phdave wrote:Napalm wrote:It was after the Mets had reached the NLCS and were the clear favorites in the division for the forthcoming year. Obviously their collapse played a big part in it, but he put our up and coming team on the map with his season/our comeback. The rest is history.
I wonder how much the team to beat quote messed with their minds. They blew their chance at the WS and then here was someone from a team that hadn't been in the playoffs in 13 years saying that THEY were the team to beat? And they reacted to it like a team that wasn't extremely confident. They were bothered by it. It's fun for me to think that him saying that actually contributed to their collapse because at the end of the season, after the Phillies swept them in that 4 game series, they started wondering, maybe it is true.
That's so funner. Without a doubt it had to have bothered them. Not even 1 year later, Beltran was ripping that line off in spring training, saying the Mets were the team to beat. Of course, they mini-collapsed, and the Phils eventually won the world series that postseason. And then after that, K-Rod said that they were the team to beat after he signed his contract.
It's funny, because the Mets are so irrelevant right now, yet we take such glee in their misery, and Mets fans seem to believe we're obsessed with them. It seems the opposite is true, Beltran and K-Rod are pretty good evidence, copypasta'ing J-roll year after year. IN THEIR HEADS, WE DID IT
