Comments on: 3 Up & 3 Down – We’ll Get ‘Em Next Year Edition http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html Thu, 23 May 2013 00:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: tlagee http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178918 tlagee Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:20:15 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178918 Again Greg – love the positives and I get it that its harder to write good things then bad. I respect that.

But it’s not realistic to think we will be competative.

They are more fun to watch though.

Obviously my gripe is that they are now developing a small market mentality. All of us fans want a great team – we want a plan for a great team. We have gone through 25 years now without a world series win. We at least want to make it to the playoffs.

That will not happen next year and it might not happen for a while.

And it has very little to do with the general manager or the manager (who I think should get manager of the year). It has everything to do with the way the Wilpons were sucked into a ponzie financial disaster.

The Wilpons want us to believe they were victims – and maybe they were. But greed is hardly an excuse and the money they were making off the Madoff investments were too good to be true.

]]> By: tlagee http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178917 tlagee Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:13:27 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178917 It was a bunting situation. Cliff had little to no at bats in the series because his legs were bad. Striking out could have been the best thing he could have done because it would have been an easy double play. Even Glavienb would have been a better pick to hit in that situation.

Don’t know what Willie was thinking there but it was decisions like that one that cost him his job – so we move on.

]]> By: Gregga http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178860 Gregga Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:00:55 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178860 The easiest entry in the world for me to write, would be a negative Mets bashing entry. Sure I can sit here and list item after item of what’s wrong. To me there is no challenge in writing entries like that. For almost 40 yeasrs I have follwed this team, so I remember the suffering of the late 1970′s. I don’t think we’re anywhere near that point.
I love what Terry has done so far, and I don’t accept all gloom and doom. Six to ten more wins next year, and we’ll be in the hunt.

]]> By: sarge http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178856 sarge Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:55:07 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178856 Yup I have to listen to the Marlins feed living here in Orlando and it is more painful than the Nats announcers.
I usually turn the volume down and read and watch, it is so bad to listen to these guys.

I’m a glass half full guy so I like your article but I doubt that Young will be back cause with all the injuries to pitching staff I doubt Mets want another pitcher coming off of injury and going on rehab.

]]> By: Petey Pete http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178737 Petey Pete Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:29:50 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178737 If I remember correctly alex wasn’t it a bunting situation?

]]> By: alex68 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178718 alex68 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:33:50 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178718 yes, unfortunately the last thing many remmeber cliff floyd for is for striking out with men on 1st and 2nd and no outs in the 9th inning of game 7th of the 2006 NLCS. he had no business being there on the first place but.. willie and manuel wanted the “dramatic homerun”

]]> By: NJstuckinTX http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178714 NJstuckinTX Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:15:22 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178714 You know, not being in NJ/NY area, I have to get the baseball package to see Mets games. A bad thing about the MLB package is you don’t always get the SNY feed. So last night, watching the game with the FLA feed, they had Cliff Floyd on as a guest. Brought back good memories. Anyway, to my point, Cliff was talking about how the Reyes injuries this year was actually a good thing for the Mets, specific to his contract size and who he would sign with. He was pretty sure it would deter other teams for pushing into a long term deal for Reyes and ultimately push him to re-sign with the Mets. Was interesting to hear his perspective on that.

]]> By: alex68 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178705 alex68 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:33:43 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178705 wow, you must be the most enthusiastic mets fan ever. i am not even point out how many WRONG things are with your article. i guess let’s go mets…

]]> By: tlagee http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/09/3-up-3-down-well-get-em-next-year-edition.html#comment-178689 tlagee Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:40:03 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=59846#comment-178689 I appreciate your enthusiasm, Greg. The Mets may win a few more or lose a few more then predicted but they never had the pitching this year to compete with the big boys and they won’t have it next year.

They were more fun to watch this year but this is the number one market in baseball and you would expect the team to be something other then ‘small market’ – which is what they will be next year and probably the foreseable future.

Most older die hards went through this in the late seventies. The idea that fans have to support a club that the owners can’t or won’t. It’s not fun.

I read recently that Sandy says that more fans have to come to the park to create more revenue so that they can expand the payroll. Really? Sandy gets into Citifield for free. A family of four will have to shell out a couple of hundred dollars – at least – to see a small market team.

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