Comment on Mets Fans Have You Checked Out? by Patrick
Once the team checks out, even the most hardcore fans generally checkout. Devoting 2-3 hours a night from April through October is not exactly easy, even in the grandest of seasons.
I hate to be one of the “I told you so” bunch, but back when the season was in its February infancy and fans were excited and others discouraged, the one thing that rang true for me was simple. What will this front office do given the chance, if the team does over achieve expectations. My heart said they would find a way to make some smart if not spectacular moves. By the way, I am no idiot, what the Dodgers did was fools gold, in spades. My mind told me they will do nothing and the team would be left to its own demise or perhaps further success. Sadly the mind won, and the downside was demise.
I get were a lot of the sentiment of ya gotta believe rose from when this season was beginning. I mean really, who does not want to see their team succeed? But at the end of the day the naysayers, while often brazen and slightly annoying (me often included, at least this year), frustration has risen to a fever pitch over a series of just total breach of trust between the ownership and management of this team and the fan base.
There was a lot of get over it attitude among certain fans regarding Jose Reyes, and while I would love to be wrong, I think that the same group will be needing to to explain the exit of David Wright, sooner rather than later.
My guess is this whole unappealing affair ends with the Sterling group finally realizing that pushing up the rock and having it roll over them is not working out and the team gets sold in 2014 after they have their All-Star “prom”. Again, would love to be wrong. But I’d also like to see Matt Harvey pitch more than one more time this year
