Ron,
Some other differences, the 64 Phillies were not supposed to win that year, they were a good team but no one picked them to win Pennant. They simply came down to earth. this year's Mets team WAS supposed to finish first and in fact they have the most talent in the NL East and they imploded. Yeah, losing the last ten is imploding too but 15 out of 17? If that's not sudden and total, I'm not sure what is.

Go Phils!
Frank

P.S. By the way, anybody got any good excuses to tell the boss that I need to go home early Wednesday and Thursday? Games are on early. I might have to sing her the ol Mike Cross song!