The Binghamton Rumble Ponies are the first team this season to win 70 games in either Double-A or Triple-A, but it’s the big-league Mets that fans are expecting to see win. A winning Double-A affiliate is nice, but it’s not as nice as retaking the division lead.

Going into a three-game series against the team that owns the best record in baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers , fans want blood. They want home runs, large leads and they want hitting coach Eric Chavez fired. The former third baseman has become a strange fixation of the fanbase this season, with many blaming heaping all of the blame for the lineup’s hitting woes on Chavez. They’ve done so much mental gymnastics trying to create narratives about Chavez that they’ve twisted into pretzels.

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