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September 23, 2008

Baseball is my Game. The Mets are my Team.

I love baseball. I have for my entire life. While others may sometimes find it boring, I enjoy watching baseball games. I was one of those Strat-o-Matic kids who enjoyed playing baseball as a board game many years ago. A baseball geek. And a Mets fan.

Baseball is an amazing game. An ever forgiving game. If the team you are a fan of is having a bad night, there is almost always a tomorrow. So as long as your team can get over the crushing defeat the night before, there is a chance that today your team will win.

In Baseball almost anything is possible. On any given night, almost anything can and will happen. Well, almost anything. To date, since the Mets were founded in 1962 no Mets pitcher has pitched a perfect game. So maybe not a prefect game today. But almost anything else.

“It Ain’t Over Till it’s Over” is a phrase which rings as true today as when Yogi Berra first said it. As fans we love to rationalize our reality. When we are ahead in the game, and it is late in the season and our team is a contender to make the playoffs, we look to see how that win might affect the standings. And when we are down by 3 runs in the 8th inning, we think about the line up and each time one of our players gets to the plate, we think this is the moment the magical rally will start that will turn the game around for us.

Baseball Fans (and their relatives) know how much a game can drive their emotions. Baseball is a game which makes some of the most unlikely people famous and a game where each spring brings out the hope in all baseball fans. Every year could be THE YEAR. And maybe 2008 is THE YEAR for the Mets.

The 2008 Mets have been a different team than the 2007 version. I believe a better team. Yes, they need relief pitching and yes their starting pitching has become questionable at times. But I believe the 2008 Mets can go the distance. Make it to the playoffs and anything is possible.

Tonight I’m going to Shea Stadium to attend my last regular season game at Shea together with my kids and my friend Kory Kessel (a Cubs fan from Paris via Chicago.) I’m looking forward to being behind home plate with my camera while watching the Mets play the Cubs. I hope to bring home some memories tonight. And hopefully watch the Mets beat the Cubs. (Sorry Kory.)

Let’s Go Mets!

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Posted by: Zoe Winters at September 24, 2008 12:56 PM

Strat-o-Matic. Now that brings some fond memories of spending hours with my brothers and neighborhood friends, building up various strategies (ok, mainly trying to acquire my favorite players)

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Posted by: Jeff Katz at September 24, 2008 10:58 AM

Well put...and to quote James Earl Jones from Field of Dreams:

"The one constant through the years, Ray, has been baseball."

oh and another one I use all the time:

"There's no crying in baseball!" (Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own".)

And...go Sawx! (couldn't resist...) :)

Posted by: Steve Promisel at September 23, 2008 09:33 PM

Nicely put, Jeff -- except for cheering for the Mets, of course (just kidding).

Is there any better time of year than late September and October, when the pennant races are sizzling and the playoffs of the world's greatest game take place? Like you, I have reason to believe that this is THE YEAR (once again) for my beloved Red Sox.

Good luck to your Mets the rest of the way, Jeff.

Posted by: Bryan Person at September 23, 2008 03:43 PM

Hey Jeff - have a GREAT time at the game! I still have distinct memories of sitting in the bleachers at Fenway Park and watching the Red Sox with my dad when I was growing up. :)

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September 23, 2008

Baseball is my Game. The Mets are my Team.

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