Mets get it done!

Meet the Mets

2008-09-30T22:26:00.001-04:00

Shh...just watch.

48 hours

2008-09-30T21:46:00.001-04:00

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed." - Sylvia Plath

"don't try." - Charles Bukowski

R.I.P. Shea

I Am, I Am, I Am.

2008-09-30T21:23:00.009-04:00

I'm a Mets fan. Year after year, shadowed by the fashionable Yankee NYer or a guy named freakin Chipper from early April to a cold, sad day at the end of September. The END OF SEPTEMBER. But, we'll have no more of that.

I was there, at Shea, the last day of the 2007 collapse. Just that word, collapse, makes me feel weird. I watched the culmination of the Yankee dynasty in 2000. I saw "two Mets stars during the 1980s throw no-hitters for the New York Yankees in the twilight of their careers: Dwight (Doc) Gooden on May 14, 1996 and David Cone (a perfect game) on July 18, 1999" (wikipedia.com). I saw The Amazin' Mets win in 1986.

I didn't decide to be a Mets fan. I never walked into a Modell's and stared at the hats and decided which colors I preferred. My grandmother loved Mookie Wilson, my uncle went to Spring Training. Hence, my father was a die-hard, so I'm supposed to believe in what they believed, right? Exactly Right. I suppose I do bleed electric blue and orange. It is, in fact, in my blood. So, here in 2008, ya gotta believe.

definitio

2008-09-30T20:58:00.000-04:00

man·ic \'ma-nik\ adj (ca. 1924) : affected with, relating to, characterized by, or resulting from mania -- manic n -- man·i·cal·ly \-ni-k(ә-)lē\ adv

manic depression n (1911) : BIPOLAR DISORDER

bipolar disorder n (1980) : any of several psychological disorders of mood characterized usu. by alternating episodes of depression and mania...

morning, 9/26

2008-09-30T20:54:00.000-04:00

I would have jumped.
I've seen so much in the last two days that I really don't have the capacity to put into words the ups and downs and ups and down and then more ups and downs I've experienced.
In the rain, under my $5 trash bag poncho, I came to terms with the fact that last night was my last trip to Shea.

...and now all I can do is believe.

words from diggity to charlie and brooklynette.

2008-09-30T20:52:00.000-04:00

"You were both there. All I'll say is it's a good thing they put up that wire caging at the back row of the upper deck or I bet people would have started jumping."

9/23

2008-09-23T20:39:00.000-04:00

"I'm feeling pretty confident we'll get in [the postseason]. I like what I see, players scratching and clawing. I think we'll do really well from this point all the way 'til the end."
-Jerry Manuel

9/23!!!

2008-09-23T20:29:00.000-04:00

If they're gonna make anything, they're gonna make the wild card. The Phillies will not have a collapse. They don't even know what "loosing streak" means. The fact that the Mets only have three reliable, confident starting pitchers, no reliable closer, and a bullpen the the Governor of New York is making fun of in speeches, they'd be lucky to do that.
On top of that, Church still hasn't recovered, Tatis and Easley are out, and now even Murphy and Reyes aren't hitting. And what happened to all those Delgado home runs? They play like a World Series team in August, and now, all of them're having mental breakdowns because of what happened last year. And don't get me started on Castillo...