Mets chances of making the playoffs: 60.2%

According to Jeff Passan at the bottom of his Playoff Pulse column, the Mets are third in the National League in playoff chances percentages.

Passan cites AccuScore, who ran a simulation of the rest of the '08 season 10,000 times, and came up with these numbers for the NL:

Chicago Cubs: 98.3
Milwaukee Brewers: 69.5
New York Mets: 60.2
Arizona Diamondbacks: 51.5
Los Angeles Dodgers: 49.3
St. Louis Cardinals: 24.6
Philadelphia Phillies: 24.2
Florida Marlins: 20.4

Hmm...this stinks of "jinx." Five bucks says the Cubbies and Mets falter?

Anyway, I hate looking at these things, because all they do is get my hopes up.