Comments on: Why?

By: Azy

Azy — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:50:02 +0000

When U saud hooked, of course I ment on drugs, as I a poor werback immigrant, and Scott from Pelham hides me in his basement.

By: Steven Fox

Steven Fox — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:20:15 +0000

Please leave & keep all the negativity in the other borough! We started quick the past 2 years and look where it got us. This team will start to take off real soon. I believe that they truly are getting all the bad stuff out of the way now instead of later. Go METS!

By: Steven Fox

Steven Fox — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:15:36 +0000

I’ve been a METS fan since this kid came up in ‘83 and started crushing balls from Shea to the bronx. Gave us METS dreamers a reason to start puffing out our chests. We finally had something to cheer about since they gave Seaver away for a couple dozen black roses! METS fans are hopeful & dreamers which is why I think this year is starting to sniff like ‘73! Ya Gotta Believe! Go METS!

By: Azy

Azy — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:06:33 +0000

I went to a Mets-Rockies game at Shea and the Mets won on a game-winning double by Piazza, been hooked ever since.

By: tomg

tomg — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:44:49 +0000

JK,

The point I’m trying to make with Reyes is if he ever learns the strike zone and how to work the count he will be this electric player that people have said they think he will be. If reyes learned how to work out walks with his speed it’s like a double. Reyes showed signs of this in 2006 but has reverted back to swinging on his heals and not being disciplined at the plate.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:38:40 +0000

A friend of mine new Howard Johnson, I cannot remember how. Anyway, I used to get a ton of Mets stuff from her through Howard Johnson and he would sign cards for me, so I became a Mets fan quickly and have been my entire life.

By: tomg

tomg — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:29:30 +0000

I admit I’ve been extremely negative at times this year towards the Mets. I think it’s because of the way the season ended last year and seeing the same trend this year. I need to step back, take a deep breath and tell myself that the season isn’t even half way done yet. There is plenty of baseball left in the season. Maybe the Mets will have a strong second half of this season and come from behind and take the national league like the phils did last year. One can only hope. I still blame Omar Minya for putting to much stock in El Duke, Martinez, Alou and deldado which is really hurting this team. These are major holes to fill and Omar has no back up plan to replace these guys knowing they were either injury prone or at the end of there careers.

By: Big John

Big John — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:22:28 +0000

Why? Because I hate the DH rule and must root
for a NL team. The Mets are the closest and easy
to see on tv and read about in the paper.
But I’ll tell you, I wish I was a Phillies fan.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:59:38 +0000

Delgado and Heilman are profound disappointments to be sure but they are not complete wastes. They are both talented players who are going through a very rough stretch. I happen to like both guys too. The best hope is that they pull out of it. I think both of them will end up playing better even if they don’t play up the pre-season expectations. But I agree with the posters who are sick of all the negativity. You root for the team that you root for. I’ve scaled down my expectations but I’m still hopeful. Most importantly they still play every day and I can come home from work every day and watch them play.

Why do so many fans take it so damned personally when players don’t perform? Its ridiculous. Its like the fans are delusional and infantile and can’t see that the players are playing a game against other teams that are trying to win and that have good players too and success is never assured.

I like to complain and commiserate about it when they lose in a disappointing fashion but I don’t take it personally. The players are trying. Anyone who can’t see that is a bit delusional.

By: Fire Willie ASAP

Fire Willie ASAP — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:46:06 +0000

The two players who have been consistently booed are Aaron Heilman and Carlos Delgado. Each of them are complete wastes and deserve to be booed.

Fire Willie AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. This team is a nightmare to watch.

By: JM

JM — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:13:27 +0000

clm,

You are totally right about the booing bordering on mean. It just isn’t right. Not to your own guys. SOME Mets fans have to look themselves in the mirror and recognize that they have not done everything to help this team.

By: JM

JM — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:10:46 +0000

At least make Bobby V a lucrative offer. I don’t care if we’ve “been there done that” (that one’s for you, JD). As Jon Heyman said, he’s a top-5 MLB manager strategy-wise, he took a team w/ an outfield of Jay Payton, Timo Perez, and Benny Agbayani to the WORLD SERIES, and he squeezes every ounce of talent out of his players. BRING HIM HOME.

By: clm

clm — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:57:29 +0000

In 1969 – I was 7 – Everyone in the neighborhood was getting hooked on the Mets around August of that year. That’s what did it.

In 1973 I lived and died with them. On that last day when the lost the World Series (on in which they had a damned good shot of winning) I ripped up all of my Oakland A’s cards (wish now I didn’t because they are worth some money). I still have them and they are taped up and falling apart.

Tug McGraw had us all believing. That pitching staff was phenomenal. Seaver and Matlach, Koosman and Stone. WHat a year. Buddy Harrelson standing up to Pete Rose. Jerry Grote a defensive wiz.

In the years since I have followed them relentlessly. I have to say though, we never bitched about them, even in the darkest days, the way fans do now. We never booed. We never turned on our team. There was always someone you could call your favorite. Yeah, there was always some drunk guy there at the stadium booing and cursing but that was it. Kids did Let’s Go Mets chants (without the new Let’s Go twist at the end). The sign guy was there. On TV you always saw someone with a big rainbow afro.

Now I wouldn’t even play for the Mets. The fans on this blog and at the stadium can be just plain mean. I am not talking about intelligent discussions – I am talking about the boos and the personal attacks. I don’t care how much they make they are humans too. I would love to see how anyoe would perform under that kind of scrutiny in their own jobs. When you’re under the microscope it tends to tighten up anyone. I know the new fans would boo Seaver if he had an off day. But enough …

I don’t even need to talk about ‘84, ‘85, and especially ‘86. 2000 was another good year and we probably would have beat anyone else that wasn’t a dynasty like the Yanks were.

By: ChiliGTC

ChiliGTC — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:37:24 +0000

I hate the Mets…I just realized it at this exact moment.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:44:18 +0000

I grew up rooting for the Mets and Yankees at different times. My Dad grew up in the New York area rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers but he never really adopted the Mets as a favorite team. He took me Yankees and Mets games. He was just a baseball fan in general. Somewhere around the early 80’s I switched back to rooting for the Yankees. I rooted for them from about 85-99. In 1999 when the Yankees won the World Series for the 3rd time in 4 years I realized that I just wasn’t that excited about it. It seemed like they were just winning more than their share and I started feeling myself pulling for the teams they were beating. It just seemed unfair to win all those championships when other teams were going decades on end without winning. So when the Yankees won the WS in 99 and I felt nothing I realized that I just didn’t want them to win anymore. It had nothing to do with how much money they spent. I always root against anyone or any team that dominates. I hate to see Tiger or Roger Federer win every tournament. So in 2000 I started to root for the Mets in earnest and I stopped watching Yankee games altogether. Since then I’ve watched 4 or 5 Mets games a week. If the Mets won two World Series in a row I’d stop rooting for them too but then I’d have to buy the Extra Innings package because I won’t root for the Yankees until they go 15 or 20 years without a championship.

By: JK

JK — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:34:10 +0000

Here’s what other leadoff hitters are doing from winning teams: Orlando Cabrera .275 OBP … Maicur Izturis .276 OBP. That’s much worse than Reyes. And their teams are in first place.

I think Reyes will have spurts in his career where he will be like the player he was in the first half of last year. But more often than not he will be like he is now. Which is OK.

By: henry

henry — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:27:45 +0000

i grew up watching baseball during the late 90’s when the yankees were winning championships and i couldnt stand the fact of them being so dominant. So i started to watch the mets instead and ive always found them to be a more exciting team. I also liked the blue and orange, shea stadium, and mr.met. Its been a tough start to the season this year, but the way i see it is the phillies started out the same way last yr while we started off good, so its how finish not how you start. you gotta believe

By: JK

JK — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:24:18 +0000

tomg, Reyes OBP in 2006 was .354. He’s just 16 points below that now. You’re going to get on him for 16 points difference?

Maybe it’s as many have been saying …. the Reyes we saw the first half of last year might have been the best he’ll ever be. What we’re seeing now may be the norm. Which isn’t so bad.

Chris Young is the leadoff hitter for the D-Backs and his OBP is just .340.

Soriano leads off for the Cubs and his OBP is just .315.

So maybe we’re being too harsh on Reyes because of how crappy the team in general is playing and how poorly others are performing in the lineup.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:12:06 +0000

I like the unis. Also I don’t buy all this nonsense that they ‘aren’t playing with any fire’ and are ‘mailing it in’. That is just silly. When you go up and hitter after hitter makes an out it may seem like they aren’t trying but the reality is that they most definitely are trying. Watch closely on every pitch. They are trying. They just aren’t succeeding. It happens. We had high expectations and we should have high expectations because the Mets have a lot of good players, at least according to their career records, but things just aren’t going well for them right now. The idea that they aren’t trying their hardest is just silly to me. The other teams are full of major league players too. That Braves lineup is very good. Maybe they’ll turn it around and maybe they won’t but they have been trying all along.

By: tomg

tomg — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:06:48 +0000

If Reyes could ever learn what a strike is and what isn’t a strike and have discipline at the plate he will be a very good offensive player. The key word is “if”.