No Garden party for Wright
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- January
- 15
Our Knicks writer, Mike Dougherty, messaged me that David Wright got booed at the Garden during the Knicks-Wizards game.
“When they showed him on the big screen, the fans booed the heck out of him. A few relented when he waved and smiled,” Mike wrote.
“Every time they have a Mets player on the screen this season, the fans go to town booing. They did it to (Carlos) Beltran earlier in the season.”
Wright really is the wrong target, but it isn’t hard to figure out why.
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...meanwhile in the ivory tower, Omar Minaya and the Wilpons spend the Winter acting like nothing bad happened. A slightly bad start and Shea might be torn down well before next Autumn.
I guess the bigger news that comes out of this Breaking News Story, people actually showed up to watch the Knicks …....... who cares
Mets players have been booed at MSG for as long as I can remember.
As long as New York is a Yankee town, the Mets'll be booed.
Ethan, "As long as New York is a Yankee town, the Mets’ll be booed."
Exactly. And given this offseason and the poor minors the Muts have and the unwillingness of the Coupons to go the extra yd for the best guy available (ie Santana, Arod, to name a couple), expect it to continue to be a Yankee town.
And for the Copouns to cry Boo-Hoo when the Yanks get the press.
At least I have my Giants.
Sorry for those who are Met-jet fans.
I can only take so much pain. I have to root for at least one winning org.
Scoop-Its not up to Wilpon to accept Omar's trade offer. And as far as A-Rod, dedicating $300 million to a single player can effectively cripple the franchise. Above that, where was the fit for him on this team? It would have been interesting to have A-Rod here for sure, but at the same time, not having him may be a good thing.
The Wilpon's have always spend money. The Coupons moniker is just ridiculous…Money has always been spent, perhaps not wisely, but this is a guy who took on nearly $160MM on just two players between 2004 and 2005.
This is all about the collapse. It has nothing to do with Mets/Yanks…. Are you telling me Mike Piazza, John Franco etc. were booed at the Garden… Never happened.
David should not be a proxy for the poor season. He was one of the brighter spots for this team.
Whatever! As long as we have idiots in the stands at Madison Square Garden, I guess we (and our players) can look forward to this kind of nonsense. Talk about having no class! F$%& 'em!
That just tells me that Yankee fans are the only ones dumb enough to go to the Knicks game. Being a Mets-jets fan may be painful at times, but it makes me a humble person, and thats way more important than being able to see your team win every year because the owner makes a circus act out of raising the payroll every year, playing FAKE baseball while he's at it. You can have your "Yankee town", that means nothing to me. I still will be able to watch the Mets and enjoy it just as much. Yankee baseball = boring, just as soap operas=boring, because you read about whats gonna happen beforehand.
Why would David Wright-or anyone-torture themselves by going to see the Knicks? As John says it is a bit unfair (Although Wright had a fielding gaffe) but it is understandable. The team had an historic collapse.
Wonder what the reaction will be at Shea or even down in ST?
Can you imagine what the reception would have been for TG?
Big deal. To those who seem offended by Wright being booed, what would you do if you were in the Garden or the Meadowlands and the big screen showed a picture of ARod or Jeter at the game. You'd boo and you know it.
How come harldy anyone seems to care whn the Met is booed on his home turf. Go back to last April. How fast we forget David Wright being booed at Shea!!!!!!!
And all Mets deserve to be booed now. Very few teams have the dishonor of such a great collapse on their back, with an ownership and front office who think its no big deal.
I was at MSG when Beltran was booed and there were fans in Mets hats standing and booing.
This "Knicks fans are Yankee fans" stuff is bull. It's part of the Met fans inferiority complex, always thinking someone's out to get us and always looking to blame someone. The implication is that Mets fans don't watch basketball but Yankee fans do…which makes no sense. Also, Mets fans sometimes forget that Yankee fans don't hate us nearly as much as we hate them. If the building were full of Yankee fans, they'd react with indifference more than anger.
The team stinks, they have had a disappointing offseason thus far, and so the fans are booing. They'll get booed on Opening Day as well unless they make a big splash between now and then…you can write that down.
Sometimes booing is appropriate, other times not. Isiah?, yes. Arod?, no. David Wright?, no. Glavine coming back to Shea with the Braves?, heck yeah! Knicks fans have talked alot about booing this year. The Knicks deserve it when it's obvious that they're making stupid decisions or not hustling. The NY baseball teams should not be booed for not winning a championship. They're competitive, they care, and they reward their fans.
Surprise!!!!
New York is a hard city to receive adulation in.
You win, you get cheered.
You lose, you get booed.
Not too many public appearances by any Metsies since September 30th. Therefore not too many opportunities to express the displeasure. Not suprising. New York's a tough, demanding town. I think David Wright knows that by now.
There'll be cheers opening day. Always are. Hope springs eternal.
I think I like Omar Padilla's response best. Shea will be torn down well before autumn. LOL!
Of course the Knick fans are watching the screen and booing. Watching the actual Knicks game is too depressing.
Wow…. Come here after a few months and guys are being passionate about Ryan Church!!!!!!! Why don't you all compromise and say he's average…....
As for Wright being booed. Anyone at a Knicks game deserves to be booed, including all the fans wasting their time there. Red Holtzman must be turning over in his grave to see what happened to this franchise.
Benny: Are you going to All Star game to watch Church? HAHAHA
Knick fans do seem to skew towards the Yankee side of the spectrum more than the Mets. Of course, if i am a Yankee fan, i am even more disapointed than a Mets fan….but then again i have a soul, so no worries about being a Yankee fan…. As for the booing, you'd think Knick fans would be "booed out" by now…
Who cares about the Knicks???
The Mets will face this for a long time until they win again. That is why I am so adamant that the needed to do some major things in the offseason. They needed desperately to change the mix of this team. The management refused and they will pay for this dearly. If they get off to a bad start look for some very angry crowds at Shea.
And to anyone who thinks only Yankee fans are at MSG then they are mistaken. I have been there for years, and the Mets players have always been warmly received. Sure some Yankee fans boo, but there was always Met fans to overshout them. Now, Met fans are angry, and not very supportive of the team. Mets managemen assured themselves of this negative reaction they will get by doing nothing to make the fans forget last season by doing some big things this offseason. Really too bad, but Mets management will learn the hard way what a mistake they made this offseason.
GOOD. I am glad they booed. That way they might remember that we are elephants and even though David Wright can go on tv three seconds after the World Series ended and laugh and joke about 07, we're still pissed.
Oh, and then the Mets RAISED ticket prices.
Oh, and then the Wilpons and Omar did bupkes during the winter. Oh, except the anti-semite scrub outfielder. It's too bad Jewish Heritage Day is at the end of the season.
I've read that most of the Knick's fans are also Yankee fans so I can understand why they boo…..intelligence is not one of their true traits…lol. I can't agree with anyone who says the boos are because Met's fans are angry with David Wright for last year's late season collapse. His finish was strong and maybe the Met's would have looked even worse (if that is at all possible) had he not had such a strong offense finish.
I love you metsgrrl!!!!!
You were wondering what Omar has been doing? Here's the answer from the New York Times, On Baseball
Olmert and Omar: Talking Baseball
By MURRAY CHASS
Published: January 15, 2008
Some people go to Israel and see their grandchildren. Omar Minaya went to Israel last week and met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres, the former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the famed Russian refusenik Natan Sharansky, a former member of the Israeli cabinet and parliament.
the most intriguing moment of Minaya’s trip came in a meeting he didn’t attend. Two days after Minaya, the Mets’ general manager, and other members of his traveling group met with Olmert, President Bush met with Olmert. The trip was Bush’s first visit to Israel as president.
“O says hello,” Olmert told Bush, among other things more critical to Middle East peace.
Minaya, known to co-workers in past years as O, explained by relating part of his conversation with Olmert.
“He said if he wasn’t the prime minister he wanted to be the owner of a soccer team,” Minaya said. “I told him I was general manager of a baseball team. He said, ‘That’s a game I don’t understand.’ I said: ‘Come to America and come to a baseball game and be my guest. I’d love to explain it to you.’ ”
Then Minaya said he added: “If you want anyone to explain baseball to you, the guy who can really explain it and who loves the game as much as I do is the president. He’ll talk to you about baseball. I worked for him, and he really understands baseball. You can tell him that O told you that.”
Minaya said Olmert replied that he was going to tell Bush, “I’m going to tell him I spoke to you, and tell him you told me that.”
One more thing Minaya said he told Olmert: “He doesn’t call me Omar. He calls me O. Tell him you talked about baseball with O and he’ll know what you’re talking about.”
So Olmert did precisely that, and Bush, the former managing partner of the Texas Rangers, knew exactly whom Olmert meant.
Arn Tellem, a player agent who put together the travel group and the itinerary, said Olmert called him the day after he met with Bush. “He said he mentioned the group to Bush and told him one of his ex-employees, O, said hello,” Tellem said.
“Oh, you mean Omar?” Bush replied, Olmert told Tellem.
His relationship with Bush, however, carried no weight when they were in Israel. Minaya and his group had to vacate their hotel in Jerusalem because Bush and his contingent were coming.
“The original plan was we were going to be in Jerusalem one more day,” Minaya said. “But they kicked us out because the president was coming.”
Last winter Minaya was part of a group that made a good-will trip to Ghana. In part, the trip was designed to promote baseball in Ghana, where a baseball field is under construction.
Minaya was the lone baseball official on the trip to Israel, an excursion Tellem said he puts together periodically.
“Every couple years,” he said, “I take a group of sports and business people to Israel to gain a perspective and appreciation of Israel and to learn about the country and the people and to have a greater understanding of the issues in the area.”
He said he also used sports to bring together Israeli and Palestinian children in an effort “to change the attitude of the next generation,” adding that he believed sports was “an effective tool of bringing kids together.”
On this trip, the group attended a basketball clinic conducted by B. J. Armstrong, a former N.B.A. player and a client of Tellem’s, in Jerusalem, in which Israeli and Palestinian children from the West Bank participated.
In Ghana, Minaya visited a facility where slaves were once housed before they were taken to the new world. In Israel, the group visited Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.
“That’s powerful stuff,” Minaya said.
There were meetings with Olmert and the other high-ranking officials, as well as the former chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, the former chief of the secret service, the mayor of Jerusalem, the rabbi of the country’s holy sites and the director of the Palestinian human-rights monitor group.
Minaya’s group, which also included Steve Greenberg, the former deputy baseball commissioner and Tellem’s former partner, also visited the Western Wall and toured the Christian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Minaya also met with people who are involved with youth baseball.
“We have to find a way to help baseball there,” he said. “I’ve worked on building four or five baseball fields in the Dominican Republic. We have to do something in Israel to bring baseball there and give the kids the opportunity to play baseball. I told Arn we have to get it done.”
Minaya did not ignore his day job while he was in Israel. He had his cellphone with him and talked with other general managers daily. But just in case he forgot that he had a job to do, Mets fans were there to remind him.
“I can happily report there were Mets fans in Israel,” he said. “People came up to me in the airport and said, ‘Go Mets.’ They also said, ‘Have a good year, but get more pitching.’ ”
Minaya, however, did not bring a pitcher home with him.
Well Annie, since "O" can't make the Mets a better team, I'm glad he's making the world a better place. Thanks for the article.