Remembering Happier Times

I posted this on another thread. Probably the best video I've found of one of the best moments in Mets history. Watching it made me forget how far we've sunk, if only for a minute and fifty-seven seconds.

Watch it, remember where you were when it happened and try to forget every single Mets related thing that you remember that happened after it.

I suggest watching it with the sound off to ignore the douchnozzles and their "Fan Fest" commentating.

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I was

in the right field mezzanine. Going apeshit.

by Eric Simon on Jul 24, 2009 12:39 AM EDT reply actions

Butterfly Effect

If Endy doesn’t make that catch I bet Ollie isn’t a Met right now.

That clip will never get old. I’m looking at a picture of “The Catch” on my wall as I speak/type.

by James Kannengieser on Jul 24, 2009 12:46 AM EDT reply actions

I still cannot believe we lost that game

I went from hugging and high-fiving everyone in the room after that catch, to throwing a football through the window of my law school apartment when Molina went yard.

by jasondg on Jul 24, 2009 12:54 AM EDT reply actions

We should take a damage total of everything that was broken after the Molina HR

I think it would rival Watts. I broke a door off the hinges in my grad school apartment.

A lot of Security Deposits were lost that evening…

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Jerry abuses the privilege.

by AnthonyR on Jul 24, 2009 1:03 AM EDT up reply actions

cell phone

I was on the phone with my dad, his feed was a few seconds ahead of mine, he just yelled “fuck” and I knew something bad happened. I watched Beltran take strike 3, hung up with my dad, and slammed my phone into my bed, it bounced off into the wall and shattered into pieces.

Losing that game was the ultimate stomach punch. Well, unless you’re a Patriots fan.

by cjmulrain on Jul 24, 2009 2:09 AM EDT up reply actions

I just watched it another 10 times

by Mount17 on Jul 24, 2009 2:44 AM EDT reply actions

here is my favorite video of the catch:

Endy Catch

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Jul 24, 2009 8:56 AM EDT reply actions

You know

it’s funny that this catch and the grand slam single are the two most memorable moments of my fandom, as they probably are for a lot of people here. One took place in a game 7 that the Mets lost and the other in a series the Mets would go on to lose (f you Kenny Rogers you pussy). I guess that about sums up the Mets right there.

by dtro on Jul 24, 2009 9:07 AM EDT reply actions

I'd put Todd Pratt

in that group too. Thats a good one. Division Series? nobody? ah, me neither.

by mets81 on Jul 24, 2009 9:13 AM EDT up reply actions

I'd put everything this man did up there

But seriously, the Kazmir trade is probably my most memorible Mets moment. I punched a wall, breaking three of my fingers, over not Kazmir really (His career has basically been what I thought it would be) but just the utter realization that this franchise had no idea what it was doing. My feelings haven’t changed much since then.

by Sokojoe on Jul 24, 2009 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions

I hope you don't mind

but I just made that picture my avatar. I just love it so much.

by mets81 on Jul 24, 2009 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions

Mo did hit that one really massive home run, though

by JoshNY on Jul 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, I have fond memories of Mo

The entire team was flawed so it’s not like Mo cost us anything. So yeah, the HR shot halfway up the Bud ad was awesome. The time in PR against the Expos when he hit a hard one hopper to Vlad and nearly got thrown out at first was hiliarious. That time he fell backwards catching a foul out still makes me wish internet videos were as big back then as it would have been an excellent .gif.

by Sokojoe on Jul 24, 2009 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

And the year Appier spent with the Mets was his last really good one (despite the absurd number of HBP and WP), so it’s not like we traded a blue chip prospect for two years of Mo-related comedy.

(Did we give Oakland a draft pick for signing Appier prior to that season? I assume we must have, since that’s the same winter when Hampton signed with Colorado and we got the sandwich pick that was used to draft Wright.)

by JoshNY on Jul 24, 2009 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions

I try not to rag on Mo too much because he actually is a really good guy.

He buys project buildings in Brooklyn and fixes them up giving people a nice place to live.

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Jul 24, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

I assume he takes their food as payment

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Jul 24, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Of course. What..you think he accepts cash or something? Too Bitter... lol

by MetsGod on Jul 24, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions

The most confused I've ever been

I had just moved to Phoenix and had tickets for the next game at Bank One Ballpark. I was so stoked to go and was 50/50 whether or not I wanted to close out the series then and there.

I called the shot before it happened and my Dad ( a diehard Yankees fan) was running around cheering because his penance for making me move all the way across the country for my Senior Year of High School was $1200 worth of box seats to Game 5. I still have not been appropriately compensated.

Damn Yankees fans.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Jerry abuses the privilege.

by AnthonyR on Jul 24, 2009 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions

Of course Todd Pratt

I was at that game too. How could I forget?

by dtro on Jul 24, 2009 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions

What a moment

I was in a bar on Houston Street with Ian B and a friend from law school. The place exploded with joy at that moment. Yeah, there certainly are good times.

On the flip side, of course, I don’t think I’d ever heard a full bar be as silent as when Wainwright struck out Beltran. Painful.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jul 24, 2009 9:39 AM EDT reply actions

Was it Nice Guy Eddie's?

by Zwill on Jul 24, 2009 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions

How about the next half inning

When Rolen threw the ball away and we had two men on with nobody out. There isn’t a pundit in the world who didn’t think we were going to win the game. Its all been downhill from there.

by Endys Game on Jul 24, 2009 1:57 PM EDT reply actions