Really, why are the mets trying to break my heart? Ok, fine so you've been playing shitty -- we all have our down moments -- so the bullpen has given up 17 runs in the last 19 innings, so you make 10 errors in two games but do you really need to go up 3-0 then down 4-3 and then up 7-4 (in the 9th!!) and then lose 8-7 to the marlins? after finally breaking the five game losing streak? was that really necessary?
shit aches right now. i don't really want to talk about it.
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Hello, 15.5 game lead down to 1.5. talk about slow torture.
ReplyDeletehave you seen the mets play at all over the last couple of weeks? i mean it's a punch in the nuts followed by a kick in the eye with a sharp boot. both the yanks and red sox will make the playoffs. if the mets lose the division there is a good chance they won't, despite being in first for 98% of the year.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Mets situation is worse. I wanted to murder everyone involved with the sox when they allowed the lead to become 1.5, but then I put the sniper rifle down when I realized that they would make the playoffs anyway and that the last two AL world series representatives (white sox and Tigers) had the exact same arc to their seasons (with the white sox barely holding on to 1st place and the Tigers losing their 1st place position on the last day of the season).
ReplyDeleteThe Mets on the other hand have been underachieving to differing degrees all season, and now things have turned into a complete train wreck. And considering how disasterous Philly's sports history is, things have to go pretty wrong for your team to lose out to them.
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ReplyDeleteI guess. I can't see either team going anywhere in the playoffs. To me, making the playoffs and losing in the first round is pointless. I feel like either go and be a threat, or don't go. At least winning a division is accomplishing something. The Red Sox have never won the division in my Baseball watching life (admittedly short). But to be honest, I don't really care about the playoffs. They're not that good. They're 5 games over 500 since may 29th and the yankees are like 20 games over 500. An abysmal division and battered yankees team inflated their record in the beginning of the season. I never felt like this team had the look of a winner.
ReplyDeletea little context: i was at the bowling alley last night and rolled a career high 145 with my new no fingers in the hole technique (has to be seen to be believed). still riding that high i went to the bar for a bud light nightcap and to watch the last couple of innings. after my order of mozzarella sticks arrived the mets began playing with some life. down 4-3 in the 9th they charged back and took a 7-4 lead. now riding my bowling, mozzarella stick, mets might finally be pulling it together high I thought it time to head home with the lovely lady who accompanied me to bowling. after some public displays of affection on the sidewalk outside melody lanes she told me she had a boyfriend. fine. ok. whatever. i then jump on my bike and almost instantaneously get a flat tire. i walk my bike home three miles and return to the sounds of a disturbingly exultant Mark Moulisis (WFAN radio personality) informing me of the mets collapse. i meditate about putting my fist through something solid. instead post on the blog while inhaling cold rice and beans.
ReplyDeletepb, hard to know what a winner looks like until they've won. case in point: the cardinals. that team was all kinds of trash and they somehow squeeked through.
ReplyDeleteRaju, you seriously need a hug.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that I have a boyfriend thing is totally unacceptable. I've received that more than anyone and it's just bogus. I mean ladies, if we're legit interested, you're probably not totally moronic. And unless you're totally moronic, you know the score, don't dick around with someone if you have a boyfriend. It's immature, deceitful, and small. Don't do it.
ReplyDeleteI feel you bro.
I agree gabs, I mean it's not as if I hang around a bowling about, make out with Raju or the like and then admit to a Sol at home. Stop it with the cock-teasing, ladies. Oh, and the mets suck.
ReplyDeleteps- I'm not entirely sure about the mets sucking; Sol told me so.
what's really frustrating about the mets and women with boyfriends is that you're winning until the very end, but in the end, they always disappoint.
ReplyDeletefor me, my schedule has been such that i go to bed at 9:30pm with the mets invariably winning and wake up at 5am with them having invariably lost. always on some variation of david wright errors and the bullpen walking guys.
this bullpen is the worst bullpen i have ever seen. i would get upset with randolph, but i don't know what he's supposed to do. at least we don't expect anything out of these guys. we could have traded milledge for gagne. now that would have hurt.
Ouch schwiz...
ReplyDeleteOn a related note, and chaucer will back me up. The genius of this metaphor is that it goes back a long ways.
In about 1995, Chaucer and I were in a cab, and our driver, listening to the radio, described a certain New York team as "like a woman that takes off everything but the panties."
And here we are, back to sports blunders and teases.
wow. raju that is an intense story of despair... McSorely's????
ReplyDeletethis post is great
ReplyDeleteyou know who would probably have a lot to say about the situation (probably more specifically raju but i'm sure he would weigh in on the mets too) is that crazy tuxedo-shirt wearing bartender at melody lanes. he looks kind of like danny devito's "penguin" character from batman.
also, it seems like everything in your story was illusory - seemingly awesome, but no substance upon digging deeper. mozerlla sticks. bud light. girl with boyfriend. i'm not sure what all this means but maybe some sort of greenwood cemetary-penguin bartender-cheese stick exorcism is in order.
j rocket, i spoke to aformentioned penguin bartender - pete is his name - for about an hour last night. apparently the bowling management assoc. of america named him employee of the year recently (see plaque behind bar for confirmation). he also reminds me a much more italian version of chuckrow.
ReplyDeletehmmmm. the cardinals are "all kinds of trash"? r missle, i felt bad for you and your mets....and you and your girls...until you called the cards trash. i'm sorry that the mets didnt make it to the series last year....sorry they got beat by all kinds of trash.
ReplyDeletemaybe you could borrow my new pujols jersey that i bought with all of josh's loose change...and wrap it around that trash you were trying to pick up at the bowling alley. trash on trash
Wow, Kte going scorched earth style. Hell hath no fury.
ReplyDeleteIs this the longest blogversation ever?
R Missle, today is just not your day.
ReplyDeleteau natural, the night is young and there is much trash to be picked up.
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ReplyDeleteDear Jon,
ReplyDeleteHey, leave me out of this!
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in an awwshucks moment that definitely belongs in this thread, this morning during my first period - Kenneth, a big fat guy in a Heineken shirt - started whining & acting like a general idiot while we were playing a game [Boys vs Girls, trying to name the most common causes of death in Bushwick, points for the most common responses]. When I asked him what was wrong in the hallway, after I kicked him out of class, he said "first the Mets lose again last night, and now we're losing here... its just not fair Mister. I can't take another loss."
ReplyDeletei feel ya kenneth i feel ya
ReplyDeleteKatie's comment was hilarious!
ReplyDelete"Trash on trash"...I love it.
Time to put Kenneth on a suicide watch...
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