I love this time of year? Really? I do?

The weather is getting colder, soon the leaves will start to change and I’d bet dollars to donuts that the Mets are about to break my heart.  Sure technically things aren’t over yet.  With five games left  in their regular season, they play the Cubs and Marlins.  The Phillies play the Nationals and Braves.  Nice.  The Mets are 1.5 games out and a game ahead in the wildcard race.  If they blow it this year, I am done with them.  Done I say, done!

Until next April when the process of getting my hopes up just to be crushed will start all over again.  Why do I do this to myself every year?  How did anyone ever think raising me a Met fan was a good idea?

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The only inning that matters is the ninth

Any true Met fan knows this.  If they are up going into the ninth, they will lose.  If they are down they have chance.  Last night’s game against the Phillies proved it – one could argue that last season’s last minute meltdown also proved it but I like to pretend that never happened.

It was all there for the Mets, so nice and neat. A win against their fierce rival, and first place to boot — if only they had someone to notch the final three outs…

They combined to let the Philadelphia Phillies score six runs in the ninth inning Tuesday night to stun the Mets, 8-6, in the opener of their pivotal three-game series and reclaim sole possession of first place in the National League East. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/sports/baseball/23mets.html

What the hell?  It’s like they get all fired up, give themselves a commanding lead (or a lead) and then go home.  You would think that if I could figure this out – a layperson with no training other than watching my favorite team beat the crap out of itself year after year after year (m first words were “maybe next year”) – that professional players could. They look at tapes of opponents, why not look at a few of themselves?  Can no one in the Met organization notice that, Hey, we really need to stay awake for the entire game.  Looking back it seems to explain much about the team.  They got into and won the 1986 World Series at the almost last possible moment (yes, there was a game seven against Boston).

At least this was the first of a three game series. 

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