Comments on: Note: Old Timer’s Day is Too Much Work

By: dave27

dave27 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:46:55 +0000

i don’t understand why you insist that honoring your history is so unimportant. We’re trying to have pride in our team, even in the face of what’s gone on in the past 3 years, and we’re reacting to an owner who takes more pride in a team that’s been non-existent for 52 years than his own. No, having CitiField ‘dripping’ with ‘pictures of Ray Knight’ won’t replace winning, but last I checked we don’t have either.

When you were a kid, did your parents have alot of pictures of you and your siblings around? Did they hang your school projects on the fridge? I am sure they did – it was so you would grow up feeling pride in yourself and knowing they had pride in you. How would you have felt if they didn’t?

Like a Mets fan. If the people who own the team don’t have any pride in it, why exactly should we?

By: dave27

dave27 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:41:19 +0000

Yuniesky Betancourt was traded today from Seattle to the Kansas City. He’s definitely no Alex Cora.

I am glad KANSAS CITY is still trying to improve their team.

By: Lorenzo23

Lorenzo23 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:56:01 +0000

toasty we lost the division by 3 games in 2008. And 2007 was the biggest collapse in the history of baseball. I suppose we should ecstatic right now…

By: Lorenzo23

Lorenzo23 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:10 +0000

What about last night during the Mets broadcast when the Dodgers were embarrassing us again, Burkhardt started talking about how The Wilpons (losers) actually got there hands on the original construction plans from Ebbets Field and followed them to create Citi Field Home of the Dodgers. Glad I had to be reminded of that when the Dodgers took a 10-2 lead or whatever it was LOL..

By: ToastyJoe

ToastyJoe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:50:25 +0000

Xavier, I think people are (over)reacting emotionally right now since we stink due to the fact that half the team is on the DL. If the Mets had won just one more game in 2007 and again in 2008 – just one! – we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Oh, well.

By: Lorenzo23

Lorenzo23 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:50:21 +0000

I know but I’m saying no other sport has unlimited payroll like the MLB and thus makes it harder for other sports to fix an organization by signing big free agents like we can. Considering our resources The Mets are a joke I’m sorry. I’m a diehard Mets fan but I’m realistic…

By: ToastyJoe

ToastyJoe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:47:33 +0000

The guy in the first post said “all of professional sports”, not “all of baseball,” so I was responding to that.

By: Lorenzo23

Lorenzo23 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:47:19 +0000

The Pirates and Orioles cant spend 150 million on payroll and dont have the same resources as us. You can’t compare a large market team to a small market. In the large to mid size category we are definitely in last by far

By: Lorenzo23

Lorenzo23 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:40:58 +0000

Cant compare different sports. And we’ve had the same success as the Knicks and they have a salary cap so it is harder to fix…Plus We havent won a WS in over 20 years.

By: Lorenzo23

Lorenzo23 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:39:32 +0000

None of those teams you mentioned have the ability to spend 150 million on payroll and are in a brand new stadium with increased revenue… If you want to be fair compare the Mets to teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, maybe the Dodgers, Cardinals, and Phillies (mid market) and we come in LAST place when it comes to management decisions and utlizing our resources. DEAD LAST.