I am a big fan of Mike Vaccaro’s work (actually if I recall he too acknowledges blogs exist, maybe it’s just Lupica) who has a nice piece today from which I excerpt.
A team should never be upset when their fans are angry. Anger insinuates that people care. Anger hints at fans who still go to bed at night knowing sleep won’t come because they are drowning in the angst of a difficult loss. Anger is a good thing.
Mike is right when he talks about how long ago it has been since 2010 Mets fans care. I’m one of those who checked out on August 20-somethingth. There’s just been nothing to hold my interest.
I was debating doing the podcast tonight and as I type this I decided on no – I can’t talk about the GM/manager thing again. Unless Jerry takes out a knife and goes gangsta there’s no new angle.
The new-new begins tomorrow. At least then we being the road to being interesting again. Today, game 162 of what feels like a 212 game season.
The typical let’s compare the Mets to another struggling franchise, or Omar to a crappy GM (Isiah) and exaggerate how bad things are.
It’s one thing to mentally check out of caring about the season. Even I did that though I’m paying attention (and quite busy outside of the mets) It’s quite enough to be resigned to failure.
I think a lot of us will be angry if it’s Bob Melvin, or Joe Torre. If they keep Ricco or pick a crappy GM, we’ll be angry. If they do nothing this offseason acquisition wise, we’re going to be screaming and yelling.
But resigned and indifferent? nah. This was an underperforming mis-managed team taht still managed to play good baseball and times and will finish within a bounce or two of .500. It’s not a stretch to believe they will be better next year. Many signs point to the Mets making big sweeping changes and pushing forward here. To me it seems they understand that we’re angry, but we want to give them money.