The National League and American League East will be decided this week. The Mets play 7 games against the second place Phillies and 3rd place Braves and the Yankees play 3 against Boston. Forget about magic numbers. Forget about all the rest, I don't care that there are more games between these teams and clinches should be done in the last week in September. Now is the time.

The Mets are in the drivers seat, the East is theirs to lose. Despite a loss last night, if they split the series with Philly and take 2 from the Braves, the Mets will be in position where it is almost impossible to catch up, unless there is a major collapses. (I wont say a major injury since the entire team except Wright and Reyes were injured at one point.)

While the Yanks have a wild card race on with Seattle, we really want to see them take the East from Boston. This will strike fear into their opponents in the playoffs and set up a better home field advantage than a wild card. So the Yankees have to win the next 3 games. While they will still be 5 games out, it will make a statement. The statement of we're playing for keeps.

We'll see what the week brings.

Posted by Steve in New York.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:54:27 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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