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Mets Fans Stopped Watching Baseball Months Ago Out of Habit

  • Ariel Rubin
  • Oct 22, 2015
  • 1 min read

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For the first time since 2006, the New York Mets clinched the NL East and are in the playoffs. However, many Mets fans are unaware of this due to the fact that every single one of them stopped watching baseball by the end of June.

"We're just so used to losing, you know? So we just stopped paying attention after a while," Robert Herring, 55, told The Freudian Slip. He has been a fan since 1986, coincidentally the last time the Mets won the World Series.

Some fans, so committed to losing, stopped watching as soon as first pitch of the season on April 6th, 2015 against the Washington Nationals.

"Well, to some people, it's just like, 'there goes the season,'" Herring commented. When Mr. Herring was informed that the Mets won that first game, his response was simply, "Yeah, but still."

Meanwhile, Chicago Cubs fans, who have not won a World Series since 1908, continue to gather dust.

 
 
 

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Hipster Quote of the Week:

" The message at the end of “The Tortoise and the Hare” isn’t that ‘slow and steady wins the race’, but actually a well-remembered quote from the 1977 Disney classic “A New Hope”: “Great kid! Don’t get cocky”. Bullshit that the hare was gonna lose that race if he didn’t choose to stop for a nap and a snack and whatever else he did. Bullshit that the tortoise was going to catch up in any capacity if the hare didn’t slow down for him. Maybe that platitude makes sense, but definitely not in this situation.

 

A race is a sheer contest of speed. No other skills go into that. The tortoise and the hare aren’t making miniature wooden horses and getting judged on the craftsmanship of their products alongside their finish time; they are moving from one point to another. In no universe does slow and steady win that race. Slow and steady wins no races, except for races where the point is to go as slow as possible. Even in cases where slow and steady could be considered a possible alternative to fast, such as the aforementioned miniature-wooden-horse-making competition, someone who can do similar quality work at a much faster pace still wins that competition.

 

Slow and steady does not win the race. Not being too full of yourself does.."

 

~Nick Gilfor

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