Comments on: We Win

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:40:00 +0000

We gotta play 'em one day at a time. We're just happy to be here and hope we can help the ballclub. We just wanta give it our best shot and, Good Lord willing, things'll work out.
(And thanks.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:49:00 +0000

No offense to any other bloggers out there, many of whom do great jobs in their own right, including the worthiest of all honorable mentions, the Great “Metstradamus”, but how does it feel to have the best Mets blog on one of the best Mets days……?
In early 2005, I wondered after I discovered this place, if we might all make it to the Promised Land together. We just may, fellas. We just may. Hang tight…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:14:00 +0000

Wow – Joshua just said everything I wanted to, but much more eloquently than I ever could have.
I'm flattered to be included in you roll of honor. I'm just an infrequent poster, but a several-times-a-day reader.
I also discovered this site at the beginning of the season and you've been my daily companions and tourguides all the way.
You guys have created a special niche in this vast online world. The title does say it all. In a way only we could understand, it captures that special relationship between this team and we few diehards that have been around since (before) the days when Craig Swan was our ace.
Yes, this one's for us, and I'll savor it for a day or two, but the “Fear” lurks out there – to come close and miss. I can't help quoting Vin Scully from the '86 series: “Losing hurts more than winning feels good.” Sorry to be a downer, it's just the Mets fan in me.
Pedro, Tom, Duque, Cliff, etc. etc. rest up and get healthy. I won't breathe easily until LoDuca squeezes that last Wagner pitch for strike three.
The magic number is now 11.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:02:00 +0000

The Mets are the National League East champions.
I have been mentioned on the front page of my favorite website.
Now I can die happy.
Greg and Jason — you guys don't know what this blog has meant to me. I discovered it at the beginning of this season, having just moved from Newark to Philadelphia, feeling desperate for some Mets talk that didn't involve unfavorable comparisons to the Phillies. Just from the name I knew I liked this site, but I had no idea what a lifeline it would turn out to be. This isn't a place of sports talk and analysis — this is a place of poetry, of storytelling. In the wake of bad games, or boring games, I log on to find out what happened tonight. Because sometimes all I saw was a bunch of people playing baseball out there, and surely more was going on than that. Without fail, you guys find a story in there — and without fail, it makes me glad to bleed orange and blue. It lets me know that there are people out there who feel about baseball the way most people only feel about music. Without fail, it makes me glad to be alive.
You guys are my favorite sportswriters.
You guys are my favorite writers of any kind who aren't pretty famous.
So this 1s for you, too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:00:00 +0000

You are right….it does mean just as much to us…maybe more. If I am brutally honest with myself I can admit that my entire emotional barometer is built around this team. Thanks for including me on the list. It's all day every day for me and the rest of you all,too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:37:00 +0000

Thanks also to F&F in F , for making a super season (so far) even more so…………………Great reads all year!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:45:00 +0000

Don't get fooled again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:52:00 +0000

And a teeny tiny thank you to the Philadelphia Phillies who stretched out their heroic, yet fruitless 4th inning just long enough to ensure that the Mets would get their win in first. Thanks for not letting us back in to our clinch! We'll leave that honor to the Yankees.
JoAnn

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:12:00 +0000

PS — LoDuca gets extra points for dropping an F-bomb on SNY's air while being interviewed by Chris Cottter….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:06:00 +0000

An early Thanksgiving
– For chronology's sake, I'll start off with the most unlikely thank you: thank you, Mike & the Mad Dog, for interviewing Fred Wilpon on Rosh Hashanah, 2004 and allowing the fans to vent on the air afterward. I was one of those fans. 1 week later, Omar Minaya was hired. I don't think it was a coincidence.
– Thank you, Omar Minaya, for more things than I can say: for hiring Willie Randolph, for signing Pedro Martinez, for signing Carlos Beltran, for sticking with Jose Reyes & David Wright, for signing Billy Wagner…You know the rest.
– Thank you, Jeffrey Loria, for dismantling the Marlins just in time for us to snag Carlos Delgado & Paul LoDuca.
– Thank you, Willie Randolph, for showing us that X's & O's ain't everything.
– Thank you, David Wright & Jose Reyes, for proving all of us (w)right when we crowed about your prowess.
– Thank you, Pedro Martinez, for being Pedro Martinez.
– Thank you, Carlos Beltran, for forgiving us all our indiscretions and impatience.
– Thank you, Carlos Delgado, for your power and your friendship with the Carlos above: you deserve almost as much credit for his success as the man himself.
– Thank you, Cliff Floyd, for hanging around until we all saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
– Thank you, Paul LoDuca, for your fire and fine hitting. Can't wait to see you & A-Fraud get reacquainted at the plate.
– Thank you, Jose Valentin, for embodying the never-say-die stuff of which this club is made.
– Thank you, Shawn Green, for your experience, for that double-header against Atlanta, and for being a nice, Jewish boy.
– Thank you, Endy Chavez, for choosing now – Thank you, Lastings Milledge, for your future.
– Thank you, Julio Franco, for your past.
– Thank you, Tom Glavine, for making your past trangressions (having the poor taste to spend most of your career south of the Mason-Dixon Line) disappear when it counted.
– Thank you, Billy Wagner, the Saving Sandman.
– Thank you, Aaron Heilman, for not really pushing the “starter” thing too hard.
– Thank you, Bullpen, for allowing Wagner to be the Saving Sandman.
And finally…
Thank you, Greg & Jace, for the wonderful waterfall of verbiage, for allowing me to share my stuff with you, for the shout-out above, for being companions to a miraculous season: We've not yet Met, but you are 2 of my closest friends.
Thank you.