Isn't this fun?

[Guest cooby]

I love this

[Edgy MD]

It's what we came for.

[Frayed Knot]

Isn't this fun?

Not at the moment.

[Guest d'Kong76]

It will be funner when the score is 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, etc....

[Guest cooby]

You just wait

[Fman99]

I'm glad you posted this. It's good to step back and enjoy the fact that these are Mets games and also postseason games. Usually such exclusive things.

[bmfc1]

This is what we've wanted, playoff baseball in October with our team involved. Sure it's excruciating. Sure we're sleep deprived, but it's fantastic, no matter what happens. Beats wondering how Mets prospects are doing in the Arizona Fall League.

[Elster88]

I'm scared cooby

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

I'd rather eat Cal Ripken's asshole.

[Lefty Specialist]

After 9 years you forget the pins and needles terror of every pitch, every play.

I don't enjoy it in the moment as much as I should, I guess. Even Saturday's game, which is as close to sheer bliss as it can get for a Met fan, I'm there screaming "WTF???" to Eric Goeddel in the ninth inning.

[Guest cooby]

No no, the losing isn't fun, but the other stuff, from Zvon's impromptu pictures to waking up to asshole eating threads, THAT is the fun part! All that angst we wouldn't have if our boys weren't in the playoffs...

Well, I for one, would be cleaning off my deck or something and THAT is no fun!

[Guest cooby]

FUN FUN FUN!!!

[Frayed Knot]

cooby wrote: FUN FUN FUN!!!

Even if my daddy were to take my T-Bird away, this would be fun.




Y'know, if I actually had a T-Bird

[Guest themetfairy]

Yes!

[dinosaur jesus]

It's fun like a colonoscopy is fun. I feel good now.

I quit watching the game in the bottom of the first. I couldn't take it. I just followed the reactions here, and snuck a peek once in a while at the play-by-play on mlb.

[Elster88]

Let's goooooo!!!!!

[Centerfield]

Party at cooby's!!!

[Valadius]

Bring on Grays Sports Almanac!

[Methead]

This is pretty fun.

[Guest cooby]

Centerfield wrote: Party at cooby's!!!

Come on down! Pool is closed but the deck is still open!

[Centerfield]

Don't tell seawolf. I think he just jumped in.

[Guest cooby]

I hope he has his winter fur!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yes, this really is fun. I'm having a LOT of fun following the Mets this month.

I was trying to compare to other Mets postseasons, all of which I've enjoyed. (The way each postseason ended is not a factor; I'm considering how much I enjoyed the overall month of October.)

1986 is, and always will be, my favorite. I loved 1999 more than 1988 and 2000 and 2006. This is definitely more fun than 2006, I think for two reasons: This was all so unexpected as recently as three months ago; and this mostly is a homegrown group where 2006 more heavily relied on imported veterans.

1999 and 2015 have made me feel more like a kid again (and at my age that's quite a feat!) than 2000 or 2006 did. It's hard to say for sure, but I think I'm enjoying 2015 more than I did 1999. This may very well be my favorite Mets postseason.

(I also experienced 1973, but I was only ten years old. I knew that 1969 was in the recent past, so I had no appreciation of how rare and special a Mets postseason actually is.)

[Lefty Specialist]

I love the fact that I can't focus on anything for two hours before a game. This is what going for it all feels like.

[soupcan]

I'm digging it.

Went to Modell's to see what kind of crap they had to sell me.

Just NL Champs stuff. I'm gonna wait 10 days or so for the good stuff...

(I did buy an 'NL Champs' shot glass though)

[G-Fafif]

Confirming that this is fun.

[Frayed Knot]

I was trying to compare to other Mets postseasons, all of which I've enjoyed. (The way each postseason ended is not a factor; I'm considering how much I enjoyed the overall month of October.) 1986 is, and always will be, my favorite. I loved 1999 more than 1988 and 2000 and 2006. This is definitely more fun than 2006, I think for two reasons: This was all so unexpected as recently as three months ago; and this mostly is a homegrown group where 2006 more heavily relied on imported veterans.

The way this year started (the April streak) then roared back to life starting in late July was all part of the fun factor in that both came around with little or no warning.
Very different year though from the 1998-2000 clubs (and even into 2001) in that those seasons were packed with drama on a day in day out basis for such a long time: the battles with the Braves, the comeback from the dead vs Pitt then the play-in game in Cincy, extra-inning game-winning HRs from Pratt or Agbayani, the GS Single, K-ing Bonds with the winning runs on, and far too many others to name.
This season the Nats proved to be such a milquetoast team that there was little drama down the stretch in the division once they were passed by the two sweeps with some 25-30 games still to go.
Then the Dodger series had its moments but the sweep of the Cubs very few. Doesn't mean they weren't fun, but nothing like the edge of the seat, nail-biting shit that would turn you inside-out on a nightly basis. I get the idea that the whole Utley/Tejada mess would have trouble making the top 5 for post-season drama in one of those other years.

[Guest cooby]

Still love 1973 best, but I could fall in love with this young team for the long haul

[Benjamin Grimm]

Frayed Knot wrote: Then the Dodger series had its moments but the sweep of the Cubs very few. Doesn't mean they weren't fun, but nothing like the edge of the seat, nail-biting shit that would turn you inside-out on a nightly basis.

That's certainly true. In that sense, 1986 would be very difficult to top.

Game 5 of this year's NLDS was very tense. Maybe (for me, anyway) more than any other game since that 16-inning game in the Astrodome. I don't know why, but I felt that one more. (Perhaps because it was a do-or-die and, arguably, falling short of the LCS is worse than falling short of the World Series.)

And that's not to say there haven't been tense exhilarating games in between 1986 and 2015, because there certainly were. The 2000 series against the Cardinals and Yankees were duds, but the series against the Giants was great. As were both 1999 series.

As for 2006, I was quite invested in that team, but not as much as I am in this one. And I think that's because of the youth and the purity. (And by "purity" I mean that so many of the players have never played in the big leagues for any other team.)

[Centerfield]

So not "purity" as they don't eat assholes?