I have refrained from blogging about my favorite baseball team since the call up of Luisangel Acuña in late September, but the time has come to do some pleading. You’ve heard about it on the podcast, you’ve read about it on my blogs, you’ve probably been driven crazy by me (I know my wife has, love you Rose) at some point this summer regarding my pure whimsical optimism for this New York Mets team that has had no business coming back from the dead to become a playoff team.
When it comes to the Mets, I’m as corny as it gets. I’m an annoying, way too vested, fan that cries for half an hour after hear Francisco Lindor look up at the sky in relief after a game winning home run to send his team to the playoffs. That is why this year needs to be different. These New York Mets have completely soaked in the corny, ridiculously over the top, spirit myself and every single Mets fan.
We’ve had “OMG”, Grimace, relievers throwing gloves into stands, Julio Tehran pitching baseball games, Edwin Diaz collapses, terrible fielding errors causing other teams to troll on Twitter, a woman who is famous for a vulgar sound effect throw out a first pitch, and so much more that normally derails this team. Those events haven’t. If anything, they’ve helped. New York hasn’t won a postseason series since 2015. The last two times my favorite team was in the postseason, 2016 and 2022, it flamed out in hilarious fashion. It simply cannot happen again with this team. It can’t.
The worst part about this whole series is I know Brewers fans are mostly in the same boat as me and every Mets fan watching this drama unfold. Milwaukee, while historically dominant in the regular season unlike the Mets, has been fighting the same “collapse” demons as New York. Like the Mets, the Brewers have a once-in-a-half-century like talent in Jackson Chourio who pretty much single-handedly won them Game 2 last night. If the “Brew Crew” had this series against any other team, I’d be all in. Unfortunately for the state of Wisconsin it’s time for the “OMG”, Gay, Grimace, Hawk Tua, Mets to dig deep move onto Philadelphia in order to finally, after 165 games, claim the title as best team in the NL East that has been rightfully theirs since June.
Get Francisco his tylenol and back stretches, get Pete Alonso’s bat right (that may be a tall task), get Jose Quintana a time machine so he can throw over 92 miles-per-hour again, let “Alvy” get hot, and let’s continue this fun ride. This is not 2016 when the Mets had no business getting into the postseason, this is not 2022 when the vibes were at an all-time low after “backing in” to the playoffs, this is the 2024, 61-36 since June 12, New York Mets. I’m not ready to do a sad reaction video. It just feels too early for that.
L.F.G.M.
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