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Deepleft
Mets Rookie
posts: 4
(2/7/01 4:36:26 pm)
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Personal worst Met Moment
Everyone , in their hearts, has a worst moment that they would like to erase. Of course there are easy ones, like losing the Series to the Yanks, or Kenny Rogers (period), but I want to see some obscure, personal worst Met Moments. Whether it was a game that broke your heart or players moving elsewhere, something that may have hit YOU hard as opposed to all Met fans.
edgy DC
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 3888
(2/7/01 4:41:52 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
I've said it before. Mike Torrez beaning Dickie Thon.
Baseball Mom
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 3339
(2/7/01 4:43:27 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
The night of June 15, 1977.
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Tiberius1969
Mets All-Star
posts: 182
(2/7/01 4:45:51 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
Watching Tom Seaver slumped over a microphone saying, "...and for the ovation Ireceived the other night....."
That created a disillusioned 14 year-old staring into the abyss......
"In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors see.
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who in despite of view are pleased to dote. "
Centerfield
Mets All-Star
posts: 350
(2/7/01 4:49:34 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
Hearing that Dykstra had been traded - unofficially the end of my childhood.
Bubba Sponge
Mets All-Star
posts: 273
(2/7/01 4:53:20 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
The announcement of Bobby Bonilla, part II.
"A day without the Mets is a day wasted." --Anonymous, circa 1999
Ms Met
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 3025
(2/7/01 4:55:38 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
Mike Piazza flat on his back in Yuckie Stadium
Like soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend,
No retreat and baby...NO SURRENDER!!
PRATT FAN
Mets Rookie
posts: 6
(2/7/01 5:16:23 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
Mike Scioscia's game tying 2 run HR of Dwight Gooden in Game 4 of the 1988 National League Championship Series in the top of the 9th inning at Shea Stadium. The Mets went on to lose the game and the series.
Jamblastx
Mets All-Star
posts: 209
(2/7/01 5:25:17 pm)
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Oct 25
Oct 25, 2000 - Stuck inside a plane at LaGuardia, waiting to get out after my initial flight was cancelled causing me to take a later flight from O'Hare. My World Series game 4 ticket in my pocket (which I still have unused), and talking to my wife on the cel phone as she describes the Mets going down meekly in the bottom of the ninth. Of course, the next night was almost as bad.
JerseyShore
Mets All-Star
posts: 439
(2/7/01 5:28:45 pm)
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Re: Oct 25
April 2, 1972
"but can he sing tiny bubbles with the same sense of self assuredness coupled with whimsy"
Baseball Mom
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 3343
(2/7/01 5:40:53 pm)
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Re: Oct 25
JS - is that when Gil Hodges died?
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JerseyShore
Mets All-Star
posts: 440
(2/7/01 5:46:18 pm)
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Re: Oct 25
Exactly
"but can he sing tiny bubbles with the same sense of self assuredness coupled with whimsy"
Roadtripper
Mets Starter
posts: 56
(2/7/01 5:59:30 pm)
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My worst moment:
Waking up the AM after Game 6 of the '99 NLCS, having gone to bed when the score was tied b/c I was exhausted, had class the next day AND had somehow managed to hurt one of my knees (one of my friends said it was probably a sympathy strike). I went to the computer lab to check the final score, thinking that "The boys MUSTA pulled it off, there's just no stopping 'em...."
But they'd lost. Another friend found me slumped over the keyboard mumbling something about how much I'd like to beat Kenny Rogers senseless a few minutes later.
RVEN4
Mets Rookie
posts: 11
(2/7/01 6:08:31 pm)
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My worst MetMoment:
Kenny Rogers throwing the ball 2 feet away from the plate to end the NLCS.
OR
Hearing that Lance Johnson was traded for Brian McRae and McLroy (or was it Rojas.)
I didn't mind the Wendell part.
OR
Ventura getting injured last year and having that destroy his year and have all the non-believers doubt him.
Roadtripper
Mets Starter
posts: 57
(2/7/01 6:19:20 pm)
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That last one ain't no MOMENT, pally--
--that's a freakin' LIFETIME! Or at least that's how it felt. Last year alone was enough to validate my claim that I'm "22 going on 40", never mind all the *other* stuff that's made me that way. It's always hard to watch a beloved favorite have a bad year.
The Piazza beaning was bad, but I didn't see it when it happened; had to wait for the late news that nite. The Jay Payton beaning in the LCS was worse b/c I saw it happen right away.
sunkist01
Mets Rookie
posts: 27
(2/7/01 7:37:38 pm)
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:(
July 15, 1991; the day we traded my hero to Montreal.
vedder22
Mets Rookie
posts: 25
(2/7/01 7:55:45 pm)
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Sorry, but I must
My all time worst experience WAS Game 6, Kenny Rogers. I bought the ticket a week earlier on Ticketmaster, and was THE most excited person in the world when they won game 5. I could barely pick it up on AM ESPN radio on my way to work in boondocks Mississippi. The job was in downtown, and I lost the signal as I entered town. I made a corner and then heard the great news. "The Mets Win!!" I rolled the window down, screamed my lungs out, scared the hell out of two guys walking down the street that Sunday night. I jumped out of the car, ran into work, hugged a couple of people and just went apeshit! I was going to make my first playoff game! (so...it was at The Ted, it was still my first). So the letdown after even MAKING it to that game, plus coming back from an automatic 5 run deficit was more than I could bare. I sat by myself, in the rain, right behind some moronic rednecks (it's not a slurr, they really were. They had peanuts stuck in the tobacco juice on their shirts, and started punching each other in the face...for fun).
But my worst day was also my best (remember City Slickers?). On the way there, I was driving through Birmingham. I was coming to my exit, debating whether or not I had enough time to pass the truck in front of me. I decided to, made the exit, looked in my mirror and the truck jack-knifed and flipped over. I would have plowed right into him and probably not be here now. So while that day sucked, it was just baseball.
Kept it in perspective.
Baseball Mom
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 3345
(2/7/01 7:58:23 pm)
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Re: Sorry, but I must
Yikes FTB! Glad that you're around to tell the tale!
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Bay Ridge Dave
Mets All-Star
posts: 197
(2/7/01 8:09:28 pm)
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Game Six 1999 NLCS
My wife and I just stared at the TV, teary-eyed...
metzfan4ever
Mets Starter
posts: 55
(2/7/01 8:37:30 pm)
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Re: Game Six 1999 NLCS
When Bern Baby Bern Williams fell to one knee almost crying after catching Mikey P.'s 390 FT. bomb that would have given us at least one more meaningless breath in the 00' series.
IncaCrime
Mets Rookie
posts: 14
(2/7/01 8:47:05 pm)
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Re: Game Six 1999 NLCS
Yeah, me and two friends were going to jump in the car the moment the Mets won in game 6 to drive to Atlanta. We were skipping classes, we had no money, but we had tickets. We would have driven all night, and probably still would have missed an inning or two. But we were beyond psyched.
That walk was a killer.
Mike Kim
Mets All-Star
posts: 391
(2/7/01 10:01:10 pm)
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Mine
Not a particular moment but...
The times when all of my Met heroes such as Wally Backman, Daryl Strawberry, Doc Gooden, Garry Carter, and especially Lenny Dykstra all faded away.
Also: The time when Bobby Bonilla was first traded away and the time when he got released last year.
-Mike
Joe Tumbleweed
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 1226
(2/8/01 9:33:38 am)
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Re: Mine
June 15, 1977 ... or the morning of the 16th when my parents held their breath as their 13-year old son reached for the sports page to look at the box scores. Needless to say no box scores were scanned that day.
Seeing similar stupidity exercised when Lenny and Roger were traded for Juan "Freakin'" Samuel.
Finding out Doc was a phony.
Sometime in August 1987 when Mike "Spanky" LaValliere homered at Shea to beat the Mets. I was driving to my folks in NJ from DC and had been listening the whole way home to the game. It just seemed like one of those back-breaking games ... I don't think the Mets had a chance to catch the Cards after that one.
1984, 1985 ... 1986 ... 1999, 2000 ... 2001 Watch Out, World!
METSSC
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 1105
(2/8/01 9:46:16 am)
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Re: Mine
1)Rogers's walk(JACKASS)
2)Scioscia's HR
3)Timo watching the ball(the one moment that might've cost us the 2000 series)
4)Leary blowing out his elbow(He was our next Seaver or Gooden)
5)BOREDICK
Joe Tumbleweed
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 1230
(2/8/01 9:47:39 am)
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Re: Mine
Not, SC, the hiring of Steve Phillips as GM?
1984, 1985 ... 1986 ... 1999, 2000 ... 2001 Watch Out, World!
Ms Met
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 3035
(2/8/01 11:52:36 am)
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Re: Mine
Good one Joe.
RT - The weird thing about the beaning is that I WAS watching and STILL didn't see it happen live. It literally happened so fast that I missed it. I turned my attention away from the set for a split second and I heard the gasp and then the silence. When I turned back, I saw Mikey lying there with his eyes rolled back in his head momentarily and I stopped breathing for about 2 seconds. It was the most frightening and sickening sight I'd ever seen. The only thing that was more sickening was seeing the Yuckie fans applauding Roger Clemens after Mikey had been helped off the field. I didn't really see much of the game after that until I heard Howie Rose reporting that Mikey had a concussion but was not seriously hurt.
Another awful moment that I neglected to list the first time was the night - oddly enough - that the acquisition of Mike Piazza was announced - May 26, 1998, if I remember correctly. What made it a terrible night for me was the realization that the arrival of Mikey would almost certainly spell the end of Todd Hundley's Met career. As glad as I was to see Mikey arrive, I was heartsick at the departure of Hot Rod. That was the one thing that I'd always swore would spell the end of my Met fandom. But I swallowed my pride - it's the good of the TEAM that counts afterall - and soldiered on!
The whole episode would have been a little easier to take if it hadn't included the vision of Todd trying vainly to track down balls in leftfield. That was an unneccessary embarrasment for a tried and true Met, but it showed his loyalty to the team, and the fans.
Like soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend,
No retreat and baby...NO SURRENDER!!
YGB
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 1799
(2/8/01 12:10:33 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
It still hurts to think about Timo's inexcusable, unimpeachably foul baserunning screw-up in the 2000 World Series.
I think this goof (impossible to commit without having first experienced the disappointment of a near-miss HR. ... Ending an inning and a rally ... In the first game of the World Series. ... AGAINST THE YANKEES ... on their turf ... it couldn't have been scripted worse ...) upon reflection will look bigger and bigger and bigger and BIGGER and eventually become the very thing this world series is remembered for: A painful, sick punch in the stomach sure to be ranked among the greates disappointments of all time.
Produce the cheese! Examine the sponge!
Joe Tumbleweed
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 1239
(2/8/01 12:25:59 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
Can I change my answer ... YGB has rendered me a sobbing, paralyzed pile of goo incapable of seeing anything but Timo's free-spirited, unconcerned, un-hurried, lope around the bases. My day is done ... and so too is my lack of bitterness about the World Series and my reverie in a National League pennant.
Damn, Timo!
1984, 1985 ... 1986 ... 1999, 2000 ... 2001 Watch Out, World!
Tiberius1969
Mets All-Star
posts: 195
(2/8/01 12:30:21 pm)
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Re: Mine
Joe T: Finding out Doc was a phony.
I'd have to add that day up there as well. One of the guy's in the office told me about it, and I wouldn't believe him, because it was April 1. I then checked sportsline, and was numb the rest of the day.....
"In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors see.
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who in despite of view are pleased to dote. "
Baseball Mom
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
posts: 3351
(2/8/01 12:50:32 pm)
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Re: Mine
I believed it Tiberius. A few weeks earlier we were at a spring training game (the Mets last season in St. Petersburg) and we saw Gooden give up 9 runs in 2 innings. And something looked very wrong about him that day.
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Bubba Sponge
Mets All-Star
posts: 275
(2/8/01 12:58:32 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
Those bastards won in OUR house!
"A day without the Mets is a day wasted." --Anonymous, circa 1999
JerseyShore
Mets All-Star
posts: 450
(2/8/01 2:56:54 pm)
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Re: Mine
After the death of Gil I would have to agree that the fall of Doctor K is my second worst moment. After all the excitemnt of 86, thoughts of a dynasty, young superstars in Mets unforms for the next ten years,etc, it spoiled almost everything. Even though I was 30 at the time that year seemed to re-ignite the kid in me and my love of baseball and the Mets. You could almost feel that when Doc went down it was the begining of a long, long decline for the fortunes of the Mest and their fans.
"but can he sing tiny bubbles with the same sense of self assuredness coupled with whimsy"
Edited by: JerseyShore at: 2/8/01 3:03:45 pm
Baseball Mom
Mets Hall-Of-Famer
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(2/8/01 3:03:35 pm)
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Doc
Just as an addendum - we were at the premiere party for the short-lived Nickelodeon Extreme Baseball mini theme park that they had in right field in 1994 when we learned about Gooden's second stint at rehab. It put a damper on what was otherwise an incredible family evening (it was a good party, and since there was a game that night several of the players were also checking out the festivites. I have some cool pix of my two older kids with some of the Mets at the event).
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PhilG
Mets Rookie
posts: 43
(2/8/01 3:13:43 pm)
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It's A Tie Between...
June 15, 1977 and April 1, 1987. Maybe the Gooden thing gets a slight edge because it meant the end of the Met dynasty just as it was beginning. When I think of all the talent that '86 team had what happened, I just get sick. We should have been enjoying a run like the Yanks are having now. At least with Seaver we got to see 10 years of superior pitching.
mrsmet
Mets Veteran
posts: 128
(2/8/01 4:52:57 pm)
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worst moment
Kenny R throwing Ball 4, followed by the Yankess spraying champagne all over Shea.
doug flynn
Mets All-Star
posts: 351
(2/8/01 5:07:55 pm)
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Re: worst moment
I do not have one that I dwell on. But what comes to mind in addition to some of the moments already mentioned, is Rojas-Benitez blowing Game 1 against SF (when it happened anyway)
Rojas-Benitez blowing Game 1 against NYY
Rojas-Benitez blowing game 6 against the Braves last year
Franco blowing game 6 last year
Booby Bonilla
The moment right before Mel Rojas threw the ball
Steve Phillips Sucks!
Met Jim
Mets Starter
posts: 84
(2/8/01 7:35:24 pm)
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Re: Personal worst Met Moment
No doubt about it. Ball 4 from Kenny Rogers, I was almost physically sick.
"I'm tired boss...dog tired."
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