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Jason Gay: Where Were You on Buckner Day? – WSJ.com

Ah, the other side…

It’s much different for my friends in New York, of course. What happened in the World Series Game 6 between the Red Sox and the Mets is a warm memory. If you’re a Mets fan, it’s an indelible, almost sepia-toned joy, like a wedding, a Springsteen show, or that time that cab got you to JFK in nine minutes.

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“After the game I wondered if the Red Sox were cursed for real,” Sean says, “which was a pretty crazy thing for a secular kid to do. But there seemed to be no rational explanation.”

via Jason Gay: Where Were You on Buckner Day? – WSJ.com.

I love the Springsteen show reference.

One more takeaway – 25 years ago tomorrow there were more frontrunners in New York City than you’ve ever seen.  All 2 million borderline fans weren’t thinking about the Bronx.

6 Replies to “Jason Gay: Where Were You on Buckner Day? – WSJ.com”

  1. I was one of the lucky 55,032 who were in Big Shea that night. Was 12 and with my mum. She physically had to restrain me from leaving to the exit ramps when Keith Hernandez flew out for the second out of the bottom of the 10th inning. To this day, I don’t know why she did it. I don’t know why she insisted they were still going to win that game, despite being down 2 with 2 outs. But she was right. And I am forever grateful to her for: 1. taking me to the game and 2. not letting me leave. I can’t imagine what it would have been like had we left to have had to ‘witness’ all that was to transpire by hearing just the sounds and not seeing the sights.

    1. Great story, thanks for sharing. I never tire of hearing personal accounts of that night. Goes to show what a terrific moment Mets fans experienced at Shea that night. I was home but would not turn off the TV.

  2. I don’t have much of an account…sitting at home on couch…Mom in the other room too nervous to watch…Carter is up, I’m saying “just don’t end it on a popup”…next thing I knew, I was flying in the air.

  3. I was at Palmerola Air Base, Honduras. Watching the game through a really poor satellite feed, on an ancient B&W TV, in a dusty, humid SEA-hut, with the rest of my team.

    We were lucky, they got the satellite dish up and running in time for the World Series. We actually listened league championship series radio broadcasts over the TV.

    I should note, that after my first year rooting for the Mets (73), they have never made it to the World Series while I was in the United States, In 2001, I was stationed in Italy, and deployed to Tunisia for the World Series.

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