What can I say about this season. The Mets start out strong with an eleven game win streak then look like they are going to be the same old Mets. Injuries happen to Wright, Blevins, d’Arnaud. Collins has to trot out minor league lineups disguised as major leaguers. Mejia gets busted for PEDs again.
Alderson makes trades for Uribe, Johnson, Cespedes, Reed, and O’Flaherty. But hold up.
The Mets trade for Gomez from the Brewers before they get Cespedes and rescind the trade. The world is ending the Mets fans go crazy about the non trade. Then the Mets pull the Trigger on getting Cespedes. He goes on a tear the lowly Mets that couldn’t have expected. Mets fans get excited.
They start to believe again.
Fans that have stopped going to games because of the “Boycott Wilpons” start showing up.
The bandwagon fans start showing up.
Attendance at Citi Field grows.
Mets magic number starts to shrink, fans get anxious. The Mets lost two of three to the Yankees and Braves. Mets fans are biting their nails. The Nationals keep losing. The Mets magic number keeps shrinking. The Mets fans are now chewing on their nails. They haven’t been this close to the playoffs in almost a decade. The Mets go to play the Reds. Mets win Friday night the magic number goes down to one! Mets fans have no idea how to handle this. There is a sense of victory coming. The collapse of 2007 doesn’t look anymore. The fans know the playoffs are in the Mets grasp.
Mets fans make their way to Cincinnati to see the Mets clinch. The Mets run away with the game and the Mets clinch the NL East title. The joy of fans can not be described.
I received texts so many texts from my fellow fans and Mets family that I thought my phone was going to vibrate itself apart. It felt like New Year’s Eve when people text and call you to wish you well for the New Year. I was glued to the post game celebration. I still couldn’t believe it. The happiness I felt was growing in me like the Grinch’s heart. I went out last night to Modells on the way to dinner and grabbed some post season merchandise. This is real. Not a dream.
From going to Opening Day down in Washington DC, traveling all over with the7linearmy, throwing out the first pitch in May, the many home outings with the7linearmy, winning “Picture This- Star Wars Edition”, and hanging with my friends at various games and events. I couldn’t ask for a better season. Wait I can! I’m greedy. I want the damn World Series Championship sitting in the Mets Museum next to the ones from 1969 and 1986.
Let’s Go Mets!! Let’s Go Mets!! Let’s Go Mets!!!!
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