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At this point I'm not even putting them in rank order, just brainstorming...

1992
2002
2007
2008

I suppose some M Donald Grant team from the 70's/80's makes it...

I'd still go with '92 because of Vince "firecracker" and Bobby Bo....

Last year with the collapse is up there....

But so is this one...

lgm6986

1987 was tough to take. Wasn't that the year Strawberry and McReynolds were prancing around the Wrigley Field clubhouse in their underwear while their teammates were furiously rallying from a 6 run 9th inning deficit in a game they both thought had ended? Strawberry struck out swinging on a terrible pitch to end it if my memory serves.

bornredhead2

1992 is still tops on the list but 07-08 (same **** team, different year) is really giving them a run for the money. Really.

I've never really hated any other version. Cursed the hell out of them, yes. Hated, no.

BigMouthBillyBass

Interesting that 2003 isn't on that list. I didn't really hate that team because they had almost zero talent, so they didn't underachieve, and I think they tried hard despite their limitations.

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lgm6986

This one is surpassing that Saberhagen/Coleman/Murray/Bonilla/WILLIE F*CKING RANDOLPH!!! team. I think it actually has it beat. The only thing that gives me pause is that at least most of the players on this team seem like decent human beings. Those guys were a bunch of douche bags.

Busyman

1992-93 still gets the edge, ONLY for the Vince Coleman firecracker incident. It's going to be hard to top that douchebaggery...

But as each day passes, this team is making quite a case to be #1.

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METSSC

I never really hated a team before this one.

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GET THE PIECE OF CRAP McGimpy OFF MY TEAM NOW!!!!!

The McGimpy does most things upside down: eats, sleeps (an average of 23 hours per day), mates, and gives birth. Because of the McGimpy's upside down life, many of the McGimpy's internal organs (liver, stomach, spleen, pancreas) are in different positions from other mammals. McGimpy sometimes lets out a cry or hissing sound.

During the rare times the McGimpy goes down to the ground (such as to change trees for food), it moves very slowly.

SELL THE TEAM NOW!!!!!!!!

This team. Sorry, but I have NEVER hated a Mets team like I hate this one. It's not that they're bad guys like some of the other teams mentioned. It's that they are a bunch of pansy-assed pussies.

Total choke artists and losers. I am madly in hate.

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bornredhead2

That's why I still put 92 ahead. Low-life scum a$$holes > lazy, uninspired a$$holes. Close call though.

You just answered your own question as to why 03 isn't on the list. For myself, I can't hate a team that at least attempts to put forth an effort. Or at the very least look like they give a ****.

Busyman

2003 was a lousy year, but everyone who was worth hating was gone by the all-star break. After that it wasn't worth getting mad at a team that just was bad...and at least they tried for the most part. They just weren't any good.

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lgm6986

That 1993 team actually played its collective ass off. They just plain sucked. It was painful to endure but at least they tried. I mean, Eric Hilman?

Busyman

My dad had weekend season tickets that year. We went to about 20 games and saw them win a grand total of 1 game.

Dad didn't mind, since there usually wasn't much traffic.

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MajorRanger35

This one. FWIW, I've been following the Mets since 1991.

lgm6986

In 1993 I was at one of the longest rain delays in MLB history. They were playing the Giants and we actually waited there for over 3.5 hours for play to resume. As soon as it did, Barry Bonds hit one off the aforementioned Eric Hilman that I think landed in Albany. It was 243 degrees. It was also towel day. Both my new, paper-thin towel and I were soaked.

Masters of Superiority

The 2007 team is the most detestable, because they had by far the most talent, had the lead from the beginning of the season to the last few days, and lost it to an injury-plagued, less talented team because they simply "got bored." Eff them, and this less talented but a tiny bit more likable bunch.

(Church over Mota alone makes it more likable).

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"Here's the pitch, slow and straight...
All I have to do is swing and I'm a hero...
But I'm a zero..."

-- Weezer, "Perfect Situation"... and the 2008 Mets