Some really good comments came in…
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Mets Fans Are Different (Link)“:
Hate to be a party pooper or whatever it’s called today, but I think that Mets fans are not different, in fact, after over 40 years I can say that Mets fans are amongst the quietest and most meek fans around, until there is a man on base.
The days of a spontaneous Let’s Go Mets cheer are gone (unless we have a serious threat going).
Yankee fans, perhaps because they ASSUME their team will win, actually cheer BEFORE there is a rally.
The Let’s Go Mets cheer has been ruined since 35% of the fans make that idiotic “hooo” noise, so the cheer is quieter.
I also believe that those that go to other parks are probably better fans that make more noise, but when they are at Shea or Citi, it’s quiet as a mouse till there is a threat–or unless the make noise department gets them going.
It’s just my impression, not worthy of a debate, I have been to many hundreds of Mets games and it is what it is.
By the way, I was also at the first game at CitiField and was surprised that the fans did not give an ovation to the park. You’d think that the fans at the beginning of the season would have been pumped up, but like the team, they really weren’t, all polite applause…
Last comment. This season has pretty much ruined my passion for the team and it’s owners and management on and off the field.
Sad, yet true.
Re: post “Mets Fans Are Different (Link)“:
Hate to be a party pooper or whatever it’s called today, but I think that Mets fans are not different, in fact, after over 40 years I can say that Mets fans are amongst the quietest and most meek fans around, until there is a man on base.
The days of a spontaneous Let’s Go Mets cheer are gone (unless we have a serious threat going).
Yankee fans, perhaps because they ASSUME their team will win, actually cheer BEFORE there is a rally.
The Let’s Go Mets cheer has been ruined since 35% of the fans make that idiotic “hooo” noise, so the cheer is quieter.
I also believe that those that go to other parks are probably better fans that make more noise, but when they are at Shea or Citi, it’s quiet as a mouse till there is a threat–or unless the make noise department gets them going.
It’s just my impression, not worthy of a debate, I have been to many hundreds of Mets games and it is what it is.
By the way, I was also at the first game at CitiField and was surprised that the fans did not give an ovation to the park. You’d think that the fans at the beginning of the season would have been pumped up, but like the team, they really weren’t, all polite applause…
Last comment. This season has pretty much ruined my passion for the team and it’s owners and management on and off the field.
Sad, yet true.
kjs has left a new comment on your post “New York Mets Screwed Fans: So We Didn’t Show Up (…“:
I didn’t want to eat another ticket, albeit it was only a $11 one, Thursday was “Saturday” (what a con by the Mets), needed a change of pace after work, so when the weather held up, my ticket partner and I went. We had to “comfort” ourselves with the reality that we bought these tickets ten months ago, and there was no way of knowing that the 2009 Mets season was canceled by conditions beyond any fan’s most morbid fantasy. I think about 50% of those who showed up were Mets fans—5,000 or so?
The rest were tourists—US Open fans, some Marlins fans. There were the usual underclass, baseball-starved Yankee fans in full regalia, who I guess don’t earn a Trumpian salary to be able to buy seats at their new concentration camp. We stayed until Pagan made his 4,876th mental error at the bottom of the 7th.
It was the most Shea-like night ever at Wilpon’s Folly. Dark, dank, empty, silent, lineless, pointless—like the games I sat through after the Seaver trade or during the dying days of Bobby Valentine.
No moral to this tale, except that perhaps I’m more masochistic than I previously believed…
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “New York Mets Screwed Fans: So We Didn’t Show Up (…“:
can’t wait till I get my invoice for next year’s tix, and inevitably the phone call from someone to discuss my non-renewal.
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