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Jerry Manuel, said the following, while speaking to reporters after last night’s dramatic, come-from-behind, walk-off win:
“I believe we’re ready to take off. I really believe that. I would be really surprised if we come out and not perform. I don’t think our fans will let us perform any other way. I mean, they really were pushing us tonight and that’s a good thing, that’s a good thing.”
I watched a lot of fans walk out of Shea Stadium, starting as early as the fifth inning. There was another exodus when the team dropped to three runs behind. However, the 20–or-so thousand fans who did stay, scattered through the stadium, did do an amazing job of cheering this team on.
By the way, the boos and jeers that the mainstream media loves to obsess over all seemed to stop once the crowd was whittled down, which suggests to me that the boo-birds all bailed on their team, which should not be much of a surprise 
if you read some of the hop-on, hop-off style comments that appear on this site every day.
Nevertheless, what I enjoyed most about the remaining crowd last night was how vocal and excited and positive we were without the prompting of the public address system. Lets Go Mets cheers spread from small pockets around the stadium, people were singing the Jose, Jose, Jose song, people were banging on the railings, side of the stadium and their seats, and there was a buzz before after nearly every pitch, while the public address system remained mostly quiet.
The camaraderie is so much more fun and natural when the speakers zip it and let the crowd lead the charge.
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Rainout crowds are always a little more into it.
There weas plenty of screaming and yelling at end of the day Wednesday though.
Thank you. Just because we have some bad apples, like every fan base has, doesn’t mean you have to say ALL Mets fans are horrible. The media just loves to paint whatever picture they feel like.
I hate the mainstream media … and their biased perceptions.
I have completely boycotted the mainstream media for all news including sports, politics, weather and everything else! Lets Go Mets!!!
And you are far better off for that! ;)
Good for you. Brainwash city. Seriously.
I was unable to go to last nights games as I could not get tickets but I am gong Saturday and will be sitting in UR Row U. However last night I was sitting on my couch with rally cap on from the 7th inning on.
My fiancee asked me how could I love the Mets and watch them so much when the just let me down every year and cause me so much stress and anxiety. (In her defense since she met me almost 2 years ago is the first time she followed sports and has started to learn the Mets history and root for them.) I simply answered I bleed Blue & Orange. This team is my life and has been my life. As the team began and continued the rally and she seen me jumping up and down in excitement and screaming at the tv she learned the pure joy of what it means to be a Mets fan.
Sure, some of the boo birds left early, but the lack of booing after the team fell behind 6-3 might also have something to do with the fact that the fans never had another reason to boo when the Mets started coming back. It’s a simple equation: Team plays poorly = fans boo; team plays well = fans cheer. Not tough to figure out.
Good Big17easy! A concept that simple and yet, some can’t get it.
I have a real dislike for all the video that goes on the jumbotron and the really loud, non-organ music (except “everybody clap your hands”–I used to love that, yet, since I’ve started noticing that in other ballparks, I like that less now).
To me, it’s a little like when the Nets piped in crowd noise.
And if the Braves reaction the other night is true and any indication, it would seem that opposing teams think its a bit bush league.
I hope it gets toned down at Citi, and gives Mets fans a chance to shine
This has been an issue for years. They really should put the emphasis back on the game, and away from flashing lights and abrupt noises. We’re baseball fans, not pigeons.
I agree that stuff is usually pretty stupid. As far as the small crowd goes, a lot of people have to get up very early, so they have to leave games early. It’s tiresome hearing how you are not a real fan if you don’t act in the Metsblog-certified way.
I think the main problem is the quality, not the quantity. I gotta say, the Cha-Cha song gets me going a little, the Jose chant is fun and I look forward to it, and I kinda have a soft spot for the Howard Beale line from Network (”stick your head out the window”)… it’s all the other stuff that just suffocates you. The cheesy lines after a good play (”Tat-ised!” – what does that even mean?) and the dumb stuff…. I think it comes down to the PR people not having a clue what brings excitement and happiness to a crowd.
And how about some more original ideas that are OURS. Sweet Caroline didn’t work well because we all knew it wasn’t OURS. So the geniuses try to change the song, but keep the stolen idea of an 8th inning sing-along to a fun song. Talk about your six minute abs idea.
wed crowd was awesome. i am glad all those rain soaked fans got to see that win!
The team has invited some “hop on, hop off” Comments section venting, quite frankly, and I’ve been inconsistent in my own evaluations (Trade Wright! Wright is the future of the MEts!! (4 minutes later.)) But most people, I think, have been consistent . . . consistently enraged or consistently optimistic. And everyone loves the team.
Also, don’t equate a “vent” with a boo. I posted a potential Wright for Markakis/Jones/Sherill trade (WHA?!?!!?!) and I’d never boo the guy, or any Met.
How about a Wright and F-Mart for Roy Halladay trade? If we don’t make the playoffs, anyway.
If they don’t make the playoffs, they have to consider all options. I went through a scenario — and I typically am loathe to do this sort of “fantasy baseball” thing — where our lineup had Teixeira, Hudson, Markakis and Adam Jones, with Santana and Halladay in the rotation, and Reyes the only member of the Big Three still around. It would be a younger team with two of the top pitchers in baseball at the front end — only problem is that it would never happen in a million years.
That is an awful trade. Seriously, awful.
there should be a quiz before all postseason ticket purchases, so that the true fans show up instead of the suits
IM SORRY , I WAS WRONG. I gave up and din not watch this game and the team pulled it off. I was sure they would blow it and when I heard the 3 run HR in the 7th I thought we are done. The thing is this, the team sets the attitude of the fans by the way they play all season long. They have played uninspired and average baseball all year. If they played the whole season the way they played this series the fans might fell different. That said they did blow a HUGE chance to be in a tie for first by letting the second game get away from them. I dont know what is going to happen in the next three games, but, I WILL BE WATCHING and SCREAMING and YELLLING and CHEERING at my TV until we win or loose. That is what being a METS fan is about. I whore my colors with pride last year after the collapse and I will wear them again this off season whatever happens. LETS GO METS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe you should not watch as it seemed to work for you last night. just being superstitous.
jk. sort of. eitherway, scream and cheer and get up off your feet and yell – LETS GO METS
Hahah I noticed that when I was watching the Mets weren’t playing well, but would score runs while I was cooking/going to the bathroom etc, so I stayed away from the game, only intermittently peeking….My last peek was just as Reyes scored the winning run…I may have to do the same thing today
Actually you choose your attitude. The way the team plays can have an affect on what you choose, but it’s a cause and effect here.
Oops typo, but it’s NOT a cause and affect.
I have to respectfully disagree with that statement. This team played uninspired baseball for the first two months under a manager who it seems upon further review was pretty uninspiring. No offense to Willie cuz i was one of his biggest supporters but he totally lost the team with his handling of last season’s collapse and his firing was obviously the right move. That being said, this team has played plenty inspired baseball just to be at this point with three games to go. They have no bullpen arms they can trust, they have a superstar at third base who is still so bothered by last year that its an everyday batttle to remind him he cant hit a five run home run every at bat, and they have gotten by while losing a quality number three/four starter, a top flight closer, and getting very little from an aging veteran in Pedro. Oh yeah dont forget that their two corner outfielders both have missed long stretches of time(church and Alou) and they have absolutely no one who can hit consistently at second base. In a must win game last night they achieved victory on the backs of a third string catcher and a september call up in his first start of the season. You can say that this team makes it hard every night, that they do things every night to make you want to pull your hair out and root for some other team just to experience a little peace but dont say this team has been playing uninspired average baseball. Thats quite simply not true and if you need evidence look at thier record since willie being fired.
Last night’s game reminded me a bit of Game 5 of the ‘99 NLCS. Both games were played in the rain and both games had a ton of drama.
This team has lost some huge games and some real heart breakers. They have survived injuroes that would kill most teams and the biggest one I think is the loss of Wags, and, still here we are. Im back from the dark side and Im here to stay. No everybody on your feet and scream… LETS GO METS !!!!!!!
Couldn’t watch last night’s game without thinking about my personal “Favorite Shea Moment” when I sat through hours of a similar rain to watch the Grand Slam Single game VS. the Braves in ‘99.
That was awesome, just like last night….
Way to go to all those fans who sat through last night’s excruciating – but exhilarating win!
LESGOMETS
My greatest moment at Shea too.
I was there with my brother. Some time in the 13th or 14th inning, maybe, sitting in the Upper Deck, after all of the threats and stranded runners, I had one of those moments when the intensity dissolves for just a minute, and the crowd noise fades out briefly in your head. (Think Costner in “For Love of the Game”.) I looked up at the sky, totally black, and watched the rain falling through the stadium lights right in my face. I looked around me and saw all of the ponchos and umbrellas, seats still half-full with wet fans, exit tunnels packed with people trying to see down onto the field while staying dry (sort-of). I turned to my brother and he just looked at me and he was just about crying — okay, that’s a lie, he actually was crying a little — and he said, “I can’t take this anymore. I can’t.” And I looked at him and I said, “I know.” I looked down at the field and all of a sudden all of the noise and the tension came back on.
The place erupted when Dunston singled to get it started… and you know the rest.
What a moment.
Left work late last night, walked into a guy wearing a Mets hat and I knew he left the game. Asked him the score, he said we were down. All I thought was, “and you left?”
I sat through Atlanta beatings, 16-0 losses. I would rather boo til the end then leave a game.
This should we boo, or always cheer our home team argument is lame and just wasting time. BUT! Never leave a game. No argument there.
BELIEVE!!
I cannot STAND that frigging “Everybody Clap Your Hands” thing.
I don’t need a damn PA to tell me when to clap, or when to cheer. Pare it all down to a little Jane Jarvis organ playing, dammit!
If you watch the older Met games, it is a much better vibe without all that crap. We don’t need any fake applause, just a Hammond Organ and the Curly Shuffle
I was at the game with my Dad, section 46 upper deck. We stayed cheered and believed till the end, cause thats what real Met fans do.
P.S. i even saw Mr. Cerrone himself up there snapping some pictures… didn’t get a chance to say hello though.
If I am gonna celebrate the JOY of a win I have to able to suffer the pain of a loss. I was at the dump and I have a big orange NY on the back of my black Durango, I was weraing my METS hat and METS jacket and this dude running a piece of equipment jumos off his truck and runs over to talk to me about the mets. It was awsome!! I live in Red Sox country, which made it even better :} LETS GO METS!!!
Just curious though….what would the comments section look like if Church got tagged out 50 feet from home plate?
I guess it made up for Wed’s debacle….
Whatever the case, Just sweep the weekend!
I don’t know if all the fans that left are boo birds, maybe they had to go to wk early. Anyway at home I could feel the place just shaking by looking at the fans all standing and encouraging on the players which I feel helped the Mets comeback to win. It was a great win and for those that say the Mets have no toughness, look at all the devastating losses inc those against Phillies when the Mets came back the next day to win? If that is not toughness then what is? Sometimes you have to give credit to the other team, Cub, when you lose and blame yourself when you lose games you should of won, Nats, Bravos. OBTW I hope that those out there, scouts, etc, that are hoping they get to play Mets in 1st round get them and then get spanked. Be careful what you ask for! LGM!
I hear thru the fish wrap that Marlins are going to play their reg tm cause they want to do to the Mets what they did last yr. Ain’t happening cause we have Johan and no Glavine. Plus Mets have handled the Fish this yr so I look forward to 2 out of 3 unless the starter on Sat can give us a great game. Praying for clear skies cause we don’t need doubleheaders w/our bp.
If you watch the older Met games, it is a much better vibe without all that crap. We don’t need any fake applause, just a Hammond Organ and the Curly Shuffle