Posted on by Shannon Shark @metspolice

The Mets belong to us, not Fred

Hi.

I’m a Mets fan. You can’t hurt me.

Make fun of my crappy team. Tell me blue doesn’t go with orange. Show me your 27 rings.

I can go a quarter century between championships, can you? I can probably go 50, and there are plenty of days like today where I feel like I might.

I know the big free agent acquisition will be a bust. Always is. I know nothing ever works out.

I’ve lived through June 15, 1977 and I’ll live through July 31, 2011.

Mets fans…the real Mets fans…we’re a tribe. The little brothers. The basement Berthas.

We’re fans of a soap opera. We’ll let a newspaper guy run The Franchise out of town, we’ll watch the Second Coming do drugs in the projects, and now we’ll watch some of our family go have great careers elsewhere.

Hang in there. Learn from Tug. Believe. We’re going to get Banner Day back and we’re gonna ditch the black. It’s just going to take a while.

Eventually they’ll win, and you and me will be joined by two million frontrunners.

The Mets don’t belong to Fred, they belong to us. Don’t ever forget that.

See you at the park.

12 Replies to “The Mets belong to us, not Fred”

  2. Listening this morning to Boomer and Carton Yankee fans calling admiting to turning the Yanks-Jays game off with Yanks down 4-1 in the 7th Mets fans calling in crying about team but they watch all 9 painful innings of last nights game.

    The are no boundries to a Mets fans loyality

  3. I will never stop being a Mets fan, but I don’t feel like doing anything that will put more money in Fred’s pocket right now.

  4. “We’re going to get Banner Day back and we’re gonna ditch the black”

    heh

    if you only knew how great 2012 is gonna be 😉

  5. Shannon – good post!

    Here’s a big story for MetsPolice if I ever saw one:

    http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=119675261448088

    “DON’T TRADE JOSE REYES” DAY

    Join us at the top of the 5th inning on the SHEA BRIDGE….we will …all start the JOSE CHANT…and hopefully get on TV, and most importantly GET NOTICED BY THE WHOLE TEAM AND THE MGT!

    SO Tell your friends to tell their friends to tell their friends…etc Lets make this an epic event….

    PS CHEAP TICKETS are always available….no need for a field level ticket to be able to get to the SHEA BRIDGE during the game!

    We will be in front of the Rotunda entrance from about 4:30 until 6pm…handing out our invitations….BE THERE TO BE HEARD

    And this group as well – the movement starts – no justice, no jose, no peace!

    http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Lets-Keep-Jose-Reyes-A-Met/164082886986008

  7. I didn’t really sign up for all this when I became a Met fan…I became a fan of Seaver…banner day…the blue and orange squares outside Shea….no black….Jane Jarvis. Somehow that all went out the window…I understand things have to change…that is progress. But this ownership has soured me to no end.

    But I’m still a Met fan. I’ll never switch, but if it takes hitting rock bottom to get rid of them, so be it…as Shannon says, it won’t hurt me at this point. If they start dumping salary, I want to see a game where only 100 people show up and send a message.

    1. I was there the other night, there were 100 people upstairs at game time. I counted them.

  8. I like the post. Yes, we are a tribe. I know I can cheer for others but choose to stick with the Blue & Orange. I’ll be there Friday night, hoping, praying & cheering.

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