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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 cheered…i 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.
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.
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?
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 :-)
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.
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.
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……..
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.
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…
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.
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!
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 !!!
Giving 110% is impossible.
If we had 40 David Wrights, we’d our pitching would be very bad.
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!
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)
Anyone who actually pays/supports the Knicks at this point should be booed. What a disgrace!
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
I heard Maine asked Marv Albert if he could borrow one of his dresses :D
I heard Marv Albert replied “Yesssssssssss!” and then asked Maine about the backbiting in the Met’s clubhouse.
ugh…
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
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
LoDuca was at the game I went to, and he wasn’t booed. (the tix were free)
LOL @ Knick fans booing anybody besides their own team…
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!
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.
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.
i was at the game last night…. he definitely was getting way too many boos
I know this is way off-topic, but does anybody have any good sports bars in Manhattan to watch the Giants game this Sunday?
go to stout by msg
R.W. McQuarters got a standing O
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
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!
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.
If you had the mysteriously strange name R. W. you would be applauded, too.
1) Knick fans have the right to boo anything. They paid that much for tickets. Let them get their money’s worth somehow.
2) David Wright was one of the few highlights of last season, and even earned slight MVP consideration. He couldn’t have done any more for us than he did.
3) David Wright knows how sports work, and will not be upset in the slightest about the booing. If he hears someone talks the talk, he’ll respond in kind, then proceed to walk the walk. He’s not going to get worried about his image like A-Rod or even Beltran.
4) Even though I respect Jeter, I can see myself booing him :)
It is my lifelong dream to tear down MSG. If I ever get to be mayor I’m gonna have that place razed. Hopefully while it is full of Knicks and Rangers fans.
#1 I would boo Jeter at a fundraiser for cancer
#2 the Knicks offere me a contract
#3 the NBA is still a league?
I hear Vince MacMahon is spreadheading the XBA, which will be full contact and have a trampoline floor.
Ha I would boo Jeter too! I personally can’t stand the guy! No matter how good he is at the plate. I hear way to many bad things about him on some of these sites and it just makes him look like a bigger idiot then ever!
The Mets earned every boo they get. Even the ones who didn’t earn them, if you get my meaning. You’re part of the most humilating, embarassing, pathetic collapses in the history of sports, one which colors up your franchise forever, and you’re going to get booed. Every member of the 2007 Mets will have to live with it until their dying breath. They take THE CHOKE to their graves – their f-ing graves.
Let go of the past. 2007 is over, stop booing and complaining and look towards 2008. Things happen – would you boo your grandmother because she missed your birthday party last year?
i like the analogy but wouldnt most grandmothers try really hard to make it up to their grandson/daughter knowing they missed their bday party? we definitely need to let go of the past but honestly what is there to look forward to in 08 the way the team is built right now? we got worse theres no way around it i dislike glavine immensely but we havent replaced his innings and that will only make our bullpen weaker. wright and reyes still have no backup and as of now ryan church is going to be playing way too much since he has no platoon partner. oh yea and we have no ace to match up with the webbs, hamels, peavys, and zambranos of the world.
I can’t argue with that. I’m not pleased with the start of 08, but there just aren’t many players out there that we can get. We need to replace Glavine’s innings, but our GM is making the smart move and weighing out his options, rather than bleeding prospects. The only improvement I see is our RF, because Green was terrible, but the cost of Church still makes it a downgrade.
If Valentin makes the team out of spring training, he is our backup for Wright, being that 3B is his natural position. Backup for Reyes would likely be a combo of Gotay and Easly. Backup for Castillo is Gotay and Anderson.
For the last time, we have not gotten worse. We have gotten slightly better.
True Glavine’s innings are not replaced in 1 person. We know that Pedro won’t give us Glavine’s innings. Lets say he gives us 160 that leaves 40 to make up.
I would expect Maine and Perez to increase their innings by 10-15 each. That only leaves 10 to make up. That could come from more by Elduque or a more established Pelfrey or even a crapy FA like Loshe that can pitch with similar numbers to Glavine.
Church with out a platoon is still better than Green.
And although those teams have aces, with the exception of the Dbacks, none of those teams have a deep rotation and a good offense.
Thank You Real, I couldn’t have said it better myself. I hate it when, everyone says we have to get Johan to beat Philly (don’t get me wrong I would love to get him) but I still think we are the better team, we did at the end of the year what they did at the beginning of the year, ours just came at the wrong time.
Oh, and while I’m at it, GO GIANTS – thanks for showing the Mets what a real team looks like. Keep up the great work boys. I am every bit as proud of you as I am ashamed of the Mets.
what a sickening front-runner. not even a question in my mind the Giants probably ’shamed’ you in the past two seasons (and probably at 0-2 this season) as much as the 2006 Mets made you proud. I, for one, have never been ashamed of the Mets. Guess that’s just me.
I hate to say this because it involves admitting that I was watching the Knick game on msg but when the broadcast returned from a commercial break the announcer (Breen?) stated “those loud cheers you hear in the background are for David Wright of the Mets who was just shown on the scoreboard” and then they showed him on tv. I heard cheers and Breen said cheers, for what that’s worth.
are you fixing to dig the knicks a grave?
for the benefit of my back I’d recommend cremation, those guys are huge.
I was listening on the radio, and I am not ashaimed to admit it, and Gus said boos. They then went on to talk about how David is a stand up guy and does not deserve any boos. They sounded very surprised.
I think DWright reminded knick fans of how bad NY sports have been the past few years. Hopefully the Giants can pull our city out of our rut
im not a giants fan but ill be rooting for them on sunday for the exact reason you said above. ny sports in general have just been a big joke (knicks, mets collapse, yankee soap operas, jets, rangers). and frankly i think the anti-ny media have been enjoying it a little too much. so with that being said go giants!
yeah this is definitely just yankee fans booing him…lets not blow this all out of proportion…im as big a met fan as they come and i know i wouldnt boo wright…and i would think he knows this
somehow i think he’ll get over it. in fact, i’m sure it’s the last thing on his mind.
I was at the game sitting five rows from Wright. It was not booing..there were plenty of roars as they showed him on the jumbotron (granted not as large as the roars that RW McQuarters and Brandon Jacobs got later in the game.) Plus there were a line of about 50 people at halftime looking to get his autograph.
Wright was sitting court side with two guys; one older and one looked about his age. I would guess his father and brother.
Anyone that actually would attend a Knicks game this year automatically loses any credibility in passing judgement on anyone else.
Yeah Met fans aren’t stupid enough to spend money on a pathetic waste of crap like the Knicks. But speaking of Wright. In 2006, he, Tom Glavine and Jeff Wilpon attended a Ranger game and they all got a pretty good standing ovation from the crowd. I think most of the crowd could be just upset at the Mets for choking the way they did….Probably wouldnt happen if they never choked the way they did. But the strange part is that if Wright, Beltran, Maine and Perez got booed at the Knicks game, why the hell did Lo Duca get cheered. Technically, he was still a seen as part of the Mets by everyone, because he hadn’t signed with anybody.
By the way I think the teams I root for are the teams most Mets fans tend to root for anyway. After all me and my friends grew up rooting for them since the start: Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rangers.
I always called that combination of teams as the hat trick of horror.
Fans at MSG automatically boo anything that’s on SNY.
Except Julie Donaldson. She’s got the best booty on sports tv.
If you’re an NBA fan, let alone a Knicks fan, your speaking privileges are revoked.