[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

As I'm reasonably certain a very large amount of people could attest, the Mets are not "in the playoffs anyway" and would doubtless prefer giving Cincy a long-delayed chance to right Steve Parris's wrongs to this.

You could even juggle the schedule so that the Dodgers are the final team to start the postseason, allowing sufficient time to be ready to play game #163 in Cincinnati on Monday, survive a rainout pushing that game back to Tuesday, and be in Chavez Ravine on Wednesday night anyhow.

And yes, should a series of torrential downpours make play impossible in Southern Ohio for several days, it would play havoc with the schedule, going forward. But such rains would likely funk things up in Northern Ohio , too, so I don't see why said hypothetical justifies having the Mets (and their fans) take it in the neck. JMO.

There is a reason why I said "if".

Other sports have tiebreakers to decide division titles & WC spots, I don't get why baseball fans are so whiny about it. MLB is the sport that should have extra games the least. There were enough times out of 162 games where teams had chances in their hands & blew it. There's the game somebody came in hung over. The game someone didn't listen to the scouting report. The one they didn't hustle around the bases. They don't need a frikkin' 163rd chance to make it right. Especially the Mets. You can't beat a team w/nothing to play for in a win or die moment, then just die.