So what I learned yesterday, is a Mets player could do the worst thing imaginable (I don’t want to even voice what that night be, just imagine some horrific behavior) and if that person goes 3 for 4 or hits a HR or strikes out 10 guys….nobody cares.
For all the anger from all day Monday, one 9th inning wiped it out for a lot of people. One of the notorious “True Boycotters” on twitter was calling for a mulligan. What happens if the Mets lose that game 5-1? Does Baez still get the mulligan, or is the truth that none of you care about anything as long as the Mets win a game.
All season I keep coming back to these lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s Long Walk Home.
My father said, “Son, we’re lucky in this town, it’s a beautiful place to be born
It just wraps its arms around you, nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone
You know that flag flying over the courthouse means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we’ll do and what we won’t”
WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE’LL DO AND WHAT WE WON’T.
Baez came right at us. RIGHT AT YOU. And now you want to give a mulligan. Absolutely not. There is no forgiveness. There is no road back for El Must-Go. Lindor is now Bonilla. This is Uncle Steve’s clubhouse. This is full Wilpons circus. Except of course the Mets won so everyone is cool again, just like how in 2015 nobody said Wilpon and even the True Boycotters found loopholes where they could attend games.
Speaking of the flag….
Great job by Dave backing that up with photos.
And one win does change a lot of hearts and minds. I had to block one fool, a semi-famous fool, for calling Gary Cohen “the Vin Scully of this generation” or something.
Excuse me?
Sure Gary bothered to do one call where he was excited yesterday but TAP THE BREAKS.
You know how John Sterling “sucks” because he calls every home run “It is high, it is far, it is gone”….what do you think “to the track, to the wall, it’s outta here” is? It’s like Gary took Sterling’s signature call and rocked it through Google Translate a few times until it became Track/Wall/Outta. Gary Cohen might be better than the random guy calling the Rays-Marlins game, but he is not Vin Scully. Stop being willfully stupid.
Anyway, maybe one of the Mets could burn a flag or something today but then go 4 for 7 in the doubleheader tomorrow, just to see how crazy you all are.
In the meantime, I say booooooooo.
And now, some good stuff from The Ringer
If the Mets were still in first place, we probably would still be talking about the black jerseys. Because this controversy isn’t really about Báez, or even the fans. It’s about the fact that the Mets have gone 8-19 in August, and within four weeks went from having one hand on the division title to being out of the race altogether. That’s why Cohen is bad-mouthing his players on Twitter. That’s why, when Marcus Stroman criticized Daily News writer Deesha Thosar for being negative about the Mets, Thosar was able to say she was reporting the truth about a disappointing team. That’s why the fans are booing. And that is the main reason the players are so frustrated.
The Mets came into this season with huge expectations and have failed to meet them. Of course everyone’s frustrated. But the level and universality of that frustration didn’t have to reach the breaking point we saw on Sunday.
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Like most Mets cataclysms, this incident will fade into the background. Báez’s free-agent stock won’t be affected. Lindor and the fans will make up because, with 10 years left on the shortstop’s contract, they really don’t have any other choice. But blowups like this will keep happening. Not only because they happen all over sports, but because the Mets’ senior leadership keeps pushing blame downstream. Fixing a problem requires proactive leadership at all levels, not just appointing a fall guy. (Via The Ringer)
