What A Twist!

Can't Stop The Bleeding found this 8/28/2008 on metstradamus.blogspot.com [flag]

You want to know what it's like to be a Mets fan? At about 11:00 every night (except for maybe a day off every three weeks), read "The Tortoise and the Hare". Don't read any other books except that one. Because the Mets season is the same damn story all the time ... the script doesn't change: Score a bunch of runs in the first three or four innings. Take a nap. Watch the other team pass you ... [link]

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The 2008 New York Mets : Gutless Pussies Or Amazin’ Paragons Of Bouncebackability?
Published 8/28/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
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