This space is hereby provided for mourning Mets fans to vent their frustration and reminisce about the season.
Non-Mets fans are kindly requested to keep their feelings to themselves.
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This space is hereby provided for mourning Mets fans to vent their frustration and reminisce about the season.
Non-Mets fans are kindly requested to keep their feelings to themselves.
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I was doing good until that second statement. 🙂
Hey, it was a great series that went all the way to the final out of the final inning. You can’t ask for more than that.
JSM
I’m a Cubs fan, personally, but you guys have my sympathy.
Why do people grieve over sports teams? I don’t mean this facetiously. I love hockey. I guess my team is the Leafs but if they don’t make the playoffs I’m just as happy watching any two teams play so long as it’s good hockey.
I like the idea of Canadian teams being in the playoffs but since 75% of NHL players are Canadians anyway whatever team makes the playoff is usually a Canadian team despite the city that they happen to be playing out of.
And the feelings there are national pride. Not invested in the team itself.
Listening to some of my friends I get the real feeling however that they do invest a lot of themselves into a particular team. And they do really grieve when that team loses.
Any insights on why?
This embarrassed Yankee fan says you Mets fans have nothing to be ashamed of.
It just wasn’t in the cards this year.
I had such high hopes…
Wasn’t in the Cards Tom? That’s a terrific, no, horrible pun.
I hope Mets fans will be rooting for the Tigers then. As a Pittsburgh fan, I’d love to see a team whose coaching staff is more than half ex-Pirates. We could have had Leland as manager this year, but no.
You Mets fans may be disappointed, but take heart in the fact that at least you made it to the post-season. The Pirates haven’t even had a winning season in 14 years.
Well, if you had told me at the beginning of the season they would wind up battling for the National League pennant right up until the last out of the seventh game of the playoffs, I would have been more than happy about that especially after the last few years.
I enjoyed their season this year, they’re a good young team and I think while they will look different next year, they will probably be back.
I watched the game with the sound off and switched channels at various times because it was just too hard to watch. Oliver Perez pitched his heart out, Endy Chavez made on of the most dynamic plays I can remember seeing. If I take issue with anything, it’s only that I might have had Valentine bunt with the basis loaded earlier in the game since a strikeout was the worst possible outcome under the circumstances.
At the end of the day I am more than happy about the job Omar and Willie did this year and would take it over any over the farcical displays of Steve Phillips and Art Howe I was forced to suffer through.
Strangely enough if they had made it, I thought they had a great shot at winning against the Tigers or at least making it tough, something I just don’t see the Cards doing even though it defies logic. It’s just something about the matchups. The thought of El Duke going in the first game really had me thinking our chances were very good.
I also think So Taguchi has taken the place formerly occupied by Chipper Jones and Billy Wagner should walk him if he ever winds up facing him in a game deciding situation again.
As a Tiger’s fan I was really sad to witness the Mets defeat. I’m not saying the Tiger’s could beat the Met’s, far from it, but I felt that these two teams would have made for a great series of baseball.
Besides who wants to watch the battle of the Mid-West! I’m sure the TV rating will not be good this year.
After Endy Chavez made that fantastic catch in left, I was sure the Mets had the game in the bag. I’m not really a Mets fan, as much as I’m a Willie Randolph fan. That sucked.
Cardinal fan here.
You gave the Cardinals a great series and have nothing to be ashamed of. But in the immortal words of Maxwell Smart, “missed it by THAT MUCH.”
Well, at least the Mets didn’t choke as badly as the Yankees did against Boston two years ago . . . .
Still sucks. Like I said before, I’m an Indians fan, but I like the Mets and have since the ’67 miracle. Despise the Cards, mostly because my rich gay uncle thinks they hung the fûçkìņ’ moon.
I haven’t followed the Tigers in a long while, not since Denny McClain played for ’em, but you can bet I will now.
Miles
This St. Louisan will just sit respectfully at the back of the parlor. Quietly.
Even as he giggles.
Hey, I have an idea! I am CRUSHING the opposing pitching, it’s bases loaded, down by 2 runs in the bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, 0 and 2 count. I think I’ll take a pitch!
Sigh, Lenny or Mookie would never have let that happen.
All I can say is I’m glad I wasn’t following the whole season that closely or I’d be REALLY depressed now.
I’m neutral towards the Mets, but I’ll still doing the happy dance that the f**king Yankees aren’t in it!
Why do people grieve over sports teams?
Based on the posts here, the individual team is more important than the sport as a whole. And, I can’t blame people for that.
Even in this market of free agency, where loyalty between the players and teams is next to nothing, fans still prefer to be loyal to a team – for me, that’s the Cubs.
So, when it comes to baseball, I’ll root against the Yankees (because any non-Yankees fan should) and Cardinals (because they’re the Cubs main rival) every time.
If it’s any consolation to Mets fans, I think neither team stands a chance against the Tigers… the NL was just that bad this year.
This Phillies fan was rooting for the Mets because of the presence of my most hated player, Scott “I’m Too Good For Philly” Rolen, on the Cardinals. Sadly, I’ll have to wait for the Tigers to beat the stuffing out of the Redbirds.
That 9th inning was heartbreaking, but that off-speed stuff of Wainwright was just filthy.
FROM A BRAVE FAN
It was a great series. The Mets have nothing to be ashamed of! If you take the “E’s” our BEREAVE…you’ve got a BRAVE’s fan that thinks you guys did great. We’ll see the Mets next year in the NL East for some more great games.
FROM A BRAVE FAN
It was a great series. The Mets have nothing to be ashamed of! If you take the “E’s” our BEREAVE…you’ve got a BRAVE’s fan that thinks you guys did great. We’ll see the Mets next year in the NL East for some more great games.
Shocking, with Pedro pitching games 1 4 and 7 that the Mets would lose the series. Oh, wait…
I am sad that my team lost in the final moments, but I got to see great baseball all year long.
I would be angry if my Mets had crumbled halfway through this series and given the game away. They played well last night. The Cards just played better in that last inning, with pitching being the deciding factor.
I can live with “sad” far more easily that I can live with “angry”, and I’m looking forward to the World Series to see more good baseball. I have a slightly stronger sentimental attachment to the Tigers than to the Cards, but I’ll be happy to see a win from whichever team plays better.
You know why the Metropolitans lost? The Black unis. The colors are supposed to be an amalgam of Brooklyn Dodger Blue and New York Giant Orange. Black is simply a marketing ploy has no business being there!
On a plus note, wasn’t that a GREAT catch Chavez made?!? I made this comment on Salon.com earler: “That’s it. No team that makes that kind of play should be allowed to lose. That would be injustice on a cosmic scale.”
As if there were any other kind of injustice…
Wait’ll next year, youse bums.
Well, I’m no baseball fan but you Mets fans have my sympathy. And hey, you did do better than the Yankees thyis year, so you have that throw into the faces of their more obnoxious fans! 🙂
Nobody knows how to collapse like the Boys in NYC…. in both cases , AL and NL, ut was their series to win or lose…. in the latest match, it was Beltran who couln’t come thru in the clutch.
Just remember guys, after everything else screwy in the world, keep it in perspective… It is a little kids game being played by (sometimes spoiled ) grownups.
I’m an Indians fan. At least they have the courtesy of removing our hopes before May 1 most of the time.
“Why do people grieve over sports teams?”
On one level, I tend to agree that it really doesn’t make a lot of sense to “grieve” for a sports team. I can understand grieving for a favorite actor who didn’t win the Oscar, or even the defeat of a favorite tennis player or Olympic athlete, more than I can understand such loyalty for a team with constantly changing members that, really, isn’t any different than any other team.
On the other hand, I can perfectly understand it, as I have absolutely no interest in any baseball game that doesn’t involve the Angels (and even then I have to actually be at the stadium for it to hold my interest). I guess it just makes the sport more enjoyable if you have an emotional interest in one particular team, logic be dámņëd.
There was no way that Beltran can be blamed for not swinging (although I was pìššëd that he didn’t). Either way, he wasn’t going to hit that pitch.
I don’t blame Heilman. Good hitting beats good pitching (and vice versa). The Mets bats went cold. They had more than one opportunity to score, and they couldn’t convert.
As an old school Mets fan, I take the broken heart in stride. There is always next year. Besides, living in Atlanta, I can still say “We broke your streak”. To Yankees fans: “We got further than you guys.”
“…First ya gotta have heart – miles an’ miles an’ miles of heart…”
Last night in the car listening to Steve Somers do his monologue about the previous nights’ game, he at one point said ‘You gotta bereave’ and I immediately thought of you.
“…When the odds are saying you’ll never win, that’s when the grin should start!”