Happy Tenth Mattiversary

[G-Fafif]

July 10, 1999...

Now Rivera brings the hands together...
Runners take a lead at all three bases.
One-two to Franco...

LINE DRIVE base hit into right field!
Henderson scores!
Here comes Alfonzo...
Here comes O'Neill's throw to the plate...
Alfonzo slides...
He's safe, the Mets win it!

THE METS WIN IT!

MATT FRANCO WITH A LINE DRIVE SINGLE TO RIGHT AND HE'S BEING MOBBED BY HIS TEAMMATES!

Matt Franco, a two-run single off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Mets win it, nine to eight!

Best MF game in Mets history was played to glorious conclusion ten years ago today.

[Centerfield]

1999 was full of cool wins like that. It was like the opposite of these past few years.

[Farmer Ted]

We left that game early. I fucking hate myself and never forgave Mrs. Ted for wanting to bug out early.

[Frayed Knot]

That was a wild back-and-forth game long before the Franco hit ended it - and I remember being so keyed up by the end of that game that I jumped on my bike in an attempt to ride off some of the pent-up energy.
I spent the next 45 minutes or so pedaling away while replaying the thing in my head to the point where I was virtually oblivious to my surroundings. And then at some point I briefly lifted out of my fog to discover that;
a) I was about 12 miles from home
and
that it was raining

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Silly Matt Franco. Didn't he realize the forecast called for applause falling like soft rain on Mariano that night? He ruined it.

Freaking Klapisch.

[Methead]

Yeah, it's funny, but I remember where I was when that happened too. I was on vacation on Cape Cod, listening on the radio as I pulled into the parking lot of the driving range.

Luckily the game ended right then, otherwise I would have sat in the car until it ended.

And yes, I have had decent luck picking up WFAN on the Cape. Only in a car stereo though.