Yessss, road trips! What are you guys thinking? I don’t think I can do many because of the wedding and overall expenses, but I really want to do the Pitt weekend.

Yeah, I’m kind of going through that too, although with the added disincentive that the owners want to move the team and have been temporarily (so far) frustrated.

Oh, Mark.  I wish I had that level of fervor again.  I can just about remember it.  (Mets fanatic 1963-197year they traded Seaver, 1985-1993, current team 1994-now, sorta.  I definitely need a ball game this week.)

caryn nobody knows better than me what its like to want to throttle your team as a whole, and i know it gives you nothing but misery (or sounds like it).  but suffering those lows it what makes the glory of the great plays and eventual wins so damned satisfying.  besides, its a long known fact that hate only exists where there is deep love.  so go and watch those losers stink it up, eat hot dogs to stay warm, curse them and the refs, and keep planning those road trips for next year. because win or lose, you know you’ll be back. =)

Julie: TBF figured out a 10 day trip out west that includes a game at every ballpark (including AZ), 6 mets games, some good CA driving and some down time.

the PGH weekend is a no brainer. but we will skip cleveland because i don’t get a lot of time off and those are expensive games from a vacation day perspective.

there is no doubt that i will go. i was just trying to be honest. i cannot identify with RAH RAH MY TEAM (or band) IS ALWAYS TEH BEST AND DOES NOTHING WRONG. they suck. i’m still there. I’m still wearing Mets stuff.

it just HURTS right now and i don’t believe anyone who says it doesn’t. Or rather, I believe you, but we have nothing in common.

C, maybe tonight you should do what I do with my kids - make it “opposite night” just to shake things up.

Hit a foodstand at Citi you’ve never hit before. Move around during the game. Grab a beer at SRO for a little. Sit in different seats. Start a “bring back ‘sweet caroline’ chant”.

Ok, maybe not that last one =)

omg i said REFS and not UMPS.  can you tell my team has been extinguished?

see, JR, what I love about the experience is the ritual of it, the sameness of it. there is comfort in the repetition. shaking things up is what people who go to the ballpark twice a year do. does that make sense? We don’t move around during the game. I would hate the idea. I don’t even like getting up to get food. I moved around and got food and browsed when I lived in Seattle and didn’t know anything about baseball and someone who worked for me also moonlighted at Mariners guest services and would call me if he had any leftover tickets he could give away. I did that stuff when I didn’t care about the game.

Okay, so maybe you have a point.

but, i hear ya.

OK you know what’s funny - is that now, I am skipping Saturday 1 pm games (my faves) because, well, I’d much rather do a kickboxing and spin class in the morning and do my laundry.  And that won’t give me nearly enough time to get to Flushing.  Yet, I am with JulieRubes above - ooh, they are playing in Pittsburgh, let’s totally go!

Such is life for the mets fan

I’d like to see pictures of the Fred & Jeff Wilpon voodoo dolls.

After this season, and the ends of the past two seasons (and for some, or maybe just me, losing Shea), we all have every right to lose interest in going to Citi Field.  I’d rather go than sell my tickets, only because I get so few, but I actually left a game during a long rain delay before it started, and haven’t been interested in going back (hopefully that gets better since I have 2 day games in October).

my roadtrip is Spring Training.  And probably Philly, Baltimore, and Washington with my dad.  Baseball away from Queens may still be fun (actually I did Philly when the Mets were there and baseball away from Queens still is fun).