The Wild Celebration

[MFS62]

I'm not as wild nuts crazy as I thought I'd be when the Mets won it.

Maybe it was the "certainty" that they would win it for so many weeks.

Do you think the advent of the wild card has somehow diminished winning a division title?

I dunno.

Were you as happy as you thought you'd be?

Later

[Guest cooby]

You're not alone, MFS62. For me, the fact that I couldn't watch it, plus I still miss a good pennant race, meant that last night was just another night for me.

That plus I had the wind taken out of my sails a few times this summer, which kinda just lets me down in general.

The playoffs, now that will be another story!

[Guest Rotblatt]

Yes. But I think it was because I was at the ballpark. I've never been to a playoff game before, but that's what I imagine it feels like.

Can't fucking wait for the postseason! And hey, it's the first time in 18 years!

When I get a little less giddy, I'll probably agree that winning the division has diminished in importance with the advent of the WC, but for now, I'm just pretty darn happy.

[Guest JaySilverman]

The last time this happened, I was four years old and had a keen affinity for play-doh. Quite a long time ago. Consequently, I got pretty excited last night and was just as happy as I thought I'd be.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

It was a foregone conclusion since July.

Still, I was a little moved to see the joy in, for example, Willie and Delgado's homoerotic embrace.

Congrats to Jay and the other younguns experiencing it for the first time.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I'm sorry you couldn't watch the game cooby. We had the SNY coverage of the celebration on, and it was great watching the team just revel in the moment.

I loved watching the pure joy in their faces.

[Guest vtmet]

After looking like we had the ghost of Gene Mauch hexing us against lefties lately...and that horrible series against the Pirates and the Dodgers...the clincher seemed like it was never getting here...so I was still going nuts...eventhough my kids were supposed to be sleeping getting ready for school, we still had to celebrate the Mets winning and watch the highlights on tv (my wife was none to pleased with the kids still watching tv at 11pm though)...

[metirish]

It was everything I thought it would be,I was thrilled to experience my first Mets Division title.

[soupcan]

Am I alone in my thinking that last night's celebration was just a bit over the top?

It looked to me like they had just won the World Series.

I understand that its been a while and that there are a lot of players on the team that had never experienced it and all, but really they haven't really won anything substantial yet have they?

If in fact they do win a pennant and the Series, how could any celebration be bigger than what we saw last night?

I'll cut the team some slack but still I found myself last night going "okay, guys, enough already..."

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I agree with you. They should have fun and celebrate, but seeing Andy Hernandez dump champagne on a reporter as if he was celebrating an accomplishment was a bit much.

I mostly liked the pre-T shirt stuff

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

For me, it was just what I needed.

I just came off of a rough few days. The kids were in that car accident, D-Dad and MK were away for a Cub Scout campout, and on top of everything the television blew a fuse just before Friday night's game. But the television was fixed, and I came home from a mind-numbing college planning meeting at the high school (they took 90 minutes to go over what really only merited about 12 minutes) to a 3-0 Mets lead.

There was something special and satisfying about being able to watch the end of the game with my family, drink a little bubbly, and just enjoy something for a while. I loved watching the team revel on the field - I needed some moments of pure joy.

[metirish]

I thought it was cool,after 18 years I'm not sure you could low-key the celabration,especially when a bunch of the guys are going to the post-season for the first time.

[HahnSolo]

I have no problem with the celebration - not over the top at all. They've had a great season and deserved it. obviously I was happy for the vets like LoDuca and Delgado, and was happy that Trax came up big with the spotlight on him.

Now if only the Mets had ordered enough champagne. And I'm sure Budweiser, a big sponsor of the Mets and Shea, was thrilled to see the Mets all running around with Coronas in their hands.

[Guest cooby]

I guess the fact that it's been what, 600 years?, since anybody but the Braves has won the Eastern Division is worth a few drinks.

[Guest vtmet]

Budweiser sponsors everybody in sports, they are so big that I doubt that they would even notice what the little guys are doing...

[Guest sharpie]

Welcome, Jay Silverman.

[soupcan]

Hey, wasn't he Tonto?

[Frayed Knot]

JaySilverman wrote: The last time this happened, I was four years old and had a keen affinity for play-doh.

Don't try to convince us that you still don't play with play-doh.
We're not buying it.

[Guest cooby]

Is that where I've heard that name? I've been wondering for two weeks how I know him.

[Guest vtmet]

Jay SilverHEELS was Tonto
http://imdb.com/title/tt0048310/

Jay SilverMAN is a photographer & commercial producer from LA...
and a professor at Harvard...depends on which Jay Silverman result you choose at google...

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]And I'm sure Budweiser, a big sponsor of the Mets and Shea, was thrilled to see the Mets all running around with Coronas in their hands.

Bud's a 50% owner of Corona's brewer IIRC.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I didn't catch this last night, but I saw on the Fast Forward replay that David Wright traded one of his wrist bands (which he wears on his bicep) for that 2006 NL East Champions sign that he was running around with on the field at the end of the game. I'm sure that the fan would have given it to him anyway, but Wright motioned to the guy and offered him the wristband as a trade - very nice

[Guest silverdsl]

I've barely been able to watch Yankees games, let alone Mets games so I didn't see the Mets game last night. However, when I heard the news I thought of everyone here and smiled thinking of how happy y'all must be.

As for the way the Mets celebrated, again, I didn't actually see it, but my way of thinking in general is that I like to see the teams celebrate big. I like to see the show of emotion and see how much these kinds of accomplishements mean to them. I like to see it for the fans and for the players themselves.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It was fun, and I enjoyed watching it.

The 2006 team can never be as special to me as the 1986 team was, mainly, I think, because I was 23 then, 43 now. I have a different perspective on baseball and on life in general, I guess.

It's still a major thrill, but it's not consuming me the way it did twenty years ago.

And I'm okay with that.

For those of you for whom this is the first time around, I hope that 2006 ends up doing for you what 1986 did for me.

[Frayed Knot]

]Am I alone in my thinking that last night's celebration was just a bit over the top?

Maybe a bit. But, while the division title obviously isn't the big prize, it's sometimes the biggest celebration ('cept the WS) because it represents the culmination of 7 months of work. The guys have been at it since mid-February and now they get to cut loose a bit and then relax for a week or so. It's tougher to celebrate winning the 2 intra-league rounds* because you know you have to get right back to work with maybe only one day off.


* Unless you're on a flight home from Houston apparently

[MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: For those of you for whom this is the first time around, I hope that 2006 ends up doing for you what 1986 did for me.

And 1969 for me.
Later

[soupcan]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: The 2006 team can never be as special to me as the 1986 team was, mainly, I think, because I was 23 then, 43 now. I have a different perspective on baseball and on life in general, I guess. It's still a major thrill, but it's not consuming me the way it did twenty years ago. And I'm okay with that. For those of you for whom this is the first time around, I hope that 2006 ends up doing for you what 1986 did for me.

What Yancy said ('cept I'm a lot younger. Was 22 then, 42 now....).

[Benjamin Grimm]

Spraying champagne for winning a Division Series is what really seems over the top to me.

There's not even a title associated with that.

[Guest Rotblatt]

I loved the over-the-top celebration. I mean, we were all just nuts in the stands, and it was so cool seeing the players act the same way.

And shit, if Joe Schmoe in the stands gets to spray his Bud as though he accomplished something, why not Andy Handy too?

I was 10 in 1986 and didn't quite grasp that I was watching history unfold. '86 was special for me, but kind of diffuse and random--it wasn't anchored by years of futility. I expect to remember this postseason a whole lot better. Hopefully favorably!

[HahnSolo]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: ]And I'm sure Budweiser, a big sponsor of the Mets and Shea, was thrilled to see the Mets all running around with Coronas in their hands. Bud's a 50% owner of Corona's brewer IIRC.

Obviously I need to spend more time in the I Still Love Beer Thread.