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SABRES, PENS, SHOTGUNS & METS |
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Sam's-a-fan
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My dad has a theory that the Mets used up all of their luck back in '86. As this theory goes, having used up their luck in order to win the World Series in dramatic fashion back then, they are now fated to fall flat on their faces until the end of time. It would seem that Dad's got an argument to make. If we look at everything that happened that fall, Dykstra's improbable home run against Houston, the drama that was game 6 of the NLCS, coming back in the 9th against the 'Stros and then stretching it out to sixteen innings thereby avoiding the deadly splitter of Mike Scott in an impossible to win game 7; games 6 and 7 of the Series. And what's come afterwards? Drug and alcohol addiction of our promising young stars (home grown talent to boot) and the rapid dismantling of what was supposed to be our dynasty; the utter failure of can't miss Generation K; spray bottles of bleach; ill conceived fire cracker pranks; the play of Tony Fernandez and Robbie Alomar; and of course the September swoon we wont soon forget. As I said, my dad's got an argument. But what if it's not about luck at all? What then? How do you explain all of this? Yes, I know that certain posters on this site, who for some reason are unable to find suitable websites of their own for teams like the Phillies, Yankees or D-Backs may simply answer, "Because your team sucks!", but what other explanations lie waiting to be discovered? Consider this: After the '85 season, Frank Cashen has a meeting with a goateed, red-skinned gentleman with a sulphurous odor about him (note: some theories have this character resembling Ned Flanders), who Cashen believes to be a representative of a certain canned-ham concern, who Cashen believes is there to discuss new marketing ideas and themed give-away days at the stadium. During this meeting a depressed Cashen, after having just come ever so close to beating Whitey and the Cards admits that he would sell his soul for a donut, uh...I mean a World Series Championship, and you know the rest. Is this possible? Rather than having simply used up their quotient of an ill defined commodity such as luck, could the Mets be cursed by the dark lord himself to torture themselves and their fans for all eternity, or is this, as Cubs and Phillies fans know, simply what it means to be a fan of a team? If we are cursed, what will it take to remove said curse from our collective heads? Must we take Bobby V's fake mustache and sunglasses along with all copies of the Baja Men's recording of "Who Let the Dogs Out?" sprinkle it with Carlos Baerga's blood and have a ritualistic bonfire to exorcise the demons? What can the Mets and their fans do to remove this curse?
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TheMatts
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| Welcome to your very own bi-monthy spot Sam's-A-Fan. And well done with the topic to boot. What Met fan hasn't felt the sting of curse? The air of omen? The sense that we tread upon an ancient Indian burial ground? It is all part of the Mets gestalt but you Sam, have, perhaps, unlocked the proverbial Pandora's Box of Evil. With Daniel Webster long dead, will Daniel Heep argue our case in the court of Fire and Brimstone against the Lord of Darkness who curses our team? |
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Dude
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| Nice job here Sam. . . you raise a very interesting point of discussion. Although, as a baseball fan, and especially a Met fan I am superstitious by nature I believe the demise of beloved metsies was not due to a deal with Lucifer. The problem was management refused to embrace the beautiful chaos that made up the '86 team. They were a band of hellraisers that wont likely be seen again. Examples of this: the bill handed to the team for the cleaning of the legendary flight home from houston (torn up by davey) the trading of Kevin Mitchell, the utility player, who would later blossom into a all star slugger for the milquetoast kevin mcreynolds. If Cashen were in cahoots with belzebub i don't see those acts happening. But maybe you are on to something. . . maybe this explains how the mets didn't beat the cardinals after the divinely intervened (or satanically) catch by super endy. How they collapse last season, how they walk in the NLCS winning run in '99, how they lose to a yankee team in 2000 who then went on to lose to two expansion teams in '01 and '03. . . hmmm, gonna have to sleep on this one. Is the magic real? or was it just SATAN? wow. The only thing i am sure of is how welcome your column is over the drivel of the PP. Keep it up pal! |
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david
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| yeah, i'd have to say the mets would have had gotten more than one stinking world series if there was a pact with the devil. that said, i agree with sam's dad, the matts, dude, myself and everyone else who hasn't yet posted on this one. their is something about the mets that seems supernaturally unlucky. |
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Grote2DMax
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| Bravo Sam's-A-Fan. You've shown that you know your Mets history. The saying "those who don't learn about the past are doomed to repeat it" certainly applies to the Mets. We threw money at poor free agent choices in the early 80's (Foster), early 90's (Coleman, Bonilla) and then again in the early 2000's (Matsui, Burnitz). We also made some terrible trades (70's Ryan, Seaver, Otis, Singleton, Staub; 80's Reardon, Aguilara, Dykstra, 90's Isringhausen, Kent, 2000's Kasmir, Bey). I think they just have to learn to get a better handle on their talent base and not make front office decisions akin to Krusty The Klown betting on the Washington Generals vs. The Harlem Globetrotters. |
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ANGRYWARD
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| Excellent job SAF, but then I wouldn't have expected any less from you. I think the only way we're going to break this covenant of blood is to load up Derek Bell's boat with the likes of Bobby Bonilla, Rickey Henderson, Dennis Cook, Armando Benitez, Matt Galante, Rick Peterson, Willie Randolph, Butch Huskey, Bill Pulsipher, Joe McEwing, Daryl Boston, Anthony Young, Juan Samuel, Jim Duquette, and a host of other Mets lost souls on one final voyage of the damned, never to return to the shores of Flushing again. |
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Chad Pennington is NOT a Brett Favre fan... Hillary Clinton and Don Nelson have never been seen in the same place... Jerry Manuel is not related to Charlie ManuelJerry Manuel is not related to Charlie Manuel... Somebody namd Michel coaches the Pittsburgh Penguins... Tiki Barber quit the Giants. The Giants then won the Super Bowl... The New England Patriots only lost ONE game out of 19!!! Aaron Heilman was actually funny in re to Eli and Plaxico Burress helping the Mets as a pitcher and outfielder, respectively. Repeat, Heilman was funny... Jessica Simpson would rather date Tom Brady - trust us... Eli Manning is better than Archie - now... Alyssa Milano is a Met fan. RRRRR... Rickey Henderson speaks in the 3rd Person... Shawn Green has big ears... Howard Johnson likes to stay at the Holiday Inn, ironically... Sandy Alomar, Sr. is the youngest of 9 kids. That's why he was quick around the dish. Jiminy Cricket was the Philly Phanatic in a previous life…Fred Wilpon is pals with Sandy Koufax... Mike Ditka is a really tough guy.. Buffalo has a Triple A baseball team. They are NOT called The Snowballs... Chan Ho Park has people thinking of naming a ballfield after him - it would be called Chan Ho Park Park... John Maine has never been, oddly enough, to Maine... Curt Gowdy, Jr. has never been to Yellow Knife, Canada... Kevin Mitchell played 6 positions for the Mets in '86 and, according to Doc Gooden's book, didn't like cats... John Olerud & Wayne Gretzky have never been seen in the same place... Kevin McReynolds now makes his living doing laugh tracks for sit-coms... Tony Gwynn is nearing 300 lbs... Carlos Beltran has Mercedes Benz dealerships named for him in Barcelona, Spain... Willie Montanez was called Guillermo by Lenny Randle... Rusty Staub beat Jeff Kent in a race – TODAY... Jay Horwitz is a dynamite Cricket players – somebody said... Jeff Wilpon was a decent minor league catcher... Ziggy Palfy lives in Slovakia and is a big Met fan... Superman Returns, yet still can’t hit Billy Wagner... David Wright will win the Triple Crown – on a horse... Omar Minaya is Tobey McGuire’s stunt-double in Spider Man 3... Hilary Clinton has Mr. Met pajamas – we think... Albert Einstein was a HUGE Met fan... The Metropolitan Opera House was named for the Mets after their 2nd season in ’63... Wally Backman, ’86 sparkplug, considered changing his name to Wally Back-Matt... Neil Allen and Mike Stanton, former Mets, have Allen & Stanton Streets on Lower East Side named for them.
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