Ten Best Wins

[Guest Edgy DC]

Here's Mets Geek's version.

It would be difficult to compare this to our list, even if our ezthread survived, because, if I recall correctly, I dropped the ball about 40% into the season. I'd really like someone else to run with a Top Ten Wins of 2006 thread.

Interesting that the Pedro/Smoltz game (Win #1!) of 4/10 slipped all the way down to seventh. Imagine how demoralizing it've been if the Mets lost, or worse, the Mets lost and Pedro got ripped. Five games into the season and I was already in "Krusty is Koming" mode and Krusty was an enigmatic Dominican with anachronistic hair notions.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Hey! The only game I attended made the list, at number ten, Pedro vs. Leiter at Shea on April 14.

I'm glad I chose wisely for my one excursion to Queens.

[metirish]

Damn good list, I would have had Pedro/Smoltz higher up, maybe at # 3.

[Guest ABG]

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[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Hey! The only game I attended made the list, at number ten, Pedro vs. Leiter at Shea on April 14. I'm glad I chose wisely for my one excursion to Queens.

I hated that game. I was leading a bus tour of international scholars through Flushing that day, and couldn't get parking anywhere. Totally screwed me up--who knew the Mets would have a sellout on that one day?

[Guest Scrapple8]

Mets had $2 upper deck tickets that sunday in april vs the marlins... that's why it sold out. They always have those $2 tickets the first weekend of the season.

They picked one game for a swan-song to piazza, but I liked this game at the end of the year, in washington:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=250925120

It was a beautiful day. I think they had the march for War Protestors in DC the previous day - not that I went, I was in Balmer to see the fbs on that saturday, then went to DC for the Sunday game.

Anyway, Piazza hit 2 HRs that day and it was what I consider his swan song.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Only game there I made it to was the Angels game. I'm never gonna forget that one.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I was at the Castro HR game (1) and the Piazza walkoff-walk game (4).

IIRC, both were big wins in first-game-of-the-series, only to be wasted away by playing poorly in the rest of the series.

The best game all year was the Angels' game, without a doubt.

[Zvon]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: The best game all year was the Angels' game, without a doubt.

I thought so. I was watching on TV and when Anderson was rounding 3rd I jumped out of my chair.
When he slid in I was jumping up and down like a kid.
I hadnt jumped around like that since the ball went thru Buckners legs.

[HahnSolo]

I nominate a game for the top ten that I attended with my 6 year old daughter:

- Seo's 1-0 shutout win over the Nationals on Friday, August 19th, when Willie left him in the game to get out of a jam in the 8th inning. Shea went just bonkers during that 8th inning. Bonus points awarded to Reyes (daughter's favorite Met) going 4 for 4 with 3 steals.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'll add in that Sunday I went down to the Bobby on a whim to catch my last glimpse of Mike Piazza as a Met. He paid me for my trouble by absolutely clubbing two homers. But Mike Jacobs topped him with a Strawberry-esque moonshot, absolutely launched into the private boxes.

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=7053

It's not usually the moonshot that gets me going in baseball. But when you're on the road and everyone wants to shove a fist in your face, moonshots are a nice crowd-shutter-upper.

Even though it was only a one-run-final, the game felt never in doubt, and the Nats supporters were kind of disapponited that Piazza got nothing to hit the rest of the way. Stupid Frank Robinson.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This game ( http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=7057 ) came after the drama of the season was shelved, but an absolute battering, including Mike Piazza's last dinger, two from David Wright, and Tom Glavine forgetting who he is with 11 freaking strikeouts in a complete game two-hit shutout, that's something.

I know the Rocks stunk last year, but still.

[Elster88]

Last game of the season was incredible, even though we got pasted.

Only Willie could have fucked it up, and he did in part.

Still an amazing experience.

[patchyfogg]

Bret Sabermetric wrote: ="Yancy Street Gang"]Hey! The only game I attended made the list, at number ten, Pedro vs. Leiter at Shea on April 14. I'm glad I chose wisely for my one excursion to Queens. I hated that game. I was leading a bus tour of international scholars through Flushing that day, and couldn't get parking anywhere. Totally screwed me up--who knew the Mets would have a sellout on that one day?

If they were "Roads Scholars," they could have found you parking.