Two Years of Baseball

I've always been a Mets fan. I remember as a kid collecting baseball cards (entirely because my brother and dad were collecting them, I wouldn't have come to it on my own) and being excited when I got Mets cards, and thinking Darryl Strawberry, and Dwight Gooden, and Keith Hernandez, and the other Mets were awesome. But back then I got bored at baseball games, and couldn't sit through a whole one. I rarely actually watched baseball as a kid, and by the time I got to 1999, I hadn't watched any in ages. 1999 was different - once we were in the running, I watched a lot of games in September and into the post season, including all of the amazing 14 inning game against the Braves (which Adam B. was AT, I was so jealous...). But after that I didn't watch any baseball at all in college. I mostly just asked my dad periodically for updates, with only mild interest.

Last year, in March, I made a conscious decision to give it a try. Let's watch some games, and see if I like it...and I did. I loved it! I hardly missed a game last year, but in the end it was crushing - I just looked through my journal, and I have three entries from those last two days - ( Read more... )

There's always next season...I'm curious to see how our line up is going to shape up!

Go Mets?