Baseball in October - ahhh life is good.
 

Uhh, don't you mean a "little roller up along first"?

(And don't forget by that point the game was tied.)

But the Mets were hardly pathetic that year, at least objectively. 108 wins is in the top ten of all time (matched, incidentally, by the 1975 Reds).

The Sox finished the season with only 95 wins, same as this year. The Mets should have won it all that year -- what's amazing is that it took the great luck of avoiding Mike Scott in a 7th game of the NLCS and multiple breaks against the Sox in games 6 and 7 to win it.

The Amazing Mets
 

The Mets are always pathetic, no matter how good they are.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be THE all-time Cindarella team.

The Amazing Mets
 

Well, yeah. Personally I think they just suck.

The Amazing Mets
 

Yes, but they try so hard their ineptitude is rather endearing. Until it all of a sudden hits you you've wasted your life rooting for these guys and you want to toss yourself off a cliff, or at least throw some beer at them from the bleachers.

Sort of like being a Sox fan. Except they're always great until their inevitable late-season mass meltdown, which is even worse.

Edited to add, see why I've become a cycling freak?

The Amazing Mets
 

I've always wondered why there Sox fans who are Mets fans and vice versa. Could it be that misery loves company or are we united in our hatred of the Yankees?

The Amazing Mets
 

The latter. And until 1986 (well, 1985) it never presented even a potential conflict.

The Amazing Mets
 

That, and Boston: New York as Mets: Yankees. We feel their both their inferiority complex and lingering sense of injustice at being made to have one.

The Amazing Mets
 

But the bliss of 1969 is hard to forget! Yes, I was but a pup, but that one perfect moment when the undergod emerged triumphant and all was right with the world was a defining moment in my life.

The Amazing Mets
 

There was a brief time, now a long time ago, when worlds collided and everyone had to choose, but I guarantee you, in the world today Mets fans are NOT hoping the Yankees will prevail. I'll bet most are cheering Boston on.

The Amazing Mets
 

Which was my original point. There is no way a Mets fan can be a Yankees fan. As PJ said, If such an animal exists they should be examined for a multiple personality disorder.

Are all Mets and Sox fans now (for the next week at least) Twins fans?

Anne
Maybe those tricky Minnesotans will play that trick again with the air conditioning vents.

The Amazing Mets
 

Uh, Cubs? I know there can't be a conflict with them -- the baseball universe would implode first (after all, what happened in the 1919 series?)

The Amazing Mets
 

Please. My heart can't take the strain of another team like that.
Perhaps the Cubs fans could help?

The Amazing Mets
 

Seems our collective cheering helped. Twins won this afternoon 3-1.

Let's go Twins!

Twins Fans in Beantown
 

Bosox fans, rejoice. The hated Yanks just lost game 1 to the Twins, 3-1, before a disappointed sell-out Yankee Stadium crowd (and, no doubt, a steamed George, who will surely fire Joe Torre and tear the team apart if the Yanks do another first-round playoff swoon). Now, if the Twins just win their home games....

Choke time?
 

So, have they made it exciting enough yet? Will Pedro take a perfect game through nine innings only to see the game lost 1-zip on a 2 out, tenth inning home run?

Or will we again experience the ultimate Red Sox treat and witness a choke against the Yankees?