What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Ceetar was there last night…with pics.
Initially we boo’d, or Lets Go Mets’d, over the Giants cheering, but by the end of the game a lot of people had left and we were cold and there just wasn’t anything to cheer for. Cowbell Man seemed awfully pitiful with very few people joining in.
via Optimistic Mets Fan.
As I mentioned yesterday, Chris W. facebooked me and..
Say, that Nancy is pretty easy on the eyes!
Notice Mr. Met has changed his cap and now acts like a jerk. Leave the poor groundskeeper alone.
I’m a big fan of Mark Simon’s work at ESPN New York…here’s the set-up for an interesting article worth a read.
With both the Giants and Dodgers in town this week, it struck me that it would be interesting to learn about the process by which fans of those two teams in the 1950s became Mets fans.
My father was 11 when the Giants left for San Francisco after the 1957 season and he tried to stay loyal, but he gradually felt the pull of the Mets. The trade of Willie Mays in 1972 solidified it in his mind: “It was something that happened to me without even really thinking about it, it just kind of happened over a period of time and one day I was a Mets fan,” he said the other day.
An excerpt from another masterpiece by Greg Prince.
As for the Mets that 1987 night, they sure looked like 1986. It was as lovely as my new girlfriend: El Sid holding San Fran hitless for five innings; Strawberry, Dykstra and HoJo homering; the Mets winning easily, 8-3. They’d looked mostly dismal up until that Friday night, losing nine of eleven dating back to May 2 the day Tim Raines returned to the Expos from Collusion and treated Jesse Orosco like he was Manny Acosta. It was “still early” and all that, but the Mets of 1987 were clearly off their game. It didn’t make sense to me or to any Mets fan who had grown accustomed to a perfect blend of invincibility and destiny. Now the Mets were just another team…just another lousy team. But then they got this big win against the Giants, they looked like their “old” selves, and maybe this was going to be the turning point.
