Love the pain.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Contrasting a team with another that was uniquely positioned in history to get a free pass on losing, who is forty years removed from any disappointment that they may have caused, is more than a bit of an unfair contest.

[MFS62]

Why was it unfair?
The topic is pain.
Pain is personal.
I used the '62 team as an internal measuring point against which I compared my feelings about the degree of pain I associate with the current team.

I saw the '62 Mets, so it is my perrogative.

What qualifies you to tell me how I should measure my own pain?
Or what metaphor I should use to describe it?
Are you a certified pain therapist?
Or a Psychologist?
Or a Psychiatrist?

Later

[seawolf17]

I see 62's point, but I disagree that this team isn't lovable. It's another post, but I do love these guys -- Reyes, Wright, Floyd, Pedro, a handful of others. I know they're not caricatures the way the '62 team was, but I think they're more lovable than this club has been in recent years.

[MFS62]

You make a good point wolf. Like the '62 team, this team has individuals that you (and I ) can "love". And it certainly is more loveable then in recent years. But that '62 Mets were characterized, as a team, as loveable bumblers. I wouldn't say that about this group as a whole.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

]Why was it unfair?

I think I made that clear.

]The topic is pain.

I thought it was loveability.

]Pain is personal.

Then why air it?

]I used the '62 team as an internal measuring point against which I compared my feelings about the degree of pain I associate with the current team.

Which I see as obviously unfair comparison to measure any team against whatsoever. It's a cheap shot and you know it.

]I saw the '62 Mets, so it is my perrogative.

And I read your post, and it's my perogative to respond.

]What qualifies you to tell me how I should measure my own pain?

I didn't

]Or what metaphor I should use to describe it?

You didn't really use a metaphor. A metaphor would have changed the terms. Another baseball team is more of a literal comparison.

]Are you a certified pain therapist? Or a Psychologist? Or a Psychiatrist?

These are irrelevant. And no, I'm not inside your head either.

Listen, you don't want responses, don't post. You don't want frustrated responses, don't take cheap shots.

If this team were made of Dudley-more types with Ogee voices, they would still lose the comparison.

Sorry, nonetheless that I chose to respond at all. Post to your heart's content and I'll get over myself.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Listen, ignore everything except "Sorry" and "Post to your heart's content."

[MFS62]

ok

Later

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I think I've reached my pain threshold.

[Frayed Knot]

No you haven't;
here are the run deficits for our losses in the 4-15 streak:

1, 3, 6, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1

The wins were, of course, by a more comfortable 2, 6, 5 & 4 runs.

Even reasonable luck could have turned that stretch into a much less embarrasing 7-12 instead and a couple hits here and there (and a few not here & there) and it could be even better.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Tomorrow The Manchurian Brave (as FAFIF and lubitul are fond of calling him) is facing our old friend, John Thomson. I'll be there with MK. The pain possibilites are endless.