I stopped paying attention to baseball the year of the strike. The Mets, a team I had rooted for since I was 7 or 8 years old, were the highest paid team in baseball that year. Despite this, they managed to spend the season at the bottom of their division and were involved in a number of unsavory incidents, including Vince Colman blinding a child on the west coast in a fireworks incident and one of the pitchers dousing the press corps with bleach in revenge for unfavorable coverage of his outings on the mound. Then they went on strike and said ‘give us more money, we deserve to be better paid’ and I said ‘Fuck off.’

I’ve stood by my guns for like 10 years now.

Still, I usually watch the World Series and some of the divisional playoff games. I caught most of the Series games this year and have to say, especially in terms of high drama, that they were better than even my previous favorite, the Mets win over the Red Sox in 86. 3 9th inning 2 out comebacks in one series? Incredible, just incredible. Will I return to being a fan? No. They’re still spoiled overpaid jocks and the games pacing is too slow. But hats off to the Diamondbacks and Yankees for an incredible World Series nonetheless.