I would love to be a fly on the wall in the mets locker room tonight (minus the Church injury). I’ve been reading the mets are on the brink of implosion and a day like today can’t help. The Braves hadn’t swept a double header since 2003, and then to take both games here, in such embarrassing fashion (from the mets perspective), it has got to sting.

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I found "Miracle Season," a book by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the 1991 season and made just after it, at a thrift store today for about .65 and bought it. I figured some select passages would be humorous in retrospect. Just flipping through the book, here are some:

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The Brave got back to a little ABC baseball today. Until the seventh, all the runs were driven in by singles and sac flies. Throw in a bunt and a couple productive outs, great pitching, and you’ve got a nice Braves win. While sitting around waiting for the three run home run is nice, it’s good to know when it doesn’t happen, the Braves can still score runs.

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ESPN - Mets vs. Braves - Box Score - May 20, 2008

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There once was a manager named Willie,
Who drove all the tabloid writers silly.
But what’s really funny
Is that with all their money
The Mets finished after Atlanta and Philly.

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