Not The Same

(Note: Double the content for you today. First up, a piece by Sippy Momo about the Mets-Yankees series that begins tonight. The second, by A.F.O.M.G., is a piece pleading for Jose Lima to be replaced by Aaron Heilman in the starting rotation. Enjoy.)

I remember the night the Mets clinched a trip to the World Series. I couldn't sleep that entire night, I was so excited. And I remember the following day when the Yankees beat the Mariners, clinching a Subway Series. I still couldn't sleep.

I spent the next 24 hours writing e-mails to a giant chain of Mets fans. Anyone I knew who was connected to the Mets was involved.

I remember writing my Jerry Maguire mission statement. It was somethiing like 7 pages of why if there was a god, the Mets would win the World Series. Unfortunately AOL couldn't save this piece and my attempt at duplicating it fell short.


But I was truly convinced.

I had seen so many movies where the underdog beat the giant and everything was just right. It all made too much sense.

So when I watched the Monster's fly ball float into the glove of Bernie Williams from the third highest row at Shea, I kind of lost faith in a lot of things.

It just felt like the wrong thing happened. Like when Kelly 'chose me.' I just felt empty.


Since then I've been to a ton of Mets-Yankees games. Going back to before the actual Subway Series, I caught the first ever Mets-Yankees game with the real Momo and big Jour when Dave Mlicki threw the one good start of his Mets career.

I was there for 2 of the 3 games of the 4th of July sweep a couple of years back.

But since 2000, it hasn't been the same. I don't remember what year this series switched from 3 games to 6, but the year baseball made that switch, for clear financial reasons, I feel like this series changed a little bit.

I think this subway series has been worn out.

There is only one thing that can be done to change how I feel about this. And what we need is not going to happen.

We would need to win 6 games from this team.

Anything short and the Bankee fans can resort to 2000 and I will grow sick inside. I will want to fight people, and I do not like to fight.

So it all starts tonight, Big Unit vs....uh oh. Jeremi Gonzalez.

Honest truth, this is the best matchup we will have all weekend.

For the same reason that I felt like the Mets should win the 2000 World Series, I believe that there is something so fundamentally wrong with Randy Johnson in pinstripes.


This guy being a Yankee is the one thing that truly embodies what makes baseball an imperfect game.

This guy, forcing a trade to the Yanks, over all things, is what took the sail out of my wings. It put me over the top. Baseball was a business of sad players as opposed to a game of Wannabe Heroes.

So Gonzalez vs. The Unit.

The journeyman vs. the biggest sellout/coward in the game. Not even Yankee fans can root for this guy.

So take it down Jeremi.

I can proudly say that after 1 start, Jeremi Gonzalez is more of a Met than Randy Johnson will ever be a Yankee.

Let's get one tonight.

NEW METS!!!

VCD,

SM

And remember, if you get bored, the FMC is playing Point Break not once, not twice, but three times in a row tonight, so enjoy.