Oh crap, we're still number one.

by Jack Kerouac on Sep 30, 2007 4:33 PM PDT Comment 4 comments

I was hoping that the monumental collapse of the Metropolitans would erase the 1995 you-know-whose collapse as the worst of all-time. Alas, we're still number one.

Read here for the "top" 13 collapses of all-time (the Mets moved into the number two slot earlier today).

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=6764

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no one's blew as big a September lead though

as the Mets.

by rbrianc on Sep 30, 2007 4:38 PM PDT reply actions

I blame Cal Ripken Jr.

by cupie on Sep 30, 2007 6:59 PM PDT reply actions

I knew 95 was the worst of all time. I used to run simulations myself back then for playoff odds, and I think I stopped right after that season as the heart just went out of me. I mean if they were 99.98% and lost I figured I was doing something wrong.

by elricsi on Sep 30, 2007 10:11 PM PDT reply actions

Statistical analysis, feh!

Just kidding, but subjectively, it seems ludicrous to rate the Angels' 1995 fade as so much worse than the Mets' fade this season as the linked article does. In my memory, at least, the fact that we pulled out of the nose dive the last week and forced a playoff mitigates the fade somewhat.

My wife tells me that at the time she was terrified that the Angels' fade would ruin our wedding, which came the next Saturday, but I wasn't going to let anything ruin that.

". . .and the young lions will lock horns!" -- Ron Fairly, from an Angels telecast

by rspencer on Oct 1, 2007 1:52 AM PDT reply actions