soupcan

Nice pic...

Hey, I'm trying over here.

The Mets are 1/2 game out with 12 games to go. We knew it would come to the wire and it has. Let's Go Mets!

Phils win 8-7.

Pins and needles, needles and pins....

Please to meet you, I'm Chevy General Palin. This is my wife, Buster Taint (seriously?), these are my boys, Spackle Camshaft and Stockyard Mudslide. Last but not least of course is my lovely daughter, Mangle Blue.

Elster88 wrote: Hi. I'm Elster88 and I'm a Mets fan. Exactly.

themetfairy wrote: ...but it moved pretty quickly once it got started. You shoulda stayed. And my day is now complete.

I am glad to see that I'm not alone and that makes me feel better. One thing about the CPF as opposed to other online forums is that I think that those of us who frequent this place consider ourselves to be a 'more mature' breed of fan. Nice to see that we can be as manic as anyone. I'm going to try and take Grimm's and Fman's advice to just try to redirect my thoughts during those dark times. 'Cockpunch loss' needs to be added to the CPF lexicon.

It's after losses like yesterday's that I question the degree of my fanaticism. I love this team and I love rooting for them, watching them win, going to games, etc. I like having a team that is mine, that I'm so invested in. I like that I only wear a Mets cap or a Mets t-shirt. I won't wear any other team's stuff. I like that people know I�m a Mets fan, I like that old girlfriends from high school who haven�t seen or spoken to me in 25 years, see a Mets score and wonder about me. I like that my kids are Mets fans, I like that I know a lot about the team, that there is an online forum devoted to the Mets where I can go and have dialogues with people who are as devoted as I am. But you know what I don�t like? I don�t like how I feel and act after a game like yesterday�s. That loss changed my mood from upbeat to pissed off really quickly. I was having a nice father-kids day and was in a good mood, joking with them and just enjoying the time. The Mets lose and - boom- I�m pissed. I get short with the kids, and I�m miserable the whole way home. Didn't want to talk to anyone about baseball the rest of the night - which was hard because I had a dinner to go last night and everybody that knows me, knows I'm a Mets fan and wanted to talk to me about the game. I don't want the team or the game to affect me in that way. Why can't I just enjoy the game for the game? Why can't I just 'turn it off' after a bad loss or a good win and move on to my real life? It truly bothers me and I don't like it at all. My kids should not have to walk on eggshells around me if Ayala blows a save. My wife should not have to watch TV by herself in the bedroom because I'm brooding in the basement over Luis Castillo's lack of range. I�m not breaking things or yelling at anybody but a baseball team losing a big game just should not get to me as much as it does. Sure you can't enjoy the highs as much if you don't experience the lows but the trade-off for me seems to be too high a price a pay. I can�t imagine that I�m alone in having these emotions, how do you guys deal with it?

Well that was an interesting day yesterday. Sweltering. My three kids (11, 9 & 7) melting in the heat. Would've left in the 3rd inning if there wasn't the promise of running the bases for the kids afterward. The kids were dying so about the 4th inning we got up and just walked around the stadium. Went all the way to the upper deck in right field and sat down in the last row for about an inning and a half. It was shady and there was actually a nice breeze blowing around up there. We saw Wright's second homerun from up there and it was a great angle. Once the shade covered our regular seats, we moved back down. The kids however were so enamored of the view from up top they asked if we could see more games from up there. Arrrgh. My whole Met fan life I sat in the upper deck and the mezz. I finally position myself into great field level tix and the kids like the whole 'microscopic-players-look-like-ants' perspective. I have to say though, after years of not being able to get the whole field view, it was fun seeing it again. So its a long game and although the sun was now not a factor the humidity was still a killer. The Mets of course did not cooperate and get us out of there quickly, turning the 9th inning into a marathon. Finally the disaster ends and we head out to Gate A for the Dyna-Mets Dash. Oh, yay - the line for that is literally completely around the freaking stadium (thanks for the heads-up fairy)! We blow that off and get in the air-conditioned mini-van for the long depressing ride home. Oh yes, they'll remenmber their last game at Shea forever.

Stunned and amazed. Laughing too.

Thanks - I just realized that! My children would've ben a tad pissed off at me.

Going tomorrow night.

Talk about awesomeness...

It's a 30+ page thread but there are a lot of great photos in it if you want to take a look.

Here's another good one... ="Gary Dunaier"]Before I discovered Flickr and learned how to download photos from the Internet, I used to search Ebay for interesting ballpark photos. Here's a Shea Stadium shot from my collection that's not so old, but it's pretty historic... it's the Montreal Expos' very last moment: October 3, 2004 at 4.23pm... With two men out in the top of the ninth inning, Expos centerfielder Endy Chavez hit a ground ball to second to make the final out. In the photo, First Base umpire Mark Wegner is shown calling Chavez out at first, a simple arm gesture that puts a final wrap on thirty-six years of Major League Baseball in Montreal.

From that thread - ="JohnCropp"]Because this is one of the few places where an explanation of what it is is not necessary... It's on my left forearm with the bottom of the pattern beginning at my wrist. The blue is more blue and the grid is more straight than is apparent in the photo. The black outline on the orange is necessary to keep the color from bleeding out. Some sort of tattoo physics, I guess.

Steve - you say some really ridiculous things sometimes.

The Slingbox commercial is funny. My latest bugaboo is 'The Grill Daddy'. It's pretty much the same as any of those kind of commercials but have you noticed the end of it? When they tell you that if you order the Grill Daddy NOW, you'll also get a free meat thermometer thingy that tells you when your meat is cooked the way you want it? It's all well and good but the Grill Daddy is a product that cleans your grill until it sparkles right? When they show how to use the meat thermometer though, the grill on which the meat is cooking is the dirtiest, nastiest looking grill I've ever seen. A bit incongrous I think. Commercial here.

Gwreck wrote: ="soupcan"]2 - He would've had better seats. Waitasecond...don't you sit in like box 35C or something? That's not exactly shitty. 31D and no, they're not shitty at all. But the VIPS are usually right on the field or behind the plate. My seats are like 7-8 rows from the field. ="KC"]It's not metscentric, all teams are wearing them today and the teams that don't play today wore them yesterday. Doh! For the life of me I could not figure out why the Mets were wearing them on the 10th and not the 11th.

I miss Fran. NOT.

Two.