"In sports, anything can happen once," New York Mets General Manager Omar Minaya told a hastily assembled Queens, New York press conference. "But until you do it over and over, it's a fluke. This September, we will show the fans that last September was no accident."
The Mets, Minaya told reporters, have been preparing for weeks to relax and finally lose their tenuous grip on first place in the National League East, a division marked by a combination of parity and mediocrity for the 17th straight year.
"We aren't quitters," Minaya explained. "We're losers. There's a difference. Quitters stop trying. Losers just...I don't know. Lose."
Last season, the Mets' historic collapse with less than a week to go in the regular season surprised even longtime baseball observers, who thought the team would go deep into the postseason. This year's team is looking to repeat history, never an easy thing to accomplish in major league sports.
"We could keep on winning," Minaya said, "but so what? In this town, 'Yankees Lose' is always a headline on the back page. 'Mets Win' is something you have to dig for. It's dispiriting."
Minaya promised to keep the team's losing ways intact both this season and into the future.
"With the roster we've got, and the Mets' tradition of miserable baseball punctuated by one-year dynasties, we expect to keep the late season collapses coming for a long, long time."
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Found you through BlogCatalog. I have to say, this blog is funnier than I thought it would be. This sure has an "Onion" feel to it.
This post in particular is one of my early favorites, and I'm definitely sending this one along :)
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