Is Being A Met Fan Like A Greek Tragedy?

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• Alex68 January 13, 2012 at 1:22 pm

  Very nice analogy.. it seems we almost make it, but for some reason can’t quite reach, and even when we won in 1986 we never reach that plateau again.. almost, but never reach the top…
• Anthony Marte January 13, 2012 at 1:24 pm

  I think the analogy is perfect. But the Mets have a really big mountain to roll their boulder up. I have to believe its not endless though. Where’s the fun if you don’t believe, right?

  Let’s Go Mets!
• William H. January 13, 2012 at 1:25 pm

  I’ll buy that for a dollar. Good way to describe our plight.
• Gina January 13, 2012 at 1:27 pm

  Sad but true! I feel bad for the poor Met fan in that picture, lol.
• metropolitans12 January 13, 2012 at 1:42 pm

  Not yet. While times of late have been tough, things are not nearly as bad (on the field) as some make it out to be.

  Cubs fans have it worse.
  • gategem January 14, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    Cubs fans revel in their teams incompetency. If this were a picture of Cubs fans then the bolder would reside at the base of the mountain while the fans would be partying.
• K Maxx January 13, 2012 at 2:02 pm

  I know King Midas turned everything he touched to gold, but if there was someone who turned everything he touched to crap, it’s Fred Wilpon.
  • Alex68 January 13, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    LMAO, kmaxx, the CORE salutes you…..
    • trs86 January 13, 2012 at 2:14 pm

      Daggie Boy and Daggie Girl would solute you as well… if they were real.

      However, I do agree with the comment.
• sarge January 13, 2012 at 3:14 pm

  Agree 100% with the analogy.
  Especially long time fans have seen the boulder at the top, ready to shaped into a WS trophy, then collapses, wrong decisions, poor play by those expected to perform and you have the boulder reaching the top then falling all the way down, tough way to be a fan.

  The fact that in the initial, success of the team after 69 there were good teams, same as with 80′s team and team that went to WS in 2000 but since we are good then we take a big fall and now the fall is so deep and so hurtful that you can’t even see the top of the mountain cause you are in the hole waiting to push the boulder up, sheesh, I’m so tired of being the laughing stock of the the city and division.
• Mr North Jersey January 13, 2012 at 3:55 pm

  The tales of Greek Mythology are just awesome.
• Joe Diaz January 13, 2012 at 4:03 pm

  Being a fan of the Mets and this site is like the Trojan vs Greek war.
  • Mr North Jersey January 13, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    While I’ll admit MMO requires some filtering for me at least. It is still one of the best fan sites out there despite what a few may say.
  • Allyoop January 13, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    “Beware of Wilpons bearing gifts”
• Metfan Lou January 13, 2012 at 6:37 pm

  The Greeks are a proud people and have a heritage to be envied. After all they gave us the wisdom of Socrates and Plato. It is an insult to link the Mets to a Greek tragedy. They are having enough problems as it is, they don’t need the Mets too.
• Allyoop January 13, 2012 at 6:44 pm

  At least he didn’t use Oedipus as the analogy. Now that would have been rally scary!
• MetsMan86 January 13, 2012 at 7:45 pm

  I’m a 25 year old Mets, Jets, and Knicks fan. The only championship won was when I was two months old. BUT IT WILL PAY OFF ONE DAY! I WILL SEE ONE OF MY TEAMS WIN THAT VERY LAST GAME OF THE YEAR! And it will be gloooooorious.
• L.J. Phipps January 13, 2012 at 8:29 pm

  I like the analogy, but we all know in supporting the Mets it’s always been peaks and valleys. I would love nothing more to believe in the product of 2012, but I think I will hold my optimism for now. Too many ifs, too many question marks, too many injuries to be concerned about. I really wish Wilpon would sell, management has had too many issues since Doubleday split, and it just seems that the Mets don’t consistently pick, trade for, sign up, or develop many good players, let alone great players for the most part. What Seaver, Koosman, Doc, Strawberry, Wright & Reyes. Six real home grown’s in 50 years? Wow ……………….. Yet he asks us to give this roster a chance? Hairston, Cedeno, Nickeas, Lowen, & Baxter don’t make me want to bumrush the turnstiles. I want to see Ike, Duda, Gee, Niese, Tejeda, & Thole suceed, but this team needs some serious help. All we can hope is that the baseball God’s have mercy! Go Mets 2012, or is it 2013?
• theonlymaskman January 14, 2012 at 12:04 pm

  The Myth of Sisyphus is an excellent analogy for the trials of the Mets. However, I would differ on one detail. I do not believe the rock has yet hit the bottom of the hill and it still has a way further down to go to reach the valley. It will take a mighty effort to even start the boulder on its way back to the top. That will require the current god to be replaced by a new one in order to supply the necessary impetus. One day it will happen. The question is how many of us will still be alive to witness it.
  • gategem January 14, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    I’m 69 years old and your point is extremely relevant to me.
    • theonlymaskman January 15, 2012 at 8:16 am

      gategem, Coincidentally, I am the same age as you and I did not make that comment in jest. We may have seen the best of this franchise for a long time to come. It’s my belief that it will be quite a long time until that rock nears the summit again.