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On his blog, Keith’s Moustache, Tom notes the roots of his frustration with the 2008 Mets, including the lack of fan support.
Tom writes:
“The Shea crowd, somehow, is a spoiled child. They went in to this season mad about last year. They’ve thrown tantrums and booed and expected this team to make the playoffs as a foregone conclusion. What these idiots don’t realize is that they’re in the midst of one of the more awesome pennant races in baseball right now.”
“If not for last season, Shea would be rocking and rolling and the fans would be supportive and having a great time. Because last season gave the Met fan some sort of entitlement complex about getting to the post-season this year, they’ve decided to be as assy as humanly possible.”
…despite the condescending tone, i agree with tom in that the team needs the fans more than ever right now…how great would it be for them to be down by a few runs late in the game and to have a sellout crowd cheering them on instead of filing out to beat traffic…i have been as frustrated as anyone lately, but i can’t live in fear of the mets losing…it’s now or never, so if you’re headed out to shea in the next couple of days, make some noise, and stay until the end…just my two cents…
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I’m going to have sort-of disagree with you there. Oh no, I definitely agree that there is an awesome pennant race and come January, right around Super Bowl, we are all going to wish we enjoyed it more when we had it. What is a Mets fan if (s)he is afraid to lose - a Yankees fan? I think 2007 has little to do with it…we want our memories of quasi-domination from 2006 and that has clouded our perception of how good this team actually can be. Forget 2006. Forget 2007. Remember the second season of 2008 — the last 7 games.
Its a joke to put this on the fans. They made their bed, they need to sleep in it…. i’m as big a met fan as the next guy, but sometimes i’m glad i live in chicago, so i can just flip the channel on these guys. maybe if they showed some heart, some intensity, wear their emotions on their sleeves, i’d respect them a little more. but they don’t, so i can’t.
most of the time, i’m screaming at the tv, wishing Manuel would call on me from the bullpen. I’LL TAKE THE BALL. aside from santana, no one has that attitude.
d.wright is playing w/ a bullseye on his back instead of the #5. he’s running away from the pressure, instead of accepting it and thriving off it. everyone’s waiting for the next guy to execute, so its hard to be optimistic. sad but true.
I hear ya Coop. The fans are certainly not to blame here, I just hope they can find it within themselves to support the team over this very trying time. I know that patience has grown thin.
I agree. It’s a copout to blame the fans. The bullpen stinks with or without the mets fans’ hearts there to break.
besides, if the game ended after 6 innings, the Mets would be 11.5 games up in first place. It’s just as well to leave early and quit while you’re ahead.
What does last season have to do with it. They only showed up to boo last year when we needed them the most. Mets fans chok e in September more than the players.
So was I wrong to boo Glavine and Willie after they combined to surrender 7 runs in one-third of an inning against the Marlins on the last day of the 2007 season?
Last year has nothing to do with this year.
Last year was gutless Willie rolling out the same lineup and the same awful relievers every day (Mota, Mota, Mota).
Last year was Willie saying ridiculous things about champagne tasting sweeter.
This year is Jerry playing the kids down the stretch (Murphy, Evans, Niese) and calling out the players when they need to be called out. He talks about swinging at awful pitches and not adding tack-on runs.
Let 2007 go folks. It makes a nice EASY storyline, but in reality Mets fans aren’t bitter about this year. I think most sensible Mets fans get that this year the bullpen is just not good enough. The team is trying and leadership is doing whatever it can to pull through this.
Just sit back and enjoy the show, no matter how heartwrenching the whole thing is.
It could always be worse, Willie or Art Howe or Jeff Torborg or Steve Phillips could still be part of the Mets.
Steve Philips got us to a World Series, more then can be said about the current cast.
Manuel keeps rolling the same losers out as well! This just goes to show that Willie should still be this teams manager and last year was not his fault! I pay a ton of money for my tickets, if i want to boo ill boo. I have spent hours and hours on this team and i hate the fact people cry about the fans being too tough on the players…its simple win and play well. I was there last night when the mets took the field shea was rockin’, so we want to cheer …not boo
OMG! And you are serious too.
I say this all the time. As fans, we can’t hit the ball, pitch the ball, or field the ball.
We can only do two things: believe and cheer our rear ends off.
There’s simply no reason not to at this point. If you don’t like some player or think the team has no heart, talk about it in the offseason. For this week (and hopefully a few more weeks in October), let’s just keep believing and root, root, root.
Let’s Go Mets!
you’re preaching to the choir…
unfortunately the fans that don’t show up or cheer aren’t educated enough to use metsblog (except for furioso and whoever the guy is that wanted barry bonds)
Where have you been from last year till now. It’s nice to have a few fans left.
I am going tonight just bought my ticket. I have been to 15+ games this year and will try and get there for a few more this year. It all starts tonight. Enough with negativity lets get behind this team and show them we believe with them.
Guys there are some great seats available for tonight. You can get MEZZ and UPPER Box seats and they aren’t that crazy expensive. Everyone get off your fannies put on your mets gear and get going to Shea.
I hear you. Just went to game #22 of the season last night.
When poor Luis come to bat it seems as if the stadium is filled with those guys from Major League that boo’d the Indians.
When Delgado and Pelfrey, who had been recipients of all the “boos” admit how much better it feels to get cheered, you know that the players do hear and are effected by the crowd.
We need support from the crowd, we need to be the 10th player in the stadium.
Now, there were times when the crowd tried to bring back this club. The rally towels given away last night were twirling from every seat. And the playoff feeling did permeate the stadium.
However doubles plays by Luis and Schneider squelched the good feelings.
Totally agree! if you don’t like the team or the players, go watch something else? Why are you here?
I believe they can do this. they might not, but it will be exciting either way.
We have to love it all, the thrill and the heartache. You can’t have one without the other…
I also must add in the fact that. IF this team does not make the playoffs we as a group that has called Shea stadium home since 1964 have 6 GAMES LEFT AT SHEA STADIUM.
If you are a true fan you go and you root and you take in your last chances to be in our toilet bowl of a stadium.
I couldn’t agree more. I just wish I lived close enough to go to these games.
Those that opt out unless they’re winning, well, I just don’t quite understand…..
I couldn’t agree more. Only wish I lived close enough to get to some of these games.
Those that are only around if they’re winning, well, I just don’t quite understand…
AMEN!!! …. You live in the past, You die in the past.
This is as exciting as Baseball gets
LETS GO METS, LETS GO METS, LETS GO METS
I was there last night and will be there the rest of the week cheering and pulling for my team …. if they don’t make it I have all offseason to be angry and critize but not only are they still in the race THEY LEAD THE DAM WILD CARD BY A GAME …. for these last 6 games lets cheer these guys instead of booing every dam out they make or hit they give up.
I dont completely agree with that. I was confident beyond anything in 2006 and we lost, then in 2007 that confidence rolled over and the team collapsed and now in 2008 they are still not playing as we expected of hoped for. They lost my confidence when they collapsed and now they have to fight to earn it back. The trust and confidence of the fans is earned through th elong season and not just bestwoed because you wear a Mets uniform. I dont think this team can win when under pressuer. The bats go cold and cant score late inning runs and the pen is just awful and cant hold a lead after the 7th inning. As if thats not enough we have ni closer, to speak of and an incomplete rotation. I hope they prove me wrong.
Last year the team didn’t have a winning streak longer then 3 or 4 games. This year they have put together longer streaks multiple times.
Last year from June on the team was a .500 team. This year this team has put together one of the best 2nd halves the organization has ever seen.
Last year the Division was really the only way in. This year we are leading the WC and are still fighting for the division.
I am gonna go down fighting with this team and you should all too.
wrongo. if we won the last game, we would have been tied for the division AND the card.
Every year every MLB team breaks there fans heart except for one the team that wins the world series. The Mets over the last three years are a very competitive ball club. There are plenty of other MLB fans out there in other cities that would love to have a team that for the last 3 years now have still been playing very meaningful games the last week of the season. Why quit on the team you love?
I thought the Yankees fans where awful but look at them showing up when the Yankees are out selling the place out making noise and getting behind there team and look at Mets fans …. they have given up already.
Totally right on post… You have to root for them through good and bad… and criticize when it’s warranted on the blog, in your living room, at the office, and there is a lot to criticize, but always root for your team at the game, plain and simple!
Yea, this is the awesomest race to see who can choke worse EVER
That sentence just gave a migraine to every English teacher in America.