Q&A Weekend - Being A Mets Fan in the 70s

Long Island Met Fan said: - 



when the Mets are bad and football starts people tend to move on. Honestly some of us diehards just settle down for another sub par off season and remember the good ole days....Sorry cant remember them..lol...we always have a post or 2 for us diehards check us and when we have time we rehash about being a met fan in the 70's and 80's - http://www.longislandmetfan.blogspot.com

-Wow. Being a Mets fan in the 70's. Boy, was that an easy thing to be.

See, I like sites like yours. They are fun, they are factual, and they teach the reader. It's the ones that keep trying to trash the team, or ask the question 'what if so-in-so was on the team' that drive me nuts. I have a hard enough time keeping track of who is on the team than to worry whether or not they trade for someone named "so-and-so".

I lived and worked in Manhattan in the 70's, for a company called The Katz Agency, then WKTU-FM radio. I spent a considerable amount of time on the 7 train and rooting for the likes of  Del Unser, Mike Vail and a third baseman named Joe Torre.

Those of us that have been around since 1962 know this has never been a big-market team. It just lives in New York City.

I grew up a Dodger fan and the one thing us and the Giants fans had in common in those days is the fact that we never considered our team in the same league as the Yankees. And we didn't mind that our team was inferior.

Today's it's WHIP, and FIP, and BABIP. Whips were either something nuns used when they lost their ruler, or handed out at Plato's Retreat.

All I remember was going to a game, either at Ebbets Fields, the Polo Grounds in 1962, or Shea, and going home either in a good mood because my team won, or pissed off that they lost.

That's what baseball was to me, and still is.