Been a fan since....

[Guest cooby]

Been a fan since "72

I was a little girl then that thought anything could happen, and deep down I still know this.

But really, Mets? Can you get some damn trainers and coaches and so forth that know what they are doing? Can we allow these 20 some year olds to sit around nursing frigging bruises because (ahem) they are soooooooooooooo valuable? Are there any men out there still playing baseball?

I'll bet we could field a better team from CPF.

[Benjamin Grimm]

1971.

If the CPF fields a team I'll have to be on the Disabled List. I have a torn rotator cuff and my overhand throws are pretty pathetic.

[Guest cooby]

Ya know what? I'm a GIRL and since my second pregnancy in 1988 I still can't run but I'm out there doing my best in MY yard and My house and though I could never throw well anyway I could hit and I wouldn't shy away.

Dammit these guys piss me off.

My dad would be in a bind. I'll bet most of your dads would be too.


Pansies.

Jees.

Give me a contract.

Sign 'er up!

[metirish]

Just about 20 years for me, this is all I know

[Guest cooby]

Apologies to all of you but am I mad? Yes!

This G/D team lost today. And they will tomorrow too! And every day for the next six weeks because fifty some year old me can handle my injuries better and not get some insane person to train me on weight lifting! Wow! I can handle my own health!! WooHoo!

The Pirate aren't on today (well, they have an off day but I Love Lucy would be better) and Root Sports has on a God damn COLLEGE WOMENS LACROSSE game on. (Really? can I go out back and see if any if the seeds I planted yesterday came up?) Oh shit it's dark.

Women's College Lacrosse? I may throw up.

Grrrrrr. What a shitty day.

[metirish]

Well, that's it , the Mets have driven Cooby to cursing , someone needs to be fired for this

[Guest cooby]

Take your pick but I'll start with that guy that blows out muscles for a living

[Guest d'Kong76]

I was born in 1962. Coincidence? I don't think so.

[Lefty Specialist]

1968, god help me. As a little kid I had no idea of the life of pain ahead of me.

Seasons like this are the worst because there are expectations going in. The years where you knew they weren't competitive from Day 1 can be watched in a different fashion; you can focus on individual achievements (Reyes winning the batting title in '11, for instance, Dickey's Cy Young season in '12 or Harvey blossoming in '13). But when the team is supposed to do well as a unit and fails miserably, that blocks out the joy of everything else.

They could turn it around, but right now the trajectory looks awful.

[MFS62]

MFS62 stands for Mets Fan Since 1962.
I've felt a lot of pain.
A lot.

Later

[ashie62]

1966, this season already is one of the most frustrating.

It gets better Cooby.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If rooting for the Mets brought me pain I would stop doing it. Sure, there's been some frustration along the way, but I have no angst about the Mets at all. None. At all.

[G-Fafif]

This is my 49th season on the beat. My first was 1969. I've clearly seen better. I've definitely seen worse. There's room to plummet, but also room to rise.

It's lousy, but it's early. Honestly, deepening crappiness of this eleven-game stretch notwithstanding, 2017 has yet to register as epically godawful...though I wouldn't want that to be taken by the gods as a dare.

As for the CPF team, I call flack. "Guys, no more questions for Cooby."

[Guest themetfairy]

1969

My grandfather had tried to explain the game to me for the previous couple of years, but with all of the excitement of the season 1969 is when it all finally made sense to me.

I'm the dugout mom. Somebody has to get these guys Band Aids and ice packs when they get scraped up on the field.

[seawolf17]

1985.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

seawolf17 wrote: 1985.

What this guy said.

[Guest cooby]

Well that rant helped. I've forgiven the Mets for pooping the bed this week but not Root Sports for girls lacrosse

[TransMonk]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: seawolf17 wrote: 1985. What this guy said.

Me three. At 10 years old, how could I not fall in love with that team?

[seawolf17]

TransMonk wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: seawolf17 wrote: 1985. What this guy said. Me three. At 10 years old, how could I not fall in love with that team?

Exactly. I didn't know any better at first and just followed my Little League teams the first couple of years (Cardinals, Cubs) but couldn't bring myself to like the Twins that following spring. The rest, as they say, is history.

[metsmarathon]

probably 85. certainly by 86.

[Benjamin Grimm]

As much as I loved the 1986 team, and the 1999 team, and the 2015 team, to me the "real" Mets are guys with names like Seaver, Koosman, Jones, Agee, Grote, McGraw, Kranepool, Harrelson, and Garrett.

[Guest sharpie]

1964 was my first game and when I declared my allegiance. Really 1966 or so was when I started paying attention.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: As much as I loved the 1986 team, and the 1999 team, and the 2015 team, to me the "real" Mets are guys with names like Seaver, Koosman, Jones, Agee, Grote, McGraw, Kranepool, Harrelson, and Garrett.

I know what you mean. They're the baseline for our generation. Yet if riding a given train of thought, I can find myself feeling the same way about any edition. For example, I was thinking about the 1994 Mets recently and, for a moment, Fernando Vina became as real as real gets.

[Vic Sage]

1969 My grandfather had tried to explain the game to me for the previous couple of years, but with all of the excitement of the season 1969 is when it all finally made sense to me.

Ditto, except it was my father. I remember being 8 years old when he got me all excited about the Mets winning the world series, without my fully understanding what that meant. Little did i know at the time that i'd have to wait [crossout]27[/crossout] [17] years for another one.

Edited April 28, 2017 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

It was only 17 years. Just seemed like 27.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Memories to 72 or sooner but was really the 73 season when I never looked back

[Guest cooby]

Love the 73 guys. My tombstone will mention them

[Batty31]

1973 and I was a little girl as well, Cooby. I must confess my Dad was a Yuckee fan and up until '73, I watched Yuckee games with him. Then one fateful day I ventured into my brother's room (a diehard Met fan) and the rest is history...

[Guest cooby]

Loved the early 70s teams

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

For to damn long apparently.

Actually My first memories were of the 1969 playoffs and World Series. Traveling around the world and the continental USA as a child due to my father being in the Air Force for 23 years, I gravitated toward the teams where I was born (Southampton, NY). For most of my life, when asked where I was from I always stated New York, thouh we moved away just after my 4th birthday.

I'm always thankful that as an impressionable youngster, I chose the Mets as my team (over the other option).