as the perfect metaphor – charge the season and then OOPS!

Maybe because I haven’t seen it before and it made me laugh the most, but falling over right from the start was exactly what the ‘08 M’s were all about. Felix getting hurt is more of a representation of Seattle sports in general to me.

On a related note, I or M would work great for the Angels’ year (or A for the Mets’ last two)…

It epitomizes the epic fail at even the simplest tasks that was Seattle ’08

Lawn Dart perfectly conveys the comical ineptitude of this team.

P. Miguel Cairo makes the team (bringing a knife to a gun fight).

Seeing the ball roll for a few seconds then watching Raul shoot by arms flailing is classic.

Perfectly encapsulates the fail of 08.

3 events happened in this clip which can be seen to sum up our season. First, the M’s tried to do well (WFB running hard). Second, the M’s failed (WFB getting called out). Third, the team imploded (WFB collapsing in pain).

seeing as I was at the game and all… damn it, Raul >:(

Raul’s were hilarious, but I cant use a Raul gif to sum up the failures of this season cause Raul was a beast with the bat.

And the robbery of home runs and getting thrown out at the plate indicates metaphorically that we were close to success but have bad luck or were just an inch short of success. That obviously wasn the case.

The Vidro gif sums up the yr. Pathetic veteran hitting himself in the face chasing a bad pitch.

Early season hopes of being at least respectable being embarrassingly thrown into the ground. I’m pretty sure that was the exact point where I realized that this team was terrible and nothing could be done to salvage the season.

Because for every good thing that happened this season, it was immediately followed by garbage. That was 2008.

In encapsulates the inevitable futility of the year. From another angle, it suggests that at some point, even Gameday decided it didn’t give a shit.

And not just because it’s probably the funniest gif I’ve ever seen.

This season began in the heat of a long-running argument about the Bedard trade. With a record payroll and expectations as high as they’d been since 2002 or 2003.
The suddenness, the comprehensiveness and the…creativeness of the ineptitude this season was something I don’t think I’ve seen before. For those of us that don’t have to write about this shit every day, there really was something fascinating in this season, like the music of The Shaggs or other outsider art.

All of this is summed up in that magisterial “throw.” The argument about LF defense, the expectation of a close play, the can’t-turn-away beauty of a play so terribly NEW. Once this season was lost, and you can argue that happened in April, most of us were tuning in (if we did) simply to see how bad it was going to get. Raul Ibanez showed us that this question can never really be answered in his interpretive dance entitled “There is no floor.”

Seeing that IN PERSON was one of the greatest moments of my life. I knew ‘this is why I am a Ms fan.’

Then again, I also saw the Lowe wild pitch in person too……..

I should either NEVER go to another M’s game, or go to ALL of them.

G had the most complete metaphor for the organization’s expectations and results: Yuni expects to score but instead runs face first into a shin guard.

I also liked K (Raul falls down) for the subtle irony of the giant WaMu sign in the background of the shot.