I see – folks are going to continue to be negative. Here’s Ian O’Connor on ESNY NY
The Mets are a big-market joke with small-market bottom lines, and Wilpon’s dreadful decisions in business and baseball are to blame.
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For Mets fans, normalcy is a team in the world’s biggest, noisiest marketplace that slashes payroll by more than $50 million. Normalcy is a team that can’t afford to keep Jose Reyes while sharing a city with the Dream Team Yankees. Normalcy is a team that can’t keep its employees out of trouble or its fragile players out of the tub.
Normalcy is a team staring at its fourth straight losing season and a projected plunge into last place.
via New York Mets — Even when Fred Wilpon wins, he’s a loser – ESPN New York.
The Mets get to play the season before they have a fourth straight losing season, right?
And this has been asked before by others but ponder these questions…
– what if Carlos Beltran fouls off a pitch?
– what if Tom Glavine doesn’t pitch the worst game of his career?
– what if someone can save one of 30 blown saves when Wagner got hurt?
– what if Ollie throws a gem in game 162?
I’ll even add this – what happens if Ike Davis and David Wright don’t crash into each other?
I agree, even when the Wilpons win they are losers…because the mainstream media won’t let go of the venom.
Let’s play some baseball and see what’s what.
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I don’t care if the Wilpons own the team or not. I don’t recall ever meeting Fred or Jeff and I definitely have never met Saul Katz.
A zillionaire is a zillionaire. Wilpons sell, Dolans come in. Or an investment bank. Or Hurley from Lost.
Someone richer than you will own the team. That doesn’t make them smarter.
The stupid Wilpons may be stupid…but the stupid Steinbrenners were stupid too for 15 years and that fanbase gave a standing ovation when George was kicked out of baseball. Now he’s a saint and there’s a Lincoln Monument to him in the fake new place.
Winning will forgive anything and everything.
Let’s play baseball. Maybe Johan has 18 wins in him. Maybe David has .300/30/100. Maybe Ike does too. Maybe Duda does too. Maybe the game has slowed down for Niese. Maybe Murphy is a .320 hitter and can get by at second.
If the Mets win all the folks who are spitting venom now will be writing books about The Miracle Run of the 2012 Mets.
I call you names now, and I will call you names then.
Let’s Go Mets. See you April 5th.
Well, nobody hates the Yankees more than myself…but the sad fact is since the Wilpon/Katz regime took over in 2002, the Mets have one playoff appearance and the Yankees have 9 playoff appearances and one World Championship. They are in the same market. I’m still a Met fan…but I can’t chide any Met fan for being a bit negative if they want to. In fact a sense of impending doom is a part of the old Brooklyn Dodger heritage…they called the team the Bums and expected to always have their hearts broken and wait till next year.
Hopefully we’ll all look back on all this as a dark period for the Mets. See you Opening Day as well.
Oh, those people will come back and enjoy the last two months (Sept, Oct) of baseball. And it’ll be a fraction of the enjoyment the rest of us get rooting from April.
Sorry boys this team really Sucks! I have watched eight games and they have lost them all. The pitching is bad as we knew and we have zero depth.
Yes I know its spring but a team as bad as this needs to string some wins together for some momentum.
Right now they are totally overmatched! You almost feel sorry foe them.
They are unwatchable and I still say go see them in April before they are out of it!
It’s the spring. Wins DO NOT MATTER. Get your work in.
This quote is exactly right: “Normalcy is a team that can’t afford to keep Jose Reyes while sharing a city with the Dream Team Yankees. ”
C’mon MetsPolice – no more cover for this regime! Kinda forced optimism we expect from the lame-asses over at MetsRentACop.com but not here!
Tom you were caught in Spam for some reason but I whitelisted you.
I offer no cover, as always I write what i feel.
I seem to have gone from the Stupid Blog That Is Too Negative to Stupid Blog That Is Too Positive. I’m just sticking up for blue and orange I’m tired of all things Mets being dumped on.
Let’s play these 162 games.
I agree. Time to quit whining and play baseball.
Want to talk about “What If’s?” What if the umpires weren’t blind and they called the play properly and Derek Jeter didn’t have the home run in 1996 and Jeffrey Maier was escorted out of the stadium? Would the Yankees have the dynasty they do? Alternate realities.
Yup, agree completely. Today’s news is a real win for the Wilpons that I don’t think anyone expected, and it’s a shame that all so many members of the media can see is negative. It’s alarming that some of the most positive comments I’ve heard have been from Mike Francessa (who said that, while the investigation was ongoing, the Wilpons were forbidden from “co-mingling” their accounts, i.e., loaning the Mets money from any other pocket of theirs. That’s all over now.)
To too many people, this team can do nothing right. Absolutely nothing. It’s like good days aren’t allowed to exist in Met-land. Like I said, it’s just a shame.
They will own this team forever tormenting not only me but my children and my children’s children. So buckle up and please keep your arms and legs in the car at all times, it’s gonna be a fun ride. I will be there in April and May and so on. Why do you ask? Because I enjoy banging my head against a wall. Yes it’s time to move on, the coup didn’t work and so we live with it. Are they bad owners? Yes. Have they made really dumb decisions? Yes. Are they the worst owners ever? Well I remember a lady by the name of de Roulet who was actually worse. So bare down and take it, it will make that eventual, and far too infrequent moment of glory absolute kizmet. BRING IT ON!!
Well said!
I have passed the point where I believe the Wilpon spin, but I don’t know why I should buy into the gloom and doom mentality that the mainstream media are pushing, either. Let’s wait to see how the season goes and what the Mets are able to do this offseason – then we’ll be in a better position to judge whether today’s settlement was good or bad for Mets fans.