This is a realization not a declaration. I am checked out on the 2012 season.
I made it all the way to the end of some of the recent wasted Septembers. I got to see Ollie pitch in extras. I got into watching Duda after Murphy got hurt. Strangely fun times.
This morning while listening to neither sports radio station speak of the Mets I realized that I had moved on without realizing it. I saw one at bat on Friday night – was it Friday that Shoppach – was it Shoppach – anyway someone hit one through the centerfielder at some point. I saw that at bat and only that at bat.
Saturday Howie got an inning while I walked home.
Sunday, nothing.
Howie and Josh got a few innings out of me yesterday but then my iPad ran down and I didn’t care.
The Mets probably play tonight, right? Eh, I am transitioning into fall mode and probably have some things to do. NFL tomorrow and Sunday.
It’s not that I don’t care but well I don’t care. There is no story line gripping me. There’s no individual performance that can change my opinions. Dickey will win 21 or 18 or some other number. I am happy for him. Ike will finish with Kingman numbers. David will be a tale of two halves. Murph and Niese were serviceable but didn’t step up like I hoped. I think I have a handle on Harvey and Tejada. Santana is now my 5th starter in 2013.
Is there anyone else worth caring about? If I forgot someone important it only shows how I got disconnected.
Sorry Mets. It’s me, not you.
After I went to the Saturday and Sunday games in Washington a couple of weeks ago (visiting some college friends and it just so happened that the ballgames we were going to were against the Mets), I checked out, for the same reasons. I’ve got other things to do/watch. I haven’t heard Gary, Keith, Ron, Howie or Josh in weeks. I didn’t see a pitch from Miami. Might’ve caught a few from Philly. Bought the Piazza bobblehead on eBay so I could play softball with friends that afternoon. I’m rooting for Dickey, but don’t know if I’ll make it a point to watch when he pitches. If I’m around when he’s on the mound, excellent. Perhaps I’ll turn it on. Otherwise, here’s hoping he gets to 20 and that nice plaque to go with it. I’ll get to that last game of the year on a Thursday afternoon because I have the day free and the Pirates are my wife’s team, but that may be the next game I truly pay attention to. And probably the last — there are a lot of good pennant races to follow.
You have that wrong–it is the Mets not you. Their annual collapse after the ASG has sucked the life out of Mets fans. I basically checked out after SA checked out and did nothing to help this team. Now, I am rooting for an epic Yankee collapse to amuse me–this is sad.
And you guys claim to be Mets fans? Come on? Yeah yeah yeah, the team sucks. They fell apart in the second half… AGAIN. But you’re checking out?
I suppose I’m jealous, because I still watch every game and every pitch. Just like I did last year. And in 2010. And in 2009. One day, it’ll be “our time” to win, and all these hard times will, to quote Willie Randolph, “make the champagne taste that much sweeter.” LGM-4-LIFE!
I have not yet begun to check out. Josh Lewin was by far the best off-season acquisition the Mets made.
I am still going to games. I am not watching every pitch on TV anymore though, i will flip through the channels. I enjoy games and as long as the Mets are playing this season, I will be at the games. I have tickets for everyday this weekend.
I don’t find any fault with this- just makes me wonder even more why you felt the need to taunt the folks who were boycotting the Wilpons and the mess they have made of this organization back when the going was good. My point now is the same as it was then. The members of the Blue Cap Army all want the same thing for this club. We deal with the frustration over the stark divide between our vision and the reality in our own ways. I checked out last year… or maybe it was the year before? And I am not checking in until I see a change I can believe in. I hope to be wrong, but I just don’t see that kind of change coming with the Ponzi schemers writing the checks.
I think a lot of fans have checked out so to speak. I still tune in from time to time to see Dickey, Harvey. I’ll go to at least 1 or 2 more games. But much of the excitement is done for this year.