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Willie Randolph, after last night’s game, explaining to reporters how he can remain positive in the face of adversity…
“There’s only so much you can do, man. Just let them know you’re behind them 100 percent.”
…he is talking about himself, of course…however, the same can be said for us, as fans…seriously, i am very, very disappointed in a lot of my fellow fans…i was at last night’s game, and people were actually leaving after the sixth, seventh and eighth innings…what a joke…good, get out…on top of that, i see other blogs saying, ‘The Mets are Dead,’ and i get e-mails from fans and i hear callers to talk radio just quitting and giving up…unbelievable…again, fine, get out…
…the rest of you, like me, get to Shea Stadium this weekend…cheer this team on…don’t boo…you can boo after the final out on Sunday if they fall short…why boo now…i understand a lot has gone wrong, but there will be plenty of time to boo and criticize in the off-season…now is not the time for that, since a lot could still go right…
…i mean, do you or do you not want this team to win…if you do, cheer them on now already, before it’s too late…the players do hear us, folks, they feel the passion and they feed off of it…believe me, i know, people in that locker room have told me so directly…don’t under-estimate your role in this…just ask this guy:
Phillies RHP Brett Myers, as quoted by the Inquirer…
“I just want to see that upper deck full. I want so many people here that I can’t even get home because of the traffic. I think that’s what we all want to see. I know it’s a school night, but come on. Let’s go. Let’s get it done…At times, the fans get a bad rap here…but there’s no better place to play. (Tonight), I couldn’t hear myself think. It was great.”
…but, oh, no, not us, not Shea Stadium…instead, we’re now seen as quietly crawling out the back door with our tail between our legs, like a bunch of cowards…what a joke…
…this site is loaded with links for places to buy tickets, so go to them, go to eBay, go to Craig’s List, go to Mets.com, stop whining, get on your feet, get to the stadium, cheer this team on…if you can’t afford to go, watch from home, stay positive and encourage others to do the same…
…it’s this simple: do you want this team to win?…
…if you don’t, get out, go home and leave us alone…if you do want them to win, like me, then believe already…it’s all or nothing at this point…either go to the game and cheer, or don’t go at all…this is no time for whining, booing or leaving in the sixth…if you want them to win, start acting like it and show them you believe…
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WOW….Matt’s PI$$ED!!
LETS GO METS
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This really is my first post here. Im 31 and right along with the most of you guys Im a ‘take it way to seriously die-hard’….Since this month has started I have broken up with my GF over this nonsense, and my stomach wont stop churning. Basically the last 2 weeks have been the worst of my life. I realize that Matt probably wont read this, but to whomever does I just wanna say that this site has been cathartic to me and helped me deal with the craziest, wackiest month of my life. It sounds like an AA Meeting, but knowing there are others like me helps. Just like the rest of you I keep going to bed just wanting this to be over, one way or another. Not caring if they lose or win at this point….THEN I wake up and read how I CANT…and how we all are going through this together…and how it really does come down to THIS….and THIS F#&^$^ING THING ISNT OVER YET!!!…I havent followed this team since I can remember, seen them play in the ‘86 WS when I was 10 to give up now….Grab your bootstraps….realize that teams have come back from worse than this (remember ‘04 guys????)…..not to mention people fight back from cancer..CANCER PEOPLE!!!…and say as loud and as hard as you can….as hard as it may be, now in the beakest of time…..YA GOTTA BELIEVE!!!!!….LETS!!!! GO!!!! METS!!!!!……Unless your’re a quitter, someone that plans on not fighting when you are dying…NOW is when it counts….NOW is what ‘being a Mets fan’ means….NOW when everyone says and thinks were done…NOW when the people that call themselves ‘Mets fans” are talking about the Jets games and said they’ve given up……..you can give up when the last out is recorded…..LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not for nothing, but that is the worst analogy ever used in here.
He meant getting rid Julio Franco.
keep reading Achilles.
I’m a Mets Fan living in South Florida – I watch all the games on TV and last night I turned to the Phillies game just as the Mets score went final – the fans in Phillie went crazy – waving their white towels – well METS Fans in NY – wave white towels, blue towels, orange towels tonight – scream, shout, yell LETS GO METS!!! Stand behind our guys who have given us great baseball most of the year. Let them know we care! It’s down to 3 games – so what – they can still pull it out – stand behind them. Just remember how poorly the Cardinals ended their season last year and look what happened to them!!!!
Wilpons won’t hand out towels to every fan before the game because they are too cheap……come on Freddie Coupon, pony up!
Maybe they won’t pony up because towel waving is LAME as LAME can get!
And matt, great tirade! It resonates with a lot of us because many fans feel the same way.
For those who feel “offended” by this, i’m very confused. I don’t think any of this was attacking you. Look at it as more of a rallying call. Of course the team is giving us no reason to believe, but the word “METS” should.
Maybe the team doesn’t deserve to win, but goddammit, WE sure as hell do!!!!!
Preach preacher man preach!!
I’ll be there tonight, and I’ll be cheering my butt off.
Towels are lame btw… there was a noticeable difference in crowd volume from Game 6 to Game 7 last year when Fox handed out those lame towels. You can’t clap and make other noise with a towel in your hand.
ahhh gotta love those slumping mets…unlike you guys our phillies come to play when it matters unlike u pansy @$$ mets welcome to the offical billy wagner meltdown. Even after all of the injuries the Phitan Phills went through they still find themselves tied for the NL East with the mets. However, this will not last for long because the mets will at least lose to D-train on Sunday while the Phills will sweep with ease….wait at least you still have the giants and jets to root for…o wait no you don’t?? E-A-G-L-E-S!!! EAGLES
What exactly is a “Phitan?”
Those schools in Philadelphia sure are doing wonders! Maybe the grease from the cheesesteaks all you f@t b@stards are scarfing down is going to your heads now…
Guess what guy…even if your teams go on a championship run like no other…you STILL live in Philly…remember that…always
You seriously broke up with your girlfriend over a baseball team??? Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge Mets fan, but if they don’t get in the post season, I”ll be pissed, and then I’ll get over it. In the end, it is still just a game……
Cerrone, I love the way you think…you always say exactly what I’m thinking…being a fan that lives in Boston, I unfortunately won’t be able to attend the game, but you can be damn sure that I’ll be glued to that television cheering them on pitch for pitch. LETS GO OLI!!!!!!!! He’s gotta shine tonight.
LET’S GO METS!!!!!!!!!!!
The playoffs start today. The mets should introduce the team down the first base line 15 minutes prior to the start of the game. Maybe it will get their juices going since they have been dead since that 5 run 5th the other night.
A Met fans this is the time admit that we owe Jimmy Rollins an apology. JR has walked the walk down the stretch and is the MVP of the league. We on the other hand have been arrogant and it’s time to face reality
get ready for some BIG TIME CHANGES after the season – i wouldnt be suprised for Omar to trade at least 2 of our big time propspects for a mr johan santana. i also would not be suprised to see us bring in some ACTUAL RELIEF pitchers – not omar’s “i have a feeling this guy can get it done” like he has in the past. i’m not saying Willie and Omar will get the can – but they will go after Johan hard and they will sign a big time free agent.
I hope Omar is part of those changes. It has ruined the bullpen. Traded away excellent talent and gave Sosa an extension. How do you give this guy an extension? I would love to say GOODBYE Omar
Willie Randolph must be pissing him pants right now. This will go down as the worst collapse since the 1964 Phillies. Utley, Rollins, Howrd are going to lead us to victory so all of you Mets fans can shove it up your @$$. GO PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a little kid in NYC who went ballistic in ‘69, was depressed in LI for 6 months after ‘73, almost got knifed in a Boston college bar while screaming my head off in ‘86, saw Cone 5-hit the Dodgers in LA ‘88 NLCS game 6 (only to have them lose it all the next night), cheered myself hoarse on my honeymoon in ‘99, endured yank-me fan jeers in 2000 and yadiertaguchisuppantrachsel last year, I can say without a doubt that this is the most depressing stretch run I have ever witnessed.
The Mets’ being lovable losers I can take. Being come-from-behind underdogs I can take. Being swaggering front runners I can take. But all this “folder” business is new to us, so it has made all of understandably nauseous, I think.
THAT SAID, I agree with 100% Matt. Now is NOT the time to puss out. We know the past 4-5 weeks has ranged from taxing to just plain horrible. We KNOW. But the fact is we love our Mets enough that they CAN break our hearts. That’s the point, really. I’d rather be a heartbroken diehard than some disengaged bandwagon jumper who always leaves in the 7th to beat traffic. Or worse, because my team allegedly “sucks” when they need my support the most.
To be perfectly honest, I’ve had a hard time watching lately. It’s been so painful at times that I’ve turned off some recent games hoping/praying to be delivered good news in the morning boxscores. But that hasn’t worked either, really.
So tonight, I for one am going to pour myself a stiff drink, put on some blue and orange and yell my head off like the dorky little 7 year old I still am at heart. Win, lose or draw, after next month we baseball zealots won’t have anything to cheer or boo for 5+ months, and this is one Met fan who intends to either go down with the ship or sail away into glory.
LETS GO METS!!! YA GOTTA BELIEEEEEEEEVE!!!!
Great post. This is indeed what being a Mets fan is all about. Win or lose we love and support our team, and we believe in them. It’s not over. We’re tied for first and can still pull this out. I BELIEVE in this team and will cheer them on to victory. The team will be tested this last weekend, and so will the fans. If you’re a fan, and want your team to win, then support them and let them know. LET’S GO METS!!!!!
Agree with Matt 100%. Everybody must cheer the team on. I’ll be cheering so loud from my house in LA that they will hear me in Shea Stadium! LET’S GO METS!!!!!
Great post, Matt. I went to 2 games this week … and it was really embarrassing how empty it was. People were even doing the wave. Come on.
It is the total opposite in Philly. The energy in that place is unreal. I hope the Mets crowd is better in the next 3 games.
I kind of agree with Cerrone and MBlog that for just this weekend we have to stop with the negativity. I hate Willie but for this weekend it does not matter. The only thing that matters is winning.
So if you ve been booing and need a reminder of why you watch sports heres a little something for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h3JgdTN_Hg
Hope that OP pitches like last Saturday. Hope that Delgado forgets he is 35.
Hope that D Wright, Beltran, and Reyes carry them this weekend and give us hope the dynasty that we thought we were going to have.
Been saying it since 1992 when I had no idea what I got myself into.
Let’s Go Mets!!!!!!!!!!!
How ’bout Mets get out of the first without a run, Reyes gets on, and the mets look like they are supposed to. Then maybe the fans will feel like the team deserves continued support. They play for us, in case people forget it. Our money, our praise. I’ve never booed at a game in my life, but I have a kid that I say “good job” to no matter what. How about the Mets stop acting like 5 year olds and take control of their destiny. sorry if they don’t feel loved.
if you know how baseball is, its not about giving them love. its actually fighting the random strength of the baseball gods. and i am not talking about a deity. i am talking about the difficult nature of the game. its like the invisible hand in politics, it just happens. baseball players play a game where success is a low probability. so if anything can help your team, anything, an extra inch, an extra hit, play, whatever, it makes a difference. that is why cheering and really supporting your team can actually affect a baseball game.
We have been drafted to go to a war that unfortunately we did not think we would be in. But it is now our duty to unite and fight this war until the finish. You, decide when your on the battlefield whether you got the guts to stand with the other brave ones or retreat due to your weaknesses. Like those that manned up, got out of those boats and stormed on to the beach at Normandy, the bullets were indiscriminately firing at them, like all the media is firing at us. They saw what could be their moment of death. But the strong made it to shore, survived and won that battle and eventually as we all know, won that war. It is now that time, we are on those boats and we are in the sights of the enemy. Just like those soldiers, we now must believe we will survive and win. Now more than ever, Ya gotta believe!!!!
stroming the beach at normandy and buying tickets to a met game, are kinda in different leagues, id say thats a bad analogy out of respect to actual people who died doing that, none of our lives are at risk here people lets get some perspective for christ sake.
I agree Hit the Weights! People are getting a little carried away with their comparisons here. Talking about “courage” and “war.” Some post above compared the mets fighting back with people who fight back from cancer. Calm down everyone.
he meant getting rid of Julio Franco
My comment is being completely taken out of context. Do you really think myself and the others on that have made these ‘worst case scenerio’ analogies(cancer and WWII and the like) REALLY think this is the same as death and war? OF COURSE NOT!!!…My dad fought in a war….and I would never disgrace people that died for their country by comparing them to a set-up man….. Its the mentality of NEVER QUITTING…NEVER GIVING UP until the last soldier is dead..or until the last out is recorded……NEVER giving in when all looks lost. The mind frame is what we are speaking of, not the sitiation. If anything were just proving the point. Men stormed beaches and died. People have overcame doctors telling them they have no chance to live…..Were saying this is NOTHING compared to that….no reason to give up now..
LETS GO METS!!!!….
Exactly!!! I guess these other fans don’t have that winners mentality and would rather spit on the mets coffin while their lowering it to the ground than stand by your team.
sorry i guess im not a real fan bc i cant quite see the parallels to a game (which i have been playing for 16 years myself) and going to war, which my brother has done, and fighting cancer, which my mother and grandfather have done….i will root my a$$ off this whole weekend and hope to attend a game, but when it all comes down to it its still a game. You want to draw from fictional situations like the guy who posted something from star trek, or animal house, fine but whether youre serious or not in your analogies think about what you are saying before you type it.
I thought I had made my point, but clearly for several reasons I need to restate my explaination. OF COURSE I KNOW THIS ISNT WAR OR CANCER….All of us do(at least I think and hope so)……Its baseball. Its a game….if they win, Ill wake up tomorrow, if they lose Ill wake up(hopefully and after not much actual sleep) tomorrow…..Its the mentality of even when the world is falling apart, even when all signs point to failure, that you have to go down fighting. That you dont back down until its O.V.E.R. Whether you lose your job, find out you’re sick, or wake up to fact that your baseball team has blown a 7 game lead with 17 left. Its called a ‘winners mentality’ ….I guess when the announcers say that “This team never says die.” they are disgracing those who have died cause if they lose no one is actually ‘dying’. They should be more PC and say “Boy, this team has decided they really dont wanna lose this baseball game”. If you cant see the parallells between ‘keeping faith’ in all different situations, thats your niativity…..not my insensitivity…its the raw emotion and life view were talking about…..not the situation you find yourself in that were comparing….there are quitters in life and there are people that WONT give up until you physically rip their hearts out….I chose to be one of those people…..You think Tiger quits when hes down 2 strokes going into the 18th hole? You think Jordan quit when they were losing in the 4th QTR?…YOU THINK EITHER WOULD QUIT IN ANY SITUATION EVER? Whether its ‘competetion’ based or ‘life’ based…..
Whatever….lets not argue against ourselves…..this team needs all the emotional support we can give them….
Lets go!
hahah is this the kind of speech people want willie to give? but i love the sentiment. hes right about fighting those feelings that think all is lost.
the way I see it, this experience will get rid of all the bandwagon jumpers who have been cluttering Shea the past 2 seasons. You know who I’m talking about – those people who come in with their Yankee caps or pink Mets caps and who spend most of the game chatting on their cell phones or talking about anything but baseball. Good riddance to the lot of ‘em.
I will be at the game tonight and I will be cheeing them loudly and proudly.
X – I just wrote the exact same thing this morning…It’s so true. I call them “borough-jumpers”
Matt, I don’t know about you, but I found it depressing to be at Shea last night with the crowd booing mercilessly. I can’t imagine what it must have felt like to take the field only to be booed in the first inning. No one is immune these days, and Mota hasn’t pitched much!
Regardless, I’ll be there tonight, cheering again!
So you are saying when the Mets finally win the bandwagon jumpers will stop jumping? Or that you like it better when the Mets are losing and the only people in the stands are you and 20,000 people like you.
I prefer to win and allow anyone who wants to jump on to join in — I know I was there for the down times and that’s all that matters to me. They won’t enjoy it as much as we will.
I’m not saying either. And I agree with what you said. All I am saying is that this particular year, following up to the best year this franchise has had in 20 years, the sense of entitlement has gotten a bit out of control. I want the Mets to win and I want them to sell out every game, but I don’t think there needs to me that sense of entitlement where fans expect everything to be perfect and anything less than 162-0 is a disappointment. To me it’s more about the attitude of fans this year than it is about what baseball cap they were wearing in the ’90s.
Not everyone has to be a die-hard fan, but to go to a game just to boo every play not made to me shows a lack of appreciation for the sport.
I didn’t mean you.
Weds night a guy in the Mezz started chanting “Let’s go Me-ets”…like, the same rythym that one would chant “Let’s go yankees” clap clap clapclapclap (yes, the claps were there too)…it was bewildering and embarassing that this guy was there cheering, but the stands were half empty in the sixth.
NO MORE!
but, oh, no, not us, not Shea Stadium…instead, we’re now seen as quietly crawling out the back door with our tail between our legs, like a bunch of cowards…what a joke
That’s right, because WE are the reason the Mets have been losing all these games.
Why are so many Mets fans obsessed with acting like MetHitlers? WIth acting like they’re the arbiters of what a real fan is? With acting like their way is the only way and anyone else is not only wrong, but a terrible person to boot?
I’ll tell you exactly what it is- homers will never ever lash out at the team, but since the Mets can’t buy a win, they gotta lash out at someone.
I love this site, but wow man. To each his/her own, know what I’m saying?
…Because so many fans have apparently given up in the stands and on this site… It’s the home stretch and fans are already giving up… How does that not piss you off if you’re a supporter of the Mets? Do you realize how fortunate you all are for even being able to attend these last three games? Come on, now…
i agree with trumpzilla, look promoting positive fan reactions is all fine and good but there have been plenty of people trying to say that the fans are why this team has screwed the pooch. Like I said earlier the fans where all cheering when castillo booted that DP last night so why didnt he make the play? we cheered, he still effed up. and they were cheering when pedro couldnt put the guy who bats behind pujols away with a 2 strike count. Its not the fans people, its our beloved players.
i will post what i said above:
if you know how baseball is, its not about giving them love. its actually fighting the random strength of the baseball gods. and i am not talking about a deity. i am talking about the difficult nature of the game. its like the invisible hand in politics, it just happens. baseball players play a game where success is a low probability. so if anything can help your team, anything, an extra inch, an extra hit, play, whatever, it makes a difference. that is why cheering and really supporting your team can actually affect a baseball game.
It didn’t make sense the first time you posted it either.
It probably wouldn’t to you.
ive played baseball my whole life through college and still play on summer teams, HITTING is of low probability, FIELDING is not. Fielding %s are in the 900s, and if theyre not youre either in the minors or DHing. So it can get discouraging when gold glove calibar defenders make errors on a consistent basis.
Unless of course you play IF on the marlins…. I am tired about hearing the fans arent behind the team.
We don’t walk around everyday telling everyone how talented we are and how we can’t understand how this could have happened.
Maybe the players should get behind themselves first.
Don’t yell at everyone who refuses to go to these games. Chances are many of them have been going to games which they have consistently played terrible in. Some of us have higher tolerances for BS and crappy play and entitlement than others.
This team should have taken its head out out of its butt weeks ago.
If you are focused, 5 error games don’t happen. Sorry, they just don’t.
Just because you support your team until the final out of the season doesn’t make you a homer. I’ve criticized this team up and down, but I still want them to win.
Why is it so difficult for some people to juggle dual interests and opinions?
How can you actually make a statement like: “I hope they don’t make the playoffs, or save your money, don’t go to Shea?”
Look, they may not deserve to make it at this point, but I hope they do, because anything can happen in October. Plus, if they’re not going to make it, this may be my last chance to go to a game until next season.
I love baseball and I love the Mets and some BS losing streak in September isn’t going to change that. If I’m a homer or if I am a “Hitler Fan” then go screw. I don’t want to see you at the parade or even see you post about how the team quit and blah blah blah.
“The players do hear us, folks, they feel the passion and they feed off of it…believe me, i know, people in that locker room have told me so directly…don’t under-estimate your role in this…”
Its a vicious cycle Matt. The Mets go out and blow a lead, and how are you supposed to feel, after the last 2 weeks? Its disheartening. Thats not to say I’m not rooting for them to win, I’ve got my Wright jersey on at work for jersey day, but lets be fair. The Mets have made it hard for their fans lately. If people are dissapointed, guess what, doesnt make them any less of a fan. I suspect this post will get me banned or something, but whatever.
of course its bad, but stop worrying so much. be a kid. cheer just because you dont want to think about the bad things. if you cheer as hard as you can, you cant think about the bad stuff.
i think it is a shame that the shea crowd has been so dead lately, and it is just one more strange thing that has happened this season. But reading all these tasteless metaphors makes me remember that fan is short for fanatic. Cancer? War? I really have a hard time getting worked up about what other fans do or do not do. Actually I could care less. Yet so many fans are taking their frustrations out on each other. Finger pointing is understandable, but I don’t think the fans have much to do with the quality of the product. The Phillies team, for example, has seemed to have little problem overcoming a horrible fan (de)base.
This new phenomenon of crowds leaving in the 7 inning is upsetting, but probably indicative of the team’s new found popularity.
and…
why would anyone boo the team after the final pitch of the season? That would truly be pointless.
As if booing during the season has a point…
It would be one thing to ask why boo at all, but to ask why boo after the game is over only shows that you are exactly the fan I loathe. Fans do have an impact, and that is why booing can be detrimental when they are looking for something to feed off of. How can you expect a player to use the cheering crowd as a motivator but then instantly block out when they do the opposite.
Also, you just ripped other fans for using tasteless metaphors immediately after writing that the people at shea have been “dead” lately.
i rest my case.
no IQ filter in here my friend, and can you ask him exactly what “ridethesnake” implies?
Actually, i shouldn’t assume snakeboy gets it. I will spell it out for you.
To say “why would anyone boo the team after the final pitch of the season?” doesn’t say anything about booing during the season. It merely points to the absurdity of the whole booing debate.
As for your loathing, unless you’re looking for pity, cruising fan sites looking for the chance to jump down someone’s throat and “loathe’ other fans is a waste of everyone’s time. You’re welcome to misinterpret my remarks, but it’s exactly the kind of hotheaded tone that makes bad times even worse. It doesn’t bother me at all, since I know fans like you will be gone gone when the going gets rough, perhaps screaming at other football fans or something. But think of your own bloodpresure.
Since you probably didn’t read his post very carefully either, Trumpzilla may have correctly diagnosed part of the problem above: pent up frustration leading to misdirected rage:
“Why are so many Mets fans obsessed with acting like MetHitlers? WIth acting like they’re the arbiters of what a real fan is? With acting like their way is the only way and anyone else is not only wrong, but a terrible person to boot?
I’ll tell you exactly what it is- homers will never ever lash out at the team, but since the Mets can’t buy a win, they gotta lash out at someone.”
Hope you wear yourself out parsing this post too!
I didn’t need anything spelled out. So I didn’t read your second post after that line. I doubt anyone did, frankly.
Agreed.
I am just about as sick of listening to the self appointed Mets Mommies and Daddies telling us what to and say as I am watching rally killing double plays.
“don’t boo…you can boo after the final out on Sunday if they fall short”
Wow, gee whiz, ohmygod thanks……. I will be allowed to boo after the game…. can I also have some more Ovaltine please……
be negative, but be negative at home. enjoy that dark place!
No doubt I’ll be cheering my ass of at 1am this morning from across the sea! This is no time to give up!
*off*, jeez I’m already so pumped I can’t even type.
Amen!
I’ll be at the game. Please gents…go, get tickets, let’s pack this joing tonight.
WE CAN SELL OUT TOO … COME ON, LETS GO METS!
From the Associated Press
Seats to Phillies-Nationals series sold out
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The Phillies’ series with the Washington
Nationals is standing room only.
Regular tickets for the Friday and Saturday games sold out
within 45 minutes of the ticket office opening Friday morning.
Sunday’s game was already sold out.
The team says 500 standing room tickets will be available for
each game, offered for sale a few hours before game time.
This is the third time in club history that the Phillies have
sold more than 3 million tickets in a season. The previous years
were 2005 and 1993.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
AP-NY-09-28-07 1038EDT
well it doesnt hurt that they have about 15,000 less seats to sell
doesnt it matter there are alot more mets fans to counteract
not anymore
Just bought tix for tonights game on RazorGator.com. They have a lot of good seats available. Very good prices too. I got Field Box tix for like 29 dollars or something like that. They meet you at Shea too…perfect setup.
If you’re capable of going tonight to the game, you gotta go. I mean, no sitting in front of the TV all scared. Get out of the house, take a ride to Shea. We need to get loud. Show the players and the world that we ARE taking this division. Let the Phillie fans wave those stupid white towels…we don’t need gimmicks. We need some voices and some heart. Let them HEAR US in Philly…show some confidence in the squad. Let them know, it is the weekend, we are boisterous and ready to go. I can’t urge you guys enough. I just can’t. Make NY pround…make the Mets proud. Wear your colors….make a sign…get there early….stand up….scream….
I think it is about time we make those Phillie fans use those little white towels for their intended purpose – to wipe away those tears they will have come Sunday when we are celebrating at Shea.
“It ain’t over until WE decide it is.”
LET’S GO METS!
LET’S GO METS GO!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S0txUWNpSlc
sweet lecture. now i am really pumped up.
First of all, thanks, Matt for a great site and great place for Mets fans to “gather”. As a Mets fan in Austin, Texas, I can’t make many (if any) games but I can always catch the pulse of what the mood is like. Especially after games, even the last couple weeks, I have to come to this site afterward for a little pick-me-up and some consolation. Knowing that there are other fans suffering and/or cheering just the same as I am is encouraging. And I know that you take plenty of crap from people for remaining positive. But that positivity is exactly what brings me back to the site, and that to me is what a true fan is. A person who sits there during the darkest of times, down five runs in the ninth, and still BELIEVES the team can do it. We didn’t get this far to still be in first place. Yes, we are 159 games into the season and the Mets are in first place. Tied, yes, but still here. That says something. I’m tired of all the “fire Willie”, “fire the Jacket” talk right now. “Your season is over” – whatever. I understand being pessimistic and getting down, but that doesn’t help things one bit. What this team needs from us the fan is not advice, not strategy, but support. Cheers and not boos. Fans in the stands who stay until the last out. If on Sunday that last out comes and we are not in the playoffs, so be it. I’ll be disappointed, it’ll sting, but I’ll still know that my team did what they could, and they will still be my team. I haven’t cheered them on for over twenty years to sit here and berate the players and management and start declaring the season over after 150 games, just so I could look back and say “see, I said it then!” This is our team, we didn’t come this far to just jump ship, and personally I’d rather have those people jump ship now rather than later. Let the true fans stand up and support our team, good or bad. So I won’t be in there in person this weekend, but I will be there in spirit, and watching them on MLB or listening o XM, every last pitch, run and out. I hope that those of you lucky enough to be there will do the same.
Let’s go Mets!
Where in Austin?
Toss me an AIM: NYMetZ3122
*joint, I can’t type either!
I am from Maine so I don’t get a chance to go to the games. Instead I listen to them on MLB audio while my colicky baby screams in my ear. Even though I am not happy with the starting pitching and Willie, I agree with Matt. Nothing can be done by giving up. And if we don’t win the division and sit home for the playoffs, rest assured huge moves will be made. Maybe the same manager but there is a Santana to the Mets rumor floating around.
So watch and support your team. I am 32 years old and have been through alot with this team (roughly 25 years). We have been down before and this is no different. We are all real fans and as much as we complain we all love and support them.
LETS GO METS
that video had me until the Endy catch.. because.. quite frankly friends.. after that amazing play.. they didn’t get it done. and that says a lot about this team.. even Howard Beale would agree. and now we see what their encore is.
i was there last night. on the dugout.. cheering my head off. yelling at the Mets that they didn’t want to go out like this. I told Sandy and Rickey .. ‘don’t let them go out like this..’
i agree.. the atmosphere was horrible. the NY Mets are even worse.. as they’ve been booing this team since June. I believe.. I do.. but.. you know what Cerrone.. you know what everyone else.. it’s time for this team to show us they believe too. THEY LOOK DEAD. TIME TO SHOW US SOMETHING.
Time is now. Get it done. I’m there regardless… cheering.. pleading.. I love this organization.. Go Mets.
That stadium in Philly was electric last night we need that same energy tonight from the 1st inning on. The organization could help the cause a bit themselves, why cant we get some orange & blue rally towels as fans once we get through the ticket gates and wave them like crazy. We cannot let philly take this division, do you recall Rollins quote from the beginning of the year??
Lets show them who the better team is in the NL East and defend our title!
They should give out bright orange T-shirts…ORANGE em out!
I like it
are you kidding what are the wilpons made of money!?
lol…no, you’re right, they’re made of ego.
I believe that it is not an accident that Delgado snapped that 0fer streak when Shea gave him a standing O after a gazillion strikeouts. That’s what we need to do for all of them. They are pros but they are also humans.
I am sure that had nothing to do with the fact that you can only suck for so long before the blind squirrel finds the nut and gets a basehit.
Who was that after ronnie belliard in the video in the a’s uniform?
Street, their closer….get it
had the sound on very low at work…thats probably why i missed it..thanks!!
I suppose a lot of us are guilty of being overly dramatic, but when you consider the general opinion on the Mets in the pre-season and how well they would do, this prolonged slump qualifies as a collapse. And I still root for my team regardless, but I can still tell them to grow a set, stop thinking about the game before, go out and EXECUTE.
However, as a fan I can’t go blindly telling people who are knocking my team to not worry, we’re gonna do it, and all that nonsense Willie is going on about. Ya gotta have faith, but I suppose I have less faith than I originally did.
the harder your cheer, i promise you, you wont feel as bad. and its not the same being at home. you have to be at the stadium screaming, non stop. hopping up and down. its strange but it makes watching baseball better. i have vouchers codes for today and tomorrow if anyone is interested!
By that logic, cursing works too but you’re liable to be thrown out of the stadium for doing that. This team is professional, I have no doubt about that. I don’t exactly know if these guys respond to crowd noise, we saw what happened in Game 7 last year. Hopping up and down like a madman and being loud isn’t guaranteed to get the result of winning; winning makes this game better.
Totally agree Matt. Regardless of how we end this season, I do not think you have seen or heard the last our Mets this year. We have the capability to make this an exciting last 3 games and it would be awesome for them if we got crazy out there and show the team we are with them, win or lose.
I am more than frustrated and disappointed with how this has played out the last 2 weeks but I just have to come to work where I am surrounded by hoardes of arrogant Skankee fans and my love for these rugrat Mets comes out all over again.
Come on, Mets, put your game faces back on and go out there and play like your lives depended on it. We know you can!
Matt –
If you believe so much, why did you take the Magic Number down?
Hmm?
Hmm, maybe cause there is no magic number since they are tied? No that can’t be it can it?
The magic number is still 4, but now it is the same for each team.
haha, trying as hard as you can to be upset. its not worth it dude. its better for you if you cheer and believe. trust me :)
there is no magic number anymore. Even if we win each of our final three games, it is not a guaruntee that we will make the playoffs. Similarily, even if Philly loses all three games to the Nationals, it is not a guaruntee (mathematically) that we will make the playoffs.
The MN is still 4. That hasn’t changed. The Brewers have a magig umber too, and they are in 2nd place!
That sound you hear is all the people climbing off the bandwagon from last year.
Good riddance.
I am sorry, but most people on this blog are not bandwagoneers.
If you are checking the comment section(!) of a blog(!) about a baseball team(!) then you are probably a die-hard fan. Either that or you like reading the word Willie over and over.
Stop calling each other names.
I am sure none of you can understand why people can be upset with the Mets. /sarcasm
haha i dont know why but i thought the “Either that or you like reading the word Willie over and over.” was hilarious, bc theres absolutely no doubt in my mind that “willie” is easily the most used word on this site, id be willing to bet its typed more than “mets”.
thank you. :)
Gotta love ESPN, they only give our boys air time when there is something bad going on
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=brain/070928/randolph&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab2pos2
Its disgusting. I’m hoping all this talk about getting behind the team is contagious and people realize we have got to get it going in the stands.
How the heck did we draw more than 3 million and then poof…all gone!
I was at game 7 last year and it was friggin deafening. Never been that loud before. We believed. What the heck has happened to this fan base.
Yea, we’ll make it in and all these people who walked out in the 5,6,7th and 8th will turn around. Oh wow…they are winning. Let’s go back.
Really sad.
Btw…I’m devistated, angry, sad, and excited at the same time.
the seats are sold theres just no one sitting in them
the other thing is look, yeah if the mets dont make it then these are the last games you’re going to until april. do you want to remember these games as booing and crying and moping and leaving early? if you scream your head off and fight them on and they lose its not like your memory of the situation will be worse *because you actually cheered for your team*!
it can only help to cheer.
a new hero in mets history will be born during these three games: seaver’s arm, agee’s catch, buckner’s knees, pratt’s hr, piazza’s 9/11 hr, ventura’s grad-slam single, endy’s catch
who and what will it be?
reyes run? wright rbi? beltran blast? delgado double? castillo catch? chavez catch? lastings line-drive?
no surrender.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRmDj95-GMU
You rang?
I’m in L.A. and would do anything to be at Shea tonight losing my voice cheering. I think a lot of us, myself included, have given-up because we want to begin the healing already — like a player on an eliminated team opting for season-ending surgery. But our Mets are still in it by the slimest of margins. Matt is right, if we were able to back this team for 159 games, what’s three more? There’s no way it’s going down like this. We have to conjure all the good mojo in the world and get this done. LETS GO METS!!!!
I just Bought my ticket online, Im going tonite right after Work, The Team Needs my Support. I have tickets to tommorrows game and if Need Be I will go On Sunday too.
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great post.
I’m glad you wrote this Matt. You basically said what I was thinking last night. We better pack this place. It’s a damn shame. F The Phillies. We will win tonight!
“….it’s over Johnny….”
This is exactly what I said last night…but I got killed for it. Put everything aside, and lets unite. Lets get this team back on track. After 159 games, its not the time to give up on them.
I have to go to St Louis tonight and I live in Philly. Can you believe the luck? But you better believe that if it comes down to Monday I will be decked out in mets gear in CBP going nuts for the mets. LETS GO METS!
32 years in the Nevada desert has not diminished my passion for the Mets one iota. I live (and die) through every game on mlb.com. Granted, the last couple of weeks have been disheartening, to say the least…But I can recall far too many seasons that I would have given anything to be in the race for a playoff spot come October 1st.
I have to agree with some of the previous posters, that it has been great to have a site such as this, where every comment doesn’t have to be a diatribe on who to fire, or who sucks, today…Those people are entitled to their opinions as well (the guy who thought he’d be 86′d from the site really doesn’t get it. does he?). but an island of reason, and hope is a treasure to have in these troubled times.
And so I will support my team in the manner most appropriate to my hometown. I’ll be betting on them! Let’s Go Mets!!!
The Mets are certainly capable of winning 3 games against the marlins. All the noise and anguish will fade away with a strong win tonight.
They need a win to get the monkey off their backs.
This is why you see teams in front struggle at the end, and lose to also rans. The nats didn’t feel any pressure, so they played loose and easy (just have fun baby!) The mets, however, were feeling the pressure and pressing a bit.
Well, to some extent, the Phils have had it easy too, since they were sort of a long shot, and not that much was expected out of them.
This weekend though is a bit different. Now there is some pressure, hopefully, on the Phils too. Will it matter? Who knows.
Tonight is key. If the Mets win and Phils lose, then the worm will turn, and the panic can start in Philly.
And believe me, having lived down here for 20 years, these fans always expect the worst. Sure they are excited, but at the first sign of adversity, there will be a collective “oh crap, it is happening again” moment.
If the Mets pull this out, and the Phils miss out on the WC too, it will be glorious to rag on the Philly fans.
If the Mets fizzle out, I will tip my hat to the Phils, since they certainly earned the division if they get it (if they take 2 from the Nats, they finish the year out on a 13-4 run).
So right now, the Mets still control their own destiny (or density McFly!). Just win. Baby!
Look, the Marlins are pitching BHK tonight. How much more of a gift can the ask for? Just have good Ollie show up. The first win is going to be the hardest.
if we don’t beat the phillies i won’t be able to watch or hear or read anything about baseball until spring training. maybe all that free time will make me a productive person, but i’d rather beat the phillies. for chrissakes, don’t lose any more games you goddamn mets
I think we need to form “Ollie’s Army” and go nuts.
“Maine’s Militia” on Saturday.
How about this for a post game on Sunday “Tommy guns down Marlin’”s
I got my tickets a few hours ago and I’m pumped. Last night I was down but you know what it’s not over and I get a feeling that the fans are starting to realize this as well. There are no excuses we have to show are support by either going and being as loud as possible or by watching on TV. Who knows what will happen by the end of the weekend, nobody knows. But you don’t want sunday night to come around and say damn I should have went to Shea this weekend.
I Still Believe
Lets Go Mets!
I love Willie!
mike and the maddog hahaha just read us the reverse riot act. the funniest part about it, is that they almost came off as sincere.
if you dont go to the game you are letting mike francesca and the phillies win!
I had posted this earlier in another thread:
Hey. First post here, but I think its time to make a statement. I saw this as I was reading the blog, and thought we need to get behind it. We don’t always agree, but in the end we all want the same thing. All I can say is Lets Go Mets…
from the post game thread:
“I know things are rough. I know we get on them all about everything we do wrong, but at 7:10 every night, we need to get behind them and finish this out strong. So, I ask of you, if you have tickets for the final 3 games, use them. If you can’t find, a Mets fan who wants to go and give them up. If you don’t have tickets, get on Mets.com and pay the $9 for upper reserve and go make Shea stadium rock like its never rocked before. If you want better seats, go on craigslist and buy up some of the corporate seats that are empty. All I am saying is people always complain that they get locked out of the playoff tickets because of this stupid lottery…well, here is your chance to go to the playoffs. This is a 3 game playoff series. You can be there. You have the option. It should only cost you $9 +fees if you really want to be there. If you really are a fan. Its going to be a beautiful weekend. Take the family, take a friend, take a lover…just go and make some noise. This team has been too good to us to let them down after 158 games…
Now…everybody get ready…LETS GO METS, LETS GO METS, LETS GO METS
PS. Notice there wasn’t a “hoot” in between. Its real simple, and it should start every inning for 27 outs for just 3 more days in September.”
Dude,
It’s annoying to repost stuff in other threads
Dude,
It’s annoying to repost stuff in other threads
OK…I’m still getting this blog stuff down. My bad…
No biggee. this blog moves pretty fast
has to be said…In MANNY we trust! Let’s go NATS!!
Remember this:
The most encouraging part of the win came from Carlos Delgado, who snapped his 0-for-18 hitless streak with a key two-run single.
The Mets were 6½ games up on Philadelphia and Atlanta in the NL East, pending the Phillies’ and Braves’ games last night.
The Mets will begin a seven-game stretch against those two teams tomorrow after they finish the Dodgers series today.
The Mets took a 3-0 lead for the second straight day. Wright’s RBI single put them up 1-0 in the third. Delgado ended that inning by popping out and leaving two on, hearing boos.
He also left the bases loaded in the first inning, grounding out weakly and hearing boos then, too.
But in the fifth, the fans began a preemptive cheer for Delgado. With two outs and nobody on against lefty Eric Stults, Wright walked, and Carlos Beltran singled him to third, then stole second. Once he did, the Dodgers intentionally walked Jeff Conine, bringing up Delgado with the bases loaded.
When Delgado’s name was announced, the fans cheered, and the scoreboard read “Make some noise.”
Shea responded with a standing ovation.
“I wasn’t sure if it was for me,” Delgado said. “But they were loud.”
Delgado rewarded the place. He drove a single to center, the fans cheering as two runs came in for a 3-0 cushion.
Delgado had only a mild reaction, clapping his hands softly at first base.
As Springsteen once said to bandmate Clarence Clemens…
“It’s over, Willie. You’re over.”
I really really really hope you eat your words on Sunday night
Does anyone know how to get tickets if there is a play-in game?
You’ll have to go to Philly.
I know…but how do I get tix?
Ticketsnow.com
I’m too lazy to read through all the comments, but regarding the booing and leaving early; those are the bandwagon fans. From 2001-2005 there was a good group of fans that regardless of how poorly the team played and whatever bums were on the field (cough Mo Vaughn, Roberto Alomar cough) they would still show up, and cheer for their team. In 2006 when we became a legitimate contdender again, all the fair weather fans came back – and they are hard to miss; they’re the fans that chant “Yankees Suck” after every Mets win. I agree with Matt, let those fans give up and leave, they give us real fans a bad name, by knocking the public perception of us down a notch or two.
As for the rest of the season, we have Florida at home, the Phils have the Nats at home. This will be tough, but I have faith in these guys, even if my confidence has been shaken.
Also, the boos need to stop. Like Matt said, you need to support the team. There is no reason that our potential MVP is being booed. I can justify booing a mid-reliever who just blew a 4 run lead, but when Lo Duca is robbed of a base hit which turns into a double play, there’s no need. If David Wright doesn’t drive in a run every at bat, oh well. Players are successful in this sport if they make an out 7 of 10 AB’s. Step up, show your players some support, and maybe then they’ll respond positively too. I couldn’t imagine being on the other side of the stands, and heading dead silence in the crowd, and a total of 2 Lets Go Mets chants for the entire game. If we lose, and this goes down as one of the biggest collapse in history, then it happened – we suck it up, and support our team next season.
ahhh gotta love those slumping mets…unlike you guys our phillies come to play when it matters unlike u pansy @$$ mets welcome to the offical billy wagner meltdown. Even after all of the injuries the Phitan Phills went through they still find themselves tied for the NL East with the mets. However, this will not last for long because the mets will at least lose to D-train on Sunday while the Phills will sweep with ease….wait at least you still have the giants and jets to root for…o wait no you don’t?? E-A-G-L-E-S!!! EAGLES
I’m not gonna give you any gratification by responding to anything you write above. Just make sure you recognize that your prediction doesn’t mean anything. We’ll see how everything turns out.
Oh, i will repond.
1st off, April games count too. 2nd, the mets had more injuries that the Phils, or at least as many.
And last I checked, the Eagles were still 1-2, and HAVE NEVE WON THE SUPER BOWL!
But hey, you got Andy Reid, right?
3 games for all the marbles (or maybe not, if the other WC contenders cooperate)!
Still plenty of time for the Phils to choke away a playoff spot. Just like last year. And the year before!
Gotta be in it to win it Baby!
guys, upper reserve is nine bucks!
Exactly right Matt….I drove back to NY from DC for the weekend so I could go to the Mets game on Sunday, and I’ll be cheering until the last out (after which I’m heading to Giants stadium for the Giants-Eagles game….could be a very good or very bad day in the NY-Philly relationship for me). I have long felt that we have one of, if not the very best fan base in baseball, but this recent stretch is making me wonder. We are in a full-blown pennant race, Shea should be packed and rocking every single night. We’re not the Yankees or Braves, we haven’t won anything yet, so let’s get behind this team until the do win. Did the fans who are giving up on the team now turn off the TV after Dave Henderson’s homer in the 10th of Game Six, or when Hernandez made the second out in the bottom of the inning? This is a franchise that thrives on being the underdog….we’re not cut out to be the favorites, and I’d have it no other way. Nobody believes in the Mets now, except us. So let’s show that we still believe, get out to Shea, and will this team into the playoffs.
chris mulrain?
umm….yea. I saw a comment of yours about being a Raiders fan, so I’m gonna take a stab in the dark and say…Matt Cifichiello? (since I don’t think I know any other Raiders fans…)
If you are going tonight, PLEASE join me in yelling
“Lets Go Mets” from the moments right before they take the field until the first pitch is thrown.
I’ll be getting things going on the 1B side of the Mezzanine.
PLEASE JOIN IN! The players will know we are behind them if they hear us yelling without the stupid scoreboard telling us to do it.
…and keep it going ALL NIGHT….
NO BOOING!!!!
:) man i love baseball
right on, dude. I’ll do my part on the left side.
As someone who disagreed with you vociferously over the years ….
:fist bump:
Respect dude.
I just got a little verklempf (sp?)
Mark it down. If this team pulls out of this nose dive and lives to play another week, I will never utter a negative word to you, VCarver, Cactus or anyone else on this site ever again.
Did you hear that baseball gods?
or zen until December.
Truce……
uhh yea… RIGHT lol
Just don’t HOOT, OK?
Matt,
I love you man and you run a great site and certainly these games should be sold out and the fans should try and pump the team up.
That said, I find the negativity, booing and exasperation very understandable. Many of us feel that way. It doesn;t mean we eave the game early or stop watching the game early. It doesn’t mean we don’t want the team to success. We were all there in the Art Howe and Dallas Green ears. Some of us were there for the Torre, Frazier and Bamburger eras! And we cheered and we booed and we bled orange and blue.
This is an incredibly loyal fan base and hey feel punched in the stomach by this bunch. You really need to channel your anger towards those that deserve it: the underperforming players who are leaderless thanks to the moronic and utterly lost manager who has fewer valid options due to the GM who had a poor year, etc. rather than turning on your fellow fans.
Passion and fanaticism (fandom) does not necessarily equal blind love it can mean passionate anger and furstration as well. Are people experiencing such emotions LESS legitimate fans? And who are you to judge?
*leave and *succeed and *they. Is still early here on the left coast…
If you need to channel your anger; go to the gym, or take up Yoga. Leave the boo’s at home.
Half of the “passionate fans” you speak of wouldn’t admit to being Mets fans up until last season. There’s no need to bash the management or boo players at the game unless they really screw up (ie: Mota). Being dejected is one thing; being bitter becuase you think your teams owes it to you to win is another. Loyalty is sticking by your team even when they go through a stretch like this and hope they get through it. If you don’t like Omar’s moves last season, or Willie’s “lack of leadership”, great, you are entitled to your opinion. Just make sure that when you go to the game to support your team, you actually support them, not hit them on the head with a rolled up newspaper.
also, the above post wasn’t meant to attack you in any way, just expressing my opinion.
I understand – and I have no patience for the true bandwagon fan – i just think the people on this site – even the pessimists are true Mets fans like myself in good times and bad. I agree that Shea should be rocking tonight and tomorrow. I bet it will be.
But, I just found Matt and DJ’s posts to be a bit much when these same guys never get on the manager or Omar yet seem to think now it’s…. the fans’ fault???!?!
Hypothetical: if, God forbid, the Mets lose the next two and the Phils win the next two, thus clinching the division on Sat……would it be “ok” for “true fans” to show up to Shea en masse on Sunday and boo like crazy and express their frustration with the franchise’s collapse? if the answer to this hypothetical by the self-appointed arbiters of mets-fandom is “yes”, teh I respect them for simply asking for lots of support in the crucnh before it is over but recognizing the need/right for fans to display their disgust when it is over.
I 100% agree with you, If you are going to the game, and paying money to get it, you need to cheer your team on, yell scream clap, whatever, just support them. Then, after they lose, you can go home get online, and complain to the world about how the manager failed them, ect.
The Sports Guy chimes in on booing…
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070926
Our pitchers have faced the grunt of the boos and I think that they’ve almost been conditioned to fail now. They feel the pressure of coming through in a big situation and now the pressure of not getting booed. Some people feed on this added pressure (eg. Pedro), but sadly our younger pitchers don’t.
after a met win at home, my friend and i watched a penn state football game, and we were convinced that something like the whiteout has to happen at shea. it looks awesome!
Is it just me or did a phillies fan comment the blog? What the hell is this! I want to kick the SH%& out of this kid. The FU#$*&^ Phillies suck. We need to suck it up and win these next 3 games. COME ON!
LETS GO METS!
here is some inspiration:
http://www.myteamprints.com/images/college/lrg/1399Illini.jpg
Can we clarify this “collapse of epic proportions” thing? I keep hearing we were up 7 games with 17 games to go. That was true after the games played on Sept. 12th. But the next day, the Phils played and the Mets didn’t. The Phils won to cut the mets lead to 6.5 games. So when the Mets took the field on the 14th with 17 games left, they were up by 6.5 games, not 7. And, if I’m not mistaken, that would mean they would not set some kind of collapse record. Anyone agree with this logic?? Just trying to dull the pain a bit.
I don’t understand the Francessa logic of this collapse being worse than the 2004 Yankees because the Yanks have 26 rings.
This Mets collapse will be one of the worst but the Yanks did that in the postseason with their HOF closer on the mound ready to sweep their biggest rivals and then they lose the next 3!
Unless someone does the same thing in the WS, that will always be the worst choke in baseball history.
Fat boy is a Stankee fan. What else do you need to know?
So the metsbloggers are talking big and I like it. Let’s just make sure we back it up tonight.
Someone else quoted Bruce above. Let me just say “you can’t start a fire without a spark.”
Cheer this purported “team” on all you like. It doesn’t matter.
The Phillies have made up their minds to win this thing regardless of what it takes. The Mets have made up their minds to win this thing only if it is easy. And it is not.
When you have failed to prepare, you prepare to fail.
I like that!
I meant I like the saying. The Phils can make up their minds to fly to the moon, they still have to build the rocket.
Remember, momentum is only as good as the next day’s pitcher.
well recently that logic has gone out the window as the phillies starting pitching isnt good but has held up this whole time
Oh, about the leaving early. It doesn’t have to mean you aren’t bleeding blue and orange, not a true fan, etc.
Someitmes, it means you have a 2 hour drive home, and it is late, and you have to get up early for work. And don’t want to spend 1/2 hour fighting to get out of the parking lot. Or you have to make a particular train.
I will do it myself depending on the situation, but preferably when they are ahead! I’ve caught the end of quite a few games out on the Grand Central (some good, some bad!)
I have also stayed to the bitter end of a sell out, and not gotten onto the road for 45 miutes. All depends on the situation.
But on Sunday, if they are still in the race, I am staying until the very last out. And hopefully leaving in a great mood!
Hopefully the Mets put some pressure on tonight. If the nats can steal game one, and the Mets come through, then all the throat tightening pressure shifts to the Phils.
They are playing with house money right now, but that can change.
At this point, I will take a mets sweep even if it results in a play in game. Then I will close my eyes and pray, and try to leave the office well before the game is over!
Actually, Mets sweep, Padres lose 2, and Rockies lose 1, and there is no playin game, no matter what the Phils do.
It would be poetic justice for the Mets to sweep, Phils go 2-1, and the Padres to hold on. If that happens, I will have a great day at work on Monday.
Let’s just win tonight and worry about the other teams later.
The only score we need to keep track of tonight is the Mets-Marlins. Everything else is secondary.
There isn’t much about the mets to make me happy these days other than the fact that I was right about this team all along. I was called a lot of names for calling this team out for what they are all year, and now everyone is seeing it, it is gratifying in a twisted way.
Matt and friends, you pom poms sure are blue and orange, but lets face it, this team does not even have the guts it takes to come home and win a single game all week against last place teams when we are fighting for our season. Do you really think they deserve to make the playoffs? Do you really think they belong there against actual good teams who are hungry and want to win?
Willie needs to go, and the only way to increase the odds of that happening is us being the biggest collapse in regular season baseball history. Spare me definitions of what ‘collapse’ means to you. Reality check- this team is garbage and needs to be blown up, and if getting swept by the marlins this weekend means that will happen, i will not be too sad if it happens. Believe me, its for the best.
Bestow your wisdom on us more often. Maybe Matt can send you a medal for being right
that medal would be about the only thing any of us are winning for wasting 6 months on this bunch of clowns, i know that much.
So you are going to root for who instead? How bout instead of whining like a little girl you dust off that Met had you have had in your closet all season, put on your Bernard Gilkey jersey and root for this team to sweep the Marlins and go into the playoffs strong. If Willie needs to get fired he will get fired, but the season isn’t over so stop looking to next year and cheer the Mets on tonight! And I don’t know who the hell your talking about but the Mets ARE a good team. Our lineup is amazing top to bottom and our pitching was the best in the league for a good portion of the season. So stop your needless rant and start rooting for the team that you probably watching since Ventura played third!
Another productive day at the office!
Amen. lmao
so glad to see this post from you cerrone…i understand being down on this team, but for the love of god…it’s OUR TEAM!!! im with pedro in that i believe something special is gonna happen w/this team…it just has to!!
AMEN Cerrone!!! I so wish I could go to the games this weekend. Unfortunately Im in sunny Puerto Rico (except its actually raining). GO METS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have spent alot of time and money supporting this team.
As we all have. How do they thank us ? By playing bad baseball.
Blowing a seven game lead. The lack of fan support is a perfect way to show our displeasure. Sure the Phillies are sold out.
I am sure of the METS had come back from a seven game defecit. Shea would be sold out and rocking tonight as well.
Instead we get treated to bad or lifelfess play. For that you want us to cheer them on. ? No.. the solence of the fans..speaks for itself.!
WE WILL WIN TONIGHT!
I am supremely confident that the Mets will win the next 3 games, followed by a 1-game playoff, if necessary. The Phillies are the all-time greatest losers in the history of professional sports, they didn’t get that way by winning close and late.
I have spent alot of time and money supporting this team.
As we all have. How do they thank us ? By playing bad baseball.
Blowing a seven game lead. The lack of fan support is a perfect way to show our displeasure. Sure the Phillies are sold out.
I am sure of the METS had come back from a seven game defecit. Shea would be sold out and rocking tonight as well.
Instead we get treated to bad or lifelfess play. For that you want us to cheer them on. ? No.. the silence of the fans..speaks for itself.!
Great don’t go. Someone who believes wants your ticket.
We’ve got the team work to make the dream work!
LOL – I was playing that classic song on my IPod this morning!
The Mets have been crap at home all year and they’ve shown absolutely no ability to respond to pressure when it matters…the wildcard chase two years ago, the LCS last year, and down the stretch this year. They’re probably better off playing in front of an empty stadium so they can pretend it’s a meaningless game in May. Otherwise the fishes will be rockin’ the brooms just like the Nationals did. T minus 3 games in the Steamboat era!
Counting down the days of a manager’s potential demise? WOW
We all can dream, can’t we?? ;-)
Well said Matt…
Alright gang.. just like the song goes which we all know..
Bring your kiddies, bring your wife,
Guaranteed to have the time of your life.
Its time to bring out the whole family and start making some noise…Its time to show your love for the Mets…
Lets Go Mets…
Just in case any of you tools think the Mets are going to roll over here is what David Wright said to the A:
“There’s two choices: Roll over and start making vacation plans for the offseason, or battle like hell and win this thing,” Mets third baseman David Wright said. “We still feel like this is our division.”
We will win…..so back your team this weekend and let them hear the cheers in that stadium!
Sorry Matt, couldn’t disagree with you more. I have to say that I am really pissed at the way Mets fans are coming down on other Mets fans for not turning a blind eye to what’s happening on the field and waving their pom-poms.
As a passionate fan that lives and dies with this team, forced fandom doesn’t work. Fans are reactive–we feel the way the players feel. The players are mystified, dejected, confused, frustrated and afraid. So are we. If you put all your passion into something, and see it crashing down, it’s hard to just say “okay, now I’m going to be crazy excited.” That might work for 400 fans out of 48,000.
I have full faith that if the Mets show the fans something…ANYTHING, they will respond by being so loud that they’ll be able to hear US at Citizens Bank Park. But the Mets must step it up and show us something first.
The Philly fans are capitalizing on the energy coming from their team, and that, in turn helps pump their team up more.
So, Matt, I would ask that you stop chiding Mets fans for something that is not their fault. The Mets themselves have created this condition by getting clubed to death in the first game of the homestand, and giving nothing for fans to hold onto since.
I remember that fans god LOUD when Alou hit that home run making it 4-0, but how long until it all unraveled?
Mets fans are the best there is. They will do their part. But the team has to meet these fans half way.
So, enough already. That’s my take.
Well said.. by the way though, I don’t believe one person on this board who’s a Met fan has really given up. Saying “Lets go Phillies” or other such is nonsense. I do understand the frustration.
At the end of the day, it’s just hard to believe that a team with the suppposed talent we have can blow game after game, to last place teams no less.
Needless to say, if we have a good weekend, we’ll all be back on board.
Absolutely. I still believe. I still hope. Hell, I’m agnostic and I’m praying, for Jebus’ sake. But to ask fans who have been kicked in the crotch 1000 times over the last week to muster up energy out of thin air when the team has shown nothing for us to grasp onto? Unfair.
Just imagine how Phillies fans would be if the situation was reversed. 20,000 “fans” booing every mistake and chanting “Let’s Go Eagles!” till the cows come home.
I just hate folks not looking at the situation and suddenly calling the fair weather fans in Philly “baseball town USA” when they get all excited because their team is making a out of the blue miracle run at the title. That is the EASIEST time to be a fan–everything to gain–nothing to lose. — I fart in its general direction.
Matt…Thanks for calling out these crybaby fans. It’s one thing to bitch, moan, yell, complain…that’s what we all do as fans but that should all end once they take the field. Show this team some freakin support or just go away.
I’d go to more games if I could.
That Belliard-Street part of the video was great. The video itself was good until the end – is it supposed to imply that we should yell “believe”? I didn’t really catch that because of the 20-second gap between the last and second-to-last words of the sentence. The editing at the end made it incomprehensible too.
Reverse the SI Jinx!
When the Mets appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated back in June, I got scared.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/06/12/minaya0618/
And now, more than ever before, I believe the SI Jinx is for real.
The thing is, I don’t know how to reverse it. Perhaps if there was a ceremonial burning of that cover before tonight’s game, maybe that would work.
odds of anyone reading this low? minimal…
that video should be played right before the first pitch tonight
awesome…
im going tonight…
sooooo ready
lets do this!
Cerrone, you must certainly be on the payroll… I bet the Kool-aid tastes real good when you get to wipe your mouth with a handful of Franklins. All fans want the team to win, that’s the nature of being a fan. However, it is very hard to root for a team that has obviously spit the bit and quit on us. As soon as Eckstein crossed the plate for the first run, the light went off. And as soon as Hanley hits a HR leading off the game, the light will go out again. The team has been limp all season. Save for a hot start against some bad teams in April and May, the team is, to quote Bill Parcells, “you are what your record is,” a sub-.500 team with pitchers who can’t pitch past the 6th inning.
I want them to be in the postseason in the worst way, but maybe a long offseason and watching the Yanks and Phils in the World Series will make them realize what had happened. But then again, these guys will still get the paychecks, and will still be somewhere warm playing golf.
I’ll admit that I was one of those who have jumped the ship, or shark, in the last couple of weeks. This team was supposed to win fairly comfortably this year–not quite as dominating as last year, but fairly comfortably nonetheless. They haven’t. For me, what pushed me over the edge was Willie not coming out of the dugout to argue with the HP umpire that threw Paul LoDuca out of the game two weeks ago, on the pitch that was in the left-handed batter’s box. What sealed it was the next night when Marlon Anderson was called out on the pitch in the right-handed batter’s box, and Willie wasn’t out there arguing until after Marlon was tossed out of the game. Especially with LoDuca, it seemed that Willie was saying, “You’re on your own out there. I’m not going to protect you.” If Willie had gotten tossed out of one of those games, it would have said, “Hey–I care about you guys,” and they might have played accordingly and actually won one or two of those games, and we wouldn’t be in this spot right now.
Having said all that, if I weren’t awaiting my first child’s birth right now, my wife and I would be there tonight, cheering on the Mets. (She’s due in the next week or so.) I will be in front of the tube, living and dying on every pitch. I really do want to see the Mets get to playing Wednesday. However, if they don’t, maybe we’ll see Omar send two or three prospects to, say, the Twin Cities, and get some quality lefthander in return (yes, Johan Santana). Hopefully, they’ll see the need to do something positive. Right now, I don’t see them doing that.
I am hoping that come late Monday afternoon I will have to eat any and all of my negative comments about this team. I wish I could be a sunshiner or pollyannaish but I’ve either watched or participated in too much baseball over the years not to be objective while I still root for the team as hard as anyone. But the Mets destiny is still in their hands and they have to seize the opportunity. The talent is there but the needed team character has not been shown to be there.
As far as I know the fans are not permitted on the field during a game so stop blaming the fans. It’s up to the Mets players to step up and get the job they’re being handsomely rewarded for done.
Neil Best wrote this in his Newsday column:
Here is Ron Darling in the ninth Wednesday, with Ryan Church facing Billy Wagner and the Mets down by one:
“Be careful with Church; The fastballs out over the plate against lefthanders, he tends to hit that ball in the left-centerfield gap, but [Moises] Alou shading more to leftfield against Church. You can’t even see him in the picture. There he is.”
Seconds later: two-run double to left-center.
“Far too prescient, Mr. Darling,” Gary Cohen said.
“Didn’t want to be,” said Darling, who in 2005 was a Nationals analyst.
“Nice call, Ronnie,” Keith Hernandez added.
“Did not want to be,” Darling glumly repeated.
After Church’s hit, Mrs. SportsWatch asked a fair question: Why does Darling know more about the Nationals’ tendencies than the Mets’ coaches do?
Matt, please get off your high horse of positivity. The fact is, whether a miracle occurs and the Mets actually qualify for postseason play, this was a disaster of a season. with our payroll and talent there is no reason we shouldn’t have put this division away a month ago.
let’s compare the 2000 team to this one. there is no comparison which team had more talent, but the 2000 team had heart. they had a good strategist as manager.
Not everyone is all rosy all the time. it’s hard to be all positive when this team keeps giving you a glimmer of hope, and then ripping your heart right out of your chest cavity. seriously, this year has been like a mentally abusive relationship with a girl who keeps cheating on you but then coming back to beg for your forgiveness, and you love her so much that you take her back, only to suffer heartache again and again.
so if you want to remain positive, then fine, that’s your thing. but don’t look down upon fans who let their emotions get to them and are sick and tired of having their hearts broken by this underachieving team. we are all free to express our dismay however we like.
Very well said. The only people who are worse than the ones jumping off the bridge are the ones who still haven’t opened their eyes.
This team is bad. Period. If they miss the playoffs, you can’t say they deserved better. Even if they get into the playoffs, you can’t say they deserved it. They played like they clinched the division a month in a half ago. They haven’t played at home (only 3 games over 500 this year). Frankly, the fans have the right to be annoyed and leave. They’re playing down to the level of their completion and poorly at home. And this crap about “You need to be at the game and be behind the team” is stupid. The last people players care about is the fans. Whether you’re booing or cheering has pretty much no effect on the outcome of the game. Only a few players can feed off a big, cheering crowd and none of them are on this team.
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there are 27 outs in a baseball game. leaving early is letting the terrorists win.
You’re missing the point … if that’s how you feel — fine. It doesn’t make you any less of a fan, but during these dire moments, we don’t want you at Shea if you’re just going to leave early out of “disgust” — Shea needs to be occupied the next three days by people who believe they can turn this around. Bottom line. This is far from over. There’s three games left here where if the Mets of 3 weeks ago show up, there’s an excellant chance there’s playoff baseball next week.
Of course they’ve been trying. And Matt’s doing his part to get us going, as he’s got a larger voice than 99% of Met fans out there. And maybe it is self-rightous, but it’s his blog; we’re just visiting.
not to be a downer because i think you’re generally right, but i thought delgado actually said he had no idea who they were cheering for.
oh conzy give the guy a break. 46 years of fandom? And you don’t want him in the stadium?
Two things are true. The teams performance has been nothing short of disgusting. There is still time to pull it out. I think we’re kidding ourselves if we think the stands are going to be full of superfans–no it’ll be a fair amount of dopes there too. And of those, only the literate (sometimes barely) ones post here!
Do other team’s fans choke each other to death? Where is the hate for the other teams?
I don’t see any hate in here. In fact, I’ve read most of the posts here and you seem to be the one firing off shots at everyone else pointing fingers, etc. As a whole it seems everyone is just trying to rally together.
The song you composed on your blog is so cute!