Irrational Exuberance

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Anyone else feeling a bit giddy these days?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

It was clear there was pent-up strain of pennant fever just waiting to infect this club and its fans. I won;t be irrationally exuberant until we put Washington down by 4 games.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Actually, that would me more rationally exuberant.

[Centerfield]

I am fucking giddy. I think it is because for the first time (much more than the 11 game winning streak) I feel like we have enough talent on this team to be a legitimate contender.

[Edgy MD]

Legitimate contender? They're in first place, mofo! On August 5th!! The team to beat just got beaten three times straight and our team did the beating.

They're beyond having the talent to be a legit contender. They're the team the legit contenders are chasing. They're who everyone else wishes they were.

(Is that irrational?)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

You know what pumps me up, Anthony diComo's emoji calendar:

[Vic Sage]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Anyone else feeling a bit giddy these days?

yes, but that's just a side effect of my medication.

[dgwphotography]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Anyone else feeling a bit giddy these days?

It's the fact that the front office shows that they are going for it this year. Whether they win it or not is actually immaterial to me. The front office has shown they are invested, so I am.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I wouldn't say I'm irrationally excited.

What I would say is that, after almost a decade of donning the Sunday best and trudging off to service more or less out of compulsive obligation, I find myself wholly stirred by the spirit. As opposed to showing up because it's what we do, and hoping against the worst, well... I'm enjoying mass these days. I've even got myself a new church hat.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

IMO this is a much more enjoyable good team than the last good team we had (06-08) inasmuch as it's a little more organically and thoughtfully created, and succeeding against expectations as opposed to a club with a bunch of key guys we got only because we paid the highest price, more or less (often less) doing what was expected.

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm not ready to be giddy just yet. But I'm enjoying how the season is playing out so far.

[Edgy MD]

I was pretty calm and restrained, until we got Eric O'Flaherty. We're unstoppable now!

[Guest d'Kong76]

My scales these days are heavy on the irrational side, but
that's for a thread in the NBF. I'll get some more exuberance
for the Mets if they can put some more distance between them-
selves and the Nationals.

I think LWFS should post a picture of him in his Sunday chapeau.

[Lefty Specialist]

[G-Fafif]

Giddy, but like on seven-second delay as if it's taking me a few extra beats to comprehend what's been happening since last week.

My supergiddiness was in April, which was in real time. Being beaten back a bit by the circumstances that ensued once the streaking was over has made me a touch wary of so much happiness all at once. But I'm getting there. Boy, am I getting there.

[Centerfield]

1.5 games away from rational exuberance.

[G-Fafif]

Normally cautious sort I know calculated magic number to clinch division, scolded himself for even doing the math.

But it's 52.

[dgwphotography]

G-Fafif wrote: Normally cautious sort I know calculated magic number to clinch division, scolded himself for even doing the math. But it's 52.

**turns head** ptooey ptooey

[ashie62]

Winning is more fun than losing.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Expect the Mets!

[RealityChuck]

I think the Wilmer Flores game on the 31st could be the Black Cat game of 2015.

(For the youngsters)

[Zvon]

Since last nights win, which we would have lost
3-0 with maybe 3 dinky hits in June & July,
I'm allowing the giddiness to rule my body.

[ashie62]

Then you look like John Malkovich.

[Zvon]

Thank you.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Feeling less giddy since the Mets' bats went cold and they couldn't win the series against Tampa Bay.

On the bright side the Nationals lost again. And as an added bonus, Toronto swept the Yankees.

[Guest d'Kong76]

4-2 on short road-trip, even though both lost games were very
winnable... and they're still in first place, on August 9th... I think
we all would have signed up for that in spring training.

That's about as exuberant I've been in awhile.

[Guest themetfairy]

G-Fafif wrote: Normally cautious sort I know calculated magic number to clinch division, scolded himself for even doing the math. But it's 52.

51 now?

[dgwphotography]

dgwphotography wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Normally cautious sort I know calculated magic number to clinch division, scolded himself for even doing the math. But it's 52. **turns head** ptooey ptooey

This is all your fault. Even my, admittedly non-Jewish, spitting couldn't save us from the hex you bestowed upon us.

[Lefty Specialist]

Just win, and what they do won't matter.

[HahnSolo]

I liken my exuberance to that of a long road trip to someplace cool, and you finally start to see road signs for your destination. Content to know we're close to where we want to be, excited for the possibilities, but subdued because I know there's a chance we'll hit traffic before we get there.