On the Mets beat

I was sitting here in Portland OR. happy as can be. I just laughed out loud at tonight's lineup. One thing I'd like to see is Beltran breaking the HR record (41)I hope he gets a chance.

I want to take this moment to thank the Newsday staff for their forum. Wallace Matthews, David Lennon, Anthony Rieber also Bob Herzog who we had a lot of fun with. All of your efforts are great and it made for a special season for me in more ways than I can honestly say. It was important. I also want to thank Mr. Met, Zoe, T-man, WTW, $TRETCH, Met fan in LA, Joe G.in Atlanta,
Omar fan, MT, Raven Darkholme,Slingblade, and many many others who made me laugh and allowed me to share this special season with them.
I hope there are many more great moments to come and I look forward to having this be a magical time, thank you all, from the heart.

being a huge mets fan i was totally excited for the NL east crown. the players did a great job this season. gooo mets!

I'm a die-hard Mets fan. I go back to the days when Ed Kranepool held the all-time Mets homerun record and when Tug McGraw published his comic strip, "Scrooge."

That said... what a waste of cold beer. Sure, celebrate-- you can even dump the Champagne. But I saw guys dumping cold beer all over the place. That was just wrong.

Memo to David Wright: If you're gonna put a cigar in your mouth, take the band off and light it up.

Memo to Paul Lo Duca: In this day where the lawsuit is king, I hope you didn't hose the wrong fan.

I looked through all the footage, I searched like a
would-be detective. A bloodhound. Every frame, photograph
and news clip. But I didn't see Zoe at the clinching game with her sign that read:
METS WIN, READ MY BOOK!
Let me know if you find anything.

I watched it on my work computer out here in San Francisco. The fireworks, Cliff Floyd making the final out, the champagne and cigars, LoDuca dropping the 'f-bomb.' It was all so beautiful.

Been a Met fan since they came into the league...... savoring this one more than '69 or '86 - I guess the present is always the best. ...... watched it all on TV and wished I could have been there...... too bad those great seats in the front (owned by corporations) weren't given up so the regular fan could be there - on TV those looked like the empty seats.
GO METS!!!

JAMIE MOYER:
MONSTER MOVIE--OOOPSIES PART 4:

"THE NEW BEGINNING..OR THE END?"

JAMIE'S PITCHING LINE 9/19
7 IP 6 HITS 1 ER 0 BB 3 K
I SURE HOPE HE DOESN'T FACE THE METS IN THE PLAYOFFS.
I WAS WITH YOU GUYS FROM DAY ONE.
LETS DO IT, GO METS -yeah right loozas

Have rooted for the Mets since the days of Casey Stengel...camped out in the early morning hours for 1969 World Series tickets...watching this one on TV was just as sweet as the first one...hopefully the Mets can commemorate the '86 champs with another World Series win !

First off, it was great. We get the FAN down here in certain sections of DC, so I tuned in for the last few innings and a little bit of the post game. The next morning, I spent an hour reading all the stories, watching all the footage, and listening to all the players's thoughts through mlb.com.

I was barely old enough to know what was going on in 86 and spent my formative years cursing the Bonilla's, Saberhagen's, and Coleman's of the world so seeing a team like this succeed that combines homegrown stud prospects, expensive, but professional veteran leaders, and the important low cost pieces like Endy and Mota .... it feels pretty good, looking forward to coming home next weekend and soaking up the local excitement.

Oh, and Bob, drinking is cool.

I am 19 years old, from Queens and I currently go to school up in Syracuse. Thankfully we get SNY so I was able to watch the game with some friends, none of whom are as die-hard as I am, so when Cliff Floyd caught the final out, I was forced to Celebrate with myself. I then left my lounge and watched the entire celebration in my dorm room, calling every Mets fan I had in my phone book.

I had to deal with people telling me that it is only the division but being 19, and having watched this team since I was 6, I was not going to minimize how special it is to win this division. I jumped up and down, blasted music and then the next day raced over to the store to buy my NL East Championship clothing, proudly walking around campus wearing it.

Hopefully that trip was the first of a handful, as now we punched our postseason ticket.

Lets go Mets!

Adam and Justin in DC, I hope that this year brings you great memories. My favorite memory of all time was Game 6--1986 WS. My God, I never actually saw Ray Knight cross home plate because I jumped ontop of my little brother while he was sleeping, grabbed him by the lapels of his pajamas
and was screaming "IT WENT THROUGH HIS LEGS" "IT WENT THROUGH HIS LEGS" "BRIAN BRIAN IT WENT THROUGH HIS FRIGGIN LEGS!!!!!" "HA HA HA HA, IT WENT THROUGH HIS LEGS!"
He has now since forgiven me.....but he still talks about it.
I was making a newspaper scrapbook at the time, and Newsday had color so my brother brought me a punch of Newsday editions and other things to add to my book.It was great and I still have my books. It reminds me of my brother and good times.

Yes, it was great to have the chance to celebrate what was a fantastic regular season. It's been a long, long time between division titles.

Hopefully, someone reminds the Mets about the 1988 squad, who were just about as dominant as the 06 team, but got caught napping during the 88 NLCS and ended up losing to a Dodger team they OWNED all season long.

That team was a lot more arrogant & cocky than this year's team, who appear to be well-schooled and also grounded in reality. So hopefully they'll have their heads in order when the second season begins. They certainly have the talent to go all the way.

Right back at you Frank D, thanks for a great year. Steve, I noticed Jamie Moyer's pitching line. Maybe, just maybe your're right.

I think the reason Mets fans are so passionate is that success is few and far between that is why the clincher, even a divisional title. I started rooting for the Mets in '73 and thought they'd be in the post season every year. I watched all my friends become Yankee fans in '75. I stuck with them through the lean (77-83) years when Reggie Jackson said more people would show up to watch him hit batting practice than attend a Mets game (he was probably right). It didn't help that the Yankees went to the World Series 4 times in this period.

Then '84, Davey Johnson, Dwight Gooden, Keith Hernandez, Dykstra and you felt they'd contend forever. Came up short in '85 and then dominated in '86 (which was sweeter as I watched the Mets win in Red Sox territory). Short again in '87 and then a good season in '88.

Then the wheels came off again. Juan Samuel, Macky Sasser Tommy Herr. Next thing you know its 1993 and you've got Dallas Green on your hands.

Had a little hope with "Generation K" Wilson, Izzy and Pulsipher. That fizzled and then the good, but not great Bobby Valentine/Piazza era.

Now after 18 years, we actually have a team favored to go to the World Series. I can't wait for the playoffs.

Let's Go Mets!

I'm a little concerned about how excited everyone was. It looked like a celebration for a team that wasn't so sure they'd have another chance to celebrate. Pedro has the right view, this wasn't so meaningful, what matters is the playoffs. It's great to have fun, but it's also a little embarassing to see the team and fans going so crazy about what is only a division title, something they had wrapped up for months and only had to play better than 4 other teams to win. With 6 divisions, winning a division isn't a huge deal, and it isn't a prerequisite to winning the World Series anymore. Let's win the World Series and go crazy!

My second greatest Met moment was July 22nd 1986. Mets vs the Reds. The game was in extra innings and I had my old black and white tv under the covers so my parents wouldn't get mad that I was watching the game. My older brother came home and said "AHA, YOU ARE WATCHING THE GAME, WHAT IS THE SCORE?"
So my older brother crawled into my cocoon and started watching the game with me. At that moment, Ray Knight punches Eric Davis in the face and ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE! Jessie Orosco grabs Eric Davis and the benches cleared. The bullpens ran out onto the field, mayhem, complete mayhem. Eric Davis was plastered and Dave parker had five guys draped over him as he worked his way through the pile trying to get to Ray Knight. It was unbelievable. Later Roger McDowell and Jessie Orosco took turns playing the outfield and pitching between them.
It was one of the best moments I had with my brother, he was never really close to me but that memory and the high-fives and cheering that game.
It was the coolest.