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09 July 2014

Not hockey, but Mets: NY Mets announce 4,000!

FLUSHING, Queens —

The New York Mets today announced 4,000 via Twitter, but of course, if you didn’t read the Tweet and just saw the image, you would only be able to guess what the 4,000 was.

Turns out the team last night won its 4,000th-ever baseball game, v. 4,374 losses.

If you’d asked me are the Mets only 374 games below .500 ever, I would have laughed and perhaps suggested they were 1,000 games below .500. But I suppose all those years between 1984 and 1990, when they were well above .500, contributed to this statistic.

At any rate, well done, Mets! Congrats on getting 4,000. Here is what we think the Mets’ graphic probably should have looked like ...




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