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2009
Memoirs of an Angry Mets Fan
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Being a Mets fan is hard in general. Try being a Mets fan in Florida. You have idiots in Red Sox shirts come up to you and say, “What happened to you guys?” You have Marlins fans that didn’t show up to Dolphin…err…Land Shark Stadium came up to you and use expletives and lack the general common sense of a bandwagon fan. Florida, unlike other sports cities, has a neat mixture of different baseball fans. Sadly, I think I am the only Mets fan in Southwest Florida. My #1 Fan vanity plate says so.
This season, some really crappy decisions were made and I was anxiously awaiting the day where we called up the Brooklyn Cyclones to replace the Mets. Or at least for the day where the Mets would have to hold open tryouts. Luckily, that didn’t happen.
With the news that Jose Reyes tore his hamstring while testing his torn hamstring tendon, I feel like we are very near the bottom. The bottom would be a firesale (although it has worked for the Marlins). Jose Reyes is the face of our medical blunders, playing in 36 games and being listed as day-to-day for 12 days before being placed on the 15-day DL. I hope for our core’s sake, he does come back in time for spring training.
I don’t think firing Jerry or firing Omar is the answer. You can’t blame Jerry for trying to work with what he’s got, which was essentially David Wright and AAA Buffalo. The lack of depth in the farm system does ultimately fall on the general manager but Omar has made some good moves in the past to try and help us. Getting Frenchy has to be the deal of the year. Hopefully, in the offseason, we can TRADE for a legitimate left fielder, as that position has been a black hole for the last 3 seasons. I do think, however, both of them should be placed on tight, tight leashes. I think the only coach I would retain is HoJo; sure, we’re dead last in home runs but we’re 2nd in the NL in batting average, an eye-opener to me.
While most fans have undoubtedly moved on to football, I’m still checking scores and watching high(low)lights. I’m still a Mets fan; I have to see the end of this atrocious season. LGM.
About the Author: Jessica DeMattia
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Great job on this post. Usually, offseasons are about which free agent we’re going to sign or which trade are we going to make. This year, it could be all about keeping up with the medical reports to see if we’ll have a healthy team back on the field come April.
I totally agree with your short leash assessment. Jerry Manuel, the gangsta…cool guy. Jerry Manuel, the manager…needs some work. Omar definitely has to step up or else he’ll be following Tony Bernazard out the door.
“Omar definitely has to step up or else he’ll be following Tony Bernazard out the door.”
By the way, where is Omar these days? Is he around town masquerading in some cheap disguise that he rented from Bobby Valentine? Anybody got a set of eyeglasses with a fake nose and some bushy eyebrows?
Oh yeah, I forgot the mustache!
I think Omar has had plenty of time to “step it up”. This year alone is not the sum of his failures. Improvement to this organization as a whole has to have Omar’s departure in the equation somewhere. If he was not fired, and as you state he is to be kept on a short leash, who is in control of the leash? The Wilpons?
I’m in Southeast Florida (Broward county), I feel your pain and can relate. Thankfully there is a good amount of true fans in this area. I promise you aren’t the only true Mets fan in Southwest Florida though! My boyfriend and his family love the Mets. You aren’t alone.
Join the club man, a whole lot of frustration among Mets fans. Nothing goes right this year.
Im a long time Mets fan now living in Denver CO. I have been going to Rockies games and cheering for them the past few months since the Mets never bothered to show up this season. What strikes me as funny is when I look up at the Rockies scoreboard at their line up no one really jumps out at you aside from Helton yet they continue to play hard and win. They are everything the Mets aren’t. They play like they wanna win and not like they are just collecting a paycheck. They play with alot of heart and grit, something I havent seen the Mets do in years. We continue to sign these high priced free agents in the off season and what do we have to show for it? Maybe the Mets need to learn something from these smaller market teams ie colorado or even the Twins, learn how to build a better team instead of signing the highest priced guy. I hate to say it but we’ve become the Yankees in that respect except when they do it they get a winning team out of it.
I love the Mets and that will never change, but I expect, no I demand more from them. I know this year we were killed with injurys and that a shame, but it happens. It does see a bit absurd that the Mets injurys always seem to take longer to heal then any other team.
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Hey I am right there with you Jessica.
I am one of the few Mets fan in South Eastern Florida.
I go to as many Mets games i can and sit right next to the Mets bullpen and boy the Marlins fans in that corner can be brutally ignorant.
From the dumb-ass in the first row screaming “Hanley!!!” ’til his throat bursts to the a-hole in the Marlins Budweiser hat/Marlin baseball head guy.
I feel your pain big time. I live in Southeast Florida and I am sick and tire of the jokes and laughs from the Yankee fans that I know here. This has been a very tough few years and I am sick and tired of our team being the butt of every joke. This organization needs to get its act together and field a better team from the bottom on up. The minor league system is a joke and I would accept this season more if there was a brighter side ahead, but there are so many holes to fill. This might take a while to fix and we have already suffered so much over the past few years.
Hey, I’m a mets fan in Southwest Florida as well!
I too feel your pain..I live in South Florida…my vanity plate also references a certain Mets ace pitcher….The Marlins fans are horrible…every series at Dolphin Stadium is the same…all bandwagon fans with no meat to their arguments…ask a Marlins fan who pitched their no hitters and I’ll bet they can name only one….its has been a horrible season and I’m glad its over…I don’t think firing Omar will help…we need some new young talent…all I can hope for is some good winter decisions…
Another SW Florida Mets Fan Here.
Naples to be exact, and I understand your frustration feeling like you’re the only Mets Fan. I go to Hammond Staduim everytime the Single A Mets play the Miracle in Ft. Myers to see Ol Tim Tueful coach and watch potential the prospects. . .
The way I see it, I hope this season weeds out the bandwagon mets fans. You’re right in saying that the bandwagon Sox fans are annoying, I don’t want mets fans to have that stigma. . .I take pride in saying that Mets fans are one of the smartest fans in sports.
I’m in Bonita Springs!
And I would have hoped that the bandwagon Mets fans would have been weeded out after the ’07 and ’08 campaigns.
I’m in Marco. I have been to a few thirsty Thursday’s to see the Mets play the Miracle. Have not been able to bring myself to the last 2 series at Landshark. I try to get to every game the Mets play usually.
There are always more Mets fans at Dolphin Stadium than Marlins fans ever…my family and I go to every series game against the Marlins, win or lose. The bandwagon fans make me sick and sometimes it isn’t worth arguing with them. I’m glad the season is over and I hope next season is better…we are no bandwagon fans nd I don’t know if the author of this article tries to look for allies or not, but we are here…always will be…Let’s go Mets 2010!!!