"It's fun, I'm not going to lie to you," manager Fredi Gonzalez said with a smile after the Marlins ended the season with a 4-2 victory over the Mets.

--LHP Scott Olsen met his goal of pitching 200 innings for the first time in his career. He allowed two runs in six innings Sept. 28 to finish with 201 2/3 innings -- and win a friendly bet with former teammate Dontrelle Willis.

"Dontrelle told me (in spring training) I won't get there," Olsen said. "I told him I would prove him wrong. I said, 'I'll call you Oct. 1.'"

--INF Wes Helms and 2B Dan Uggla broke a 2-2 tie with back-to-back home runs to lead off the eighth inning in the finale. With Milwaukee's victory, the Mets were eliminated from the playoffs.

"I'm sure Wes won't have any trouble getting a drink or dinner in Milwaukee when we go back next year," manager Fredi Gonzalez said in the visiting managers' office where a TV showed the Brewers' champagne celebration.

Helms replied: "I can probably eat all the cheese I want. If they win the World Series, I might get a big old cheese basket."

--SS Hanley Ramirez sat out the season finale because of a sore left shoulder that he aggravated the day before while diving for grounders.

Ramirez missed four games earlier in September after tweaking the shoulder, which was surgically repaired in October 2007.

He finished the year batting .301.

"It feels uncomfortable for him to swing the bat," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "For a guy who is such a great competitor -- it's a big stage -- so for him not to be able to play ... he's in some discomfort."

--Willie Stargell was the first to hit a home run at Shea Stadium in 1964, and Marlins 2B Dan Uggla will go down as the last.

"It's pretty cool," said Uggla, who connected in the eighth inning off Luis Ayala in Florida's 4-2 win. "What you probably didn't know was this was my first ever homer at Shea. I'm glad to finally hit one before they tore it down."

--LHP Scott Olsen said he thinks he'll be pitching for Florida again in 2009.

"If I had to say right now, I would tell you I'm coming back next year. But you never know," he said.

Olsen could get $2.5 million in 2007 as one of 16 arbitration-eligible Marlins. But the team won't bring all of them back, and Olsen could be traded as a cost-saving option.

As of now, he's one of six potential Marlins starters next year, with arbitration-eligible Ricky Nolasco and Josh Johnson and three pitchers under club control: Chris Volstad, Anibal Sanchez and Andrew Miller. Nolasco could also get $2.5 million and Johnson about $1 million.

--SS Hanley Ramirez said he thinks the Marlins can win the division next year.

"That's going to be our goal for next year. We know we can do it," he said.

If that happens, it would be a franchise first. Since the Rays clinched the American League East, the Marlins and Rockies are the only teams that have never won a division title.

BY THE NUMBERS: 16 -- Arbitration-eligible players for the Marlins this winter.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "We're not going to the playoffs, so to knock them out of it is pretty sweet for us. If you want to put in a weird way, this was our playoff." -- 2B Dan Uggla, after the Marlins eliminated the Mets with a 4-2 win on the final day of the regular season.