I think I’m done with this Hall of Fame topic.
Stay home Sunday. Â Let’s never have Banner Day or Old Timer’s Day again.
Let’s just slap on our black jerseys, crank up the noise patrol and shoot t-shirts off into the crowd that calls themselves Mets fans in the 21st Century.
Let’s all stay home. That will teach the Wilpons. They’ll be selling to the Dolans before you know it and then we’ll all be happy.
Ya don’t gotta believe. Â A team can’t close 6 games in two months. Â It has never been done.
Why should we support the franchise the one time they throw us a bone?
You guys are right. Â Let’s pick this Sunday to prove our point about Gold tickets and ticket fees and our frustration at the lack of winning. Â Let’s take it out on the last group that won. Â Nobody has any disposable income anyway. Â Nobody pays $13 for HBO or has a $100 cellphone bill or a $200 pair of sneakers.
I have no idea what I’ll write about next week since nobody cares about 1986 or team history. Â No reason to post pictures or recap the event.
There will be no reason to poke at Dave Howard because in the end Dave Howard is right. Nobody cares about team history.
There will be 36,000 or so of us at Citi Field on Sunday. Â The last of the Mets fans. Â Some day the Mets will make the playoffs again and 9,000 front-runners will join us. Â I will know how to recognize you – you’ll be the ones in the brand new jerseys with the patch that outs you that you just decided being a Mets fan is cool again. Â Â I lived through that in 1986 and if you had a jacket with the 25th anniversary patch I knew you were a fraud.
Being a Mets fan was never cool. Â In many ways that’s what it’s been about. Â You wanna be cool? Â Walk around the Bronx in a Chamberlain t-shirt.
I guess I’ll stick to caps and jerseys and just turn this into a poor man’s Mets Uni Watch.
Nevin owns this Swoosh Jersey. The Mets wore these in the past. Who cares. Unless the Mets are in first place and you have free tickets you aren’t going anyway, right?
Sell out this game. Â Clap clap clap. Â Clap clap clap…..
I’m going to have to disagree with you on this one. If the Wilpons sold to the Dolans I would not be happy. I don’t think the majority of the fan base would be either. In fact, I may just stop watching sports all together if that happens. They ruined the Knicks and Rangers. And not that the Mets are the prime example of how a sports franchise necessarily should be run, they’re in better shape than either of those teams. They just need some tinkering. I’m not by any means a Wilpon fan, I just hate James Dolan.
Tom I believe he was being sarcastic.
Great article, I feel you. I’ll be there Sunday with my doc jersey on! Let the fatalists go to the Bronx.
Shannon, one caveat to that. On that day in the future I will be wearing the new patch because I am a merchandise whore! So you may need to issue me a laminate to distinguish myself. See you Sunday.
You’ll have a cool cap to go with it Randy, to distinguise. Or will we all be wearing home run apples on our heads by then?
We’ll all be wearing Mercury Mets jerseys.
randy as always you are hilarious.
I have been saying for quite some time I most of the Mets alleged fans disgust me. Yes, there is a diehard core of us but there are alot of d-bags who jump on & off the Mets bandwagon. I suspect they also simultaneous jump off & on the Yankee bandwagon.
No matter what age you are, you are used to the Mets going through hard times and darker periods than the last few years. So to use the excuse that you don’t like the results of the team is complete & total BS.
If you are in your 20’s and are a Yankees fan, winning is almost all you know. I understand why those younger Yankee fans are entitled a-holes. I don’t like it or accept it, but I understand.
Even if you became a Mets fan during 86-88 or at the beginning of the millenium, you cannot use the last few years of Mets seasons as any sort of excuse as to why you are turned off by the Mets right now. You have already experienced much worse.
Mets fans lead the league in complaining and excuse making. Reading all the comments in Shannon’s HOF’s over the last few days just confirms my opinion. I am tired of hearing BS from a group of whiny b-tches.
I was four in 1986, so I technically don’t even remember a championship, but I’m certainly not disgusted by this group. the manager, yes. The players? Not even Ollie.
CoreyNYC, the person who determines who is a diehard and not, makes a bizarre argument. For people that starting following the Mets since the 80’s, the David Wright Era is the most difficult for Mets fans (I’m not using Wright Era not in a derogative fashion, but to cite to Rob Neyer’s classification).
From 2003 – 2005, we have seen the Mets become the third team in town to the Yankees and Red Sox.
In 2006, we blew the pennant with our best player at the plate looking at a called 3rd strike to the Cardinals (yes, Mets fans hated them more than we currently hate the Phillies and Braves).
In 2007 and 2008, we blew the playoffs on the last game of the season.
In 2009, we have a new ballpark with more Dodgers history than Mets history and watch the team become irrelevant due to injuries (also throw in views much worse than Shea for much more money).
Now in 2010, we have owners that have refused to take advantage of a surprising run by getting that extra SP the team needs.
Now how is this easier than cheering for the Bobby Bonilla Mets. Yes, the team was full of a bunch of jerks then, but they didn’t rip your hearts out and ownership didn’t tell you that they were not willing to do what it took to win.
You nearly lost me when you said the Red Sox are more popular in NY than the Mets
Then I read your nonsense on how you are a fair-weather fan and you delusions that somehow the last fee years have been worse than teams that were god awful.
Clearly you are not a Meta fan
You nearly lost me when you said the Red Sox are more popular in NY than the Mets
Then I read your nonsense on how you are a fair-weather fan and you delusions that somehow the last few years have been worse than teams that were god awful.
There’s no point in arguing someone who is this illogically angry
coreynyc – If you don’t understand that the Red Sox were talked about more frequently than the Mets were during that time frame, you’re delusional.
Again, I’m glad we have you around to determine who is and who is not a diehard Mets fan.
Funny thing is you know nothing about how much either me or any other fan on this comments section lives and dies with the Mets. You call out Mets fans for being whiny, but you come on here to whine about how whiny Mets fans are. It seems to me most people here care about the Mets, and you care about how the Mets fans react.
And yes, I’m bothered more by 2007 and 2008 more than any other Mets season, much in the same way than 1988 haunts me. They were not the 1998 Mets that played way above their heads and faltered at the end. I consider the bad times to be not so much when teams fall short, but when teams fail to reach their potential.
Since everyone is all down about no one caring about Mets history, I’ll relay a story to hopefully make you all feel better. I took my good friend to Opening Day this year. She’d never been to a baseball game and I wanted to introduce her to something that means a lot to me, Mets Baseball.
We went, and she was hooked right from the start. She is now a new, but dedicated Met fan. She’s taken the time to learn the rules of the game and yes, the history of the team. She’s only been a fan since April, yet she knows exactly who Cashen, Johnson, Strawberry and Gooden are as well as their importance in team history. She’s researched and learned and had a great time doing it.
And, she will be at the game on Sunday, because she got herself some tickets. She wants not only to cheer the current Mets, HER Mets, but she also wants to pay respect to Mets history.
This is a woman who 4 months ago knew little about the game.
She’s into it. She’s into the history. She’s into the Mets.
So, there is hope!
Let’s Go Mets!
Again, people are turned off by the prices. The average person isn’t going to spend their money to go to a game at the prices being offered for “good” seats, and especially not for upper deck seats that are over $20 each. Buying tickets does not make you and more or less of a fan. There are plenty of diehard Mets fans that choose to watch them on TV every night instead of going to the stadium for whatever reason.
Do you really think the Wilpon’s care about any of you? It’s about money. Reading some of these posts remind me that some of you identify too much and live a bit too vicariously through the Mets. You don’t play for them and they in turn do not care about you. Continue to feed them your hard earned dollars, it isn’t going to make a difference.
Its to bad that this topic even had to come up. It is what it is , I quess. People dont want to go and honor these guys and thats that.
Our fan base is definitely filled with front runners and plenty of 06ers. The people that jumped on in 06 have all but disappeared and thats fine. Even when we were on that hot streak early this year the place was half empty. Looks like where Wilpon went wrong was making Citi so big even though many complained that it was smaller then Shea.
Hey, For all of us who know about “The Essix Snead Game” it’ll be even more special when they a win.
Let’s Go Mets !!
Shannon, Nike’s gonna be serving you papers for calling that a “swoosh.”
I’ve always been more partial to using “swoop” to describe that thing myself.
love most of the comments in the section and love the post, shannon. i’ll be there with bells on sunday (in my darryl jersey and blue mets hat–blue button and green underbrim!). i bought the tickets back in march. it was second on my priority list after opening day.
i’ve been saying forever that while a championship is the ultimate goal, the enjoyment you get out of a season is living through the ebbs and flows, relishing the hard fought victories and agonizing over the gut-wrenching defeats. if it ends in a division title or a wild card berth or maybe even a near playoff miss, the ride is the fun of it, NOT the result. we all want to see a winner and we all should encourage the front office to strive for one, but if at the root of it you don’t love the act of putting a ballgame on the tv, or listening to one on the deck in the sun or making the pilgrimmage to citi field, then you’ll never get anything out of this team no matter how many championships they win.
C’mon Shannon, keep that blue cap up !!!
No question it’s been a tough go around, in regards to all of Mets culture. Between the Mets not recognizing the long standing Mets history during the “inaugural season” and the constant teasing of this team playing “meaningful games in September” or being “world series contenders” it has definitely been rough as a Met fan at times, and we all know that. I think it’s absolutely fantastic what the Mets have done the past year with the stadium, with the culture, with the marketing, and giving fans the credit they deserve for coming out.
Of course there will be front runners, but forget about them, they’re not the ones bleeding orange and blue, and I think the Mets have really been trying to cater to the “true blue” Mets fans as of late, not just the rich ones behind the plate.
Stick with it Shannon, despite this emotional roller coaster ride of a season, there’s no question that I’ll be at the game this Sunday, purchasing the cheapest seat in the house.
Let’s Go Mets!
I have been to many of the history honoring events over the years at Shea. Unfortunately this year I decided to scale back how much I spend out of my pocket being a met fan. Usually I purchase a few jerseys, a boatload of other merchandise and go to at least 8 or 9 games. Doesn’t make me any less of a fan that I decided not to do that this year. The economy sucks right now and the electric and food bills come before the Mets bill. I think a lot of people on here have lost sight of that.
No we haven’t. I’ve got 5figures worth of dept and am having a 5figure ‘party’ in a couple of months. My finances are horrible.
But there’s a difference between saying “I can’t go because it doesn’t really fit with my time/budget/schedule” and “I won’t give the Wilpons money, the team sucks, I don’t like the color of the seats”
There is something very different about this incarnation of the organization. The culture is garbage and it reeks of dysfunction.
I didn’t feel this way towards the 93 team when they only won 50-something games. This has been more painful than simply having a bad team. It is time for a change, in faces, direction, and what it means to be the New York Mets. I’d rather be a loser than an embarassment.
Sorry, it’s not like we’re choosing August 1st to make a point. Mets fans need to use August and September to make a point. Am I the only one that realizes that the only reason why the Mets created a HOF was because of the lack of fan turnout and the cricism of the stadium?
I remember being there for the 1969 celebration, and I think 4 other people were there. The Mets still scheduled something for the 1986 team this season.
Your attendance on Sunday will have no effect on future events because the Mets will do them to increase attendance on certain Sunday games they intentionally omit from the Sunday Plan.
You want to go to honor Doc, Straw, Cashen, and Davey, do it. Don’t do it because the Mets are finally honoring their past, and you feel obligated to step up to the plate after the Wilpons continuously fail to do so for the fans.
Thanks for posting my jersey. Win or lose, I have always been a die-hard fan. This was the worst jersey ever made but I still bought it since it was keeping up with the times back in 93. That was a horrible season and I still went to the games. A true fan sticks with their team through and through.