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By COREY KILGANNONSEPT. 29, 2007
Frank Messina, 39, who writes of the Mets hopes and fears, and of the prospects, such as they are, of joy in Mudville.
Jacob Silberberg for The New York Times Frank Messina can be found at every Mets home game sitting in Box 257, Row F, down the right field line, scribbling hasty lines on ticket stubs, beer napkins and game programs.His self-proclaimed title, Mets Poet, is emblazoned across the back of his Mets jersey and printed on the season ticket holder plaque next to his seat.For much of the year, a feeling of weightless joy and images of grace and beauty have run through his work.In June, when the Mets were in first place, he stood on the outfield grass at Shea Stadium and videotaped his recital of “Leaping Gazelle,” a homage to the team’s second-string outfielder, Endy Chávez, “the graceful Metropolitan,” who has “the look of victory in his eyes.” Continue reading the main story
After watching the Mets lose Thursday night — the team’s 10th loss in its last 14 games — he left a hushed Shea Stadium, took two trains back to his home in Norwood, N.J., and composed “Victory’s Door,” which begins with this stanza:Do you know what it’s likeTo be chased by the Ghost of FailureWhile staring through Victory’s door?Of course you do, you’re a Mets fan.Max Siegal, an associate producer for “Mets Weekly,” a magazine show on SNY, the Mets’ cable television channel that has featured Mr. Messina several times, said the poet was struggling to express in words what many are feeling.“Being the poet for the Mets is quite a burden, especially now,” he said. “You’re not writing victory songs. Frank’s writing the story of calamity and collapse.”
As he said recently, “As a fan, my world is caving in because the Mets are collapsing, but as a poet, this is exactly what I write about.”“To write about the Mets is to write about losing and knowing how to lose,” he said. “That’s what it is to be a Mets fan.”Mr. Messina’s poems, which embrace many topics other than baseball, have been printed in books, journals and magazines and performed at readings and slams. They have been recited from the field at Shea Stadium (by him) and read over WFAN, the sports talk radio station (by one of its hosts, Joe Benigno).
Frank Messina, the Mets poet, visiting California. As a fan, my world is caving in because the Mets are collapsing, he said.
Christian Hansen In any case, Mr. Messina says his poetry is inspired by his passion, not by a desire for recognition.
In his poem, “Mets Fan,” he declares himself “a second-class citizen/ trapped in a first-rate city.”It is also to be “the outsider;/ Slumbering through broken dreams/ like an abandoned umbrella, blowing/ down Big Apple’s Broadway of ‘meaningless September.’”
“Most people don’t think of baseball as a typical poetry topic, but it has everything in human nature that makes for great writing,” Mr. Messina said recently in an interview. “It has victories and failures and struggles and angst.”Mr. Messina writes about some of the regulars in his section at Shea, like the man whose body is covered in Met tattoos, and the old beer vendor who wears his Purple Heart medal on his cap and relates his story about the Battle of the Bulge.
“No one would question a poet writing about love for a woman, but when you’re a fan of a team, the emotional attachment is even stronger, because women come and go, but your team never changes,” Mr. Benigno said. “People who are not sports fans don’t understand that.”While Mr. Messina and other Mets loyalists worry about what this final weekend of the regular season will bring, the fans of the Phillies are more accustomed to season finale heartbreaks.
Al Lesky, 56, from Shamong Township, N.J., near Philadelphia, remarked on Philadelphia teams’ history of losing seasons. The city has not won a major sports championship since 1983, and the fans still smart from the Phillies’ remarkable 1964 late season slide: after leading by 6 ½ games late in the season, the team lost the last 10 games and the pennant.“So maybe this year it will be some kid in North Jersey or Connecticut who will remember 20 years from now the Mets collapse,” Mr. Lesky said.
Mike Harris, a parking lot developer who plays basketball at the Sporting Club at the Bellevue, a gym in Philadelphia, was optimistic about the Phillies.“I figure they will win two of three and get in,” he said. “I’ve never felt that way before, since it is like a Philadelphian to think negatively. Somehow, things are different this year.”Mr. Messina is also optimistic. He describes a Mets collapse as having the epic proportions of the sacking of Troy or Lear losing his daughters. Still, he insists his Mets will “pull out a win by the skin of their cleats” and that the Phillies wind up in Mudville.