http://patell.org/2007/10/the-crypto-history-of-the-historic-collapse-of-the-new-york-mets/ Cyrus R. K. Patell's Website Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:30:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://patell.org/2007/10/the-crypto-history-of-the-historic-collapse-of-the-new-york-mets/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · What Can We Learn from New York (Yankee) History? Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:29:09 +0000 http://patell.org/wordpress/?p=14#comment-30 [...] Context is everything. I started watching baseball as a third-grader in New York in the fall of 1969, so I became a Mets fan. I’ve been one ever since, through good times, bad times, and ugly times. I’ve even held myself personally responsible for some of those ugly times (this year included), as the result of a certain bargain I made during the sixth game of the 1986 World Series. I’ve written about that on my site patell.org in a piece called “The Crypto-History of the Historic Collapse of the New York Mets.” [...] [...] Context is everything. I started watching baseball as a third-grader in New York in the fall of 1969, so I became a Mets fan. I’ve been one ever since, through good times, bad times, and ugly times. I’ve even held myself personally responsible for some of those ugly times (this year included), as the result of a certain bargain I made during the sixth game of the 1986 World Series. I’ve written about that on my site patell.org in a piece called “The Crypto-History of the Historic Collapse of the New York Mets.” [...]

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