This Amazin’ trip is all she wrote.
New York Mets followers have been left disenchanted, however not shocked when their group misplaced to the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-5 Sunday evening — accepting the loss after a magical postseason as a part of being a blue and orange fan whereas vowing to root in opposition to their crosstown rivals within the World Sequence.
“It’s at all times powerful if you get this shut. It breaks your coronary heart since you make investments a lot into your group all season lengthy, by means of the highs and the lows,” Lengthy Island resident Walter Nilsson, 60, advised The Put up at a watch occasion attended by hundreds at Citi Discipline Sunday.
“Then when the playoffs got here round and we had the tease of a Subway Sequence, issues actually acquired thrilling. It’s further salt within the wound that the Yankees made it to the ultimate sequence and we didn’t.
“However that’s what being a Mets fan is all about – simply selecting your self up the following 12 months and believing that that is it.”
The group hosted a viewing occasion at its dwelling discipline in Queens for Sport 6 of the NLCS by which the Mets performed an away recreation in opposition to the Dodgers.
However late within the recreation, because it appeared a Mets loss was inevitable, followers began streaming out of the venue for the final time this 12 months.
Sunnyside native Franky Bwire was once more confronted with the crushing feeling of defeat.
“I’m fairly depressed. It’s what I anticipated, however I’m nonetheless actually bummed out,” the 33-year-old fan mentioned. “We had the expertise, we had the administration, we had all of the items in place. However we simply couldn’t carry it dwelling, and it hurts. We simply weren’t ok, once more.”
With the New York Yankees clinching a World Sequence berth in a dramatic win over the Cleveland Guardians Saturday evening, Mets followers mentioned they haven’t any alternative however to root for the group that simply eradicated their ball membership.
“Dodgers all the best way, child. 5 minutes in the past I wished them to burn in hell, however from now until the tip of October I’m a diehard LA fan,” Lengthy Island resident Joe Viviani, 64, advised The Put up. “I hope they win in 4.”
“F–okay no I’m not for the Yankees. I don’t notably like LA proper now as a result of they simply whipped our a–, however I’d get at the very least a bit satisfaction seeing them do the identical to these full-of-themselves Yankees,” mentioned Lisa Krueger, 54, of Manhattan.
And Tim Murray, who’s from Queens, swore he would “by no means go for the Yankees.”
“The Dodgers denied us a Subway Sequence the place we’d’ve wrapped up the Yankees ourselves, so now we’re leaving it as much as them to do the job,” the 50-year-old claimed.
The Mets struggled to begin the season however went on an unimaginable run to achieve the postseason.
The group then topped the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies within the first two rounds earlier than dropping to the celebrity Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers.
“Hear, the higher group goes to the World Sequence, and my hat goes off to LA,” mentioned Luis Adames, 42, from Washington Heights. “However my hat goes off to the Mets as a result of they fought and fought and wouldn’t quit, and so they acquired us thus far. And if they will do it this 12 months, they’ve acquired the components to do it subsequent 12 months, so go Mets!”
And Lengthy Islander Ted Bureau is already prepared for subsequent 12 months.
“I like this group. They gave us a hell of a trip,” the 34-year-old advised The Put up.
“Who would have thought in June or July that we ever would have made it thus far? I give all of them the credit score on the planet. Yeah, I’m disenchanted, however these guys performed their hearts out,” he mentioned.
“They gave us a lot hope, and I’m happy with all of the followers who hung in there with them. On to 2025.”
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