The buzz online is that a group of Mets fans, who organized through some message boards, will be meeting at Radio City around 6:30 pm, then heading over to the SNY studios for 7 pm for what is being described as a, “Bring Manny to 
the Mets Rally,” to take place outside and on-air during the network’s Mets Hot Stove show.
…this… is… awesome… i’m not sure it will ultimately matter, but i love the idea and admire their passion…
…i also heard people may be wearing manny-like wigs, which would be hilarious…
…i have no idea how many people will be going… could be five… could be 50… no clue… i will not be among them, however, as i had no idea this was happening until today… but, good luck guys… and have fun… and if any one takes pictures or video, be sure to send them over as i’d love to post about it tomorrow…
Send the message … loud and clear. I like it!
I live in south jersey, wish i was closer. I’d be there. godspeed to you my brothers
South Jersey? How is it living around so many Philly Fans?
I live in SJ too, tough being behind enemy lines, which is why I want manny so bad.
I agree with the post above, I wish this had been discussed earlier, I’d of found a way to get up there.
is there anymore public events coming up in which there is an opportunity to hold another manny rally
Every Tuesday until we SIGN MANNY!!!!
Jersey Shore here and it sux…
1/3 of my family are die hard met fans – the oldest generation.
1/3 are Yankee fans – the middle generation
1/3 are Philly fans – the youngest generation
Go figure. You try and raise them right and look what happens….
Have fun tonight all. Good luck!
Im in SJ too, how many of us are there lol.
i asked two phillies fans today what the first thing they would think is if the mets signed manny
1) uh-oh
2) I’m scared
need we say more
Would that Philly Fan happen to be Cole Hamels?
It could be worse. I live in St Louis and my cardiologist is a die-hard Yankee fan
Love the idea.
Unfortunately, I am going to be stuck at work. I would have really liked to have been there. Make me proud Met fans!
I love you guys…
I wonder what Manny would think if he sees this lol
Manny would think, “What the hell is wrong with Mets ownership for not signing me already?”
Or maybe he’ll think “what the hell is wrong with those people it’s 26 degrees!”
yeah … 26 degrees … cold as the Mets offense in the clutch last year. LOL
i dont think he’ll think anything, and thats fine with me, just hit 300+
I imagine you’re closest to the truth on this one.
Or he’ll think, “How many PS3 and XBOX 360 can I buy with $100 Million? Like 10 I think.”
It would be great if this was big enough to get some coverage on ESPN…….or the back page of the Post. Blow up a big picture of it and paste to Freddie WIlpons front door…..The fans have spoken.
Well, if you call it the Bacon Explosion, it’ll be an internet sensation!
Damn… I wish I could be there with all the other citifieldshea hooligans.
Maybe they should take donation buckets with them to collect money to pay for Manny since money can be the only reason he is not a Met yet. Unless the Mets have decided they don’t need the best right handed hitting outfielder in the game today and he could not help the team. :-)
Gee, now we know what Scott Boras does with the 10% cut he takes from every exorbitant contract…
This is great! I wish I could be there but I will be setting my DVR for Hot Stove tonight. If Manny sees this, I hope he can do nothing but laugh and want to be a MET!
i’m going to be there
Reading the other blogs it seems like the only way we can get media coverages is by chanting MILF! MILF! MILF! MILF!
for (Manny In Left Field) obviously
LMAO.
LMAO indeed!
That is the funniest post that I have seen in a long long time…….thank you for the laugh
HAhahahahaHAh
Hahaha!! One of the best posts in a while!!
I am sure Burkhart will poo-poo this, and then tell us how wonder Castillo is.
Are they being paid by Boras?
Does it really matter? As long as the message gets across.
I don’t think so. At this point I really wouldn’t mind if they were though.
I should go there and lead a counter protest.
SAY NO TO MANNY!!!!!!!!!!!
Do not spend 20% of the payroll on a claubhouse cancer, who is bad defensively, is 37, does not play hard, and ay any moment can decide he is underpaid and quit on his team.
You probably wont make it back home.
Please go and do that so I can see you get your a.s.s. kicked on TV.
News bulletin: NYC Man gets killed by an angry mob of fat albert look-a-likes in funny wigs…….
lol … fat albert look-a-likes screaming “MILF!!!”
That would have to make the top ten plays on Sports Center. Oh My!!!!!! That would be a sight to behold
This is truly almost TOO funny!
Hey Mr. Sommers I love your work!
Long time listener first time caller. Who would you rather have Manny or Abrea-boo?
I’m gonna pretend i did not read that.
Brave soul – lol.
We do already have one of those in Carlos Delgado, so 2 should cancel each other out.
Manny a clubhouse cancer??
he has more playoff appearences in 15 seasons than the entire Mets franchise has its 46 years.
T.O., Stephon Marbury, Jose Guillen, Ron Artest, Chad Johnson…those are clubhouse cancers…
Manny is a winner…
I sure agree with this oleo….those guys are truly clubhouse cancers, while Manny has never behaved anything like them…and while TO is really good, Manny is better than any of them too.
Marbury—what a joke! And on cue, as soon as he is benched, the Knicks start to rise—just as Minn, Phoe, and the Nets did as soon as they got rid of him!
I bet 20% of my paycheck this week you wont do it grover.
He quit on his team last year. The Red Sox clubhouse celebrated when he was traded. he beat up an old man clubhouse attendant. There is no DH in the NL.
There is a reason why all of baseball, (outside of LA-(who gave Andruw Jones & Juan Pierre big money), is avoiding this guy. Think about it.
I honestly believe this will have more of an impact than people think. The Wilpons have a reputation for disconnect with their fans that they don’t deserve.
One of my favorite things about Omar is he genuinely listens to people, staff, fans, owners, family, players, to make his decisions. Time will tell.
I am hoping this ends up being a big rally. If it is only five people it will be pretty lame.
How sick would it be if a couple hundred Met fans break their way into the studio and start demanding Manny live on the air, just going wild. Burkhardt if freaking out, Dan Graziano is running for the hills, Greg Buttle comes from Jets Extra Point in the next studio and joins in the rally. KB trying to calm down the angry mob. Jerry Manuel comes out of the woodwork to join in the with the Manny crowd, wearing a Manny jersey and a Manny wig. Whoooh. Funny stuff.
Jerry’s a gangsta … he would do that!
awesome! that song “we’re not going to take it” should run through every fan who storms the studio haha
(wrestling annoncer style) -
“and the fans are protesting….WAIT IS THAT MANNY RAMIREZ’S MUSIC?!?!?!?1″
(pyrotechnics go off)
i’m goin into the city for the kings of leon at msg. may have to stop by and check this out
you would listen to the kings of leon.
go lick bruce springsteen or whoever you like…loser
I listen to pioneer sludge bands.
What’s wrong with Bruce Springsteen? HE’S THE BOSS!!!
The Cheapons will probably order black windows like when Jeff gets his hair cut with garden sheers and a blowtorch or have the police show up and arrest everybody.
How can you call the owners of a team with a 135 million dollar payroll the cheapons?
watch you see Jerry
Exactly. Jerry Manuel and D Wright should show up with the Manny Wigs on.
I would love to see that. I would settle for just the in studio guys to wear the wig.
I’d really like to see this happen. Can’t be there, and I could go either way on the Manny thing, but if it were big enough to make SportsCenter that would be hilarious.
Myself, a buddy, and a cold 12 pack of Coors Light are taking a train from CT.
That is excellent. As one comment above claimed, godspeed.
By the way……the M.I.L.F. comment …..BRILLIANT !!
who ever heads out there tonight deserves a beer on the rest of us…
Make a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love it. I can’t wait for this rally. All I can say is that there has been a lot of people on here every single day pushing for the Mets to get Manny so this should have a very big turn out.
This should weed out the ones who are truly, pas-sionately connected to the idea of Manny in orange and blue from the ones who are all type and no action.
…or those who live too far away to actually participate?
If you really want him badly enough, you’ll do whatever it takes: quit your job, drop out of school, steal a car, hijack a plane, make one of those machines that will “beam” you there, whatever it takes. My God, it’s Manny Freakin’ Ramirez man, do it!
I would love to go but I really don’t think they really care about what the fans want they only want the fans money and like I said before that I have a bad feeling that we are done with the spending
MATT, PLEASE DON’T LIE!!! YOU KNEW LAST NIGHT AND EVEN MENTIONED IT ON THE MANNY RUMORS POST.
IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SHOW UP, FINE, BUT DON’T USE THE EXCUSE YOU ONLY FOUND OUT TODAY!!!
Just kidding! Thanks for getting word out! You rock!
He made up the lie because if he goes he will be let go by his masters, SNY…. There ain’t nothing wrong with that reason, but who would put it in writing?
For those about to rally, we salute you!
agreed
what will they do, say they want manny on the mets. what is that gunna do
Matt,
I think you can have a part in a “potential” Manny signing if you really try try to get the word out about this rally in the next two hours since you know “people”…probably won’t mean anything, but hey ya gotta believe.
if the media reports that dozens of Mets fans rallied for Manny Ramirez outside SNY studios, then i’m sure that information will get back to the Mets and/or Manny/Boras…
Does make sense… but what do we know
In a metropolitan area with this population, dozens just ain’t gonna cut it.
someone get cowbell man on the phone. we need you man!
I’m about to fax Scott Boras about this. Is there a message board somewhere where this information is available.
I really hope this isn’t like the protest to give “the pink slip” to Isiah Thomas last year
power is in numbers mannyacs – if not for my pop’s 60th bday, i’d be there with plenty of beer in my system
BTW for those going….you be better off meeting at a bar nearby, drinking then going over for the protest.
the liquor will make you feel warmer and will be alot more obnoxious
MINAYA IS TO BUSY GIVING PEOPLE 600,000 contracts
Rob Mackowiack would like a word…
That’s a lot of contracts…..
lol
Who’s bringing the Fire Omar signs?
Just you. I am sure you will march around your apartment bravely with it.
+1
I hope you realize that the people you’re trying to sway with this rally are the Wilpons. They’re not going to react well to a bunch of drunks with “Fire Omar” signs. You want to win them over to the logic of your desires, not insult and offend them.
HOSTILITY PRODUCES RESULTS!!!!!
Perhaps in the short term, yes, but in the long term it produces the desire for revenge. I’m confident that the Wilpon family knows it’s best form of revenge on the “Coupons” faction is to keep the team in their family for generations to come. Be careful what you wish for.
IM IN HOUSTON, IF I WASNT.. I WOULD GO WITH A SHEET OF PAPER STATING “BRING MANNY TO THE METS FOR BRETT FAVRE STRAIGHT UP” HAHA…. LET ME KNOW EVERYBODY. WE WANT MANNY UP IN DIS BITCH!! CHEA!
Say what, what what
well if a message board of people did this their should be alot of people their
Go get em boys. You rally for our championship!
YES WE CAN!
i like this particular saying
watch out for fernando tatis and daniel murphy. they’ll come out of the new york sky and start hitting people for trying to get someone else in here.
Any Mannyac ™ will tell you that those guys would just swing and miss.
LOL
nice
I don’t understand why everyone that isn’t on metsblog is saying that we are completley out of the Manny sweepstakes, but sny, and mb are the only places these talks are still happening. I wan’t Manny more than anyone don’t get me wrong, but I’m just confused as anything.
I just talked to Scott Boras’ a-s-sistant and just faxed over info to his office on tonight’s rally.
you rule
Great! Now the fax machine will be out of paper when Omar faxes over the Manny offer sheet!
ha., its hillarious how much fun everyone is having with this
i got to think Boras already knows how badly some of the mets fan base wants this guy, but kudos for the effort
o man tatis and murphy in left field a combined 22 hrs thats the way
since this is an sny blog im sure the wilpons know about this. so they will probably watching to see if there is a big turnout…
Not if “Wheel of Fortune” is on opposite.
Omar: shake your fanny, get us manny.
I think it wold make a bigger impact if people actually camped out in front of the studio until manny is signed by someone haha.
for those of you going tonight, have a blast.
just make sure you keep it under control, a bad incident could close the door on the manny talk pretty quick
WHAT DO WE WANT…. MANNY! WHEN DO WE WANT HIM… NOW!
Living in south jersey we don’t get SNY if the manny rally goes off well tonight can someone put it on you tube
i live in SJ too. Get Direct TV…you can get a package with SNY
That’s it, I’m bringing out my Tex4Mets posters I ordered a few months ago!
if it has the word a s s in it in any capacity such as the word a s sessment, it will be in moderation. you have to put spaces or something in those kind of words.
I’ve got on my thermals, I’m ready to go!
I think the Rally is a bit premature. Omar needs to sign Ollie and Sheets or Pedro. Then he can figure out if he has money left for Manny.
Manny doesn’t have offers, except for the Dodgers. So he and the Mets can wait it out till b4 Spring Training.
All this does is allow Boras to say, “Your fans really want Manny. Just give us the 4/100 and you’ve got a deal.”
Pitching first people.
Case, why pitching first? Manny has 16 rings and a career OBP of over 1.000! You and I could be the 4th and 5th starters with Manuel Aristides (Onelcida) Ramirez in the fold!
Manny will have to bat 3rd and 4th if our starting rotation is:
Santana
Pelfrey
Maine
Redding
Garcia/Niese
Putz and K-Rod will have 20 saves combined, all from Santana’s starts.
But at least we’ll get to see Manny being Manny!
who cares what it does for Boras leverage, fans are making their voices heard…
go get em
As Matt likes to say, “Don’t get me wrong” I’m all for fans letting their voice be heard and If I thought it was the best for the team I’d be there. I’d just feel better if we already had our rotation figured out.
It’s all over. The Mets have signed Bobby Kielty to a minor-league contract, according to Adam Rubin.
Pitching first? It’s not like you have Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, and Walter Johnson sitting on the free agent market. I mean what is Oliver Perez? He’s a headcase, a guy we failed miserably with over the past 3 years. I think you need to change the mix. I like Sheets more than him, but again- he is not Pedro Martinez ’99 himself either. I don’t see why we can’t bring in Manny before we get a pitcher- you know they’ll get another pitcher regardless. I’m tired of hearing the notion that pitching is the priority- just get the best players you can now or very soon- whether they be hitters or pitchers. I am surprised/disappointed that there hasn’t been more of a sense of urgency to turnover the roster after what was a 3rd straight collapse. All Omar’s done is been reactionary and addressed the (obvious) bullpen problem. I mean any of us on here could have signed K-Rod. They have shown no creativity, and now is the time to do that, especially with guys like Hudson, Varitek, Dunn, Abreu, etc., sitting out there begging for money. Even if we don’t get Manny, I think it’s imperative that you change the mix and change 2 or 3 of the starting offensive 8.
First, last year wasn’t a collapse, it was a pennant race. 2006, was a playoff loss one hit or walk away from the WS.
Second, reactionary would’ve been to give K-Rod and Lowe the money they initially wanted, and to have given Orlando Hudson the money he wanted while cutting Castillo. If that would’ve happened there’s no way we’re talking about signing Manny.
Third, pitching is the priority because it wins games, not hitting. Yeah, let’s give Manny 3/66 or whatever It’ll take to beat the Dodgers offer. Where does the money for Perez or Sheets come from? I guess we’ll go with Redding and Garcia at the end of the rotation.
Finally, changing 2 or 3 of the starting 8 costs money. What you think people are gonna sign for free? Are we trading Reyes, Beltran or Wright? No way! Will anyone take Castillo from us? Nope. Can you find a slugging 1B at Delgado’s price and who’s going to take him from us? Oh I know, let’s trade Church who is signed for cheap, plays great defense and is a doubles machine.
No, let’s fix the rotation, then we can worry about LF or C. Like you said, there’s a surplus out there. I’m sure someone will fall into our lap now or at the trade deadline.
But, maybe ur right, let’s just give Manny the money he wants and all our problems are solved. Plz.
Excellent post. The thoughts of the few logical Mets fans on here summed up very nicely.
So I just read that Minaya flew to the Dominican Republic to meet with Pedro??? Why?? This is not Pedro Martinez of 1999 we are talking about. I see this as a waste of time and energy, considering the urgency with which this team’s other needs need to be addressed right this minute. Make Pedro wait- he is not anything near a priority right now. I have no problem Minaya flying down there a month from now when the rest of the team is set, but this is a bit ridiculous. Come back Omar, and get on the phone to Boras and talk about MANNY.
Hmm, guess they don’t have phones in DR. Did you ever think that Manny might be in DR, too!
Yeah, Omar fly back to New York. Cuz deals can’t be made outside the U.S. and Manny’s right here in NYC waiting for you.
not like we have a training camp down there for developing future prospects. But it must be impossible that he decided to stop by pedro’s while hes down to overview the prospect development being as one of our top prospects is a young latin american whose name rhymes with Mernando Fartinez
M-Fart? Never heard of him. Can he play LF?
Sign Varitek, Manny, Pedro
How bout Nomar and Schilling, too! Maybe we can get Damon also.
We did have Trot Nixon for a little bit last year but he signed a minor league deal with the brewers.
We’ve got Alex Coro, too so why not.
Cora! Coro is one of my favorite Freestyle artists.
Varitek is a natural leader, something this team hasn’t had since Keith Hernandez (well maybe Lenny Harris- but he wasn’t a starter, so it was tougher to lead).. And if you sign Manny, you need Pedro to keep him loose and goof around….Tell me what person on this blog wouldn’t like to see these 3 signings (all together). If so, please state why.
I would not like to sign Veritek. He wants a big contract and he can’t hit.
I’m at the office ready to tune into SNY. Would love for it to be a big turnout. This is hysterical.
also no urls
how many people u think are there???
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It looks like a playoff postgame crowd. Great job by the fans! Kevin Burkhardt has not acknowledged them and we are 13 minutes into the show. Pretty funny stuff.
“It looks like a playoff postgame crowd. ”
After a WIN or a LOSS? There’s quite a difference.
2006 NLCS Game 6 Baby!
AMAZING MANNY MANNY MANNY!!!!!
Any idea why this comment might be in moderation? Nothing mean, rude or dirty. Nothing I’ve already posted…..
well if it is in moderation that means we can’t see it until it is moderated so i could not tell you.
I re wrote my thoughts and again moderation!!!!! What is the deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you’ve eliminated any combination of a-s-s from your post and it still gets moderated, I’m not sure. The only reason other than “as-sume” or “as-sess” that I’ve ever had a post moderated was once when I cut and pasted a long piece from another website that had charts, graphs and numbered lists in it. I just cut out the charts and graphs and reposted and it worked.
you can’t say any word that has a.s.s. in it like a.s.sume, pa.s.s, cla.s.s, etc.
you could write the whole thing with dash or spaces in between the letters. It’ll take a while, but it works.