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Isn't this fun?

cooby Oct 13 2015 06:34 PM

I love this :)

Edgy MD Oct 13 2015 07:28 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

It's what we came for.

Frayed Knot Oct 13 2015 07:32 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Isn't this fun? Not at the moment.

d'Kong76 Oct 13 2015 07:48 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

It will be funner when the score is 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, etc....

cooby Oct 13 2015 08:20 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

You just wait

Fman99 Oct 13 2015 08:41 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

I'm glad you posted this. It's good to step back and enjoy the fact that these are Mets games and also postseason games. Usually such exclusive things.

bmfc1 Oct 13 2015 08:44 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

This is what we've wanted, playoff baseball in October with our team involved. Sure it's excruciating. Sure we're sleep deprived, but it's fantastic, no matter what happens. Beats wondering how Mets prospects are doing in the Arizona Fall League.

Elster88 Oct 13 2015 09:09 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

I'm scared cooby

El Segundo Escupidor Oct 14 2015 02:29 AM Re: Isn't this fun?

I'd rather eat Cal Ripken's asshole.

Lefty Specialist Oct 14 2015 05:51 AM Re: Isn't this fun?

After 9 years you forget the pins and needles terror of every pitch, every play. I don't enjoy it in the moment as much as I should, I guess. Even Saturday's game, which is as close to sheer bliss as it can get for a Met fan, I'm there screaming "WTF???" to Eric Goeddel in the ninth inning.

cooby Oct 14 2015 06:19 AM Re: Isn't this fun?

No no, the losing isn't fun, but the other stuff, from Zvon's impromptu pictures to waking up to asshole eating threads, THAT is the fun part! All that angst we wouldn't have if our boys weren't in the playoffs... Well, I for one, would be cleaning off my deck or something and THAT is no fun! :D

cooby Oct 15 2015 09:14 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

FUN FUN FUN!!!

Frayed Knot Oct 15 2015 09:18 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

cooby wrote: FUN FUN FUN!!! Even if my daddy were to take my T-Bird away, this would be fun. Y'know, if I actually had a T-Bird

themetfairy Oct 15 2015 09:20 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Yes!

dinosaur jesus Oct 15 2015 09:20 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

It's fun like a colonoscopy is fun. I feel good now. I quit watching the game in the bottom of the first. I couldn't take it. I just followed the reactions here, and snuck a peek once in a while at the play-by-play on mlb.

Elster88 Oct 15 2015 09:22 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Let's goooooo!!!!!

Centerfield Oct 15 2015 09:23 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Party at cooby's!!!

Valadius Oct 15 2015 09:23 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Bring on Grays Sports Almanac!

Methead Oct 15 2015 09:26 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

This is pretty fun.

cooby Oct 15 2015 09:39 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Centerfield wrote: Party at cooby's!!! Come on down! Pool is closed but the deck is still open!

Centerfield Oct 15 2015 09:43 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Don't tell seawolf. I think he just jumped in.

cooby Oct 15 2015 09:48 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

I hope he has his winter fur!

Benjamin Grimm Oct 22 2015 02:22 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Yes, this really is fun. I'm having a LOT of fun following the Mets this month. I was trying to compare to other Mets postseasons, all of which I've enjoyed. (The way each postseason ended is not a factor; I'm considering how much I enjoyed the overall month of October.) 1986 is, and always will be, my favorite. I loved 1999 more than 1988 and 2000 and 2006. This is definitely more fun than 2006, I think for two reasons: This was all so unexpected as recently as three months ago; and this mostly is a homegrown group where 2006 more heavily relied on imported veterans. 1999 and 2015 have made me feel more like a kid again (and at my age that's quite a feat!) than 2000 or 2006 did. It's hard to say for sure, but I think I'm enjoying 2015 more than I did 1999. This may very well be my favorite Mets postseason. (I also experienced 1973, but I was only ten years old. I knew that 1969 was in the recent past, so I had no appreciation of how rare and special a Mets postseason actually is.)

Lefty Specialist Oct 22 2015 02:41 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

I love the fact that I can't focus on anything for two hours before a game. This is what going for it all feels like.

soupcan Oct 22 2015 02:47 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

I'm digging it. Went to Modell's to see what kind of crap they had to sell me. Just NL Champs stuff. I'm gonna wait 10 days or so for the good stuff... (I did buy an 'NL Champs' shot glass though)

G-Fafif Oct 22 2015 02:49 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Confirming that this is fun.

Frayed Knot Oct 22 2015 03:49 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

I was trying to compare to other Mets postseasons, all of which I've enjoyed. (The way each postseason ended is not a factor; I'm considering how much I enjoyed the overall month of October.) 1986 is, and always will be, my favorite. I loved 1999 more than 1988 and 2000 and 2006. This is definitely more fun than 2006, I think for two reasons: This was all so unexpected as recently as three months ago; and this mostly is a homegrown group where 2006 more heavily relied on imported veterans. The way this year started (the April streak) then roared back to life starting in late July was all part of the fun factor in that both came around with little or no warning. Very different year though from the 1998-2000 clubs (and even into 2001) in that those seasons were packed with drama on a day in day out basis for such a long time: the battles with the Braves, the comeback from the dead vs Pitt then the play-in game in Cincy, extra-inning game-winning HRs from Pratt or Agbayani, the GS Single, K-ing Bonds with the winning runs on, and far too many others to name. This season the Nats proved to be such a milquetoast team that there was little drama down the stretch in the division once they were passed by the two sweeps with some 25-30 games still to go. Then the Dodger series had its moments but the sweep of the Cubs very few. Doesn't mean they weren't fun, but nothing like the edge of the seat, nail-biting shit that would turn you inside-out on a nightly basis. I get the idea that the whole Utley/Tejada mess would have trouble making the top 5 for post-season drama in one of those other years.

cooby Oct 22 2015 04:00 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Still love 1973 best, but I could fall in love with this young team for the long haul

Benjamin Grimm Oct 22 2015 04:10 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

Frayed Knot wrote: Then the Dodger series had its moments but the sweep of the Cubs very few. Doesn't mean they weren't fun, but nothing like the edge of the seat, nail-biting shit that would turn you inside-out on a nightly basis. That's certainly true. In that sense, 1986 would be very difficult to top. Game 5 of this year's NLDS was very tense. Maybe (for me, anyway) more than any other game since that 16-inning game in the Astrodome. I don't know why, but I felt that one more. (Perhaps because it was a do-or-die and, arguably, falling short of the LCS is worse than falling short of the World Series.) And that's not to say there haven't been tense exhilarating games in between 1986 and 2015, because there certainly were. The 2000 series against the Cardinals and Yankees were duds, but the series against the Giants was great. As were both 1999 series. As for 2006, I was quite invested in that team, but not as much as I am in this one. And I think that's because of the youth and the purity. (And by "purity" I mean that so many of the players have never played in the big leagues for any other team.)

Centerfield Oct 22 2015 04:40 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

So not "purity" as they don't eat assholes?

TransMonk Oct 22 2015 04:54 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

I really started following the Mets on a daily basis as an adult in 1997...this season has been the most fun for me in that time. 1999 and 2006 were great, but this one has been the best.

Zvon Oct 22 2015 05:05 PM Re: Isn't this fun?

seawolf17 Oct 23 2015 07:32 AM Re: Isn't this fun?

Zvon wrote: Yeah, I'm gonna need one of those. I think my wardrobe is 50% Stony Brook shirts, 50% 7 Line gear.

Ceetar Oct 23 2015 07:56 AM Re: Isn't this fun?

seawolf17 wrote: Zvon wrote: Yeah, I'm gonna need one of those. I think my wardrobe is 50% Stony Brook shirts, 50% 7 Line gear. I like the optics of the THIS campaign, but it's a little too much meme turned advertising campaign for me to be too excited about it moving to fan shirt.