I feel so weird this morning. You know that feeling you get when you just know something bad is going to happen, but you don’t know what it is? That’s how I feel about the Mets right now, and it’s something I can’t shake.
I had a lot of hope for this season, and I’ve managed to stay about as optimistic about this season as any Mets fan possibly can. But hope is fading fast and something even worse than pessimism is starting to grab a hold of me… a feeling of impending doom and gloom. I hope it’s just something temporary and that it will go away in a couple of days, or after a couple of wins, but I feel it’s grip and it may be too difficult to escape from its clutches.. It’s gnawing at me…
If there’s one thing I hate more than making a bad decision, it’s not making one at all.
I’m not happy with the total lack of indecisiveness that the Mets displayed yesterday. It was weak. I wanted someone to say, “we’re mad as hell and we’re not gonna take it anymore.” Instead, we got nothing… empty air and hollow voices…
Where are we as an organization? And more importantly, where are we heading?
Even if you could forgive the Mets for not giving us a sign that they are as angry about the 2-9 road trip as we are, it may be too difficult to forgive them if they do nothing at the trade deadline. If they choose not to be buyers or sellers at the deadline and leave the team and it’s totally spent fanbase in a state of purgatory, I’ll spend the rest of this season calling for the whole damned lot of them to get fired. I will unleash Hell.
I need the Mets to give me something… I need to know that they are focused on the future… I need to know what that future is because I need something tangible to hang onto.
If they decide to be buyers and make some bold moves to make a serious run for the post season, I will be fine with that.
If they decide to be sellers and trade away some veterans in exchange for prospects, I will be fine with that too.
But please don’t sit on your pompous asses and tell me that you are unsure of what your status is… Don’t you dare do this to us.
I can forgive the fact that you promised us that your primary goal this offseason was to acquire a frontline starter and yet you showed up to Spring Training empty handed.
I can forgive the fact that you promised us that you wouldn’t slash payroll, when in fact you cut it by over $25 million dollars.
I can forgive the fact that you then promised you were saving that dough for in-season acquisitions, and then reneged.
I can forgive you for a lot more than all of that, but one thing I will not forgive you for is two more months of what we’ve seen in the last two weeks. Uninspired baseball.
The team may be guilty of not scoring runs in their last eleven games, it’s true that they haven’t produced as planned in the second half. But, your coaching, management and executive staff haven’t produced in almost four years, which is a much more serious offense.
After reading the tea leaves this morning from various sources, it upsets me to hear that the Mets are now in a state of mass confusion. They don’t know their identity. Some of the execs believe that they need to add a starting pitcher, others believe that the rotation is perfectly fine and that we need a reliever, while others still believe that they shouldn’t trade for anything at all because they don’t see the Mets as viable contenders for the rest of the season. What a freaking mess.
These Mets have no vision… a clear sign that they lack leadership… they are adrift at sea… rudderless…
As was the case in the last few seasons, while the ship was sinking and needed life boats and life preservers to sustain life, Wright, Angel, Johan and their teammates may end up sinking and drowning without any rescue attempts from the front office. Their hopelessness was quite visible on their faces and in their body language during the Dodgers series. Silent cries for help…
There’s now a very good chance that the Mets higher-ups will simply watch their team flail and struggle and scream, until they finally succumb to the bitter end of another dismal and disastrous season. Another wasted year of dashed hopes, shattered dreams and broken promises… And worse yet, no vision for 2011 and beyond… Just the emptiness of being stuck in the vastness of space.
Can this really be happening to us again?
I hope I am dead wrong, but like I said in the beginning of this post, I can’t seem to shake this feeling of impending doom in the pit of my stomach.
It’s sad but I felt like this weeks ago when I found out about the teams financial situation Joe. I have a feeling the team is in this flux because they’re scared to death to reveal anything because it will hurt revenue.
You Gotta Believe is becoming not a rallying cry but the gameplan and that’s not gonna work.
All I can say it that the New York Mets are not a New York type baseball team if that makes any sense, just like the Knicks are no longer a New York type baseketball team. New York in many ways is the capitol of big time sports and as a native New Yorker the Mets in all honesty, in a legal sense, should be brought into a court for fraud, embezzlement of the fans money (not delivering what is promised), and claiming to be a professional baseball team but in reality are permanent minor leaguers passing themselves off as a MLB team. There could be more charges but not being a lawyer I don’t know all the laws they have already violated but you get my point. I say sell the team and new owners start from scratch and I mean that sincerely. The only thing this bunch of frauds are good at is losing and they have made the dean’s list year after year for that and excuses. If there was a prize for excuses we win hands down.
if you ask me, i feel bar only for johan santana, this team is dead, and by not firing anybody, it proves to me the loser mentality this team has created..
It’s kind of that 1978-1983 feeling, no?
It’s the parade of scrubs and has-beens with a little more talent than Montanez and Henderson and aging Koosman.
Just for a laugh, look back at a roster from those years, and think about all of the players you cannot recall if you were tied down and beaten.
I have the feeling that’s what it will be like in 30 years looking at the Mets from 2008 till…
Ugh!
Well, the nice thing in a baseball season is that miracles happen and redemption usually is the next series away. I haven’t thrown in the towel yet, but depending upon what we do, I may be ready to after the next road trip.
russell
alou, castillo, church, schneider, el duque, lol… our downfall was to give an inept gm the keys to our belove org…
The truth about the Mets/Wilpon finances has been practically non-existent ever since Bernie Maddox was led out of his apartment in handcuffs four years ago and the ponzi scheme was discovered.
Somehow the Wilpons have managed to stay ‘in charge’, but they have never offered an explanation for why they cannot man or fund this baseball operation properly. I’m sure MLB has dealt with their kind before – after all fortunes are made and lost every day….aren’t they?
No, they are not, and when a major league baseball team in a major market needs to have capital to keep going they had better find some, sell the team or put the team in the control of others.
In fact – to put the money issue aside – why do we never hear from the Owner – Fred Wilpon? It might help him to clear the air and give a simple explanation of the situation at hand. Otherwise, this team is headed in the wrong direction.
New Yorkers are great people, but they demand the facts — It is time for Fred to fess up as to exactly just what is going on here.
That’s just it Annie he never will and in all honesty he really doesn’t have to which really is the kick in the ass. The Mets are a private entity, the Wilpons have no shareholders to answer to. Technically the fans are somewhat the shareholders in a sense that we’re the ones who buy the tickets, merchandise, etc.
The Wipons don’t have to answer to us though. They do and have taken a hit in terms of revenue as attendance is way down, odd for a team with a new ballpark- not to mention a team in the biggest sports market- so in that sense, we’ve spoken.
It’s a shame what has happened to this team.
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When the great George passed they said the Yankees in today’s market would fetch 1 billion plus. Surely the Mets in a new ballpark and a great fan base should be 750 million plus. The Wilpons should take the money and run and hopefully we’ll get new owners that are intent on winning!
I’m working on a piece about that Lou. Keep an eye out my friend.
I feel your pain, but urge you to hang in there. Dont give up the ship yet. Give the team a couple of weeks to get out of this slump and hopefully they will and we can all feel better. There’s still a chance to play meaningful games in October.
Put down the crack pipe.
Please, pass the pipe! I need a hit.
2 more weeks of this garbage are you kidding me … i can’t hear any more of this “give it more time” crap
just accept that this team isn’t very good and move on … football training camps are here and people should just tune the mets out and turn to football or going to the beach
the wilpons don’t care so why should the fans … enough said
dr jekyll would say: agree maria g, we should be loyal fan and show support
mr hyde: more time??? more time???? so minaya completely destroy the little we got left????
no thanks, enough time has been give to that pos gm and he wasted spots and money on garbage!!!!!
When the Mets started 4-7 everyone said the season is over. After Santana gave up 10 ER against PHI everyone said the season was over and now that we play a few bad games everyone is saying the season is over.
Most Met fans don’t realize that the Mets can’t play good all the time. The Mets are going to get hot again and they will make a run at the playoffs. Go ahead say I’m crazy because you guys already told me that after the Mets strated 4-7 and after Santana gave up 10 ER against PHI.
The voice of reason is not welcome here!!!!
When the team went 15 – 5 against the AL don’t remember all these people jumping ship then.
Be frustrated people, I know I am, but geez……..
That sinking feeling is prevalent throughout Mets nation, Joe. There is zero expectation that these Mets are going to do anything to resolve the real problems, just pass the buck, live on a steady diet of “potential” (gosh, I hate that word now!), and ride out bad situations. Good teams don’t do that–they are active, not passive, and they fix problems. If you had a leak under your kitchen sink, would you let the water rise or would you try to plug it up? Big diff between a big market team and a small market team trying to act big. This changes when we clear out ALL the front office ineptitude, poor decision making, and inject a drive to win that New Yorkers have come to expect. I’m ticked, can’t you tell? My two current posts are only a modicem of what I really want to say…It’s money, It’s distrust in the clubhouse, It’s a failed GM, It’s the Wilpons!
I can deal with a sinking feeling, but it’s more than that, sort of like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asO97gdn2oo
Chiller Theater nails it. lol
My sentiments exactly!
If being a “New York” kind of team means spending like Yanks then I don’t want that. Yanks spent a lot of money back in 70′s and 80′s and what did they get 2 WS title? There was not continuity with that team until the 90′s when you had Showalter and Michaels draft and build up the team that has had success since then.
It wasn’t until their farms system produced, Bernie, Pettite, Mo, Jeter, Posada that Yanks became a stable team with a plan on the field that you could add pieces to to complement the home grown talent.
The Mets since Jose and David were brought up have added what parts to this duo that have made them and the team better?
Beltran? Johan 3 years ago. Who else other than players on the downside of their carrear that would not be here long term.
El Duque? Delgado gave us maybe two years. Alou? Pedro lasted maybe two years.
Mets have brought up Pelfrey from minors but who else that you can call part of the building blocks of this team?
Omar went for the quick fix cause he wanted a “New York” kind of team and he failed miserably. Yanks have added players that are still in their prime or have a few years or productivity left in them, not Mets.
It seems that all the players that Omar and the Wilpons added lasted a year or two then they were hurt and Omar tried to plug in another less than qualified player so the merry go round continues.
I know that Jose and David have been here for more than 6 years but who did Mets bring in that brought that winning mentality to team other than Johan and Pedro?
When David and Jose came up the team sucked and then for that one year, 2006, everything fell into place but Omar did not look to the following years to continue Mets success, he thought that he could ride Delgado, Alou, El Duque, hurt Pedro to another great season and it showed in 2007 and 2008 when the vets that should of shown the youngsters how to win, how to pace yourself, how to handle pressure on and off the field just did nothing and it fell on David and Jose.
Glavine was a helpful addition but he was never a leader, he was a give the ball every 5th day and whatever happens, happens.
Who do Met have this year that has the winning attitude?
Jose and David and Pelf have gone thru two collapses, and that does not make a winner out of you plus you need to have other players that will pull their weight and step in when things go wrong, what didn’t happen last year.
Mets are not the Yankees and with the plethora of talent in minors might have the makings of a winning club for a few years but until that mind set that you expect to win and you won’t accept anything else becomes ingrained in their heads then we will have more of the same.
Someone should have stepped up to Ollie and let him know that he is hurting the team, same thing with Maine and his constant whining.
Who was the clubhouse leader that lets these guys, like K Rod, know that it is about the team and not about the individual.
Maybe adding another arm would be good since that would put Takahashi back in BP but Ollie has got to go, Mets have to take a stand with him and Boras cause the team needs to know that you won’t settle for mediocrity.
Let me give you a counter argument, not that you are wrong just a different viewpoint. I grew up in Brooklyn until I was 12 and then moved upstate and used to go to Ebbetts Field and sit in the bleachers with my brother. Let me tell you about New York teams : Yankees, NY Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. All three teams were world class and world champions, and competed in the rarified air year after year and I can still name a lot of those players on all those teams like Sal Magli, Mays, Carl Furillo and on and on. That is Big Apple baseball and if the Mets cannot meet that standard then they need to move on. As a Met fan I am quite frankly embarrassed!
The mets may have toyed with the fans’ emotions a bit this year, but I think we all forget that they were in a lame division and only able to win at home. That is the sign of a mediocre (or less) team. Sooner or later, without very necessary improvements, the bottom was due to fall out. And, of course, those improvements did not come. When you think that we came out of spring training awarding roster spots to the likes of GMJ, Catalanotto,Jacobs, Perez and Maine, you should be surprised and pleased that we got to 11 games over .500. What this team got from Barajas (early), Dickey,Pagan and Pelfrey was mostly unexpected. And they are still getting it from two of those guys. The mets are a failed organization. They are stuck in quicksand. They are never able to make a truly decisive move in the middle of the battle. A lot of meetings, a lot of backpedaling. They are wishy-washy wannabes. As much as I despise the yankees, and I really do, the met organizastion is not even a pimple on the yankee organization’s butt. It is really too bad. New York is plenty big enough for two teams. A pity the Wontpons are so small. It serves them right. They are not going to make a dime for the rest of the season. If they lost money last year, how much will they lose this year, with attendance down as much as it already is and is doubtless going to be?
jdon, I agree 100%…
I didn’t have much (any) hope for this season, but I was sucked in by a decent first half.
Now that we’re effectively out of the playoff race (again), I’ll try not to get duped again next year.
This franchise is dysfunctional. We have the highest NL payroll every year, but every year we are not part of the playoff picture.
Until we get new owners/GM/high level management, I can’t imagine anything will change.
I must say that I was negative before the start of the season, but I was happy to see them do well and push Ollie and Maine to the side. I was still disturbed that we have a manager and GM who thought it feasible to go into the season with these two losers, but that is my other point. I actually wanted to waive bye bye to Omar after Choke 2 in 2008, and I NEVER wanted Jerry Manuel–I wanted Oberkfell–I thought he was the guy when they went out and got Wllie. The mets almost always hire the WRONG GUY. For now I do not care if these guys finish the season, as long as they are gone when we miss the playoffs. If they are not, I might not just stop going to games as I have this season-I might actually stop watching them as religiously as I do. It is frustrating. We need top guys in these key executive and management positions, but we have owners who would not know a top guy if they tripped over them. Art Howe lit up the room. Right.