Sure, playing for 2nd place now gets you into the playoffs. But here we are fetishizing failure from a different era, while decrying it in the modern era.
"I haven't seen a guy speak this long to prevent something from changing since Strom Thurmond over civil rights, what's he so passionate about?"
"Parking places."
There is no doubt even this group has been severely underachieving. No one was predicting the 1962 Mets. I know we set up this team to be an inevitable failure, but it has blown through a few level of bad on the way there. Pace for 140 losses is not the same as 100. I do think there is plenty of room to be better from the guys who are here to finish up around 100 losses, but who knows if it happens.