Matthew Cerrone

Note: Wright Booed at Knicks Game
By Matthew Cerrone - Jan 16, 2008 9:24 am

According to a variety of eyewitnesses, David Wright was booed quite heavily last night while at MSG during the Knicks-Wizards game.

Carlos Beltran was booed while at MSG earlier this off-season, as was John Maine…frankly, at this point, a player from the Mets getting booed at MSG no longer should constitute as news…

…i have had fans e-mail to say that most fans at MSG are typically Yankees fans…obvious, since any time a player from the Yankees has been to MSG they get cheeredi have no idea if this is true or not, but i’m willing to believe anything

In the Daily News, Ian Begley catches up with Wright, and talks with him about steroid-allegations against Roger Clemens.

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Comment by gjhaze
2008-01-16 09:28:17

Let’s face it, any Met deserves to get booed until they show us something otherwise. The wounds of 2007 are still very fresh in people’s minds. I talk about it with random fans all the time. The Collapse isn’t something that just fades away in the offseason.

I’m glad it makes the newspapers when things like this happen.

Comment by Vinnie
2008-01-16 09:31:25

Please Knicks fans don’t have the right to boo anyone besides themselves. People forget the years before Omar and how bad we were. Remember Roger Cedeno, Roberto Alomar, Mo Vaughn?

Comment by extrawhitemeat
2008-01-16 09:41:05

I will go on record and admit that I was excited, yes excited, when we re-signed Roger Cedeno.. I thought he was a poor man’s Johnny Damon.. I had visions of him and Ricky running wild in 1999 and thought he would reek havoc on the base paths..

Outside of a few relationship choices.. I have never been more wrong in my entire life :-)

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Comment by Hit The Weights Zeile
2008-01-16 09:45:09

sadly i shared those same hopes when they resigned cedeno. obviously when they got alomar i was pumped since i figured the guy was nasty for the past like 10 years then suddenly for no good reason just blew.

 
Comment by Xavier22
2008-01-16 11:29:40

I think everybody shared those hopes - even the New York sports pundits were saying the 2002 Mets were a shoo-in for October.

Then reality set in.

 
 
 
Comment by rd
2008-01-16 10:01:54

Knicks fan are definitely in “boo mode” these days….. That being said, I think it’s more likely Met fans are booing the players who let them down last year with the monumental collapse more so than knick fans being mostly yankee fans……..

Comment by LetsGetMetsmerized
2008-01-16 10:04:32

I think it’s mostly pompous Yankee fans that still go to MSG to watch an overpaid mess like the Knicks, Met fans for the most part stay away from the Garden when the team stinks. David Wright doesn’t get boo’d by evenb the most cynical Met fan, so this proves it’s mostly Yankee fans paying money to watch Isiah’s disaster.

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Comment by gbaked
2008-01-16 10:46:31

I go to games whenever my company gives me tickets… and still listen to/watch most of them. I know many of my fellow met fans that are also knick fans.

If anything, I would think that we as met fans would understand the ups and downs of a team and still stand behind them even during bad times.

I surprised at all the knick hate over here…

 
 
 
Comment by napes22
2008-01-16 10:34:22

Yankee fans are scumbags and refuse to see any other player as talented outside their own. Wright is one of the most talented young players in the league - and instead of showing him respect, you boo him. If Jeter was at the game there would be a standing ovation.

The comments about the team deserving to be boo-ed are assinine. Fine the team collapsed, but booing one player because of it makes no sense. If anything Wright is one of the only players that actually performed during the last month of baseball. Show some respect instead of sour grapes.

Comment by Metsgirl23
2008-01-22 22:42:12

Agreed 100% Yankee fans are just stuck up all the time! whenever I meet a Yankee fan and they know I’m a Mets fan I just walk away before I start arguing with them because all I want to end of dueing is wasting my breath on any hard core Yankee fans. Wright is my all time favortie player hes good looking,talented, and he is going to be the next big thing for the Mets. Our Mets players may have been booed but at least we know who their true fans are and we stand behind them all the time! So all you stuck up scumbags Yankee fans watch out!

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Comment by Metbob22
2008-01-16 11:13:05

Yeah, but you don’t BOO David Wright. He’s the one Met who gave 110-percent through the end of the season. He’s a class kid and a hard worker and if we had 40 David Wrights, we’d have four more World Series championships. Plus, Knicks fans (of whom I am one) have nothing better to do because Isiah isn’t going anywhere soon, so they have to take out their frustration elsewhere. But let me ask this question ? Would the Yankees (and their fans) like to have David Wright playing third and using the extra 230 million dollars to go out and solidify the rest of that line-up ? You’re Damn Right they would !!!

Comment by JohnnyG
2008-01-16 12:03:37

Giving 110% is impossible.

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Comment by jose--jose-jose-jose
2008-01-16 15:45:42

If we had 40 David Wrights, we’d our pitching would be very bad.

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Comment by Metsgirl23
2008-01-22 22:45:56

What? If his pitching is so bad then tell me why again he won the Golden Glove for third baseman in the National league! Cause I do beleive you get rewared with those for Great pitching!

 
 
 
 
Comment by bigchart333
2008-01-16 09:29:33

u know what, screw them…the Knicks friggin BLOW and shouldn’t be booing ANYBODY except the players that put the crappy product on their own court

and every Yankee fan i know respects and even kinda LIKES D Wright…it’s hard NOT TO….

screw the knicks, i tried being as loyal as possible, but there’s a team coming to NY next year that will be much better for years to come (as long as they wake up and fire that dingbat Lawrence Frank)

 
Comment by Charlie
2008-01-16 09:34:57

Anyone who actually pays/supports the Knicks at this point should be booed. What a disgrace!

 
Comment by gbaked
2008-01-16 09:36:02

that wasnt actually Maine at the knick game though

it was an impersonator there trying to pick up chicks… strangely enough, the boos seemed to help in that regard… only in NY

Comment by napes22
2008-01-16 10:35:19

I heard Maine asked Marv Albert if he could borrow one of his dresses :D

Comment by GravediggerHebner
2008-01-16 10:38:18

I heard Marv Albert replied “Yesssssssssss!” and then asked Maine about the backbiting in the Met’s clubhouse.

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Comment by Jaded1983
2008-01-16 09:40:32

ugh…

 
Comment by ravi3
2008-01-16 09:41:44

The Knicks fan will boo anything that reminds them of their team…The Mets and Knicks both happen to use the state colors of NY

 
Comment by gowrightgo
2008-01-16 09:42:37

Stupid thread but even stupider would be any fans booing Davd Wright.

Yankee fans should not bother…I certainly doubt we would boo Jeter at a Giant game or Ranger game

Mets fan are too smart to be booing him. He was essentially an MVP candidate for the team and was one of the few hitting on all cylinders during the collapse.

Maybe Isiah turned around to face the crowd at the exact time they flashed David’s image. Or maybe it was Dolan who showed up at the exact time David’s image went up. Clearly Knick fans are comfortable booing. They do that alot in that building for the home team

 
Comment by jamie
2008-01-16 09:46:58

LoDuca was at the game I went to, and he wasn’t booed. (the tix were free)

 
Comment by cyclone
2008-01-16 10:00:54

LOL @ Knick fans booing anybody besides their own team…

 
Comment by Number41
2008-01-16 10:01:30

The time has come Mr. Omar. Papers in Boston, Minn & NY all talking Santana to Skankees or Sox this AM. No mention of the Mets anywhere.
Time for this charade to end (since it is going to end just like the Zito baloney last off season!).
What are we going to do for starting pitching?
Stop the daydreams and let’s get it together!
Signed, a concerned Mets fan!

Comment by therealsince86
2008-01-16 10:16:56

I agree, it may be time to give the Feb 1 deadline. Here is our package if not we are moving on.
What would it take in terms of a Mets package to get Cain, Snell, Burnett or even at this point Duke, Lowry, etc.

Comment by napes22
2008-01-16 10:36:41

Lowry shouldn’t be grouped with Duke, and Cain won’t come here cheap. Lowry is a very serviceable left, but a little to comparable to Glavine for my tastes.

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Comment by dani2cool
2008-01-16 10:08:14

i was at the game last night…. he definitely was getting way too many boos

 
Comment by realist718
2008-01-16 10:10:27

I know this is way off-topic, but does anybody have any good sports bars in Manhattan to watch the Giants game this Sunday?

Comment by Cactus
2008-01-16 21:16:05

go to stout by msg

 
 
Comment by KevinG
2008-01-16 10:13:12

R.W. McQuarters got a standing O

Comment by napes22
2008-01-16 10:37:38

Thats because of the usual “trends” with NY Fans.

Mets, Jets, Islanders

Yankees, Giants, Rangers

I tend to go against the norm - Mets, Giants, Isles

Comment by MoMoney25
2008-01-16 11:13:32

I would also like to add Nets to the trend of Mets, Jets, Islanders. I am a fan of all four teams, if you notice all Knicks fans are stuck up just like Yankee fans, which is why you don’t see many Mets fans that are Knicks fans!

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Comment by Potvin Sucks
2008-01-16 14:04:31

That is not true. Almost every Met fan I know that likes basketball is a Knick fan. All my friends who grew up rooting for the Mets grew up rooting for the Knicks as well. Sorry, no one likes the Nets anyway. They aren’t even a LI team.