I firmly believe that you can support the Mets by not going to ballgames. Watching a sub par team – costing a family of four about $300. – is not the way to force the Mets to put a better team on the field.

The owners have decided to gut the team – that is their right. But they shouldn’t be rewarded because at the end of the day the money that you pay goes into their pockets.

For the last four to five years they have made dumb decisions, that is not the fans fault. The fact that they now want to cut the budget by a record 50 – 60 million dollars is their decision.

Watch the game at home for free until they put a better product on the field.

Some of you are old enough to remember when the ownership of the late ’70s gave up financially on the team – like they are doing now. Attendence fell to 700,000 and that forced the owners to sell. Out of that came a decade of good baseball.

Alderson would like you to believe that the Mets ownership will put more money into the team if more fans come. Actually, it is the other way around. Look for a big drop off in fans coming to the stadium and let the chips fall where they may.

I thought that Alderson should have tried to sign K-Rod to a new contract and voided out that huge extension…but seeing that K-Rods agent completely Effed up and basically voided his limited no-trade-clause…I can see why the move was made so quickly.

I’m just hoping that this team stays healthy and next year the team has some spending flexibility so we see some actual improvements to the roster and not cost spending.

For me, and in my view, the only way to effect change, is to become active and not just blindly accept the Wilpons. The only way they will ever leave is if they cannot cut in economically. The only way a fan can have any impact is to work towards effecting the economics.

Protesting the Wilpons, working toward non attendance until the Wilpons leave is not rooting against the Mets. We will all always root for them.

Let’s also be clear, any action we all take is highly unlikely to have much impact and we are stuck with these very nice guys who are horrible owners

Thanks for your input. I thought both moves were good. The fanbase was on K-Rod’s case big time (which I disagreed with), his contract was too costly, and the folks who are now noting how good Beltran is were singing a different tune last year before the trade for Wheels. His bullpen moves have yet to stand the test of time. Rauch is now crappy in particular. Unlike you and most Mets fans, I was disappointed in seeing Pagan leave. But we now have Torres who so far looks OK. Anyway, I look forward to our new season — win, lose, lose, lose, or rain out. Let’s hope it’s better than that. In any case I remain a loyal Mets fan.

Other than cutting Perez and Castillo, and Trading Beltran and K-Rod, he hasn’t done much…and hasn’t improved this team at all.

Sadly, trading K-Rod and Beltran was taking the easy way out and “punting” on the season.

His bullpen “improvements” this year are questionable and are from nothing but closer rejects…he hasn’t improved the rotation or organizational depth. He didn’t improve on part of the team. All he’s accomplished is cut payroll.

The only two moves I really like are hiring TC and trading Pagan.

His track record as a GM in pretty crappy…the A’s sucked while during the 90′s and he turned a playoff team in SD into a 60 win team. And before people point out the fact the those teams had no money to spend, it’s he here to win without having the big payroll?

Now, I’m with holding final judgment on him until next year. There should be no excuses next year. He’s had three years to cut bad contacts and stock the system and now he should have spending flexibility. I don’t expect them to win next year, but there should be a noticeable improvement.

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So really, the choice a fan is making is to give up the team (or whatever a permanent boycott amounts to) or accept the fact that you won’t like the owners, but they come along with the package (like traffic on the GCP!).

I really don’t spend much time normally thinking about the owners, and would prefer to never have to care who they are. And I am not going to give up my enjoyment of the team based on who is sitting in the owners box. But, as always, everyone gets to decide for themselves (and their wallets) what they want to do.

What I really hope is that the end result of this whole mess is Fred finally conceding that they need to let a professional run the organization, and to stay out of his way. Sandy or not (since I hear that a few people don’t really care for him?), get a strong BB guy and let him do what needs to get done (sign the checks and get out of the way ownership IOW).

My take on Sandy is that he was a Selig appointee, put in place to stabilize the team financially, and to guide them through the financial quagmire period. But, in addition (since by default, it was probably happening anyway), to clean out the overall organization and rebuild it from the bottom up (not specifically the players, but the player development system, organizational philosophy, that type of stuff).

I also don’t expect him to be around very long. Pretty much come in, clean out the place, put the plan in motion, and turn over the reigns to someone else to see the plan through.

Not that dissimilar to what happened in Philly, when Gillick was brought in to do the same thing, ultimately turning over the GM duties (in name only for a while) to Amaro.

Plain and simple, that is my stance. I won’t be boycotting anything NY Mets. I’ll not be depriving myself of watching my favorite team now that baseball season is here. Winter was too long without it.

How exactly are we going to do that tyler?? you think this has been the first time the mets have been this position? you don’t think the owners have heard all the negativity of the fans throughout the years? you think they care!!!!!???? Please… The Owners are as much at fault as the guy they hired to be in the front office making the decisions… I don’t care what anybody says the front office is also responsible for not making enough moves or better desicions to make the team better hence drawing more fans to see the team..

MLB has a system in place that gives every time the opportunity to make money despite attendance or record. Even if a large percentage of the fan base boycotts the games, all that will happen is the Mets will be forced to cut payroll further and live of off revenue sharing and salary tax revenue.

If bad attendance was enough owners to sell, then Pittsburgh, Tampa, Miami, KC and Baltimore (among many others) would be forced to sell every year.

As much as I hate the moves Alderson has made and can easily bash the bad decisions Wilpon has made…I can hope that this is all part of a necessary evil. I hate the current direction, but the Mets couldn’t continue spending on the “missing piece” they need to get them over the hump.

This Madoff crap forced Wilpon to step back, hire a GM who will cut payroll down and open up future flexibility. Sandy won’t win, but hopefully he’ll leave the team a position that his replacement can quickly turn it around.