CINCINNATI _ Pinned to a corkboard in the visitor's clubhouse at Great American Ball Park all weekend was a chart with the Mets' itinerary _ bus times and flight lengths and whatnot for their series in Denver and Cincinnati, their final week away from New York before the end of the season.
That piece of paper is always posted, or at least otherwise available to Mets players and staff, when they are on the road. But this version had an appropriately different last line: "NEXT TRIP: To be determined ... BY YOU!!"
Even with a 6-3 victory against the Reds on Sunday and a pair of series wins, it increasingly appears there will be no "NEXT TRIP" for the Mets, whose long shot playoff chances got longer during this road trip.
