Next Monday my son and I will be playing hooky from our respective schools to watch our sixth consecutive Mets home opener together. My legacy to him is a passion for a profoundly inept team. He reached sports maturity just in time to watch the Mets get awful; since his seventh birthday they've gone 453-519. The most memorable moment of these seasons occurred when their second-baseman dropped a game-ending pop-up against the Yankees that a Little Leaguer could have caught. When he's asked his fa...
Next Monday my son and I will be playing hooky from our respective schools to watch our sixth consecutive Mets home opener together. My legacy to him is a passion for a profoundly inept team. He reached sports maturity just in time to watch the Mets get awful; since his seventh birthday they've gone 453-519. The most memorable moment of these seasons occurred when their second-baseman dropped a game-ending pop-up against the Yankees that a Little Leaguer could have caught. When he's asked his fa...
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