2009 Mets Season Thread

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I work with a bunch of Red Sox fans.  One of my senior managers is a Mets fan.  Actual email from the former to the latter:

"So, I'm excited about the prospect of my beloved Sox facing off against another team from the East in the World Series.  I see the Phillies are 2-0 in their playoff series.  I suppose the Mets got a bye?  I don't see them on the TV schedule."

Good stuff.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://brooklynmetfan.com/?p=1104  This guy says to root for the Phils...
I figured i'd let them know how chase utley feels

[QB Eagles]

Hi from the top.

[SD_Eagle5]

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Worst. World Series. Ever

This sucks. It is the worst thing that's ever happened. I came home back to the dorm tonight, went to my boy Kennan's room, and the first thing I saw was Phillies players celebrating - that could only mean one thing. Like a husband who comes home to catch an unfaithful wife in the act, I walked in at the wrong time. Then FOX continued on with its customary blanket coverage of the winning team, and like passing a car wreck I couldn't watch, but I found it impossible to look away.

The pride of the Mets fan has been completely demolished, in tandem with the destruction of the stadium we used to call home. Two consecutive collapses, and when we did get our chance with the playoffs to ourselves in '06, we couldn't even beat an 83-win team after our reserve left fielder made one of the greatest catches in postseason history.

And now the Phillies win the World Series. When we do break through, what will it even mean? Not a whole lot, in terms of bragging rights. In this nascent and budding rivalry we've got going on with the Phightins, we've been talking smack back and forth for two years. As if it wasn't enough that they've been the division winners while we've choked two seasons in a row, now they've got the 2008 World Series championship under their belts as well. It'll be hard for any Met fan to ever say anything negative about the Phillies again now that their fans have an automatic shut down for any point we could possibly make. The next time we win the Series, our celebrations will have nothing against "we got there first."

What we've seen the last two years is a total role reversal. It used to be that the Mets and Phillies both sucked most of the time, but the Mets would find a way to win something every once in a while, while the Phillies always managed to screw it up in the end even if they got close. The Mets made the playoffs in 1999, 2000, and came close in '01 - during this time they at least made it to one World Series and racked up countless memorable moments. During our '02-'04 down period, the Phillies began to rise, but even when it looked like they might take out the Braves they would not only blow the division, but any shot they might have had at the wild card, too. This happened again in 2005.

Then 2006 came along and it was the Mets who ended the Braves stretch of 14 consecutive NL East titles. The Phillies finished in second, by almost 15 games. In a new era, the Mets were poised to be the new power center in the East and the National League in general. After the NLCS in '06, we were going to come back strong and make it all up a year later.

We blew it. We totally blew it. Two years in a row, and the Phillies filled the power vacuum. A team on a mission, they were the ones who came back after a disappointing postseason and won it all. In the battle of teams from the northeast with a history of mediocrity, the Phillies are now World Series champions, and the Mets are the chokers, the laughingstock, baseball's punchline.

My other favorite sports team did win the Super Bowl last season, at the climax of one of the greatest runs in modern team sports history. Maybe this is a sacrifice to the sports Gods that some other Mets and Giants fan made last January while we were on our incredible path. And it would have been greedy for me to expect too much - that in one year, the Mets might also win it all. But I am, first and foremost, a Mets fan. Whatever the Mets do tops anything that any other team in any other sport can accomplish. As much as I love the Giants, the Mets mean more than anything. And our new biggest rival just won the World Series.

I wonder if my "PHILLY SUCKS" counter on my blog will reset itself. Regardless, I plan to take it down because now it's just embarrassing. Go to your rooms, fellow Mets fans. We have nothing to laugh about, nothing to brag about, nothing to shout about. Phillies fans are going to come into our new ballpark next year, still wearing their stupid Chase Utley jerseys, only now they'll be incessantly and obnoxiously reminding us about their team's new hardware. And what will have to say in response? That's right, nothing, because our team sucks right now.

We've got a long way to go, Mets fans, and it would probably be wise for us to just shut up for the moment, or at least refrain from saying anything negative. Wear your Mets gear, support our team, but no amount of trash talk can change one sad but true reality:

The Phillies just won the World Series.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Mets/Eagles fans are the new lovable loser combo.  Give me a hug, Feva!

[Feva]

 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Mets/Eagles/Homophobic/Michigan fan

WHAT A COMBO!


**EDITED to reflect Michigan, as they locked themselves in to sit at home during bowl season.

[Feva]

I hate me sum FF.

[MDS]

this team is still around? does your trash-laden fan base have anything left to say? farging queens scum.

[SD_Eagle5]

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You kind of have to wonder what the "1" stands for...

[SD_Eagle5]

Penis

[ice grillin you]

Orioles Acquire Jose Reyes
By Roch Kubatko on November 18, 2008 2:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

The Orioles cleared room on their 40-man roster before next month's Rule 5 draft so they could add players they needed to protect.

Today, they added pitchers Brad Bergesen, David Hernandez, Chorye Spoone and Wilfrido Perez, and outfielder Nolan Reimold.

They also signed catcher Jose Reyes to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training, which has nothing to do with the 40-man roster.

Reyes, 24, appeared in four games with the Cubs in 2006, going 1-for-5 with two RBIs and wishing that people would mistake him for the Mets shortstop. He missed all of 2008 after having bone chips removed from his elbow.

Sounds like the new Omir Santos. Or is it Chris Heintz?

[MDS]

slight chuckle

[BigEd76]

Heilman wants to be a starter or else be traded