Hank Azaria Perfectly Explains the Special Suffering of Mets Fans

It makes sense that a man of so many voices would know exactly how to put the most intense of feelings into words with a deft kind of touch. Comedian Hank Azaria absolutely nailed it when discussing his New York Mets fandom Friday on "The Lead," a podcast on The Athletic.

The star of the IFC original series "Brockmire," in which he appears as a baseball play-by-play commentator, Azaria is most famous for his longtime voice acting work on "The Simpsons" as such characters as Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, and Dr. Nick Riviera. But when discussing his beloved Mets, we got perhaps the most brutally honest and introspective version of Azaria possible.

Truly, Azaria credits the New York Mets with his sense of humor.

"Comedy is born out of pain and isolation and feeling seperate and being sort of downtrodden, and a real emotional need to amuse yourself, to cheer up, to see the bright side." he said. "You can see how that would come in handy for a Mets fan."

And how!

The Mets are truly one of the most dismal and choke-prone teams in the last few decades of sports. From the famous collapse of 2007 to World Series defeats in 2000 and 2015 to a series of hard-luck injuries highlighted by Yoenis Cespedes' freak accident, Mets fans have had to deal with a whole lot of pain over the years.

The Mets really cannot catch a break. It makes sense that Azaria and Mets fans around the baseball world would have to retreat to comedy as a way to cope with all the pain.

Well, at least star first baseman Pete Alonso is still optimistic.

Maybe it's time to give Hank a courtesy call, Polar Bear!