Today is the second game of the Nats three game series with the Mets. With NYC just a few hours from Washington, I have trekked up to the city for the game and I’m hopeful, even if the Post is not. I will be going to the game with many Mets fans, but I plan to bring my Nats Pride.At the beginning of this blog, we, the three girls, said we wanted to chronicle our ever growing love for baseball. For me, the Mets have a special place in my own history with baseball and I would like to share that. I grew up in a small town in the Rocky Mountains without an MLB team in near proximity. In fact, it wasn’t until the mid 1990s when the Rockies moved to Colorado that we had a team close by– and that was still a 10 hour drive. Needless to say, I did not root for a team because I never got the MLB experience as a child. My mother, on the hand, who grew up in the same MLB free environment, could not be more different. As a child in the 1950s and 1960s, she picked the NY Mets to be her team. The Mets were dismal at that time, but my mother says she always roots for the underdog. In the early 60s the Mets were known as the “Loveable Losers,” yet in 1969 they were the World Series Champs. For me, the Nats are just a “loveable,” and while we may not recreate the magical 1969 World Series win the Mets did, I still have hope we will improve– heck, we might even win today!
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April 14th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Heck, with a 3-2 loss yesterday, anything is possible today!