#1 - Daniel "The Irish Hammer" Murphy
#2 - Degrom, Thor and Harvey > Kershaw and Greinke
#3 - Sabermetric Silliness - Yeah, trying to work out walks and hit 3 run homers while downplaying small ball (Defense, Steals, bunts, striking out vs making contact) works great during the regular season against .500 AAAA teams, but when you face an elite pitching staff in the post season it makes you easy prey (See the A's since 2002).
#4 - Terry Collins figured out #3 and adjusted his teams strategy, Mattingly did not.
#5 - Daniel "The Irish Hammer" Murphy
#6 - Chase POS Utley, his dirty slide enraged the Mets even more
Maybe Utley enraged the Mets as you say, but by any long standing baseball tradition Utley’s slide was very similar to scores of similar slides each year. The problem was that with video challenges the shortstop was not able to use the traditional neighborhood play. That is MLB’s fault. The rule should have been modified when the slides at home plate were modified. What Utley did has been done hundreds of times and Utley should not be blamed.