The worst kept secret around the Mount was confirmed on the Tri-County Fastball League's website this week, The Mets have left Mt Elgin for Tillsonburg, there hasnt been an anouncement if they will stay the Mets or change to the Bulldogs or rename it a completely different name.
The Mets lasted 6 years in the Mount and brought Fastball fans in the village their first taste of Fastball action since the Mounties Left in 2000. It wasn't always pretty, most nights the Mets took it on the chin, but they always battled hard.
Their last season in the Mount will always be remembered for their first playoff series win when they defeated the Ingersoll Masters in 4 games, a surprising feat considering they lost all 22 regular season tilts, The Mets most succesful regular season was 2007 when they went 6-22, which was also the season I spent half the season as the First base coach and also suited up for 3 games in Goderich for a tournament. As for how all the politics started with the move out of town some of the team thought that Ryan Fewster was too hard on the guys during the year, well guys I hate to break it to you but this is competitive ball coaches and vetrans will be hard on guys when they dont play well. I know, I lived thru some of Bobby Gillow's post game talks when I played in Ayr, if we played like crap Bobby would tell you, we had a game in Burgessville in 09 where we got hammered 14-4 and played like crap doing it and Bobby laid into the whole team, guess what? next game we took his speech of questioning our pride in our play and won our next game. Good luck in Tillsonburg, with the lack of leadership running that team I can't see them winning a whole lot of games.
To the Mets, thanks for the memories, even though there were more low lights than wins along the way, and maybe someday Fastball will make it's way back to the Mount, but just one suggestion. Can we name the team the Mounties please?
