How Do You Feel?

[MFS62]

Actually, I'm not as happy this morning as I thought I might be. Now that the Mets are in the Word Series, the year doesn't seem complete. Its as though I expect them to win it all.

OMG! It must be the same feeling YLDBs feel - smug and complacent, not happy with just winning the pennant.
I'm turning into a MLDB!
Help!

So, how do YOU feel today?

Later

[Ceetar]

Maybe you don't feel complete because you're used to seasons ending either in disaster or a whimper.

[Guest themetfairy]

Are you fucking nuts?

The Mets are in the fucking World Series! How the hell could you be anything but ecstatic?

[HahnSolo]

Ecstatic here. My kid is a 12-year old Mets nut and he and I might never experience this together again. Maybe in 10 years but by then he might not want to watch with me (sniff).

I'm also extremely happy for Terry Collins. The look on his face, that combination of joy and shock, is just great.

[soupcan]

[MFS62]

themetfairy wrote: Are you fucking nuts?

Yes. But that's beside the point.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Very tired and very happy.

The Mets don't have to win the World Series for this to have been a fantastic season and an extraordinarily fun month.

[RealityChuck]

Very happy about it. It is so weird watching the Mets play in October, and having them so dominant.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm with Grimm. Like a grateful recovering alcoholic, I'm taking it all one day at a time, the early part of THIS day being spent running errands while wearing last night's bedclothes (Mookie jerz, blue-button original hat).

[metirish]

Feeling like i got my whistle polished ......actually when I told Lorcan this morning he was so happy....."is that why you were shouting?"......

[willpie]

themetfairy wrote: Are you fucking nuts? The Mets are in the fucking World Series! How the hell could you be anything but ecstatic?

Nailed it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Definitely.

I'm so sick of Mets fans who seem to want to be unhappy.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I think that it was a sweep and a blow-out last game made it sort of an inevitable thing and not an explosion of emotion. I was jumping for joy when they clinched the division and then after beating the Dodgers, which was a much more tense series. Last night was exciting for sure -- but a different type of experience.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, yes. The clincher against the Dodgers was much more heart-pounding.

[Fman99]

I'm elated and exhausted.

[MFS62]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: I think that it was a sweep and a blow-out last game made it sort of an inevitable thing and not an explosion of emotion. I was jumping for joy when they clinched the division and then after beating the Dodgers, which was a much more tense series. Last night was exciting for sure -- but a different type of experience.

Maybe that's what I feel, but didn't put into the proper words.
Thanks,
Later

[Ceetar]

damn exhausted. Teething is a bitch ;-)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Last night I dreamed that regular season scheduling rules applied in the postseason, and that the Mets and the Cubs had to play the final three games of this series even though it had already been decided.

[Lefty Specialist]

Elated, but a little stunned they beat the Cubs so effortlessly. I mean, baseball at this level isn't supposed to be this easy. I was geared for a bruising fight that never materialized. My wife and I just stared at each other and said, "Holy shit, they're going to the World Series!"

The only letdown is that there's 5 days of no baseball. It's like the week after the Conference championships in the NFL, a strange kind of limbo where nothing's going on.

[Edgy MD]

Baseball was that easy for a few weeks back in August. The main difference is that it's Murphy who's walking on the clouds now instead of Cespedes.

Yeah, the Cubs are a different level of competition, but they were tearing down the Nats back then and that isn't nothing. They may not be this good, but they may be something like this good, with a pitching staff that keeps them in the game almost every night.

Three devastating sluggers in the Jays' lineup, but Schwarber/Bryant/Rizzo is pretty alarming themselves and the Mets' pitchers held two of those three mostly in check.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Lefty Specialist wrote: The only letdown is that there's 5 days of no baseball.

I can use a few days off. Five days is probably a bit too much, but I don't really mind.

[Lefty Specialist]

And it's not that there's no baseball. We can root for the Jays-Royals to go seven and burn up as much starting pitching as possible.

[ashie62]

I feel a quiet sense of deep satisfaction and awe.

I don't think the enormity of this has hit ne yet.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Lefty Specialist wrote: And it's not that there's no baseball. We can root for the Jays-Royals to go seven and burn up as much starting pitching as possible.

I'm definitely rooting for that series to go seven games. I rarely watch games that don't involve the Mets, but I did tune in to a few Nationals games in September when they were threatening to narrow the Mets' lead. So I do watch games that affect the Mets.

I may want to get an idea of who the players on these teams are. For the Blue Jays, I know R.A. Dickey, of course, and I'm familiar with Tulowitski. I don't think I can name any other Blue Jays. (Poor Jose Reyes; stuck watching these games from a motel somewhere in Denver.) And as for the Royals, I don't think I can name a single player on that team. Do they still have Cookie Rojas and Freddie Patek?

[Guest cooby classic]

Feeling like i got my whistle polished ......actually when I told Lorcan this morning he was so happy....."is that why you were shouting?"......

I hope you used a different phrase with Lorcan

[stevejrogers]

There is a logical answer to this question:

[Farmer Ted]

The 11-game winning streak in April was awesome, but too early. Way too early.

I took Daughter Ted to the Pirates game in Pittsburgh in May. It was a Saturday game, a 7 Line Army Affair, and we sat with 1,100 other Mets fans in the upper left deck. It was also MATT FREAKING HARVEY on the mound. As it ended up, this was the second game of a weekend sweep as part of a 3-10 stretch that also included a sweep to the (ahem) Cubs the week prior.
The Mets trotted out a shitty lineup that included Campbell, Ceciliani, Plawecki, and a sprinkling of Mayberry and Leathersich. Harvey, it appeared, hit an early-season wall. The Mets got walloped 8-2 and it was my first moment of �these guys fucking suck,� despite being four games over .500 at the time. I sensed the floor caving in.

So, from mid-May until today, the season included the double sweeps to the Pirates and the Cubs; a heartbreaking loss to the Padres in the rain; losing 5 of the final 6 regular-season games; and getting no-hit twice...and my general demeanor today you ask?

I'M FUCKING CRAZY HAPPY.

Edited October 22, 2015 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

word.

[dgwphotography]

I'm tired, happy, ecstatic, but with a touch of stunned disbelief...

[Edgy MD]

For the Blue Jays, I know R.A. Dickey, of course, and I'm familiar with Tulowitski. I don't think I can name any other Blue Jays.

The Jays have something like the three most devastating right-handed hitters in the American League. You'll know enough about them soon enough, but they are:

• Josh Donaldson (3b): .297 / .371 / .568 // .939
  
• Jose Bautista (rf): .250 / .377 / .536 // .913
  
• Edwin Encarnacion(dh): .277 / .372 / .557 // .929

Among the three of them, they somehow drove in 348 runs. And there's gonna be little of that omygawdwherearewegonnaplayourDH?! nonsense you get all the time around this time of year. Encarnacion will slot in nicely at first without taking a particularly good bat (Justin Smoak, late of the Mariners) out of the lineup.

It's enough to make Terry think about using Colon instead of Matz in Game Four.