Fun Fact

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Mets might win the National League pennant some time in the next 36 hours.

[Guest cooby]

I will miss the end of tomorrow nights game so make it a great IGT, guys!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Time cannot pass quickly enough!

[Farmer Ted]

Even the Spanish interpreter is allowed to get in on the celebration action.

http://m.mlb.com/nym/video/v524426683/mets-celebrate-nlds-game-5-win-over-dodgers

[Lefty Specialist]

The Mets might win the National League pennant some time in the next 36 hours.

I can't even visualize this.

The last time it happened, we were at Shea when Mike Hampton beat the Cards in 2000. My son was 5 and singing along to 'Who Let the Dogs Out?'.

Now he's a junior in college, texting us Daniel Murphy memes like:

[Guest cooby]

That's a super Fun Fact!

[Methead]

Lefty, my son is 6 and your post scares the crap out of me, because 2000 doesn't really seem like all that long ago... yikes.

[soupcan]

I'm with Lefty.

When Beltran struck out in 2006 my then 9 year-old ran upstairs to bed crying.

My now 18 year old college freshman has a Chicago native Cubs fan roommate that he keeps telling me he feels sorry for.

[Frayed Knot]

soupcan wrote: When Beltran struck out in 2006 my then 9 year-old ran upstairs to bed crying.

So did I, and I was in my mid-40s at the time.

[Benjamin Grimm]

soupcan wrote: My now 18 year old college freshman has a Chicago native Cubs fan roommate that he keeps telling me he feels sorry for.

Tell him to save the sympathy until the series ends!

The tables may still turn.

[Lefty Specialist]

Yeah, time flies. Saw Carl Everett hit a grand slam the first game he watched at 2 days old. He talked with John Franco about Winnie-the-Pooh at the Mets hotel in Boston in 1998 (he was actually very nice). Held him in my arms and nearly dropped him at Shea when Todd Pratt walked off against the Diamondbacks in 1999. Shook him awake on the couch when Endy made The Catch in '06. He ate too much stale Shea Stadium popcorn during the three-hit shutout that Johan pitched on one knee to stave off elimination in '08. He's bravely worn the blue & orange in Chicago, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Atlanta, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Washington. I have a picture of him at 6 sticking out his tongue and giving the thumbs-down at the Yankee Stadium Subway stop.

So he's well and truly indoctrinated. But the Mets last won a World Series nearly 9 years before he was born. He's never known what it's like to be on top. Hoping he gets that chance this year, so he can tell HIS kids about what it was like in the magical year of 2015.

[seawolf17]

Lefty Specialist wrote: He talked with John Franco about Winnie-the-Pooh at the Mets hotel in Boston in 1998 (he was actually very nice).

This is hilarious coming off the heels of reading the article 62 just posted here, and #11 on that list in particular: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23404

[soupcan]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Hoping he gets that chance this year, so he can tell HIS kids about what it was like in the magical year of 2015.

Right there with you.

In '86 I was in college too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I know what you mean. My kids only inherited a fraction of my Mets affection, so I'm not rooting at all for their sakes. But the part I emphasize with is that I'm so glad I had 1986. I see those pictures of 100-year-old Cubs fans looking morose, and I take comfort in knowing that I'll never be in that position! The Mets won at the perfect time for me, when I was 23 years old. Old enough to appreciate how special it was, and young enough that I was able to get completely wrapped up in the experience.

There are a bunch of reasons why I want the Mets to win this year, but one of them is so that fans who were too young (as I was with 1969), or too unborn, to remember 1986 will have the lifetime security of knowing that they have the experience of at least one Worlds Championship.

[metsmarathon]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Mets might win the National League pennant some time in the next 36 hours. I can't even visualize this. The last time it happened, we were at Shea when Mike Hampton beat the Cards in 2000. My son was 5 and singing along to 'Who Let the Dogs Out?'.

minimm is 5, and hte damned games all start at his bedtime. grumble grumble.

[TransMonk]

soupcan wrote: My now 18 year old college freshman has a Chicago native Cubs fan roommate that he keeps telling me he feels sorry for.

My old man lives about 90 minutes south of Chicago. I visited this weekend and hung out with my brother and his girlfriend (who is a life-long Cubs fan). She kept telling me how painful the wait has been and how she does not know any Cubs fan that has ever seen them win it all. It was almost like she was asking me not to root for my team in order for the Cubs to win.

I told her that I could empathize, but I don't have any control over the outcome of the games. I also told her that I would be happy if Cubs fans could have their moment...as long as they didn't beat my team to get there.

[Lefty Specialist]

Wow, missed that first time around. I can confirm- Franco's approachable. He's apparently got a son about my son's age and he spent two minutes on his knees in a hotel lobby talking about Winnie-the-Pooh with a three-year-old while my wife and I were going 'holy shit'. We never got a picture because we didn't want to mess up the moment.

When he said good bye, we told him it was a Mets player. He wasn't impressed by that, but he said, "He knows [u:3qnmkvlv]ALL[/u:3qnmkvlv] about Winnie-the-Pooh!"

[Benjamin Grimm]

Actually, I kind of get a perverse kick out of the Cubs' 107-year drought. The Mets have an awesome responsibility in keeping that going. (They can pass the buck on that to the AL Champs, of course, but they're the last hurdle for the Cubs to end their 70-year World Series drought.)

I always suspected that John Franco was an expert on Winnie the Pooh.

[dinosaur jesus]

I want this generation of kids not to remember anything but the Mets winning the Series every other year. To ask, if they're ever in the Bronx, what that dirty old building is that looks like a bank. To bring the Mets message of perseverance and patient aggression to a suffering world. To know that blue and orange go great together, because really, they do.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's why all the fans are true to the orange and blue!

[RealityChuck]

I had a friend who had actually attended a Cubs World Series game.

Alas, he died over a year ago. But he was planning to ask for tickets if the Cubs got into the series again. Knowing him, he would have scored them -- he was a world champion schmoozer and was able to talk his way into things like getting a job as an extra in The Hobbit.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Whoever wins in the American League, this will be the first World Series between two expansion teams.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Also, this ties the Mets longest postseason winning streak. The other time the Mets won five in a row was in 2000, when they won Games 2, 3, and 4 of the NLDS and Games 1 and 2 of the NLCS.