I Hurt

[G-Fafif]

Edgy DC wrote: Understood. If the Mets rallied and tied, does he get this one filed off like Leiter did?

If that had happened, then Glavine goes to the postseason (though I would have left him off the roster at that point) and gets a chance for redemption. But going into 2000, I never much held the 5-run first against Leiter. Nor did I hold the el foldo Darling pulled against the Dodgers against him.

I guess I felt personally betrayed, in that crazy fan way, by Glavine. I'd worked hard, in that crazy fan way, to like him, to give him credit, to embrace him as a Met. I had never wanted him here but had to admit after he turned a corner in 2005 that he was doing the job and had certainly helped matters in 2006. I liked when he acknowledged the weird relationship between him and the NY fans on the day he was honored for his 300th, that really won me over.

Then he goes out and blows it all three times in September, one worse than the next. All that crazy fan work went up in smoke.

Darling had years in the Met bank before the '88 NLCS. Leiter had incredible outings in '99: beating Maddux, winning the play-in game, then pitching great against Arizona (plus all that "I grew up a Mets fan" stuff) and Atlanta in Game Three (against Glavine). Glavine was the ultimate stranger who screwed us over (crazy fan way of looking at it) at the worst possible moment. Not to discount his fine outings against the Dodgers and Cardinals last October, but Glavine was never asked to throw a really big game in the regular season until this year for the Mets and after pitching well against Moyer three Friday nights ago, he folded up.

I take back my standing ovation for 300.