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- The Cubs then collapsed while the Mets went on a tear, ending with the Mets finishing first in the division with an 8-game lead over the Cubs.
Source: Curse - At US military basic training recruits must go through the "Confidence Chamber", where the recruit's division goes into a room, the instructor sets off a tear gas capsule and the recruit must take off their mask and recite whatever the instructor tells them too.
Source: Gas Chamber - The latter was considered a much more surprising event, given that season's team is called the "Miracle Mets" because they were down 8 1/2 games in the NL East by mid-August before going on a tear to win the division...over another Butt Monkey (the Cubs) that suddenly choked down the stretch.
Source: Butt Monkey / Sports
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Tear and Division. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/division/tear
Division & Tear. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/division/tear>.
Tear or Division. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/division/tear.
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