Disappointment

If you are a fan of any team long enough they are bound to break your heart every so often, it's pretty much inevitable. No team can win them all (see the 2007 New England Patriots) and no fan should expect their team to never lose. In the case of the New York Mets though, it's a whole new ball game. The Mets have blown two enormous division leads in consecutive seasons to the much hated Philadelphia Phillies, who went on to win the World Series this past season.
The Phillies took the N.L. East Division lead from the Mets in early September last season, and never gave it back, sparking their tremendous post-season run. The Mets were in position to still make the playoffs by virtue of the wild card, but instead the Milwaulkee Brewers beat the Mets out down the stretch to take the wild card. For the second straight year the Mets season ended at the hands of their division rivals, the Florida Marlins. The Mets needed a victory over the Marlins and they would at least force a one-game playoff with the Brewers to decide which team would be the last team to make the playoffs. Instead the Mets lost their final game at Shea Stadium in front of a sold out crowd, leaving fans disappointed that their team who gives them so much hope will not be heading the post-season yet again.
As painful as the 2008 season was for Mets fans, the 2007 season still sends shivers down my spine. The Mets had a seven game lead with 17 games to play in the season over the Phillies, needless to say the Mets found a way to blow this un-blowable lead. It wasn't until the final game of the season where Mets fans had to face the fact that their team had choked away one of the biggest leads in baseball history. With one game to play, all the Mets had to do was win one game against the Marlins. They had future Hall Of Famer Tom Glavine starting against a Marlins lineup that had nothing to play for...so all hope was not lost. Then it was lost after the Marlins came out and scored seven runs in the first inning. The Mets season was over, and Mets fans have been getting ragged on ever since.
The Mets have not won a championship since 1986, three years before I was born. I think it's time for us to win one, we have been put through enough. Maybe the move into the new state-of-the-art stadium, Citi Field will bring the Mets some new luck,because we all know they could use some.