I’m going to admit right in front, the following is not an original thought. The thought was inspired by a sentence in Jimmy Scott’s blog but it’s a great thought and one worth exploring.
What if we had today’s media environment in June 1977.
Imagine three months of Mike and/or the Mad Dog killing Seaver for asking off the Mets, or killing the Mets every day for not paying the guy.
Imagine popping on Mets Blog and finding out the Mets had traded Seaver AND Kingman for a bunch of guys you’ve never heard of. We’d all head on over to Mets Walkoffs and hope there was some cool stat about this Doug Flynn guy that we didn’t see at first glance.
Time marches on and the Mets start to really suck. Some righteous fat guy calling himself The Mets Police decides he hates Steve Henderson and starts piling on about how overrated he is.
Remember during the Art Howe years how the newspapers would put about a three paragraph Mets story in the paper once they were hopelessly eliminated? The same would happen to the ’77 Mets up against the Bronx Zoo (and did!).
Remember “Show up at Shea” and the stupid half-ass “children’s park” they tried in right field for like a season and a half? Try selling that to today’s fan-base after a Seaver-trade.
Can you even imagine a fire sale in today’s environment? Break up the core? Imagine waking up and finding out that while you slept the Mets traded Santana and Wright for some “prospects” – and they are trying to move Reyes and Beltran too.
Time marches on. Matlack leaves. Koosman leaves. The Yankees win a World Series, and then make up 13 games on the Red Sox. You’re sitting in an empty ballpark in Flushing. Blogger rage galore! WFAN becomes all-Yankees all the time. Fun times.
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