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I missed this from a few days ago, so I'll pass it along as a Christmas present to all you Mets fans out there!
Some preview! -- Merry Christmas Mets fans!
10 minutes of shame: I was working the night of July 30, 2004 and still remember picking up the phone with Adam Rubin on the other end, "The Mets just traded Kazmir," he said. I was floored. When I heard who they traded him for, I nearly threw the phone and my computer out the window (however, the Daily News windows are about 20 feet above the floor, so it would have been tough). Anyway, cleary the worst trade of the decade was sending Scott Kazmir to Tampa for Victor Zambrano and Bartolome Fortunado. The famous story goes that pitching guru Rick Peterson OK'd the trade by Jim Duquette, saying he could fix Zambrano in 10 minutes. Hah. The Mets also traded for Kris Benson that same day, ending Wiggy's - my favorite Mets of the decade - time in New York. It was a classic Met move as they were 6 games behind the Braves in the East at the deadline, and somehow thought they had a chance to catch them. Of course, they went into Atlanta and got swept, the highlight being the middle game of the series, which Benson lost 8-0. Three days after the trade deadline the Mets were 9 games out. Oh the pain. Of course, the deal did bring us Anna Benson, so maybe it wasn't a bad thing after all.
Hello, Kaz: The Mets got us all excited in December of 2003 when they signed the great Kaz Matsui to a 3-year, $20.1M deal. How great was this guy? He was so great, the Mets even moved prized shortstop prospect Jose Reyes to second base to make room for Matsui. It started well, when Matsui - doing something he would do for three years in a row - homered in his first at-bat of the season (off Atlanta's Russ Ortiz I believe), but then immediately went into the tank, in the field and at the plate.
2. 2006: Swing, Carlos, Swing: Where do you begin with Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS? Do you start with Jeff Suppan shutting down our mighty lineup for the second time in the series? Do you start with Endy Chavez's amazing catch off of Scott Rolen? Or how about Jose Valentin striking out with runners on second and third and one out a half-inning later, when really any sort of contact would've won the Mets the game? Then there was Yadier Molina crushing a two-run homer off of Aaron Heilman in the top of the ninth to give the Cards the lead, topped by Randolph sending a hobbled Cliff Floyd up to the plate with the tying runs on first and second and nobody out looking for a home run in an obvious bunting situation. But, of all the disasters in the game, the final insult came when Carlos Beltran - a man who earned his trillion dollar deal from the Mets due to his incredible postseason heroics in Houston two years earlier - stood at the plate with the bases loaded, two outs and the Mets down two runs. It's a situation every kid dreams of being in, hitting the pennant-winning homer. But Beltran, who had a great postseason, kept the bat on his shoulder as Adam Wainwright's nasty curve broke over the plate to end the game and the series. It was painful enough to lose to the Cards, but when they went on to crush Detroit in the World Series, all Met fans realized the 2006 Mets - unquestionably the best Met team of the decade - was pretty much one hit away from winning the World Series. It's hard to believe there is a moment more painful, more embarrassing, more humiliating than this one, but I present the Bitterest Met moment of the decade.
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