Mets fan here. I have only the faintest of memories of ‘69 (more family going nuts than actual baseball), but I celebrated my 20th birthday in Shea Stadium watching the Mets win the World Series. It was the happiest time of my life - drunk with my friends (for the whole playoff run, really), raging past dawn the…

I doubt Trump had a sad day until he won the election. Grew up rich, was a wealthy real estate developer regularly shtupping hot younger women and making the papers and infotainment shows, then somehow became a best-selling author and a TV star. Golfed 300 days a year.  Yeah, it’s been tough.

Japan sure learned not to fuck with anybody after that, didn’t they?

I have a not-uncommon Italian surname that is spelled exactly as it sounds.  And I have probably spelled it aloud 10,000 times.

We used to play “Ass Is Up”. You’d have a line of guys facing the wall, basically playing a version of handball*. First guy serves, then #2 hits, and down the line. If you missed, you got “A”. First guy to have 7 misses to spell out Ass Is Up went up against the wall and everyone got to throw the ball as hard as…

When you’re in your 50s, here are your choices:

I have that cucumber/melon thing. Much more so with cucumbers, which are VILE. The worst food crime is when you are promised a delicious pickle and get one of those bullshit “half-sours” that are basically a cucumber someone poured vinegar on.

Ick.

SNY showed a stat while a glum deGrom was being interviewed post-fiasco: in his last 57 starts, he has a 2.13 ERA, and a 16-17 record.

SUNY and CUNY tuition is $7000 a year. It’s fucking FREE if your parents make less than $100K. In fact, they actually give stipends to poors in addition to free tuition. Is that not “affordable” enough for you?

Eh. I can afford both right here.

Yet another reason to oppose it.

I laughed and then Googled. Apparently jogging helmets are mandatory in parts of Australia.  God, I hope DeBlasio and the NY City Council nannies don’t see this.

If they had to charge a la carte like HBO, they’d be out of business in a year and baseball would collapse. I give like $10/month to YES within my cable package even though I’d sooner watch a Kardashian marathon than the Yankees.  I’m involuntarily supporting the Evil Empire because I need cable to watch the Mets.

I haven’t made it all the way through the comments yet but I already count three fans who don’t get the nature of this thing. As best I can tell they are the first ones on any of the team entries.

<Insert "Why Not Both?" meme>

I am middle-aged and well-off. Not rich, but more than comfortable. I love the Mets, I love comic books, I love classic rock, I love cigars. And even with my financial situation I have cut back drastically on all of those things. Not because I can’t afford it, but because paying $15 for something to literally be…

I bought the Piazza bobblehead for $25 on eBay. It would have cost minimum $60 in tickets for me and the Missus, $25 to park, $15 gas and tolls. I can kid myself and say I don’t HAVE to buy beer and food, but we all know that’s bullshit. So I saved over $100, and perhaps more importantly I didn’t have to line up…

You are spot-on. With average traffic it can take me over an hour to get to Citifield; weekends are worse.  And then $25 to park, $15 in tax and tolls.  We were gonna go Saturday but the notion of the schlep and expense made it a lot easier to stay home, watch it on TV, and drink mojitos.

Made my first trip to Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. The Pirates are doing it right (well, off the field.) Tickets were exceedingly reasonable, the food was good and cheap (Dollar hot dogs, yo!), obviously the stadium is gorgeous, and the bar scene afterwards was cool.