If you’re a big fan of Tom Glavine, the 2008 Mets, the 2000 World Series or the 1988 NLCS you sure will love this article on ESPN New York.
Author Mike Simon got reactions from several of the Mets bloggers as they debate which was the most painful moment in Mets history. Â Â Maybe I’m an oddball but I would have gone with 9/11/87. Â I was at Shea last night, and the Mets had clawed through injuries all summer to hunt down the Cardinals. Â They had a lead and Dwight Gooden was pitching the next day. Â And then…
Anyway, if you’re a Mets fan you probably like misery. Â Check it out.
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Top of the 9th as I type this. Â Getting worried about the season. Â 5 days until Santana again.
In better selfish news I see my blog was drunk and didn’t publish two of the posts that were scheduled for the morning, which means I now have less work to do this week.
I wouldn’t describe the collapses (and ’07 was far worse than ’08) as “painful.” The ’08 collapse was “disappointing” but half-expected coming off of ’07, and losing a 3-game lead in September certainly isn’t unheard of. ’07 was just plain infuriating. I wasn’t sad as much as I was just completely p@#%ed off watching them limp their way through a 7-game lead and watching Randolph stare into the cameras completely clueless every day insisting everything was going to be all right.
The Soscia home run was far more instantaneously crushing, but at least the Mets still lived to see another day.
My all-time most painful moment would be the Dodgers’ error-fueled, 5-run second inning in Game 7 a week later. There was no tomorrow after that, and it turned one of the greatest seasons ever in N.L. history into to a footnote.
…and little did we know the aftereffects would be even worse.