Four years ago, today ...

[batmagadanleadoff]

[Lefty Specialist]

Four years ago, actually. 6/12/09. Seems like 3 years because the pain is still fresh.

I was in Hong Kong on business; in the back of a taxi on Saturday morning, frantically refreshing GameDay on my Blackberry and wondering why it had frozen up on me just as the game was ending. When it finally displayed the play, I let out a stream of curses that had the driver thinking I wanted him to pull over.

I've never actually seen the video of the play. Whenever it comes on I just hide.

[Zvon]

Thank you for the reminder.

For some reason I want to think that was much longer ago.

[metirish]

Four years?, wow. That was a Friday night right?, I went to MFY stadium for the Sunday Father's Day game.....Santana gave up a bunch of runs in the first, it was miserable.

[ashie62]

Nooo!

[smg58]

Arguably the turning point in the Mets' fortunes.

[Frayed Knot]

smg58 wrote: Arguably the turning point in the Mets' fortunes.

From an 'everything seemed to go wrong after that' kind of way you may be right. They were 4 games over .500 coming into that night and haven't finished a season above the mdi-point since.

I don't think, however, that there were decisions made and/or philosophies changed on account of not winning that game that in turn caused the fallow period since. Although assigning turning points retroactively is never as simple as some like to make it, there was the case that SI made all those years back about how the Scioscia NLCS HR changed the direction of the Mets into (IIRC) a more panic-driven - 'we've got to win NOW before the window closes' - mode, a mindset that led to the following year's mid-year trade of Dykstra and McDowell, etc. Buster Olney tried a similar argument in a book (less successfully IMO) following the Yanx 2001 WS loss.