# Lets go Mets! Let's go STRAIGHT TO HELL! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808 "2007-09-28T13:58:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/21 "2007-09-28T15:18:33Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] To hijack this a bit; I’m surprised and pleased to see the Rockies have a chance to win the division on the last weekend of the season. I suspect Arizona and San Diego fans are climbing on “what the fuck?” bandwagon as well. [/QUOTE] Shhh! Don’t even _talk_ about it. Just stare straight ahead and act as if nothing unusual is happening. If they know we’re watching they’ll pull a last minute trade - Helton for the Mets roster or something. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/22 "2007-09-28T15:31:28Z")
**storyteller0910** , I’d love to say I love this rant, but the fact that it exists just makes me sad. You have pretty much summed up my feelings on the matter of the Mets. I will watch tonight’s game with the appropriate amount of booze within reach. AndyPolley–Got married in a Mets jersey (my wife wore one too) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/23 "2007-09-28T15:56:17Z")
I root for the Yankees, I don’t necessarily against the Mets, but this is amazing baseball theatre. I didn’t watch most of the meaningless Yanks-Rays game last night, I watched Mets-Cardinals. It was sort of like watching a History Channel show about the plague. And come to think of it, the crowd reactions were sorta similar. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/24 "2007-09-28T16:24:42Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] . I’ll admit it was very amusing to see all the rabid Metlove/Yankhaters that I work with slowly shrivel up into silence. But this is no longer funny. Who will I root for when the Yanks tank in the first round of the playoffs? [/QUOTE] The Cubs. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/25 "2007-09-28T16:30:48Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] …losing a seven game lead in seventeen days is literally a historic event. No team in history has ever pulled quite so spectacular a choke job quite so late in the season. For those readers not interested in baseball, this is as if Pavarotti made it through the hard part of Nessun Dorma, and then, instead of singing the last three notes, instead broke into “Baby Got Back” and then fellated a badger live on stage. [/QUOTE] When you bear in mind that Luciano Pavarotti passed away a few weeks ago on Sept. 6th, 2007, this analogy is _especially_ apt. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/26 "2007-09-28T16:32:18Z")
[QUOTE=lalenin] Nothing to add here except to say that I recently met Rey Ordoñez, former Mets shortstop and his wife, and she is fantastically HOT! [/QUOTE] A multi-millionaire sports star has a hot wife? Well, knock me over with a feather. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/27 "2007-09-28T16:33:23Z")
As a Yankee fan who was 10 years old in 1977, I could never root against Willie Randolph. That being said… **BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA**. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/28 "2007-09-28T16:34:19Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] A multi-millionaire sports star has a hot wife? Well, knock me over with a feather. [/QUOTE] That’s a multi-millionarie lifetime .230 hitter to you bub. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/29 "2007-09-28T16:39:06Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] No matter how badly the Mets choke, they will always be second to the Yankees in that department. Keep that in mind as you watch the last of your hopes go down in flames. 😃 **Biggirl** - Your perfect season would be a network nightmare. Not a single person outside the Upper Right Coast would watch it. Total ratings disaster. Now, a Yankees-Cubs Series…that would be worth watching, if for no other reason than to see which team could screw it up worse. [/QUOTE] I posted my previous before I saw your post **silenus** but you’re right, although… Frankly, I expected the Cubbies to choke two months ago. They didn’t. I expected them to choke last month. They didn’t. I expected them to choke this month, they haven’t, with 2 as the magic number, they could clinch (read: back into) a playoff spot TODAY (which would be sweet, cause I gots game 1 tickets) Dare I say it, the Cubbies could ACTUALLY go to the World Series this year. [sniff] NL ball has been _just_ that goofy this year. I’m not sure they could take the Yanks though, and as much as I despise the bloated, overpaid mess they and Steinbugger are, they win games. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/30 "2007-09-28T16:52:09Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] Captain Clutchness is Next to Godliness is getting doubles by sheer force of Aura alone [/QUOTE] That’s MISTER Captain Clutchness is Next to Godliness to you 😉 Seriously though, excellent rant. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/31 "2007-09-28T17:03:20Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **Biggirl** - Your perfect season would be a network nightmare. Not a single person outside the Upper Right Coast would watch it. Total ratings disaster. [/QUOTE] I guess its a good thing we have a lot of people up there then. I did wonder what everyone else in the rest of the country was watching back in the fall of 2000…for about 2 seconds anyway. I do have to agree with you though **Biggirl** , the only thing better than a Mets-Yankees World Series is a Giants-Jets Super Bowl. Thinking about that Super Bowl scenario with this years team, it would probably be pretty awful though. Most likely it would end with Eli breaking the record for most interceptions thrown in a Super Bowl but the Giants are a Pit topic for another day. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/32 "2007-09-28T17:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] For those readers not interested in baseball, this is as if Pavarotti made it through the hard part of Nessun Dorma, and then, instead of singing the last three notes, instead broke into “Baby Got Back” and then fellated a badger live on stage. [/QUOTE] The last three notes _is_ the hard part… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/33 "2007-09-28T17:54:14Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] You should ask **Frank** whether or not I care about anybody else, being that I’m a New Yorker and all. [/QUOTE] I just wanted to say that I actually heard you say this in a thick New York accent in my head. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/34 "2007-09-28T18:00:55Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] I just wanted to say that I actually heard you say this in a thick New York accent in my head. 😃 [/QUOTE] According to all I do gotta pretty thick Bronx/Brooklyn thing gowin on. But that’s jus wut people say. Ain’t always true wut people say, dough. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/35 "2007-09-28T18:28:12Z")
I suppose this is not the time or the place to say that I am a Nationals fan. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/36 "2007-09-28T18:44:13Z")
**storyteller** , that’s one of the funniest rants I’ve read in a long time, and I’m a regular reader of **Biggirl** ’s LJ, so that’s saying something. This Nats fan gives it 11 on a scale of 10. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/37 "2007-09-28T18:55:35Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] **storyteller** , that’s one of the funniest rants I’ve read in a long time, and I’m a regular reader of **Biggirl** ’s LJ, so that’s saying something. This Nats fan gives it 11 on a scale of 10. [/QUOTE] Think there’s a chance your team can go out and to the Phillies what they did to the Mets? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/38 "2007-09-28T19:07:06Z")
Swept by the Nationals at home. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/39 "2007-09-28T19:45:14Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] A multi-millionaire sports star has a hot wife? Well, knock me over with a feather. [/QUOTE] The cult of Rey Ordonez is a strange and varied one. He may well be the most beloved baseball player ever that has a career batting average of .246 and 12 home runs. Oh, and he number 0. All hail the Ordonez! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808/40 "2007-09-28T20:58:02Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] Oh, and the Yankees fans have started chirping now. They were blissfully silent for a while, back when it looked like their team might actually miss the playoffs for the first time since before I had finished puberty, but suddenly they’re having a grand old time. After all, the old Yankee double-play combination of Satan to Mammon to Baal is clicking nicely, Captain Clutchness is Next to Godliness is getting doubles by sheer force of Aura alone, and the Guy the Yankee Fans All Think Sucks just hit another home run over pancakes. [/QUOTE] Poetry, man. Sheer fuckin’ poetry. _– snap snap snap snap snap –_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-mets-lets-go-straight-to-hell/420808.md?page=3)