For years, my relationship with my father was centered around us both cheering for, and mourning over, the losing team. What if we’d already won?
history there were three cherished home teams — the Yankees, the Dodgers, and the Giants — until some time circa the 1950s when the latter two skipped town for California. Fans mourned the loss of their cherished boys in bluetheir boys in orange until the New York Metropolitan Baseball Club came along in 1962.
I remember fragments of the trip: the winding concrete ramps leading to the upper decks, the orange seats that snapped up when you stood, my dads bearded face shaded from the afternoon sun by his bright blue Mets hat. Only one season after my inaugural trip to Shea Stadium, I experienced my first true heartbreak — it began with a fantastic regular season led by manager Bobby Valentine and my hero Mike Piazza, the team’s infamous slugger and catcher. The Mets nearly lost their place in the postseason, falling just one game behind those wretched Atlanta Braves.
My father, of course, knew exactly how to handle the situation. He held me as I cried, dried my tears, and smoothed out the shoulders of my new Piazza T-shirt. “You Gotta Believe,” he reminded me. “You Gotta Believe!” I chanted back. I was on a party bus when I received the push notification telling me the Mets had done it: They were headed to the postseason. As the bus pulled into the Red Rocks Amphitheater parking lot for an event aptly dubbed “Rowdy Town,” I did the unthinkable, tossing my red Solo cup to the side and running off the bus as fast as possible: I called my dad and begged to fly back to New York immediately. “This might never happen again!” I yelled over the crowd of partiers.
So when the Mets beat the Cubs for the fourth time, sweeping the National League Championship and moving on to the World Series, for the second time that month, I boarded the cheapest red-eye flight I could find back to New York. Back in Colorado I mourned. “There’s always next season,” my dad reminded me over the phone as I wailed, lying in my college bedroom. “Ya gotta believe!”
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