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I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee (fan)

As reported by Ken Belson -

For Mets fans, Oct. 19, 2006, is a date which will live in infamy... The place: Shea Stadium. The scene: Bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth of Game Seven of the NLCS. The moment: Carlos Beltran watched a curveball from Adam Wainwright cross the plate for strike three. Game over. The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Mets and advance to the World Series.

Mets fans do not need to wait until October to recall this grim slice of team history. The nugget can be found amongst the 365 days of trivia and facts stuffed into the 2010 team calendar.

An inordinate number of questions focus on the team's ineptitude and paucity of standard bearers. No Mets players, we learn, ever hit three home runs in a game at Shea Stadium, but three visiting players did. Only one Mets player has ever been most valuable player in the All-Star Game. And so on.

The word "only" is used liberally, as in "only" one Mets second baseman has won a Gold Glove award. Anthony Young's 27-game losing streak gets fair treatment.

Oh, to be a Mets fan...

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I was just thining about it the other day

I mean, taking aside all the collapses and “injury plagued” last 3 seasons, they still have extreme ineptitude in the front office. That team is going way down until somebody steps up and radically change they way they run the Mets. I mean look at Minaya’s signings-doesn’t wright feel kind of lonely since he’s probably the only person there who doesn’t speak fluent Spanish?

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Vince Lombardi

by moose35 on Feb 5, 2010 2:03 PM EST reply actions  

I happen to be

a Yankees fan in a household and family that are Mets Fans. I shall refrain from too much gloating as I really like my wife’s cooking. I just sit back an quietly smile.

"I don't want one of those guys who'll drive in two but let in three every game." Casey Stengel

by tnredneckyankeesfan on Feb 5, 2010 2:16 PM EST reply actions  

Yea my brother's

a Mets fan too. The Yanks lost to the Tigers (or Angels) in ‘06 in the ALDS and the Mets made the playoffs, so he started riding the bandwagon and has been regretting it since. I mean, when your manager tells the fans that Carlos Delgado is the core of your line-up, you begin to wonder where your team’s heading…

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Vince Lombardi

by moose35 on Feb 5, 2010 2:24 PM EST up reply actions  

I guess an easy solution to this

Is to switch from being a Met fan to a Yankee fan… not to hard to do, especially on this blog hahaha :) right Brandon?

by BernBabyBern on Feb 5, 2010 3:55 PM EST reply actions  

Oh hell no,nothing wrong with Brandon

But since the series we got enough of those cobbs around here popping out of the woodwork.For the time being no joining the darkside godamn it.

I feel like a clown without my funny nose.They say that dead men don't pull triggers,I will prove em wrong.There are cracks on the roads we laid where the temple fell where secrets have gone mad.

by cashman bashman on Feb 6, 2010 11:17 PM EST up reply actions  

that pitch

was one of the most memorable curveball in the last 5 years or so though.

by RollingWave on Feb 5, 2010 10:44 PM EST reply actions  

that curveball was disgusting.

look at the trajectory it was up at beltrans shoulder. wasn’t it a full count too? i mean i’d probably take that pitch if a saw a curveball at my shoulder too

by Frankie Camp on Feb 5, 2010 11:41 PM EST up reply actions  

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