Night Owl Cards

( Today is "Smile Power Day." On a Monday? You've got to be joking. It's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 35 th in a series): There isn't any major league team that I feel more conflicted over than the New York Mets . I have mentioned before that my grandfather was a Mets fan. Once a week we would go to my grandparents' house, sit on the floor, eat chocolate ice cream and drink orange soda, listen to "Meet the Mets ," and watch the team squander away another win (this was the late 1970s). So, when I think of the Mets that way, I have great affection for them. But there is another side to the Mets . There is the 1986 Mets side. Lenny Dykstra , Gary Carter, Darryl Strawberry. Bleech . There is the 1988 Mets . I wanted that team to DIE. There is Jose Reyes, Lastings Milledge . The 2006 Mets . I wanted that team to lose as painfully as possible. Yadier Molina, let me buy you a drink. A lot of people want to make the Mets lovable or cud...