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Today Is Don’t Trade Jose Reyes Day!
An article by Hojo's Mojo
DON’T TRADE JOSE REYES DAY!
FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
CITI FIELD, FLUSHING, NEW YORK
Today is “Don’t Trade Jose Reyes Day” at Citi Field.
What started out as a cool idea by lifelong Mets fan Donna Bauer, has evolved into a big time event that will feature thousands of fans who will be rallying support and sending a message to the Mets front office to keep Jose Reyes a New York Met in 2012 and beyond.
It all began on this Facebook page in early May, and since then it just continued to pick up steam and started to charged the fanbase, most of whom are dead against losing their home grown star who just happens to be in the midst of an MVP caliber season.
Many of the fans who will be attending the game, will be wearing specially designed T-Shirts by The 7 Line. It is a can’t miss “Orange and Blue” design that screams the message loud and clear…
Plenty of fans have said they will be bringing banners, signs, posters and whatever else they need to get their point across during the game.
Let us know if you are going to the game, or post here during the game and give us some live feedback!!!
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DON’T TRADE REYES!!!!!
TRADE #5!!!
Don’t Trade Reyes, Don’t trade #5 – GET RID OF ALEX68
lmao… i was just kidding bro.. i know dwright is the “future” of this franchise…
ALEX EVER NOTICE HOW CLOSE DWRIGHT RESEMBLES DWIGHT
I READ UR NOTE IN A FAST GLANCE & COULDN’T COMPREHEND WHAT RELEVANCE THE REAL ‘DOC’ HAD TO THIS TOPIC LMAO!
NYMFAN & ALEX68, I’M SORRY TO INFORM BOTH OF U THE LOGICAL TRADE CHIP IS SANTANA & HIS REMAING $74M+ SINCE HAVING ANY 25M SP ON THIS TEAM AT THIS FINANCIAL JUNCTURE IS THE EQUIVILENT OF BUYING A BENTLEY FOR YOUR BED-STY DRIVEWAY!
IF HE COULDN’T WIN MORE THAN 16 IN THE NL AT AGE 29 BEFORE 3 SURGERIES WITH REYES,WRIGHT,BELTRAN,DEGADO ALL IN HIS LINEUP; HOW CAN ANYONE PRESUME IMPROVED RESULTS @ AGE 32 AFTER 3 SUCCESSIVE SURGERIES SUPPORTED BY TEJADA,TURNER,PRIDIE,DAVIS
IT’S LUDICROUS TO JETTISON 2 OF THE FINEST YOUNG INFIELD VETS IN MLB JUST TO CONTINUE TO FLUSH MONEY DOWN A VENEZUELAN TOILET WITH A PENDING RAPE CHARGE.
WHO’S PUTTING TIRES ON THAT BENTLEY? FRED? SAUL? BUD?
who’s gonna be willing to take santana, his massive contract and his broken shoulder/elbow?? trust me.. is not gonna happen.. unless is the yankees, and as you may have heard, alderson doesn’t have a good working relantioship with the yankees, so he won’t trade to them.. maybe the red sox, but they’re paying a ton of $ on SP, won’t take on his contract..
ALEX, DON’T BELIEVE THIS ALDERSON WON’T TRADE W/NYY CRAP HE DEALT CANSECO TO TX FOR SIERRA WHILE IN A RACE GAINST THEM. ALDERSON IS NOT A NY GUY IMMERSED IN THIS TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT OVER BIRDCAGE LINER BACKPAGES. IF IT MAKES “VALUE” SENSE TO ALDERSON HE’LL DO IT IN A NANOSECOND & btw DICE-K IS UNDERGOING THE KNIFE WILL BE OUT UNTIL ’13 WITH TJ RECOVERY. ALL ANYONE EVER NEEDS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF A DEAL IS A PERCEIVED NEED BY BOTH BOS & NYY, JUST ASK BORAS.
62,
i guess i agree with you on a certain point, but is been documented and said by ppl alderson won’t deal with the yankees.. not sure if is true or not, just saying
Alderson traded Canseco to the Rangers when the A’s and Rangers were going against eachother for the Division title. Do you think he’ll care about dealing with the Yankees?
Please provide a link to where that is documented. Thanks
ALEX, PEOPLE HAVEN’T A CLUE WHAT ALDERSON WILL OR WON’T DO AS GM OF A LARGE MKT CLUB IN THE NL THEY CAN ONLY SURMISE BASED UPON HIS ACTIONS AS A GM IN A SMALL AL MKT! MUCH DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES MAKING THEIR SUPPOSITIONS NO BETTER THAN AN 8-BALL GUESS!
I BELIEVE WE’;RE ALL BETTER OFF JUDGING ALDERSON ON HIS BEHAVIOR TO DATE AS NYM GM WHAT HE’S SAID & DONE. I’M MUCH MOTRE INTERESTED IN WHAT HAPPENS THIS MONDAY(DRAFT).
Johan won’t be back here by the trading deadline and he’ll never pass through waivers during a pennant race so forget about trading him this year. It’s not happening.
T, to jettison that much money, any claim off waivers, gets him! it culd make Padres clainm of Meyers seem small potatoes. no one’s taking that risk spo I believe he could slide through
Im going tonight! Right behind 1B i can’t wait!
Everyone lookout for a kid in a sombrero covered in Reyes stuff and a 2-part sign that reads:
“Jose,Jose,Jose,Jose…Must Stay, Must Stay, Jose!”
LGM!!! Hope that Reyes has a walkoff inside the park homer tonight! (what?… I can dream)
i will be there!
I’ll be there in spirit!
I’ll be there tonight, and filling up on spirits.
Love it. I always need to be full of spirit(s) when I watch our metsies, too.
I think it’s great that fans can get together like this and tell the owners how we feel about the team or certain players. If only we had a demonstration like this to try and save Seaver from being traded back in the day. I’m looking forward to participating tonight and watching our Metsies best the Bravos.
It won’t do any good, they don’t read blogs! And the last thing they care about is the fans, but just in case they are reading this…. DON’T TRADE REYES!
well then, we should have a “trade Jose Reyes” day, so bothsides can be heard.
Oh, ya, that’ll be a popular group.
Hahahahaaha Donal.
Go Get ‘Em!
Just call yourselves,”The Dumb Club” or “Army of One”
We have one of those everyday…Why do you think we are losing 70 Mil this year? No one is going and therefore protesting against re-signing reyes and forcing by cutting off the money we need to pay for him.
NO
Jdon? and u thought it was your lack of deoderant that kept people away from you.
I’ll be there in section 134. Although, I bought these tickets in December, so I can’t say it has anything to do with Reyes.
112 and we got ours back in April before this idea was hatched.
Needless to say I can’t wait for this game even more now! Got my signs and sombrero!
Not to be a downer but…
“a big time event that will feature thousands of fans who will be rallying support and sending a message to the Mets front office to keep Jose Reyes a New York Met in 2012 and beyond.”
By thousands, you must mean 476 who have confirmed on Facebook (as I write this anyway), maybe half of whom will actually be there.
And what is the plan for tomorrow and the day after? What is the idea here other than spend more money on tickets, concessions and parking?
Good point. And what exactly will those folks actually DO once they gather on the bridge? Do laps around the concourse chanting? I’m all for public assembly and gathering for a cause, but I do hope these folks have everything well thought out. Because as good as this idea might be in theory, if it fails in practice it could have the exact opposite effect it was supposed to have.
Im one of the messages Donna sent out it said that the plan is to gather on the Shea brisge with all of our signs and chant and what not. Hopefully we will get on TV!
If you want to be heard on TV, tell Donna to take the group from the bridge up by the booths. Think about it? If one schmendrick can be heard yelling “SWING!” in Houston, imagine the hundreds (or maybe thousands) of you? You’ll be on TV and on the radio. Get that point across!
No the best place to be is right near Burkhardt!
There you can be heard AND seen!
And in between live hits with him you might convince him to talk about you. He very personable.
In my experience, Burkhardt is a douche-canoe, but it was one time, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Also, if they’re setting up to do a hit, they might move the hit or not do it if he’s distracted. By the booth, they’d have no choice. It’s not a bad idea, but I think the booth would be the best shot. They’d have to talk about you, too.
Well I don’t know what the situation was when you had your experience. I worked with the guy and saw him smoozing with the fans in between shots so I know he will give you the time of day.
Remember also that he is pretty much the ONLY pointman for that entire team they don’t really have anyone else that does the day to day reporting there so he pretty much is worked to death by that network.
My guess is you caught him on a bad day but like I said I was in a work situation with him so I may have had a different perspective than the average fan would.
He was sitting in 339, probably preparing for a hit. There were no cameras or crew around and the section was mostly empty, so he was just sitting there writing by himself. I was in 338 with a buddy of mine and we noticed him there. We’d glance back every so often and he was still there. It was a good inning and a half.
Over that inning and a half, we saw two different kids come down the steps and approach him, and he turned both away pretty quickly. One of the kid’s dad even said something like, “Come on, you can’t just talk for a second or sign something?” He totally ignored that dad. Didn’t even look up. The usher for that section had to escort that dad and kid away.
It was the only time I saw him, so he probably just had a bad day. I’m not going to judge him on one incident. Small sample size, ya know?
Well during a game he is out on an Island. there is no one there to do a thing for him, they just zoom in the Booth Cam and a Wireless mic. lol
I saw him in a much more relaxed enviorment, Nothing going on, plenty of crew and joking in between takes. He did stop to sign an autograph during lunch and we joked about why he didn’t charge for it like the players do…
But he is human and we ALL have our moments….Maybe you caught one of his.
‘X’ U DO REALIZE REGARDKLESS OF WHAT U THINK HE WAS DOING, THE GU\Y WAS WORKING & MOST LIKELY WEARING AN EARBUD & U HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER HE WAS GETTING DIRECTION FRONM THE TRUCK OR THE BOOTH, BOTH OF WHICH HE’S SUBJECT TO, IN A SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, MY FAMILY SUPRISED ME WITH TICKETS TO A BILL COSBY CHARITY CELEBRITY TENNIS TOURNEMENT FOR FATHER’S DAY. MY DAUGHTER AT THE TIME WAS A SHY 7 OR 8 YR OLD WHO HER MOTHER & I HAD TO CAJOLE INTO APPROACHING COSBY FOR HIS AUTOGRAPH WHILE S\HE WAS SITTING BETWEEN WARMUPS & TOURNEY START DRINKING. HE REBUKED HER APPROACH PRETTY SEVERELY & IT WAS ALL MY WIFE COULD DO TO RESTRAIN ME FROM LAYING INTO THIS CHARADE OF A SOCALLED KID FRIENDLY PERSONALITY. BTW, I SUBSEQUENTLY LEARNED I WOULD HAVE BEEN WRONG AS, WHILE IT DOESN’T FULLY EXCUSE HIS CADDISH BEHAVIOR, I LEARNED HE’D TWISTED HIS ANKLE SEVERLY DURING WARMUPS & HAD TO BE SCRATCHED FROM HIS OWN TOURNENMENT.
AS THEY SAY, “THAT’S THE REST OF THE STORY…”
‘X’ OFTEN THINGS THAT SEEM AQWRY ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM OBVIOUS TO THE CASUAL OBSERVER.
And…? What happens when security tells you to quit loitering? That’s a major thorough fair after all.
What happens if you don’t get on TV? Is there a plan for before and after the game? What work was done for the last few months?
Has anyone contacted a media outlet? Is there anyone of influence involved? Did anyone go to Wright’s Vegas Night last night and maybe spread the word there?
Relax. Let them have their fun.
You’re probably right. I don’t want to be a downer.
They are handing out flyers before the game for people to come to the Shea Bridge in the 5th inning.
The Shea Bridge is an advertised standing zone, they have cupholders on the wall.
Donna contacted some media outlets, I think she mentioned NY1?
I know its a standing zone, but have you ever seen 1 group of 100+ ?
True but there have been big crowds of people at the Shea Bridge, I guess we will see. Donna said as a backup plan if they do shoo us away that we stand at our respective seats and chant
Not sure if it will help but I’ll make some inquiries for you at SNY.
Awesome Thank You Metsie! If they are aware that fact checker guy can tip off Cohen when the group starts in the 5th.
Like I said can’t promise anything as all of my contacts there are technical not editorial, But I will see if we can’t at least you get a shot on camera if not actually discussed.
Just hope reyes doesn’t have a really horrible day! lol
Hahaha I have that feeling that its going to be a walkoff… Idk why.
But thanks alot Metsie! And Yes lets hope for a few triples. preferably in the 5th inning
Pray for a slow newsday too! LOL
No Injuries, No trades UNLESS they involve Reyes!
Terry’s head exploding in the 3rd inning, you know the standard stuff! LOL
Well Clayton from my calculation you guys got all of 2.3 second of air time in a wide shot after Reyes hit his single…
huh. Oh well. We got him to point to us and I got a signed ball from him @ BP!
Also, do you know if I got on at all? I was wearing a sombrero!
yep but it was such a long shot all you could really see was a sea of orange and the banner.
And Gary did say the single should make the don’t trade reyes people happy!
Haha I watched it on record. Not alot of air time but Jose acknowledged us. He tipped his cap and pointed and smiled!
The better plan would be to sell those T-Shirts before the game, collect enough money to buy some season tickets for the rest of the season which might help offset the losses at the end of the year and tell the FO that there is enough money to pay Jose!
a one game commitment is not going to change the facts on the ground which are we don’t go to enough games, the team loses money and can’t risk signing a player no one is going to go see NOW which means very unlikely they will show up after he gets a $10Mill raise either!
By the way, Sunday night is the ESPN game. That might actually have been better.
I’ll be in section 129!
can you imagine if collins gives the day off to reyes?? lol.. that’s something the wilpons might do to avoid paying reyes!!
anyone tried to get on the fan to advertise the event
So if a few thousand people show up an march around, what will Alderson think. That Jose guarantees a few thousand in attendance every game? These guys are pros. Things like this do not affect their judgment.
OMG, it’s a start of a campaign. Obviously, anybody with two brain cells to rub together realizes a few thousand represent a few hundred thousand.
Did you read the NYT piece yesterday on declining attendance since ’09?
Dedicated fans definitely influence ownership in all professional sports.
“OMG, it’s a start of a campaign.”
No it isn’t. campaigns don’t start with demonstrations like this.
“Obviously, anybody with two brain cells to rub together realizes a few thousand represent a few hundred thousand.”
Was there an election?
“Did you read the NYT piece yesterday on declining attendance since ’09?”
So, no one is coming with Reyes on the team?
“Dedicated fans definitely influence ownership in all professional sports.”
Not as much as profit margins
You know what he will think?
Same thing he is thinking now…
What do I do about the Pitching?
Reyes’ status is probably the last thing on his mind. Until someone makes an offer that entices Alderson Reyes is not going anywhere, and while he may put out feelers near the deadline, the time is not right to do that yet so onto more pressing matters!
While I don’t expect the act to sway Sandy in any given direction I know that at least if they get the idea that people will go to see the players they like they might actually go and get some for them so they will come back and pay for them.
If they believe that we won’t show up EVEN after they spend money then they simply won’t spend the money!
So any showings that the fans care and might be willing to show up to support a high paid star is a good thing as far as I’m concerned.
I am going tonight. How can I purchase a shirt. PLease send me an email. metshype@gmail.com. I will go anywhere to pick up a shirt. thank you.. Tom 917-705-8713
Awesome idea Hojo! I love it…great post
DON’T TRADE REYES OR EL$E! I’ve already let that be known to the ticket guy calling my house during the ballgame
@ MetsHype:
If you didn’t get a shirt in time The Bullpen Shop across from the bullpen gate to Citi / McFaddens carries them. They mostly stock L-2XL but they might have some extras. Stop over there before you head into the stadium
Keep Jose Reyes!! The Mets are fools if they trade Reyes. He’s the best. Also, a Happy Birthday to Jose. He turns 28 on Saturday, June 11.
Never trade Jose. We love him so much!
I’ve been a Met fan my whole life and remember when they traded Tom Seaver. We hated them!
These Wipons speak ill of Jose and he’s the best player on the team. They have no clue what a super star he will become. Keep Jose.
See you Sunday at Citi Field and we’ll continue the campaign to Keep Jose Reyes.
DONT TRADE JOSE REYES DAY 1, 2, 3 RIGHT THRU THE WKND