Sunday, July 30, 2006
Now THIS is what I've been waiting for...
WONK WONK
As a Mets fan, I've been waiting years for this. The Braves to fall; the Mets to rise to glory (and if I'm lucky enough, both in the same season).
But it's been a bit anticlimactic, hasn't it? It seemed like the Braves were hovering a few games back of the Mets until early June when the Mets went on a tear and the Braves went on the polar opposite of what one would define as a tear (and it wasn't even the postseason yet for the Bravos).
All of a sudden I realized the Mets were ten games up on the Braves. "Is that it?" I thought. "Is that how it's gonna go down?" I had been envisioning some sort of fight to the end, with it coming down the that last face off in September. With Brian Jordan crushing a grand slam off of Wagner in extra innings. I wanted something dramatic, and I feared the results, but the Braves just seemed to completely fall apart.
Flash forward to the all-star break. The Braves came out scoring tons of runs, and winning almost every game. The only problem for them was that the Mets were pretty much matching them. This series seemed to be their last shot, and the players seemed to be pretty amped up about it going in:
“I absolutely think the Mets are still looking over their shoulders at us. They know what our track record is. And if we do what we have to do this weekend, they'll be looking even harder over their shoulders. They know where we are…
“Before we think about kissing our sister with the wild card, we have a division to think about.” -Marcus Giles
“It's a longshot to win the division, but I've seen teams collapse plenty of years. Look at the White Sox and the end of their year last year. I know you're a New York writer. Hopefully for us, they will take that turn." -Brian Jordan
“We’re still the team to beat. We’re always the team to beat." -Andruw Jones
Well, it doesn't look like a dramatic dogfight to finish the season is possible. And after this sweep, it looks pretty damn unlikely the Braves have a shot at the wild card either. So, I will have to take this. And it feels good. Finally, after all these years, and all the shit-talking------
BRAVES SUCK. METS ARE AWESOME.
WONK WONK
As a Mets fan, I've been waiting years for this. The Braves to fall; the Mets to rise to glory (and if I'm lucky enough, both in the same season).
But it's been a bit anticlimactic, hasn't it? It seemed like the Braves were hovering a few games back of the Mets until early June when the Mets went on a tear and the Braves went on the polar opposite of what one would define as a tear (and it wasn't even the postseason yet for the Bravos).
All of a sudden I realized the Mets were ten games up on the Braves. "Is that it?" I thought. "Is that how it's gonna go down?" I had been envisioning some sort of fight to the end, with it coming down the that last face off in September. With Brian Jordan crushing a grand slam off of Wagner in extra innings. I wanted something dramatic, and I feared the results, but the Braves just seemed to completely fall apart.
Flash forward to the all-star break. The Braves came out scoring tons of runs, and winning almost every game. The only problem for them was that the Mets were pretty much matching them. This series seemed to be their last shot, and the players seemed to be pretty amped up about it going in:
“I absolutely think the Mets are still looking over their shoulders at us. They know what our track record is. And if we do what we have to do this weekend, they'll be looking even harder over their shoulders. They know where we are…
“Before we think about kissing our sister with the wild card, we have a division to think about.” -Marcus Giles
“It's a longshot to win the division, but I've seen teams collapse plenty of years. Look at the White Sox and the end of their year last year. I know you're a New York writer. Hopefully for us, they will take that turn." -Brian Jordan
“We’re still the team to beat. We’re always the team to beat." -Andruw Jones
Well, it doesn't look like a dramatic dogfight to finish the season is possible. And after this sweep, it looks pretty damn unlikely the Braves have a shot at the wild card either. So, I will have to take this. And it feels good. Finally, after all these years, and all the shit-talking------
BRAVES SUCK. METS ARE AWESOME.
