The mets are the modern day brooklyn dodgers, I don't get why people pour the hate on them - 1986 was a long time ago. They're not the Yankees, that's for sure.
The Mets have completed their choke. The Amazing's they are not! As a Phillies fan, I couldn't be happier.
=/.. Cardinals did Rockets wrong many many times. More recently I recall the White Sox swept Houston. Edit:: Oops, I meant Astros.. rofl
1) As a child, 1986 traumatized me 2) Carlos Beltran 3) Living in NYC, Mets fans were annoying 4) It's always fun seeing high payroll "Goliath" teams (Mets #3: $117,915,819) get trounced by lower payroll "David" teams (Phillies #14: $89,368,214) 5) Did I mention Carlos Beltran?
You left out Billy "The Loudmouthed Jerk" Wagner. Or is that Billy "Late Season Meltdown" Wagner. I put him in front of Beltran. Can't stand the guy.
Ahhh I feel so bad for Beltran and Alou. JERKS!!!!!! The Mets choking almost makes the Texans loss tolerable!!
I quit following baseball months ago. Did they really have a 7 game lead with 17 left to play? And blow it?
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...tormented_mets_fans_watch_season_slip_aw.html Tormented Mets fans watch season slip away By MIKE JACCARINO and DAVE GOLDINER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Sunday, September 30th 2007, 5:07 PM Wait 'til next year never sounded so cruel. Tormented Mets fans watched their season slip away today as they suffered a crushing 8-1 defeat to the Florida Marlins at a tomb-like Shea Stadium. "I'm disgusted, dejected, I'm dying," said Joe McLaughlin, 29, of Staten Island. "Tonight, I'm going home, I'm a man of 29 years and I will drop a few tears." Capping an Amazin' September swoon, the Mets were clobbered for seven runs in the first inning and never came back. The Philadelphia Phillies won to take the division title and send the Mets home for the longest winter in orange-and-blue memory. "It's heartbreaking," said Joe Tholl, 18, of Floral Park, L.I. Deafening chants of "Let's Go Mets" rocked the big house in Queens an hour before the opening pitch. The carnival mood - fueled by the Mets dramatic win a day earlier - quickly turned to deathly silence as the Marlins pounded ace Tom Glavine like they were the ones battling for a playoff spot. Andreas Kostopoulos had a few choice words to the ace who flopped in the season's biggest moment. "You should have stayed home today," said Kostopoulos, 45, of Queens. "Never come back to Shea Stadium. Never, never." Even with die-hards hoisting "We Believe" signs, the faithful started streaming toward the No. 7 line by the seventh inning and the stands were half-empty by the time Luis Castillo whiffed for the final out. Fans spewed vitriol at Coach Willie Randolph, who angered many with his laid-back approach during the legendary collapse. "The only thing that will make me happy is for Willie to be taken out like the garbage," said Paul (Shea) Blume, 40, of Brooklyn. "He's heartless. he's got no heart." The Mets held a seven-game lead with just 17 games to play and looked a sure thing to get back to the playoffs. The scrappy team of underdogs took over first place in mid-May and even staked a claim to Big Apple bragging rights by winning the Subway Series with the Yankees. But it all fell apart in the late summer sun.
"scrappy team of underdogs"? Also, after yesterdays game : Hanley Ramirez on tomorrow’s game: ``I don’t care if it’s broke (his hand). I’m gonna play tomorrow. @@#$% everybody on the Mets. I’m going to kick their *&^Y%A$ tomorrow.’’ He didn't have a good game, but still.
so , just to recap, this is by far the biggest collapse in the last 20 years and I'm pretty sure this beats the World Champion Cardinals' near-collapse last year... the last two weeks of MLB have been wild!.. speaking of wild, Colorado and San Diego face off in a one-game playoff
Yes and yes. I loved seeing this happened. The only team that this would have been even sweeter to witness happening to is the Yankees.
ESPN is calling it the biggest late season collapse in MLB history...even worse than the famous 1964 Phillies collapse. It couldn't have happened to a nicer team.
Well as a Red Sox fan, I am biased towards the Mets with my hate. However, I would say that many people dislike the Mets because they are a New York team. I don't know many people outside of New York or have a connection to NY that likes New York sports teams.
I wonder if Tom Glavine will be in an Astros uniform next year? So goes the way of baseball... . What the Mets did is little different than what the Astros did during their miracle runs...except for Mets being on the losing side. When things go bad, they can go bad in bunches. The Astros know that more than anybody. The timing of it makes it a major choke job obviously but, if it happened earlier in the season, then it could have been just as damning albeit not where the focus is on the immediate devestation. Somebody has to be on the f**ked up end of it. It's nice when it's a team with one of the larger payrolls in baseball. Now, it would be complete...for me...if Andy and Roger get rocked and the Yankees meet their demise. I'm sure I'm not alone in this thinking.
I always root against the high-payroll teams - Yankees (#1), Red Sox (#2), Mets (#3) tops on the list. None of those teams should ever be called underdogs, not with them spending that kind of cash. I'm rooting for the Indians, Dbacks, and whoever wins out of the Padres/Rockies today - all with half the salary (or less) of those big name teams.
