Irrational Exuberance

[Elster88]

This is pretty amazin. So excited.

[Lefty Specialist]

I was a kid in 1969. I thought every year would be like that.

Little did I know the scar tissue and frustration I would accumulate in the intervening 46 years.

So when the good times come, I'm happy to drink from the fire hose.

[RealityChuck]

I've been around for all of the Mets' pennant races, but 1969 sticks out the most. In 73 I was in college and battling mononucleosis, so I missed most of the race.

BTW, it looks like the team will be keeping up its streak of making the playoffs in every decade of its existence.

[Centerfield]

This game I like very much.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Totally rational now.

[Elster88]

I'm exuberating.

[MFS62]

I'm not exubing yet, but I'm breathing hard.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

I have ants in my pants. Let's wrap this puppy up over the
weekend and exuberate for a long cool week.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yesterday, knowing that the Nationals had already lost I went into the Mets-Reds game with more of a sense of ease than I've had in weeks. I do want them to lock this thing down as soon as possible, but it will take a few consecutive bad days for me to start getting nervous again.

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yesterday, knowing that the Nationals had already lost I went into the Mets-Reds game with more of a sense of ease than I've had in weeks. I do want them to lock this thing down as soon as possible, but it will take a few consecutive bad days for me to start getting nervous again.

or two weeks, which ever comes first.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Y'know what would be irrational? A sudden roadtrip to Cincy. I don't think Wifey is going to allow it, but...

[Benjamin Grimm]

I had similar thoughts when I saw all of those empty seats last night.

I was wondering if the Pope would want to drop everything and join me on a quick jaunt to Cincinnati.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

This is my favorite thread I've ever started.

[Lefty Specialist]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I had similar thoughts when I saw all of those empty seats last night. I was wondering if the Pope would want to drop everything and join me on a quick jaunt to Cincinnati.

We had the same thought.

"How much for a flight to Cincinnati this weekend?"

(Checks Kayak and Orbitz)"$975. EACH."

"Oh. How long of a drive is it?"

"About 11 or 12 hours. Each way."

"Oh. I guess we can watch on TV, then."

[Elster88]

LET'S GO METS GO

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm feeling pretty optimistic at this point.

[Vic Sage]

i'm starting to come around.

[Centerfield]

I don't do well with post-season games. I feel like I should just put that out there. It is almost more stress than I can handle.

I am tense when the other team is batting. I feel like at any moment, the game could get away, and then all is lost. I am frustrated when the Mets are batting. Feeling like every scoreless frame is a lost opportunity. Ninth innings? Forget it. There are times I have to walk away when the closer is on the mound. I certainly can't be trusted to be around other people during these games.

I'm going to try to be different about it this year. Enjoy the post-season and remind myself that this is a season of irrational exuberance. A bonus. I really never thought we'd get here this year.

Deep breaths.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, it's such a crapshoot. It's the playoffs. There's no bottom feeding. They're facing the best of the best, and the whole thing can turn on a single performance that is a complete outlier. (A game-winning homer by Mike Scoscia off of Dwight Gooden? GtF outa here!) The Dodgers are the most expensive team of all time, an organization that totally over-loaded their plate at the salad bar, producing a roster that is an astounding 24.4% more expensive than the second-costliest team. And yet they've been playoff also-rans six times since 2004, and the qualifying difference this year was a non-roster free-agent signee utility infielder released by the Mets turning out to be their best hitter.

So, yeah, sweat it. Nothing's gonna come easy. But if it makes you feel any better, the Dodgers fans and everybody associated with them (except Vin Scully) is sweating it to.

Mattingly's only got his head on the line, so no biggie.

[TransMonk]

I think "sweating it" is part of the excitement of the playoffs.

Without the possibility of bitter defeat, the taste victory is not as sweet.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, it's all fun. Suspenseful fun. Remember, the outcome of these games doesn't affect our actual lives. This stuff isn't important at all -- unless the Mets win, of course.

[Edgy MD]

It's true. At the end of the 2006 playoffs, I kept waiting for the Cardinals to come by and seize my possessions. To strip the clothes from my back and throw my wife into their victory wagon along with the spouses of other fans. They never came.

I thought I'd be chained in the basement of an Anny Busch factory working 16-hour days for no pay and subsistence rations. Didn't, in fact, happen.

[TransMonk]

Edgy MD wrote: I thought I'd be chained in the basement of an Anny Busch factory working 16 hour days for no pay and subsistence rations. Didn't, in fact, happen.

Wait! So it was just me!?!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Every morning for a year afterwards while I was waiting for the bus, Yadier Molina would come by and give me a wedgie.

[Lefty Specialist]

Scott Rolen used to drive by my house daily, yelling "Yeah! Catch this, assholes! We won anyway!!!!"

[Ceetar]

I had to move to stop Scott Spiezio from leaving flaming bags of poop on my stoop.

[Fman99]

I had my eyes pecked repeatedly by actual cardinals.

[Centerfield]

I had it the worst. I had to grow and dye stupid chin fuzz like Scott Spezio for a year. It was terrible.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

As I have previously told some CPFers, I have a relationship with this girl which can be summarized thus:

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Also, I have no idea what this thread is about.

[Centerfield]

Last night's game was also very enjoyable. I would like to partake in such festivities again tonight.