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Mets 2008 Highlights

I put this together every year, a quick audio highlight clip for the New York Mets’ season. It helps me run in the winter months when I’m on the treadmill. I tried to get everything in there, let me know if I missed anything big.

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The Grass is Down

Citi Update

Shea’s Scoreboard

The real collapse.

Playoff Tickets

Anyone who has been shipped playoff tickets from the Mets, burn them and post your pictures, it will make you feel a little better (just a little).

All 2 Familiar

It’s amazing where a hundred and thirty seven million dollars doesn’t get you.

I’m very disappointed today, but at the same time, it’s not like I didn’t see this coming. I don’t give a sh*t about the wild card, I want division pennants to hang in the stadium. I said a long time ago, after getting swept by Seattle in May, that this team should forget about this year and look to the future. A coaching change and a “revived” team later, they were competing and leading the NL East by 3.5 games with 17 to play. But being what the injury situation was, I’m happy we were in contention the last week of the year, that was some exciting baseball. If we had John Maine, Billy Wagner, a left fielder, this would have been a lot different. I am sure we will retain Manuel, clean house in the bullpen, and dump Luis Castillo, Moises Alou, maybe even Pedro and Ollie.

I will always remember this as Delgado’s year. Where he single handily carried this team throughout the month of July and August, and completely won back the fan base, to where they were chanting M.V.P in September. Kudos to Matt Lindstrom, that was his World Series right there, beating his former team in order to knock them out of the playoffs.

Hopefully we can leave the demons of the past two years in Shea stadium. It was emotional to see Mike Piazza close the center field doors to Shea, something I’ll never forget. I will always remember that David Wright had the best batting average by any player in Shea stadium history (.320).

We’ll have a nice new ballpark next year, a much better Marlins team in the NL East, and who knows what this team will look like come March. Wright and Reyes have to step up and be the captains. I’m going to go burn my playoff tickets.

Go Brewers!

Shea Goodbye

Mike Piazza and Tom Seaver close the center field doors.

Last Pitch

Shea Memorabilia

The Mets dugout is selling for $100K. I’m thinking about taking out a loan while I can still get a low rate . I really do want to buy a Section sign from one of the concourses, I’d pay $100 for that. (turns out they are $500)

Believe