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my team leads all sports in quantity and quality of devastating losses since i was born

And let me explain what I mean by that before you go all WELL THE PADRES THIS or THE MARINERS THAT. Yes, I know they haven't sniffed a World Series "success" and we have. That's fine. That's not my point. I'm not saying the Mets are less succesful than those teams. I'm saying the losses the Mets experience, and the hope they give you is crushed, day to day year to year, more often than any team I know. At least over the last 10 years. because in the early 90s they were your standard run of the mill bad team. Those losses don't hurt as much as the ones that matter. Because the Mets have never won it all, every important game they lose that impacts them winning it all is all the more painful.

Blown leads, catastrophic injuries in tandem with losses, coming very close to winning late and losing anyway, mounting a comeback and achieving it but then losing anyway. losses on embarrassing plays like dropped pop ups, walkoff balks, walkoff walks, or pitching a CGSHO after a long rain delay, and you stay up til 1 AM to watch your pitcher spinning this amazing 1-hitter and taking a 1-0 game all the way to the 9th with a 1 hitter still going until you lose on a walk and a walkoff home run.

THOSE kind of games we have in ample amounts.
So when I complain and shit it's all heartcrushign memories like that. It's not just losing a bunch of games, its how they're lost, and how painful they are. And often times it's the context, like I said being surrounded by injuries, or blown 8.5 game division leads in September where in the final game you just need a win and your starter gives up 7 runs in 0.1 Innings, or losing the World Series because you blew 8th inning leads in 3 different games, twice due to stupid errors- or after making whats considered the most amazing catch in baseball history in a game 7 NLCS game, you lose anyway next inning when Yadier Bleepin Molina hits a home run, and your best hitter strikes out on a nasty Wainwright curveball with the bases loaded and 2 out, or you somehow make it to the NL Wild Card game despite overcoming ridiculous injury odds only to lose when some guy no one has ever heard of hits a 9th inning 3 run homer (and naturally your ace matches 0's with Bumgarner).

How about you finish the World Series, and you are devastated because of the way you lost it, but you're optimistic for the future because you have all these stud pitchers and you honestly think (and rightly so) that the team should be set for years to come and should be a perennial playoff contender because of all their young pitching talent? What about when the very next year all of them get hurt, and 3 of them have their careers permanently ruined by these injuries, and all 3 are never the same again?
What about all the optimism then?

I mean i could go on and on and on, and have an endless amount of unbelievably painful losses like that , and sure everyone has their share, but no one has NEARLY as many as the Mets do. And I can't prove that but they have just so many, I doubt anyone is close.

So that's all and if you don't like me complaining about all this , I mean ,in this particular example the bottle was opened and it all spilled out so it can't be contained. But just understand my bitching is 100% completely warranted given the pain and suffering this team has caused in extreme ample amounts every year, every day of my life. Like just this week they blew games three days in a row with 6th inning leads!!! And they lost Syndergaard and Matz and Flores (and others) to injuries! I'm not allowed to complain about that?
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