This really is my first post here. Im 31 and right along with the most of you guys Im a ‘take it way to seriously die-hard’….Since this month has started I have broken up with my GF over this nonsense, and my stomach wont stop churning. Basically the last 2 weeks have been the worst of my life. I realize that Matt probably wont read this, but to whomever does I just wanna say that this site has been cathartic to me and helped me deal with the craziest, wackiest month of my life. It sounds like an AA Meeting, but knowing there are others like me helps. Just like the rest of you I keep going to bed just wanting this to be over, one way or another. Not caring if they lose or win at this point….THEN I wake up and read how I CANT…and how we all are going through this together…and how it really does come down to THIS….and THIS F#&^$^ING THING ISNT OVER YET!!!…I havent followed this team since I can remember, seen them play in the ‘86 WS when I was 10 to give up now….Grab your bootstraps….realize that teams have come back from worse than this (remember ‘04 guys????)…..not to mention people fight back from cancer..CANCER PEOPLE!!!…and say as loud and as hard as you can….as hard as it may be, now in the beakest of time…..YA GOTTA BELIEVE!!!!!….LETS!!!! GO!!!! METS!!!!!……Unless your’re a quitter, someone that plans on not fighting when you are dying…NOW is when it counts….NOW is what ‘being a Mets fan’ means….NOW when everyone says and thinks were done…NOW when the people that call themselves ‘Mets fans” are talking about the Jets games and said they’ve given up……..you can give up when the last out is recorded…..LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cerrone, I love the way you think…you always say exactly what I’m thinking…being a fan that lives in Boston, I unfortunately won’t be able to attend the game, but you can be damn sure that I’ll be glued to that television cheering them on pitch for pitch. LETS GO OLI!!!!!!!! He’s gotta shine tonight.

LET’S GO METS!!!!!!!!!!!

The playoffs start today. The mets should introduce the team down the first base line 15 minutes prior to the start of the game. Maybe it will get their juices going since they have been dead since that 5 run 5th the other night.

A Met fans this is the time admit that we owe Jimmy Rollins an apology. JR has walked the walk down the stretch and is the MVP of the league. We on the other hand have been arrogant and it’s time to face reality

get ready for some BIG TIME CHANGES after the season - i wouldnt be suprised for Omar to trade at least 2 of our big time propspects for a mr johan santana. i also would not be suprised to see us bring in some ACTUAL RELIEF pitchers - not omar’s “i have a feeling this guy can get it done” like he has in the past. i’m not saying Willie and Omar will get the can - but they will go after Johan hard and they will sign a big time free agent.

Willie Randolph must be pissing him pants right now. This will go down as the worst collapse since the 1964 Phillies. Utley, Rollins, Howrd are going to lead us to victory so all of you Mets fans can shove it up your @$$. GO PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a little kid in NYC who went ballistic in ‘69, was depressed in LI for 6 months after ‘73, almost got knifed in a Boston college bar while screaming my head off in ‘86, saw Cone 5-hit the Dodgers in LA ‘88 NLCS game 6 (only to have them lose it all the next night), cheered myself hoarse on my honeymoon in ‘99, endured yank-me fan jeers in 2000 and yadiertaguchisuppantrachsel last year, I can say without a doubt that this is the most depressing stretch run I have ever witnessed.

The Mets’ being lovable losers I can take. Being come-from-behind underdogs I can take. Being swaggering front runners I can take. But all this “folder” business is new to us, so it has made all of understandably nauseous, I think.

THAT SAID, I agree with 100% Matt. Now is NOT the time to puss out. We know the past 4-5 weeks has ranged from taxing to just plain horrible. We KNOW. But the fact is we love our Mets enough that they CAN break our hearts. That’s the point, really. I’d rather be a heartbroken diehard than some disengaged bandwagon jumper who always leaves in the 7th to beat traffic. Or worse, because my team allegedly “sucks” when they need my support the most.

To be perfectly honest, I’ve had a hard time watching lately. It’s been so painful at times that I’ve turned off some recent games hoping/praying to be delivered good news in the morning boxscores. But that hasn’t worked either, really.

So tonight, I for one am going to pour myself a stiff drink, put on some blue and orange and yell my head off like the dorky little 7 year old I still am at heart. Win, lose or draw, after next month we baseball zealots won’t have anything to cheer or boo for 5+ months, and this is one Met fan who intends to either go down with the ship or sail away into glory.

LETS GO METS!!! YA GOTTA BELIEEEEEEEEVE!!!!

Agree with Matt 100%. Everybody must cheer the team on. I’ll be cheering so loud from my house in LA that they will hear me in Shea Stadium! LET’S GO METS!!!!!

if you know how baseball is, its not about giving them love. its actually fighting the random strength of the baseball gods. and i am not talking about a deity. i am talking about the difficult nature of the game. its like the invisible hand in politics, it just happens. baseball players play a game where success is a low probability. so if anything can help your team, anything, an extra inch, an extra hit, play, whatever, it makes a difference. that is why cheering and really supporting your team can actually affect a baseball game.

stroming the beach at normandy and buying tickets to a met game, are kinda in different leagues, id say thats a bad analogy out of respect to actual people who died doing that, none of our lives are at risk here people lets get some perspective for christ sake.