From the TN mailbag
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on September 21, 2007 – 8:52 AM11 Comments
“OMAR! I CAN STILL GET THE SLIDER OVER, OMAR! CALL ME, DUDER! OMAR, HI!”
Subject line: “The Mets:”
Body of email: “…what the hell?”
I don’t know, dude! I’ll cop to finding this death swoon pretty funny for a while, primarily because Couch Baron’s and my friend Bean is such an intense Mets partisan and so easy to wind up about the subject, and the first half of the season saw me and CB sheltering in place during a Category 4 smug-icane of Giambi jokes. So initially this was semi-satisfying, but now it’s just uncomfortable to watch. Did Angelos buy the team in the middle of the night or something? Because this is officially insane now.
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Last season the Mets had an uncanny ability to always pull off wins at the last second. As a Phils fan, I found this annoying as hell. This year, the Mets bounced back from our first late-season sweep of them and went on a nice little winning streak, seeming to be their normal annoyingly resilient selves. Somehow the second sweep has caused them to go off the deep end, though. Hard to fathom, but pretty awesome for us, since the Padres aren’t giving an inch in the wild card! Freakin’ Padres.
From ESPN.com’s Page 2, an “I’m more beleaguered than you”-lympics from a variety of teams’ fans: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=
baseball/070920&sportCat=mlb&POLL306=40000000000000000000000
My Phillies fan galpal is wicked stoked. She was all, “that site FJM linked about chances to the playoffs only puts the Phillies at 25%!!” and I was all, “better than the fucking Tigers, damn it. Also, have some faith in the Mets, sweetie!” and she was all, “VERY GOOD POINT!”
BTW, I think depressed fans make the best parody jokes: http://thebigtilde.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/bohemian-rhapstilde/#more-56
made my day yesterday. “Brandon Inge, Brandon Inge, will you hit the damn baseball” hee hee heee!
k- Thank you, thank you, thank you for linking that. That is the funniest damn thing I’ve ever heard and it gave this Tiger fan a much needed laugh. :-D
“I see a little silhouetto of a man
Brandon Inge, Brandon Inge, will you hit the damn baseball
Bonderman is hurting, Granderson is striking out
Gary Sheffield (Gary Sheffield!)
Gary Sheffield (Gary Sheffield!)
Gary Sheffield was worse than
Craig Monroe… oh, oh oh”
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
“Dave Dombrowski, Dave Dombrowski, Dave Dombrowski find some arms”
WORD. OH MY GOD.
At some point mid-season I made some off-hand comment to my dad about how much this year’s Mets reminded me of last year’s Cardinals (big lead early, hanging on by their fingernails late) but I kind of didn’t think it would go quite this far. I was sitting next to my Mets fan friend when another friend called from the 6-error game, and all I could feel was horror. I mean, the Cards had two or three eight game losing streaks last year, but I don’t think they ever made 10 errors in two games.
I have tickets to next Thursday’s game at Shea — should be interesting, at least.
Bwah! That Tigers thing is fantastic.
And, man, how typical is this? The Jays get mathematically eliminated… and then sweep Boston. And THEN they decide “eh, let’s not fold” and manage to beat the Yankees in 14. @&%$^!
Of course, 2008 will see the return of the powder-blue pullover unis, so there’s that.
As another Phillies fan, I have my fingers (and toes) crossed for a Mets collapse…and am praying fervently that the Phils don’t do the same.
Oh, and Ambient: Freakin’ Padres, indeed!
k, I love you for linking that song! So very amusing. Craig Monroe… oh, oh, oh. Oh, Tigers. Sigh.
Not so fast on the Padres! They gave an inch — well, three of them — this weekend. Rockies are the light of my life today. And I hope they continue to be for the rest of this week!
Did Angelos buy the team in the middle of the night or something?
Late to the party, yes, I know, but as an Orioles fan trying to ride out the storm, heeeeeeeeee!