New York Mets

You can't really blame them.

The New York Mets (also known as The Metropolitans and The Amazins') are a Major League baseball team that plays in the East division of the National League. They play at Citi Field, a collection of bleachers constructed in the middle of the concrete wasteland called Flushing Meadow. In ancient history, the Mets won one World Series (in 1969) and were provided with another (in 1986). More recently, they've become known for spectacular failures at the end of regular seasons.

Mets TV play-by-play announcer Gary Cohen is a Columbia College alumnus, having begun his broadcasting career at WKCR, where he called soccer games with George Stephanopoulos. Before this causes you to jump onto the Mets bandwagon, don't forget that his color commentator, Ron Darling, is a member of the Axis of Evil.

Mets fans tend to be simultaneously optimistic, fatalistic, and perpetually anguished. In other words, they tend to be like Columbia students.