
(image from artnet.com)
A few years ago I was at a client's art auction and one of the lots they were selling was a Lee Friedlander photograph titled "My Entire Team Sucks". I thought about buying it but later thought it was a bit silly for the time as the Mets were in the middle of their 2006 dominance.
Now that I look back I wish that I did purchase it because the M.E.T.S acronym is very appropriate and it might have turned out to be a better investment than putting my money into buying Citi stock.
I love the description of this photograph, and I quote:
Printed early 1990s. Lee Friedlander presents an oblique often refracted vision of the social landscape in America. Here he fixes on the rude and rueful lament of a New York Mets fan etched into a soaped shop window. The bleary upper levels of the tripartite composition reflect three rows of windows in a tenement façade opposite. The work is a wry tribute to the perennial disappointment of the sports fan.
Haha, that is fantastic! Oh well, *sigh* at least I accept that my entire team sucks.