing a run to score) in one game for the Amazin' Fuckups.

Gotta give it to them, though.... previous Mets teams lost hope in June, July, or early August. This one stuck around for awhile. But that only makes the fall further, the bones blown into more and smaller smithereens.

Also, the Braves are headed toward their 14th consecutive division title. Has anybody investigated this situation? Is it at all possible that they aren't somehow cheating? If 86 years without a championship is a curse bestowed by a fat baseballer, then 14 years of division titles must be the hand of Lucifer himself. Fortunately, our Lord is doing His part as well, and this doubtlessly will be the Braves' 13th year in 14 with a playoff berth and nothing but gate receipts to show for it. Of course, I'd like to have those gate receipts...