Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock

Apparently the Magic Number Clock isn't broken, because it moved again tonight. Two big ticks of doom for the Philadelphia Phillies. The Number suddenly dips to single digits, with 11 games left for the Mets to play, and as the Cardinals celebrate on the field for perhaps the last time in 2007, the Phillies hopes have faded a little bit more. They're now three losses behind the Mets, and if the Padres can overcome a 3-2 Pirate lead in the 5th, they'll be three losses back in the Wild Card race too.

Today was looking good for the Phillies, and bad for the Mets. The Mets looked like they were going to be steamrolled by the competition, but instead it's looking like the Phillies don't have enough gas and that the Mets are just a little farther away than they realized. The momentum has suddenly swung back in the Mets favor as they head down to Florida where they haven't lost in what seems like ages pitching pitchers who will one day be immortalized in Cooperstown.

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It's a good time to be a Mets fan.