NY Times covered the Mets win with a 1908 style

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NY Times covered the Mets win with a 1908 style

PostFri Oct 23, 2015 1:08 pm

Check this out! They really went old school:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015 ... .html?_r=3
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Re: NY Times covered the Mets win with a 1908 style

PostFri Oct 23, 2015 1:25 pm

Uh.....what does Sisyphean mean???
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Re: NY Times covered the Mets win with a 1908 style

PostFri Oct 23, 2015 1:32 pm

Musial6 wrote:Uh.....what does Sisyphean mean???


Refers to Greek myth of Sisyphus(sp?) who is doomed to roll a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down just before it reaches the top.
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Re: NY Times covered the Mets win with a 1908 style

PostFri Oct 23, 2015 1:41 pm

ScumbyJr wrote:
Musial6 wrote:Uh.....what does Sisyphean mean???


Refers to Greek myth of Sisyphus(sp?) who is doomed to roll a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down just before it reaches the top.



I see - sort of like Lucy always yanking the football away from Charlie Brown as he runs up to kick it?

I wouldn't have thought the Wrigley faithful would have appreciated their team being called sissys!!!
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Re: NY Times covered the Mets win with a 1908 style

PostFri Oct 23, 2015 1:53 pm

Musial6 wrote:
ScumbyJr wrote:
Musial6 wrote:Uh.....what does Sisyphean mean???


Refers to Greek myth of Sisyphus(sp?) who is doomed to roll a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down just before it reaches the top.



I see - sort of like Lucy always yanking the football away from Charlie Brown as he runs up to kick it?

I wouldn't have thought the Wrigley faithful would have appreciated their team being called sissys!!!


Exactly.
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Re: NY Times covered the Mets win with a 1908 style

PostFri Oct 23, 2015 7:43 pm

I guess if you're going to gloat, might as well go whole-hog.

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