Collusion, schmollusion.
Yes, this is completely biased from a New York Mets fan, but perhaps you can understand why. I’ve lived through enough heartache and late-season collapses to last a lifetime. The LOLMets thing is tough to live with every year.
But this is something that’ll benefit BOTH the Mets and the Atlanta Braves, who come into Monday’s doubleheader that shouldn’t have been with this scenario: if they split the doubleheader, they both make the playoffs as Wild Card teams. The Arizona Diamondbacks would be eliminated.
Sorry, D-Backs fans, but your team went to the World Series last year and last won in 2001. Mets fans NEED this, just to get to the playoffs after a year like this one. After that? Whatever. The postseason is a crap shoot.
The Braves & Mets discussing splitting tomorrow’s doubleheader so they both make the playoffs pic.twitter.com/LyMiCMEKzv
— Trent (@Trenciarte) September 29, 2024
the mets and braves celebrating on the field together tomorrow after splitting the doubleheader pic.twitter.com/wk12TCVboZ
— steph (@whutyearisit) September 29, 2024
This team has been just so darn fun this year. We had the Grimace memes and costumes. There’s the OMG signs. A Mets team that had no business contending for a playoff spot is here. Please, let us have this one thing.
So here’s what to do: get Luisangel Acuña to talk to his brother, Ronald. Have some signals from their dugouts exchanged in late innings of Game 2. Scratch of the nose means fastball over the middle coming. A stretch and a yawn means slider away. No one else has to know.
And everyone goes to the postseason happy. I don’t even care that the Braves and Mets have been rivals for 30 years. I’m willing to let them into the playoffs too, just to help our fanbase not collapse under the weight of yet another embarrassing moment in which it felt like the baseball gods wanted another laugh at the Mets’ expense.
Please? Thank you.
