From then until now there was a sense among Mets fans of a righteous collision course, a fantasy that Piazza would lead the collective assault on Clemens, rock him and sock him and tie this series as it went to Shea.
It is not too late to rediscover the righteous anger that coursed through the veins of the Levellers and the Diggers, of Wat Tyler and Thomas Paine.
Chesty, narrow-waisted heroes in bright colors battled their enemies with righteous confidence and, of course, laser guns.
It was Def Jam that cut loose the white juvenilia of the Beastie Boys' first album, Licensed to Ill, and, of course, the righteous polemicising of Public Enemy.
The school board meets to reconsider its move; at the meeting, a hundred and sixty-six people speak, each for three minutes, "by turns pro, con, eloquent, inarticulate, sentimental, arrogant, humble, coolly analytical, belligerently nationalistic, self-righteous, philosophical, and, of course, unassailably patriotic".
The two organisations' high watermark came in April 1978 with a "carnival" in Victoria Park, east London, which filled up with tens of thousands of people who had marched seven miles from Trafalgar Square: watch YouTube footage of the performance by the Clash, and you get a sense of the righteous energy that was coursing around.
The holy lamb of the title is surrounded by almost 300 figures, including virgins, bishops, angels, knights and, of course, the ten righteous judges.
Of course, there were honest righteous people, religious and high-minded people, who spoke out against excesses and abuses.
When he discovers that Canning is turning the reserve into a golf course, Adam's sense of righteous betrayal prompts the development of his relationship with Baby, Canning's beautiful black wife, from poetic to carnal.
Oh, the righteous fury, the excellent sandwiches, and of course, Henry Porter, all ruffly hair and crumpled folder, swooping in and out of the hall and lobby, a sort of benign Phantom of the Convention.
