Sadness

[Farmer Ted]

Your saddest moment or era as a Mets fan. Let it out. Talk it over. We need to heal.

[HahnSolo]

My saddest NYM moment was coming up short in 1985. Since that wasn't an option, I'll take 2007.

[Guest Iubitul]

Losing Seaver was the most devastating to me, no question about it. I was 14 - 'nuff said.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Seaver, then 85.

I'm not even sad about this year's collapse. Pissed, sure, disappointed plenty, but it's not like they broke my heart. They just didn't care about me.

[HahnSolo]

I should point out I was a little too young to fully appreciate the ramifications of the Seaver trade, or I'm sure it would be up there.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This is something I don't want to rank.

I'm mostly sick, because something just doesn't make sense.

[metirish]

Everything on that list before 1999 was before my time as a fan, gotta go with 2007 although sad in not the word I would use(even though I think I did use it),pissed, hurt and cheated are words I would use.

[soupcan]

'88 for me.

That team should've been a dynasty.

[metsmarathon]

i'd've included yadier fucking molina and subsequently voted for him.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

The Seaver trade was devestating for many reasons. In fact, it almost can't compare to the other things, which happened on the field.

Trading Seaver was a major "F--- you" to the fans, as management was more interested in showing a player who was boss than doing what was best for the team. After that, we knew the team would suck, suck hard and suck for a long time.

And worse, it came at a time when the bleeping Yankees were getting good again and I swear the city turned.

I was 13, Seaver was my hero and I took this very personally. I get angry just thinking about it today.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

And since I'm venting...

Last year hurt worse. I think we all kind of knew from August on that this team wasn't going to win the World Series. They just didn't have the horses in the pen.

But last year was our year. That team was built to kill. There is no way -- none -- that it should have lost to the Cardinals. That series shouldn't have gone five game.

Props to the Cards for getting it done -- and taking the series, too. But we should have taken them out.

[Valadius]

Last year was our year. We definitely were better last year.

I'm 20. I was in the womb during the '86 World Series, so I have never seen a Mets World Championship. I first became a baseball fan, and a Mets fan, at the beginning of the Bobby V years - with Baerga and Olerud. 1997 was the first Mets season I followed.

1999 was a wild, wild ride. We tried to come back against the Braves, but of course, there was Kenny Fucking Rogers.

But then there was 2000. 2000 made up for 1999. If not for Armando Benitez, we might have won in 2000.

However, 2006-2007 was the reverse of 1999-2000. Instead of a promising team building on that promise, it was a promising team that fell at the finish line. So I'd say this year's collapse was the saddest moment in my Mets fan experience.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm still disapointed at how 1999 is hung on Rogers.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, that really doesn't make sense. I've even heard (or read) some saying that Rogers was "cowardly" to issue that walk.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm not keen on hanging 2000 on Benitez also.

We've got to move away from scapegoating, period.

[nymr83]

kenny fucking rogers wins hands down for me.... throw the fucking ball over the fucking plate you fucking piece of shit... i don't care if he hits it 500 feet, it beats ending the season on ball 4.

[Guest Edgy DC]

You do so care if he hits it 500 feet.

[Benjamin Grimm]

BRAVES 11TH: ROGERS REPLACED DUNSTON (PITCHING); Williams
doubled to left; Boone out on a sacrifice bunt (first
unassisted) [Williams to third]; C. Jones was walked
intentionally; Jordan was walked intentionally [C. Jones to
second]; A. Jones walked [Williams scored, C. Jones to third,
Jordan to second]; 1 R, 1 H, 0 E, 3 LOB.  Mets 9, Braves 10.

That was a miserable inning. I'm sure Rogers wasn't trying to not give up a grand slam. A grand slam is no more damaging than a walk in that situation. He had to be trying for a ground ball or a strikeout. He failed, but that doesn't make him a coward or a fool. He was put into a very tough situation when he was called on to issue two intentional walks. (Was Brian Jordan with two on that much scarier than Andruw Jones with the bases loaded? Can we petition to undo that second intentional walk somehow? If Larry Craig can try to withdraw his guilty plea, can we try to withdraw an intentional walk?)

[Guest Edgy DC]

i also call bullshit on that second intentional walk.

Neyer did at the time also.

[Zvon]

You would think it would be Seaver, cause it was the only thing that made me turn my back on the team for awhile.
But that was the front office I was dissin. That was Michael Donald Grant I hated.
Not anything the guys on the field did.

Without a doubt I choose Rogers.
Not for what he did,...thats baseball.

For the way he walked off that mound before the pitch was even in the catchers glove (so it seemed), like he had a cab to catch.

Like he was a nine to fiver and the clock just hit five and he couldn't wait to get out of that office and jump on that train.

He should have stood there and howled at the moon, like I was doing at that moment.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Zvon wrote: He should have stood there and howled at the moon, like I was doing at that moment.

Well, now wouldn't THAT have been bizarre?

I was watching that game with Greg Goossen, and I was too scared to go outside and howl.

[Zvon]

="Yancy Street Gang"] ="Zvon"] He should have stood there and howled at the moon, like I was doing at that moment. Well, now wouldn't THAT have been bizarre? I was watching that game with Greg Goossen, and I was too scared to go outside and howl.

Well, you have to take into consideration that
I'm a werewolf when I'm not fighting crime.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Out of the choices, I took 2007, just to vote and participate.

I also have to give a write-in mention of the Yankees humping each other
on our infield in 2000 was pretty freakin' miserable for me. I'll get over the
funk I'm in today quicker than that, I think.

[Guest cooby]

My saddest Mets moment was the 2000 WS when Jay Payton's throw hit Jorge Posada and bounced away along with any remaining hope.

And the poor guy got charged with an error, to boot.

It took me days to get over that.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Was that when Payton threw so hard he flipped over? That was a sad moment.

For me the 5 seconds of the Zeile-Timo debacle in Game 1 unfolded in gruesome slow motion and put me in the blackest mood.

[Guest cooby]

Yep. The poor guy practically turned himself inside out making that throw and got charged with an error, thought I guess that's what the rules say.