Undying loyalty: Teams that you have supported through thick and thin?

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. The Mets have been one of my top four or five ball clubs

since 1969, if not before. I've almost always sided with the underdog, and they were certainly that for their first six seasons. Then Tom & Jerry -- and Hodges -- started to bring them around a bit in '68, and '69 was, of course, amazin'. Truly. The images of Tug McGraw throwing his glove 30 feet in the air, Koosman leaping into the arms of Jerry Grote (or was it J.C. Martin?) and that unbelievable Game 5 catch by Ron Swoboda (still the greatest catch I've ever seen) are forever frozen in my mind.

If they can't hurt the Dodgers in any way, I'll still pull for the Mets.