{"id":1245,"date":"2011-05-06T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2011-05-06T09:01:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:01:25","slug":"sisyphus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/05\/06\/sisyphus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mets Sisyphean Task"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mother’s always sending me odd Mets\/baseball cartoons she sees. \u00a0This one, and I’m not sure where it’s originally from, came\u00a0in the mail the other day.\u00a0 If you don’t know who Sisyphus was, here’s his Wikipedia <\/a>page.\u00a0 Basically it’s a Greek myth\u00a0about a king who tried to outsmart Zeus and was punished\u00a0by being forced to push a boulder up a hill\u00a0for all eternity.\u00a0 Just when the ball reaches the top, it would fall back to the bottom.<\/p>\n

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Presumably this is a statement on the Mets quest for a championship.\u00a0 Everytime things start to get good, the boulder roles back to the beginning.\u00a0 Perhaps it’s Sisyphus in the back of peoples’ minds when they call for a fire sale.\u00a0 After all, Sisyphus doesn’t start pushing the boulder again when it’s only rolled halfway back down.\u00a0 I have no idea why the Mets player is wearing #1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the cartoon is only referring to the Mets of recent times, since they have successfully pushed the boulder to the top twice in their history.\u00a0 Although perhaps the last time it was about to fall it got stuck on Bob Stanley and Bill Buckner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The cartoon might be better attributed to baseball as a whole.\u00a0 To win a championship a team has to accomplish so many tasks, from signing and promoting the right players, maintaining health and effectiveness, successfully navigating a tricky 162 game season and finally three quick-shot short playoff series before the end and it can certainly seem daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mother’s always sending me odd Mets\/baseball cartoons she sees. \u00a0This one, and I’m not sure where it’s originally from, came\u00a0in the mail the other day.\u00a0 If you don’t know who Sisyphus was, here’s his Wikipedia page.\u00a0 Basically it’s a Greek myth\u00a0about a king who tried to outsmart Zeus and was punished\u00a0by being forced to … <\/p>\n

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