Sun 28 Sep 2008
I’m emotionally and physically tired so I’ll be brief here as tomorrow when I’m thinking a little straighter and maybe a little calmer I might be able to put some thoughts down in a posting but I will say today was painful on a few fronts. First the fans were very pumped up and Mike Francesa can shut his big fat pie hole as EVERY seat in the stadium was filled. With Omar back and as it looks that J-Man will return as well there are going be some big decisions made here as this team has to be broken up. There is no way in hell the team as it is structured today can come back. One year of shitting the bed could be made to be an aberration but two years in a row? There’s a problem. But I’ll expand on that tomorrow and on what was just an outstanding closing ceremony but right now I’m just trying to sort out the day and how hard it was for me to leave Shea Stadium today. We got to the park at 11 AM took some pictures (I hope to post some) walked around in the rain and did not leave Shea until 7:30PM. As we headed for the exit at Gate E I was holding my daughters hand and we stopped and looked at her and said ” I don’t want to leave yet” and she was like “Oh Daddy please we need to go” and with that she dragged me out of the place where I have spent the last 44 years of my springs, summers and some falls and I thought of all the times I thought of Shea Stadium as my daughter thought of me leaving “It’s time to go” How many times did I say that about Shea and now how sad I am that it will be no more and how all of a sudden I don’t think the Mets need a new home the old was was just fine.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
This team is such an underachieving one, it is hard to fathom.
How can a team with players like Reyes (second-best in the league at his position), Wright (best), Beltran (best), and Delgado (best in second half) score only five runs against a team that was playing out the string over the three most important days of the season?
Why JM keeps his job is beyond me. He seems like a nice fellow, always with a smile and a quote, but he clearly didn’t get the best out of this team.
Only one Met can hold his head high this offseason: Santana.
All others should hang their heads in shame until Spring Training, and probably beyond.
Pitiful!
September 28th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I am,disgusted,mad,sad and distraught AGAIN !!!
I am already dreading what is in store for us next season…I can only hope that next year we will not be barraged with back to back Ford commercials featuring that smug P.O.S. from the Bronx.I am not going to miss that. Now that the season is over I can return to HBO,Showtime,and TCM.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I live in the U.K. I was at work today when the Mets blew it again! Thought i was so lucky we have cable where i work too. I’m a chef, i love food, no food was made with love tonight ( it wasn’t thrown at walls either but i was really tempted ) i am just so gutted and its been hours since. OP did his bit but again the line up offered little support and they just haven’t heard of clutch have they? Beltran offered a glimmer of hope, where was D Wright again? i could go thru the team but instead i’m heading for the fridge its beer o’clock…..
September 28th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I feel sick but I just want to thank you for keeping me entertained and informed all season. I look forward to hearing more about today when you feel a little better. Till next year, keep the faith.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Really a great Mets blog you’ve been giving us. Thanks for all your input and insight.
I have loved Shea as well. How impossibly emotional and bittersweet it must have been to be there today.
September 29th, 2008 at 12:30 am
You know what feeling I can’t shake? That the Mets will lose their magical (maniacal?) grip on me once Shea is gone. Maybe the uniform will be enough to keep me locked in, but for some reason I was watching the game yesterday wondering if this would be it for me and the Mets.
I’m too far away to forge and decent memories of Citifield. I always loved returning to Shea because that was where I loved going when I was a kid and a college student and a newly wed.
I don’t know. Maybe I’ll feel better about it by April, but right now I feel like more than 1 game / 1 season has been lost.
September 29th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Omar? The BULLPEN NEEDS a COMPLETE Revamping. STOP listening to Jeffy:
I cried at my last game in August, a Day Game where Pedro Martinez had the lead, but the ‘pen fcucked it up;
I knew, somewhere in my mind, that THIS ‘PEN would break up the Season, let alone a High Mass;
It was a Nice Send-Off For Shea Stadium-Will Miss it a LOT.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I’ve become conditioned to accepting a gut wrenching loss like yesterday as inevitable. With my kids in their bouncy seats and my wife on the couch opposite me as I watched the last out all I could muster was “Fucking Mets”. It hurts to know that we’re good but lack the will to get over that hump. They’re like the hot slutty girlfriend that you catch in the closet with your buddy.
The closing ceremony was awesome though! So many names and faces that were heros of my childhood. I actually got emotional. I remembered my first game at Shea in the mid-70’s. Ken Sanders and John Stearns were the battery. Stearns throws back to the mound and beans Sanders in the head. Priceless!
There was one thing about the closing ceremony that bothered me. Seaver is and always will be The Franchise. But throughout the ceremonies, Piazza was 2nd. Retire the guy’s number for Christ’s sake! Should have been done before the move!
Good or bad, they’re still Amazing.