Comments on: From Left Field: I Have An Addiction

By: Mr North Jersey

Mr North Jersey — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:06:42 +0000

LoL

By: t agee

t agee — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:19:46 +0000

We all here root for our team in good times and bad. Sometimes that’s all we can fall back on but this article was an expression of true fandom, one that I can relate to and appreciate reading from the writers point of view.

No apologies here.

Many of us have differing views on how we should go about doing things that will result in more success, or even about what modest success we have had over the course of the last two decades but that’s all over with once the game starts. Then it’s just full out pulling for your team no holds barred.

We have all to varying degrees and in different ways gone all the way from polite recommendations to screaming tirades to attempt to get the Wilpon to field a better and more consistent product. That wasn’t the intent of this article.

I can’t really understand how the Wilpon thinks. I know this, he puts the Commissioner’s precious slotting guidelines above the fans and even above his own business. I’ve railed against that endlessly but that doesn’t mean I’m not off to Citi Field to root on the Boys and have a good time doing so.

Somehow or another I think the Wilpon will come to understand that we cannot continue to rely on the generosity of the Florida Marlins for not only giving us some of their best players, but also taking themselves out of the pennant race in order for us to make the post season.

We’re big boys now. Almost 50 years old and someday we’d like to make the post season on our own. Without any help from the Marlins, or anyone else for that matter. We’d like to be like we were when we were rampaging through the NL in the 80′s. Putting people on notice and kicken’ their asses. But that takes talent. Talent we don’t have and talent we can’t afford to buy anymore because we squandered all the cash on **** and the Marlins didn’t come to our aid like they did 1n 1999, 2000 and 2006 instead they turned on us like rabid dogs and showed us just how dependent we are on them providing our best players by knocking us off in 2007 and 2008.

I’m banking that some day the Wilpon will realize that we need to provide our own Al Leiter’s, Mike Piazza’s and Carlos Delgado’s because we just cannot rely on the Marlins poor finances to provide us with our best players. We have some of those financial issues our selves now.

By: Sach

Sach — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:11:01 +0000

METSIE! METSIE! METSIE!

By: will

will — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:36:10 +0000

each writter on this site does the same thing, they all kiss the mets feet, i guess they hope the site stays revelvant as citi becomes more and more of a ghost town. how about standing up and demanding a better product? and stop beleiving the front office, every year a different excuse with the same result, a bad team….

By: metsaddict77

metsaddict77 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:36:09 +0000

i’m a realist,even when i know they don’t have a good team they are and always will be my team.i would rather follow a losing team year after year then be one of those people who jump on band wagons every year,i despise those kind of fans.the mets probably won’t be a good team for a few years but they will always be my team.i’d rather be a mets fan,then be a yankees or phillies fan.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:23:01 +0000

My name is Pete, and I’m a Mets fan.

By: Wally Backman

Wally Backman — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:46:45 +0000

Alright this goes beyond Koolaid drinking. Just face the facts and know the Mets will not be good for the next 2-3 years.

By: Mr North Jersey

Mr North Jersey — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:27:05 +0000

Nice…

By: metsaddict77

metsaddict77 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:23:17 +0000

yes sir been addicted since i’ve been seven years old, i’m 34 now.seen some good and a lot of bad, but i still love em, thus the masichist part.

By: Jim Mancari

Jim Mancari — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:18:20 +0000

Hence the name “Mets addict,” I’m guessing.

By: metsaddict77

metsaddict77 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:09:16 +0000

unfortunaely me too.it’s been a torturous the last few years,who knows if it will ever get better.i’ll still be watchin em, for some reason.the mets fan has to be a bit of a masichist.

By: Jim Mancari

Jim Mancari — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:07:45 +0000

Love it Russell! Absolutely love it!

By: Russell Zanca

Russell Zanca — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:00:53 +0000

You know you are a Mets addict, Jim, when you have work and deadlines, but you cannot help yourself from spending four hours in front of tv watching your most beloved sports team implode again and again and again.

We are Mets fans, we are the ANTI-YANKEES, and we are so happy for that!!!

By the grace of God, I am a Mets fan.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:50:04 +0000

And then there is always Morphine!