Posted on by Shannon Shark @metspolice

Stop Sucking!

I hereby declare myself Captain of the Mets.

I demand to be activated immediately (release Oliver Perez).

SOMEONE has to give a crap about this franchise, and since nobody else will do it I will.

Fred’s comment about Omar coming back infuriates me.  Maybe he should come back, but do we have to declare that on an August day when the team is playing .500 ball.  What if the team goes 0-40?  Free pass?  I’m p*ssed the sun came up today!

I can waste a roster spot just the same as Ollie.

If Jerry needs me to pitch in a 14-1 game I can throw 42 mph balls high and outside until the Diamonbacks get bored and swing at anything.   I can stand in left field in the 21st inning.   I can be the emergency catcher.  Fans might even root for a 40 year old fat guy with no skills making the minimum (I will donate my salary minus my mortgage payments to charity).

There’s no veteran to teach the young pups, and Wright and Reyes don’t know a thing about winning, so I’ll just play the role until Omar gets a Hernandez/LoDuca/O’Neill type in here to lead.

I can throw helmets and bats.  I can yell at umpires.  I can bait Jimmy Rollins into a fist fight.   Who cares if I get ejected?

I can say “Hey Pelf, how ’bout some fastballs this inning?”   I can say “Luis, next time a double play is hit to you try catching it.”

Maybe the other players will get mad at me.  GOOD!  SHOW SOME FIRE!

Darryl’s comments from last weekend have stuck in my head.  Nobody gives a $%@t if they make an out.  Oh well, we lost.  Yeah, we wasted the Atlanta series, we’ll just sweep Philly.

Right.

When a player calls my resume into question and I’ll say “yeah but I never spit a 7 game lead with 17 to go.”    Let them get angry.  I don’t need to be liked.

These are MEANINGLESS GAMES IN AUGUST.  Again.

This team doesn’t work.   Sorry, it just doesn’t.

Why is Ollie on this team?  Why is Castillo on the team?  Why are they going to let Cora’s contract trigger?  Why does the owner give the GM another free pass?  Why is this team playing .500 ball?

This team needs more guys like Santana – who basically says “OK you #%^%#s I will go out and throw 130 pitches today because the rest of you suck.”

I loved Dickey the other night – 35 year old guy with not much talent, but he WANTED A WIN the other night.  Did you see his quotes about using every trick in the book?  Called it guerilla warfare?  Yeah baby!

Me, Johan and RA can do this but we need some help.

Start me at SS tonight and bat me leadoff.  I can take two pitches and then charge the mound.  Let Philly know we’re angry.  I’ll take the ejection and I’ll fire a helmet at the catcher on my way out.

Shake it up Fred.  Shake it up Omar.

Trade Hubie and Fitzgerald for Carter.  Trade Terrell for Hojo.

Try SOMETHING.

This doesn’t work.

MEANINGLESS GAMES IN AUGUST, and I as Captain will not stand for it.

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This rant was inspired by this article on Mets Today about cutting dead weight.

16 Replies to “Stop Sucking!”

  1. That was awesome. I consider myself an optimist when it comes to the Mets but this team has broken my spirits. I came into the season expecting 85ish wins contending for a playoff spot but falling short in the last week or 2 of the season. The hot streak got me looking for more and now my spirits have sunk.

    At this point I am looking for just good baseball to be played the rest of the season. Show steps in the right direction which gets me to Omar, Ollie, & Castillo.

    Wilpons comments on Omar I don’t think mean he is back as GM next year. Maybe he is reassigned. A team that truly cares about winning cuts the dead weight. If Omar is GM, Ollie is on the roster, & Castillo is playing 2B I may write next season off before it starts.

  2. Amen, brother. Slap a “C” on your Mets Police jersey and remember to occasionally fire a few bats at your guys and call ’em lollygaggers. You got my vote.

  3. Thank you for this post. It is honestly more gratifying than any other news, box score, or rumor. I do not think that the organization truly understands what the overarching feeling their “customers” have right now. We are worn out, depressed, sad, mad, and needing something to distract us from our misery. I would rather this team have a $70 million dollar payroll and win 75 games enthusiastically than this bloated lackadaisical bunch.

  5. I thought this year was different. What happened to the “hustling overachievers” we saw in the first half? Remember all the warnings about how the chemistry would be affected when the robot center fielder and the other two losers would come back? “Oh, don’t worry, it’s a good problem to have.” Well, we were right. They are poison. I thought this year was different. I was wrong.

  6. I feel the same way, great post! Problem is all in Fred’s reply yesterday. “Will the Sun come up?” WOW if there was ever a sign that the Mets aren’t going anywhere there it is. Ownership doesn’t give a damn about the fans or the product on the field. They’d rather come up with the snake oil treatment in selling seats these days. What a joke. I’ve got tickets to next saturday but that will be it for me this season. As sure as the Sun coming up, the Mets will NEVER win ANYTHING with this ownership and Omar at the Helm. COO Jeffy Baby Mr. Excellence himself? What a god damn effing joke this franchise is. These guys make it so hard to be a Mets fan these days. We care about this team…these guys could care less. It’s infuriating

  7. This offseason the Mets need to extend Wright and Reyes and then decide if they are going for it or rebuilding. I’m fine either way because I hate this underachieving.

    Here’s my plan:

    1. Extend Wright and Reyes
    2. Trade K-Rod
    3. Re-sign Dickey
    4A. Eat a lot of money on Ollie’s K and trade him, if not bring him to ST to build trade value and then release him if you get nothing
    4B. Same for Castillo
    5. Name Thole Opening Day catcher

    And oh yeah, hire a passable manager and pitching coach. We had that before the Manuel/Warthen regime.

  8. Word up, homey.

    I’d much rather ownership/management admit the truth and send things into another 1994-’97 rebuilding phase if that’s what it takes than to continue to insist this team is fine when it so obviously isn’t.

    As for Omar, his problem is that he patches instead of plans. He fixes problems after they’ve already done their damage instead of avoiding or minimizing them on the front end. Sure, he’ll address the bullpen, but only after it blows 29 saves. Yes, he’ll bring in someone to replace an aging player, but only after the latter becomes a black hole in the lineup for the better part of an entire season. By the time he gets around to fixing something, something else is broken, and thus the team is forever one step behind even before the normal trials and bumps of a normal season come into play.

    As for the everyday lineup, it simply has no sack. Everybody else in baseball knows it and has been talking about it for going on 3 years now. Even Omar admitted it before having to “clarify” with a fumbling statement as Rome burned around him about how there are different perceptions of what “an edge” is.

  9. Between Fred Wilpon and Jimmy Dolan I have a solid defense for an insanity plea should I ever need it.

    I like Jerry, he seems like a great guy, but fire him. Today. Call Wally up and see how the team reacts. Since our players have no fire, see if Wally can light one.

    It really is sad watching these guys. I laugh each time “problem players” are discussed (like LoDuca, as opposed to “head problem players” like Ollie). When we applauded the trade of Milledge for Church and Schneider, I laughed. Sure, nothing has come of Lastings, but he wouldn’t put up with being laughed at. Those un-tossed helmets that Shannon’s been discussing would have been in the stands. The ’86 team wasn’t a bunch of Ivy League Darlings (Ha!), they were “problem players,” and to other teams they were just a problem. Casey’s teams with the Yankees weren’t choirboys either, neither were Billy Martin’s.

    To quote the Great Brooklynite, Mel Brooks, “I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.”

  10. 4 runs in the 8th for the Phillies, with based still loaded and only one out.

    I’m so glad they didn’t blow this team up over the winter. I sure would’ve hated to miss out on a magical season such as this one in favor of letting the next wave of Mets get their feet wet.

    Oh, and I just may have to start a pool as to when David Wright finally breaks down and cries. He’s crossed over from “deer in the headlights” to “8th grader dumped at the school dance.”

  11. Got an idea lets pack in this series and the season and not show up at citi .Show the Wilpons we wont take their bull anymore .HURT THEM IN THEIR POCKETS

  13. …and Hessman cuts it to 7-5 with a 3-run homer in the 9th, scoring Ike and Francoeur. Ain’t it amazing how the nobodies, rookies, and leftovers on this team are the only ones carrying anything around in their beanbags?

  15. Where are the optimistic Mets fans and franchise apologists tonight? I’m waiting for more instructions on how to be a Mets fan, guys. Don’t disappoint me!

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