October 16

What can you say about the Mets down three games to none one run down with six outs to go Cedeno singles steals second Mora walks they pull off a double steal and Olerud singles them home off the previously unhittable John Rocker (look at his eyes, he's so intense he looks cross-eyed) and we're still alive and I'm still fourteen years old and the kids in the movie about summer camp are beatniks and this is the 1960s the early 1960s of Maury Wills on the basepaths and Ray Charles on the radio and chemistry biology geometry locker-room cruelty and daily masturbation what a relief to return to 1999 in time for Benitez to strike out the Braves' last batter