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At The Journal News, Rick Carpiniello describes how the Opening Day ceremonies at Shea Stadium brought back memories…of anger.
Carpiniello writes…
“Yes, anger. It was in the building, and it was palpable. Part of it was because the despised Philadelphia Phillies were in the house. Part of it was because the Mets had lost two in a row coming into the home opener, and nobody waits for the other shoe to drop like a Mets fan. But part of it, a huge part of it, is the hangover from 2007, a nasty taste and odor that just won’t go away. You can scrub and rinse your mind, but you can’t wash that away.”
…just like regis, i was at the game yesterday and wanted to write about my last opening day at Shea experience and share my pictures…but i was too angry to do so…
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Whose going to Join me at Citizen’s Bank Park Next week? I will be there Friday and Sunday very prominently in mets attire
I hope you have health insurance, based on some Youtube videos I’ve seen.
I will be there on Sunday in Phillies gear. If you’re sitting near me, I’d be more than happy to talk baseball & drink beer with another fan.
Of course, it goes without saying that I hope you go home disappointed with the final score (and I’m fairly comfortable in assuming that you feel the same way).
Come by section 418. I will be the short guy in a beltran jersey sourounded by a bunch of my friends (about 15 of them) who are phillies fans. It should be an interesting night.
good…i have no problem with shea being an angry, hostile place. im sick of the family friendly atmosphere that goes on there. people who come in wearing a phils or braves hat should feel uncomfortable
I am angry…but I do have a problem with Shea becoming an angry and not a family friendly place…I grew up there…I learned baseball there…and I now have a child I want to bring there…now granted I learned somethings at Shea that makes me shudder thinking my kid will learn it…but I don’t want to be like Philly, where we fight and scream and curse and carry on..We are better than that..they are a loser city with a loser mentality…the Fighting is garbage..I am mad at the Mets..sure but I want to go to the game get into it and not fight and carry on and have that stuff go on around me..I pay to much money for it to turn into a hell hole..an angry place with excessive drunkenness and fighting..leave it to the trash down at the other end of the Turnpike.
hopefully the higher ticket prices and limited seating will keep the riff-raff out of citi field. let them fight in the parking lot.
I really hope that was sarcastic Mackey…
Thats EXACTLY the type of mentality that I hate about the Mets organization and their fancy, tiny, new ballpark…
Eventually the prices will be so high the thought of bringing your kids to a game for a family outing will be like saving up for a family vacation…and thats without the 8 dollar beers (.75 cent increase from last season)
PS: they were out of programs by the 3rd inning of yesterdays game…youd think they would have the forethought to make enough for the number of people that were able to win a lottery and buy seats….
PATHETIC
my comment wasn’t sarcastic at all. hopefully if the tickets are more expensive and there are less seats available, I won’t need to worry about sitting next to a bunch of dirt bags that are more interested in instigating fights than watching a baseball game.
I hope your seat is surrounding by glamorous, martini-sipping rich folks who are more interested in discussing their spring vacations in Prague than watching a baseball game.
I don’t understand your point. You like when children get harassed by drunks? and people get assaulted for wearing a hat? Any measures they can institute to prevent these bums from entering the stadium the better off we will be as a fanbase…
yesterday I saw two fights in the stands, and getting back to the train, everyone was hostile and tense. Anyone wearing phillies gear was at the least insulted, and one guy (an older guy who was minding his own business and just trying to get out of there) was threatened just for daring to wear the hat of his team. If that’s where we’re going with all this “angry fan” stuff, it sucks. I know there’s a certiain pride with being a tough town, but threatening old men? Nothing tough about that.
I agree. If only the players could feel our anger and get angry and fired up too. I’m sure Paulie would have said something to the ump yesterday when Utley kept leaning into the plate.
I went to the game yesterday and was pissed off after that Delgado play too. Most of the fights broke out after that play. I enjoyed the fights, I’m not gonna lie. They were a much needed distraction from the carnage on the field.
Honestly, Willie Randolph should be handed his pink slip. He has no business managing a Major League Baseball team.
uh…no. I do hope you are joking.
…about wanting Shea to be a hostile place I mean….
i meant it more that im just a bit fed up with all of the music, things that go on inbetween innings and overall cheesiness that seems to have taken over the stadium. obviously i do not want the place to be dangerous…just more of a competitve focus on baseball. sorry if it came out wrong, as you can see i have gas, and im a bit irritable
Change for change’s sake is not often a good thing, but I wonder if Omar should have made a few more particularly in the bullpen just for this reason.
Realizing there may not have been a lot he could do there. But it will be hard to look at that same cast of characters after every poor performance like yesterday (and there will be those games from any pen) and not get a whiff of that 07 “stench”. sad.
Totally agree. BPs are notoriously unpredictable. We’ve seen some really random BP pitchers come out for Atlanta and Florida and be fine.
It is just impossible for me to see how Schoeneweis can succeed here — at least as anything more than a LOOGYAGO (Away Games Only), which is a waste of a roster spot. If I were him I would be asking for a trade. How can you succeed when you are booed on opening day? Further, say you are David Wright. You hear he is coming in and hear the boos. Now you are feeling confident?
I certainly am not meaning to suggest that the fans should dictate this guy’s career. It just seems the ship has seriously sailed so what is the point of keeping him miserable?
With all the anger, doom and gloom and negativity flying around right now, Met fans will bring about a self fulfilling prophecy , so to speak, if it continues. It will just consume everyone, players and fans alike, How long before guys like Santana, Church, Schneider start wishing they never came here if this keeps up? How will guys like Reyes ever turn it around if the fans start turning on him (and I’m not saying they have….yet). Sure, we can boo players off the field and call for managers heads, but in the end will that really satisfy us? As hard as it might be, a little positive support might be in order instead of just fanning the flames. I don’t know, maybe I’m not a realist, but I’ll keep cheering and resist the urge to self implode for as long as possible.
I think one of the reasons Mets fans are especially angry is that no one has been held accountable for last season. We got Santana, which is great, but for the most part, the same team, manager, and GM that were a part of the choke last year are still in place.
Exactly. This is the exact same team that played lackluster baseball last year, and choked away a shot at the playoffs, save three players. What makes you think the result will be all that different?
Because all their talk about learning from their mistakes and seeking redemption seemed believable. So far is looks more like BS.
It’s all about denial.
Also, what was with not wearing the standard home uniform (Pinstripes with blue caps) for the final home opener at Shea. I love how the Mets just Sh-t on tradition. I can’t stand the horrible black and blue caps. Also, those caps are official the road caps, no other team in MLB wears their road cap as there home cap most often, especially when they have a far surperior home cap.
Is that really your beef, unis and caps? They could play naked as far as I’m concerned, just win the damn ball game.
Never did I think that it would come down to colors or caps.
I didn’t even notice what uniform they were wearing. Who cares?
mets fans are a big part of the problem with this team.
How? I’ve never been asked to take an at-bat. I’ve never come out of the pen?
This team had nothing but support last season from the vast majority of the fans and the players and coaches blew that lead away. Now their continued lackluster play is our fault?
2007 mets: home 41-40. away 47-34.
i blame the fans and media for reyes. great kid who slammed his body into the ground for years with a huge smile then the whiny mets fans wanted him benched for not running out a ball. hasn’t been good since.
fans didn’t show up down the stretch last year. they boo instead of being supportive. ny fans are over-rated and fickle.
I agree.