The legends of the 1988 Mets and the heartbreak that started it all

[metirish]

Great stuff here from Vaccaro , I wasn't living here then , but must have been a great time



https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/the-legends-of-the-1988-mets-and-the-heartbreak-that-started-it-all/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=message_apphttps://nypost.com/2023/07/12/the-legends-of-the-1988-mets-and-the-heartbreak-that-started-it-all/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=message_app

[kcmets]

The Post site sucks bhmc.



Pop-up-ad nightmare and it crashed my Chrome browser twice trying to

read that piece. Shame on them and whatever they're up to there....



More on topic, 1987 and 1988 brings back a lot of bad Mets memories.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm not one to wallow in Mets angst. It's great when they win but "oh well" when they don't. I'm not interested in anything that furthers the "tortured fanbase" narrative.

[kcmets]

I was disappointed in 1987 and even more so in 1988. No wallowing here,

some thirty-five years later!!



The Post web-site still sucks bhmc...

[metirish]

I tried to copy and paste the article but it just turned into a mess, agree the site really sucks

[dgwphotography]

=metirish post_id=131567 time=1689269773 user_id=72]
I tried to copy and paste the article but it just turned into a mess, agree the site really sucks

[metirish]

Thanks so much, yeah I was getting all the ads etc

[G-Fafif]

The better our team gets, the more we calibrate our dismay. It hit me as the 1984 division title was slipping away that I was no longer reveling in our escape from the dark ages; I was upset in the moment that we'd let the Cubs pass us and couldn't figure out a way to catch them. That sense faded over time, but it was palpable in August and September.



When the Mets fell behind the Cardinals two games to one in the 2006 NLCS and a sense of doom was setting in, I reminded myself that three short years earlier, the Mets finished last, losing 95 games and never giving us any reason to believe that in three short years we'd have a division champion fighting for a pennant. It helped to look at it that way for a night. By the end of that series, “if you'd told us in 2003…” didn't really brighten my mood, but in the long view, remembering a near miss for how far a Mets team went rather than that they fell short of the ultimate goal usually does it for me.



I loved the 1988 Mets winning a hundred games, coming on like gangbusters down the stretch and blowing out the NL East. I'm sorry the Dodger series went awry. I can accept both facets of that season rather than continually mope about Scioscia for 35 years. (Not saying I haven't moped here and there.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think that's the healthy way to look at it. I'm more or less where you are.

[Fman99]

Interesting read. Terrible newspaper though, really a red state dishrag now.

[whippoorwill]

Didn't the Dodgers lose the WS and Donnie Moore shot himself?

That's the saddest part

[kcmets]

He killed his wife and then himself, don't think it had anything to do with

the Dodgers or baseball though.

[stevejrogers]

=whippoorwill post_id=131638 time=1689354224 user_id=79]
Didn't the Dodgers lose the WS and Donnie Moore shot himself?

That's the saddest part

[Edgy MD]

It's certainly relevant.



I'm pretty sure that historical data suggest that rates of alcoholism, spouse abuse, and related outward signs of dysfunction are higher among closers and placekickers than they are among their professional peers.



It's a long time since I've heard that stated, so it may no longer be true, but my personal observation certainly seems to agree.

[whippoorwill]

All good points Steve and Efgy



He was Hubie Brooks' cousin