{"id":2104,"date":"2012-06-04T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2012-06-03T23:36:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:36:32","slug":"believe-it-other-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/06\/04\/believe-it-other-its\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe It: Other Its."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wave of optimism coming from the Mets fanbase this weekend has been refreshing. \u00a0Welcome to the club. \u00a0(Guest euphoria welcome) It&#8217;s impossible not to be giddy about how this team played this weekend. \u00a0Finally, a Mets pitcher has pitched a no-hitter. \u00a0Believe it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"First Place New York Mets\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Uj2k0v6MmyY\/T8wss3BalMI\/AAAAAAAAO30\/52V7SoiYMqc\/s912\/2012-06-03%252023.32.15.jpg?gl=US\" alt=\"Believe It!\" width=\"547\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What else can you believe? \u00a0An MVP? Playoff berth? \u00a0The World Series?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why not? \u00a0Many of us would&#8217;ve put the odds of those above a no-hitter, and we&#8217;ve beaten those odds. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wrighda03.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">David  Wright<\/a><\/strong> has to be one of the favorites for the MVP a third of the way through the season. \u00a0You could make a case for both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/santajo02.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Johan  Santana<\/a><\/strong> AND <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dicker.01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">R.A.  Dickey<\/a><\/strong> as Cy Young candidates. \u00a0According to <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/features\/cyyoung\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s Cy Young predictor<\/a>, R.A.  Dickey is the early favorite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Playoffs? \u00a0Well, the Mets are now tied for first place in the division. \u00a0They&#8217;ve been in &#8220;If the season ended today&#8221; position to make the playoffs most of the season. \u00a0Winning in the playoffs? I&#8217;ll take my chances with R.A.  Dickey, Johan  Santana, and David  Wright, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greg from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandfearinflushing.com\/2012\/06\/03\/approaching-history-when-everythings-changed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faith and Fear in Flushing<\/a> has this to say on those &#8220;We&#8217;ve never had XXX&#8221; lists:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And what\u2019s left of a never-got-one nature to ache for anyway? Put aside a World Series championship even if you\u2019ve never seen one before, because the Mets have two of those. They have cycles, triple plays, a 6-for-6 night, 10 consecutive strikeouts, a batting title and now a no-hitter. What is left hanging out there on the vine that can be attained on the field? An MVP has to be voted on, so that\u2019s not it. A perfect game would be something, but that\u2019s like waiting for the clouds to rain candy. Not everybody has one of those, so it\u2019s not as if the Mets are being left out. Ditto for a four-homer performance. We\u2019ll love if it happens, but it\u2019s rare enough to advise against holding breath for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can&#8217;t the Mets do this season? Nothing. \u00a0There is nothing the Mets can&#8217;t achieve. \u00a0Believe It.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wave of optimism coming from the Mets fanbase this weekend has been refreshing. \u00a0Welcome to the club. \u00a0(Guest euphoria welcome) It&#8217;s impossible not to be giddy about how this team played this weekend. \u00a0Finally, a Mets pitcher has pitched a no-hitter. \u00a0Believe it. What else can you believe? \u00a0An MVP? Playoff berth? \u00a0The World &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/06\/04\/believe-it-other-its\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Believe It: Other Its.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1248,19,124,3,1247],"tags":[1400,2664,2665,753,2666,2659,1494,2414,14,190,419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}