[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

You know that's not the same. Every team tries to win every game, but over the course of 162 games, variations occur. Hot streaks and cold streaks, trades and injuries all affect the outcome of any one game. This isn't the NFL; nobody is going to go 162-0. The idea is to simply win as many games as you can and we'll add them up at the end.

Had the Mets known back in…whenever, that their postseason chances were going to be decided by how they did head-to-head against Cincinnati (as opposed to against the Scrubs or the Dodgers or whomever) then yes, they would have gone balls-to-the-wall Game 7 of the World Series mode in those games. But of course they had no way to know that THOSE games would decide the post-season months after the fact, so they more logically worked to maximize their total wins for the season rather than be willing to risk injuries and ****ing up the rotation just to win some random game back in the spring.

There's a difference between a regular season game and a playoff. To deprive the Mets/Yankees/Tigers/1951 Giants/1978 Red Sox/1999 Mets of the chance to settle things in a playoff just because of the results of random games from long-ago is mind-bogglingly unfair.

(It's even stupider if the tie is for a WC; you can at least argue that the teams should concentrate on their divisional rivals. But I can't even recall when the Reds came to Queens this season, much less what happened. And you want those random games and the ones in Cincy in August to invalidate the other 156?

I've got two words, and the second is 'that".)

I know it ain't the same. But the claim it wasn't decided by competition is a falsehood. Post all the words & paragraphs you want, it was decided on the field.

I know you will deny it.

And the "if they had known" is a bull crap excuse. Bills & Ravens opened the season together. And you know what they were talking about? That this game could matter for home field & be the diff in a SB appearance. You stay ready, you don't have to get ready. If the Mets had known......looks like the Reds knew.