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Believeniks!: 2005: The Year We Wrote a Book About the Mets

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I picked up this book with excitement but it turned out to be a total waste of time. I learned nothing about the Mets season OR felt it was a worthy contribution to baseball writing. Would have given it zero stars if Amazon let me.

The book is basically an on-going writing conversation between two middle aged men named Ivan and Harris who have been friends and fellow Met fans for quite some time. Their conversation style is sophisticated and is certainly different than how your average sports fan talks. At times, its like listening to Dennis Miller when he made obscure references while broadcasting on Monday Night Football. Therefore, your average fantasy playing, diehard like myself is naturally going to lose interest at times. Its nice to rehash parts of the 2005 Mets season, and its even nicer at the points when their honest thoughts mirror your own. There are moments when you fondly remember small parts of the season. However, I found myself skipping through the non baseball talk, and therefore ended up missing the key point when Harris started courting and becoming engaged with Ivan's 20-something daughter. So, once I realized what was going on, I had to go back and reread. And it does get a bit fascinating when Ivan gives his backhanded blessing to the pending marriage, and it does give the reader the sense of awkwardness in being in the middle of a middle aged man dating the 20-something daughter of a lifelong friend.

Overall, the book is good for someone that considers themselves cultered and a Met fan. But if you're the average sports die hard, read Adam Rubin's book instead. I can best describe this as the movie Lost In Translation smashing into the 2005 Mets season.