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According to Bob Klapisch at ESPN.com, both the Mets and Yankees played .500 baseball in the month of April and it was treated like the apocalypse.
Klapish writes:
“Billy Wagner tore into Oliver Perez last week for lasting only 1 2/3 innings against the Pirates. Across town, Hank Steinbrenner was openly questioning whether his Bombers would even make it to the playoffs, let alone dethrone the Red Sox in the American League East … Of course, that was before an impressive weekend cleared everyone’s heads … But there was no ignoring the parallels between the crosstown rivals, both of whom left spring training with a we-own-the-world mentality only to discover a reality that wasn’t nearly as generous.”
…it is odd to see both teams experience the same things at the same time…age is catching up with the veterans, youth is under-performing, injuries to key players and the middle of the order is not hitting…
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Lol fun time to be in ny eh….
To be fair both teams had their share of injuries in april that im sure had some effects on the losses they recieved. I think this is going to be a different kind of year for both teams. I feel we are going to be playin catch-up most of the year. Theres soooo many good teams in baseball right now its tough to see any team just dominating the scene for an extended period of time.
When heads are small, it doesn’t take much to clear them.
Anyone else think that Brandon Eddy looks like a younger Rob Corddry (formerly of the Daily Show)?
lmao yes!!
How’d you miss this gem.
“Maybe it’s some consolation to Cashman that Omar Minaya, his counterpart with the Mets, has been feeling some heat, too. One person familiar with the thinking of owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon said “the honeymoon is over” for both Minaya and manager Willie Randolph. After failing to win the pennant for the past two years, Mets ownership is giving the GM only one more month to establish control over a weak National League East.
If the club is still a middle-of-the-pack team on June 1, Minaya will be asked to assess whether Randolph is getting the most out of his players and if he’s the right man for the job. Fair question: Since May 18 of last year, the Mets are just three games over .500. But the win-or-else edict extends to both men: If Minaya backs Randolph and the Mets fail to make the playoffs, the two could be dismissed after the season. “
I am so disgusted with this team, the fan base, and the situation we have created that I don’t even know where to begin.
We are being compared with the Yankees in terms of feeling as if anything less than a world championship is a bust. We lose a game and the post and comment sections are as if the world is coming to an end. This is a game and should be fun, and it is starting to not be fun to follow this team anymore.
It is coming to the point where it is no longer fun to root for the Mets. A win should exciting- it should not be expected. And a loss is a loss. It is not the beginning of some major catastrophe. I have been a MetsBlog reader for quite some time, but the tone of this website is changing for the worst. The booing, the calling for a firing, the analysis of how every minor detail of the game is the beginning of a disaster. I’m tired of it, and its time for us as Met fans to stop being so cynical and to enjoy the game again.
Yes last year was excrutiating and is something we will never forget. But if you want to dwell on last season, watch clips of the collapse. If you want to enjoy 2008 and the excitement it is going to bring, then tune in to the Mets and enjoy.
I would assume it’s because alot of these “fans” only started being fans in 2006.
They only started rooting for the Mets because of their success and have thus adopted Yankee mentality. Most Yankee fans are a product of their success rather than any other reason.
True fans remember the hard times, and are happy to watch the orange and blue everyday. As frustrating as it can be.
2 Facts……
1- The disappointment after losses wouldnt be soo dramatic, if the team wasnt so talented, and had the potential. SO believe in that potential, and talent…and cheer them on.
Booing players you expect to help your team win is ashame, and hypocrytical. Itd be like going to a restaurant and telling the chef he sucks and you hate him…then expecting him to cook you a great meal.
2- Alot of these “fans” critize players for not being able to perform in NY and handle New York. When the fact of the matter is…alot of these “fans” cant handle being fans in New York.
The NY media is a hype-machine. Every win is expected and every loss is horrible, and the end of the world. And these fans just buy into it. One guy on a message board shouts and yells, and throws out some obscure fact, and all of a sudden hes got a bandwagon of people yelling the same things.
And the most sickening thing about alot of these people are their threats to jump ship. “I wont watch the mets anymore” or “ill cheer for another team.”
I cant speak for everybody, or every die hard Mets fan. But the thought of rooting for any other team is sickening. And even worse…if i even TRIED to stop watching the Mets itd be physically impossible for me not to cruise past SNY on my TV and check the score, or watch an at-bat. So anybody who threatens to jump ship….i encourage it. Id rather a few honest and true fans, rather then a mass of fairweather wanna-be fans. THATS when we become like the Yankee fan base.