to say that the phillies are better than the mets simply because 1) they made it to the playoffs, 2) have slightly better numbers; 3) won one more game is borderline irresponsible.

im not going to defend delgado’s comment, but what i think he was trying to say was that we had a better team and we didnt perform to expectations and/or potential.

yes, the mets performed better than the mets when it counted most. but you agree that the phillies over achieved. i think the presumption for a team to over achieve is that they were expected to perform worse than they actually performed. so i dont see how an over achieving team is better than an under achieving team when the two teams have almost identical records and had very similar numbers.

but maybe im biased, I said “we” when referring to the mets…

While he was good in the role of closer, he’ll be more valuable to the Phillies as a starter.

The Phillies have to make their push now–in about two seasons the Marlins may be back in the hunt. I’d love for ownership to hire away Larry Beinfest from Florida.

I’m biased AND I enjoyed the article. Of course, I can’t bad mouth Delgado–too many times he was the only player giving me warm ‘n’ fuzzies about the Jays.

Well, he and Pat Hentgen.

Best Regards

John

Nice article.

I already proved the Phillies were .11 runs per game better by citing that statistic.

Yet before last season Jimmy Rollins ran his mouth after the Mets were clearly better in ‘06. Did you tell Rollins to STFU then?

I didn’t like it when he said it. But at the time, I did think the Phillies were much better than the Mets.

And didn’t the Diamondbacks sh*tcan that pythagorean theorem thing last year anyway?

No, they were historically rare exceptions.

And if the Mets had one won more game, and the Philles lost one more, say by one run each, and the Mets still behind the Phillies by .0whatever rpg, would have wrote a whole post saying how the Phillies were underachievers?

The Phillies overachieved last season by two games, so if they had lost one more, they’d have only overachieved by one game, or, in other words, they basically played to a record they deserved.

The least you can do is admit you have a bias before you go off on what someone said.

While I probably do have a bias, I do try to remain objective about the subjects I cover. I’ve written a few articles that really fired at the Phillies, their upper management, and Charlie Manuel when I was writing on my less-public Tripod website.

The least you can do is admit you have a bias before you go off on what someone said.