24
2012
This Team Has Reached A Low Point That Is Unbelievable!!!
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Mike Francesa was at it again today and went completely postal on the Mets today….
He lambasted them like I’ve never heard before….
“I would be afraid to show my face in public if I owned this team!”
“Murphy and Thole are getting beat on 80 mph fastballs, you gotta be kidding me!”
The Mets are 12-30 in their last 42 games. They are a bigger embarrassment than they were under Jerry Manuel.”
“The Mets are trying to make you believe that Seaver and Koosman are around the corner, THEY’RE NOT!”
“The Meats have lost 14 of their last 16 home games, they are AWFUL!!!”
“If I were the manager I’d jump off the roof… Terry Collins has become accepting of this garbage.”
“The eight people that were in attendance should get their money back.”
The sad part is that Francesa is right…
Thanks to On The Black and Kerel Cooper for the link.
About the Author: Joe DeCaro
I'm a lifelong Mets fan who loves writing and talking about the Amazins' 24/7. From the Miracle in 1969 to the magic of 1986, and even the near misses in '73 and '00, I've experienced it all - the highs and the lows. I started Mets Merized Online in 2005 to feed my addiction. Follow me on Twitter @metsmerized.
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He is absolutely right. As disgusting a level of play as I ever remember, Joe, from the late 70s and early 1990s. So putrid. I am beside myself with rage and frustration.
Couldn’t care less at this point who remains on the team for 2013–HONESTLY!
It’s crazy Russ. This team quit on Collins after the front office quit on this team.
Joe, I used to despise Francesa, but now he’s practically a hero to me. That 10 minutes was totally cathartic for me. Wow!
I cannot tell you how upset I am; I feel like a child again. I just want my team playing respectable baseball. They are the biggest joke in MLB right now.
If I saw Fred Wilpon on the street, I really don’t think I could talk to him like a civilized human being.
yea i agree francessa is not even a met fan and hes livid about it. He wants both new york teams to be good and it will not be the case for another 5 or 6 years if we are lucky. Its a total disgrace, and i hope him ranting and raving like this gets some publicity and maybe can cause some waves and get the ball rolling on making the wilpons sell the team or something. Mike and the mad dog got us piazza i listened that whole summer and nobody can convince me otherwise, they totally made that happen and i think hes got the power to cause some more trouble here. Never thought id like Mike so much lol
LOL RZ
I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a hero…
Francesca is really just a flag who senses the wind and blows hard in the direction of it! LOL
The team did not quit on Terry, Terry and the team bought into the front office’s evaluation of it!
The FO quit so what was the point in trying to prove otherwise to them? Terry is sying the right things but he would have blown up at them by now if he himself had not also pretty much given up on this year.
Most know they aren’t going to be here next year and nothing they do will change that.
The fact we traded for no one is proof to them that we intend to fill in with the Minor Leaguers whenever they are ready and that means even the few who deserve an extention for thier performance this year are not likely to get one.
The two who have the most to gain are Young and Hairston, both are not lkely to be resigned by us considering what they have done so far and will get in FA.So hey are the only ones who hav a real reason to perform at all.
All of the money will go to replacing that BP we blew our entire FA load on this year with the exception of Francisco who still has a year left on his contract.
Terry said yesterday that Murphy is totally out of gas which means you will see less and less of him once roster’s expand.
Basically the remainder of this season is nothing more than an open audition for the pitching staff.
Why else would you go to a 6 man rotation other than to see more pitchers in the time you have left to judge who is a keeper fo next year?
He’s copletely right but theyre not losing cuz they quit. It looks like they quit cuz they have no talent! Baxter Hairston Valdespin and torres are our outfielders! They have no offense whatsoever. No power, no speed, no avg besides tehada and i guess wright who is in his usual megaslump. Parnell is horrendous he will never be good, he hs had 3 years now to figure it out, he is terrible. Francisco is a reject who shouldnt be here The bullpen is horrendous. We cant score runs off the worst staff in the majors! Lack of talent and thats it! No money or not, alderson should be ashamed for what he put on the field this year. Anybody can put a better field on the team than this with the same money. its been over 2 years and hes borught in nobody! Just brign in guys who can play the game at the very least please. Guys who can run the bases, field a little, have some hitting ability.
That Colorado minor league lineup tore up our bullpen
read this
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/sports/2012/08/6486131/sandy-alderson-and-mets-bag-balls-team-building-strategy
I opened the link, then immediately closed it after seeing the byline. I suggest everyone not even open it.
I’ve lost all desire to watch anymore. The Wilpons, the front office, the manager, the players all agitate me to no end. I’d rather watch the Buffalo Bisons. Can we get Harvey and McHugh back there?
Ive never seen a team consistently make opposing teams 3-4-5 starters look like all stars.
I approve this message.
It was good radio. Francesa doing what he does best.
That’s like the third rant like this in a week. He’s not wrong in what he says, but he really is such a fraud and a phony. Two days ago he had Alderson on and he was all hi Sandy and welcome to the show Sandy and comeback again soon Sandy. Where was all this when he had the GM in his lap? He’s just a phony. Like the guy above me said, he was just being a showman.
In Francesa’s defense (I can’t believe I just typed that), he never actually blamed Sandy in his rant. He defended Sandy to some callers ealier today about how it’s not reasonbly fair to judge him after only two years and “the next 18 months” are when he’s going to make or break himself.
Point is, at least he was consistent. He was agreeing with a lot of what Sandy said on Wednesday and never actually strayed from that to callers and during his rant.
Now I need a hot shower. I feel dirty.
XtreemIcon,
We get it in your eyes Sandy is always blameless
The Wilpons are a disgrace.
This.
The problem begins and ends with the Wilpons.
SA thought bringing in Torres to replace Pagan along with LH specialist, Ramirez, was going to take care of lead off hitter w/speed and not needing another LH after Byrdak.
How did that work?
Putting Duda in RF, especially spacious Citi exposed his lack of quickness and OF instincts, whose idea was that?
Not improving catcher or back up left this team with catchers that are an embaressment at the plate, Thole should be backup unless RA is pitching.
His BP imports were as bad as it gets along with the failure of Parnell to improve, maybe SA and TC are afraid that with his 94 plus arm he might figure it out with another team and get burned.
Counting on Johan and Young to give you quality starts, if at all, for the season was un reasonable and there was not back up plan, unless Batista was that plan, ugghhh!
Young, and his recently repaired arm, were supposed to help but Peld going out early and no one ready to fill made TC pitch Batista who proved unreliable.
The depending on Bay, Duda, Torres, Hairston, Baxter to provide power and hitting proved disastrous.
The lack of speed, having to get 4 hits at times to score a run because Ike, Thole, Murph, Duda, etc were on was a joke plus Ike’s early season woes hurt in certain games plus staying with him and sending down others, Duda, Kirk, sent a msg to others on team that only certain players were given that option to work it out while others were fed to wolves.
Terry’s constant excuses for this team, sounds like the days of Manuel, and not holding players accountable from day one in April instead of now when the ship has sunk set bad example in clubhouse.
Sorry but other than speed and PH HR during 1st half, Spin has shown a lack of fundamentals, patience at plate, wild swings at the plate and a lack of energy at times in the field.
When is Reese Haven coming to team and play 2b plus provide some RH power?
All good and valid points Sarge
About time someone prominent from the media holds the Mets Management over the Coals. Now the pressure will be on Fred,Jeff,Saul,Sandy,Depo,Ricciardi to get this trash cleaned up.
With this rant Francesa drew blood and the fans like wolves will stick to that scent til they fix this. This rant has gone viral and will only get bigger and continue to draw national attention all through the baseball world.
Kudos to Francesa!!!
BBLB: Francessa should go one step further as he did with calling for Piazza. Mets should outbid everyone for Josh Hamilton. Hamilton will not give the Rangers a home town discount. I am sure Hamilton is looking for seven years 200 M as a minimum.
JOSH HAMILTON!!!!!
NO WAY!!!!
He is a good player but that dude has serious drug issues, and he just relapsed in a contract year no way….Thats the last guy I want on this team. I’m ok with them going after solid players. The Mets dont have to go after superstars especially a superstar whom can self destruct at any moment
Forget the drug issues. He can hang out with Tim Tebow or something.
I’d be more concerned with the fact that he is 31 and has a propensity for going face first into walls.
“Forget the drug issues”
That doesnt even sound right…lol…It’s not like his crutch is a little cheeba/mary jane…..This dude is a “CRACK” addict and he’d be a kid in the candy store in NY
As somebody who has met, spoken with and hung out with Josh Hamilton and his wife both in the Hudson Valley and Batavia, NY – I can tell you he is a very good person.
No matter what you’ll always have a weakness to drugs and alcohol the way he did in my view.
To use THAT as a reason not to sign him – to me is looking at the easy answer.
The real reason is his body breaks down every year and he’s going to be 32 years old in May. A long term deal for him is of no benefit to this team right now.
Would it be nice and add a buzz? Yes. But in all likelihood this team would pay him twice as much $ as he deserves within 2 years of his deal I’d bet.
Take a look at his 2nd half #s this year
.236/.286.450 7HR 27 RBI in 36G.
He’s a great talent, great person with a troubled past – but his age and health are not in the best interest of the Mets in my view.
JESSEP,
GREAT PERSON???
Really, Just because you met him once att a autograph signing or charity event you know what kind of person he is? Lets be for real, fans killed Cabrera for his stunt of trying to fool everyone with dishonesty…and everyone questioned his character and rightfully so. Josh Hamilton has done far worst so shouldnt his character come into question? YES!! IT SHOULD
How should/do we judge people? By their “Actions”…. A great guy doesnt leave his wife whom has just given birth to their child by going out and blowing their money on Crack and banging strippers instead of supporting his family. The guy then relapsed again 2009 caught with strippers and drunk asking where he can score some coke then again in 2012 in you guessed it a bar banging some skanky chick in the bathroom…..
Yeah Jessep GREAT GUY!!!! And Valdespin gets a bad rap and this guy is a GREAT GUY!!! in your eyes Jessep…lol…
BadBadLeroyBrown
Actually I was employed full time with the minor league organization that he made his return to pro baseball with. I was also employed by them when he was drafted out of high school and played there. I can tell you with 100% certainty that kid and the guy who came back to baseball are 2 totally different people.
It has nothing to do with getting an autograph or seeing him at a charity event. I’ve been around him in a clubhouse, outside of the stadium and talked with him in situations where he didn’t “have to be on.”
I sat through an entire game with his wife and kids in Batavia, NY right behind home plate. This isn’t some star struck moment where I paid $ to get an autograph.
He has a problem, nobody will ever deny that. Ever. He’ll always have those demons – but I assure you he has honorable intentions of staying clean and doing the right thing.
Jessep,
Being a Great guy and having honorable intentions are 2 totally different things. His actions continue to show otherwise and we aren’t judged by our intent, we are judged by the actions we take.
If he wants others to view him as an honorable man maybe he should start to ACT on those INTENTIONS. Rather than continue to act upon the un-honorable decisions he has chosen countless times in his life.
Again I repeat……
YOUR ACTIONS ARE WHAT YOU ARE JUDGED ON!!!! NOT INTENT!!!
Correct – and I can only speak to you based on his ACTIONS toward me personally. When we have interactions with these people past the tv it’s different.
I am telling you in my encounters with him and his family – I found him to be a great guy.
I am a believer that he has a sickness – there’s a difference to me between that and being a punk on the field or off the field.
Last year when that fan died trying to get the ball Hammer threw to him – you know how easily that could have broken Hamilton? I mean do you have any idea the magnitude of that moment? Here you have a born again christian who is admittedly weak to drugs as an escape from reality and he literally just watched a man die in front of his eye to try and get a baseball he threw to him.
That would send most non addicts into a depression.
I get that people will always look at his problems and judge him. That is your right. But I don’t feel it is my right.
I’ll take him and his desire to want to be clean and battling through the day to day struggles while having an attitude that is admirable over any player who shows up and doesn’t give a darn or pushes every clubhouse button he can.
I just think there is more to the man than his problems and using them against him is a simple way to judge somebody you do not know.
If he had these issues and fought with his manager or teammates etc. I’d be with you.
And if he stays in Texas or plays in the MidWest, he’ll be surrounded by people who cook meth in their basements. New York City is not the only place in the world that has parties and drugs.
Then good for him Donal….I’d rather he do it there wih another team than here with the mets…He has already shown he is still suffering from his addiction this year in a contract year. Why would anyone want to invest MILLIONS into a crack addict whom has relapsed earlier in the season?
FYI Donal there is more pressure in NYC drug addicts break like stale ritz crackers under pressure.
Pressure is an excuse. Addicts relapse because of availability.
And again, NYC is not the only place in the world for that stuff.
Donal,
You have no clue what you are talking about. Drug addicts dont take drugs because of availability, they take drugs because of the way it makes them feel.
If an addict couldnt get his hands on his drug of choice he/she finds a substitute…..ex. sniffing spray paint, glue etc.
It is all about the high, the feeling the drugs give you…It is utterly retarded to say pressure is an excuse….Pressure causes STRESS!!! Some people over eat when stressed, some drink, some smoke cigarettes(nicotine) some do DRUGS!!!
Oh, I guess you know better than the counselors of several of my family members and friends.
The game happens on the field.
Mike Frescesa is nothing more than a pompous, arrogant blowhard who, by the way, also happens to be a Yankees fan. What he expressed yesterday may have been all truth, however I have a problem with, and cant even listen to his “act”. Yes, all of his theatrics are acts that are designed to draw listeners, especially Yankees fans. What most listeners didn’t know is that behind the anger filled screaming rant yesterday, the fat man was gloating within himself while telling about this disgracefully inept Mets team. It actually amazes me that some think Francesa actually has the power to make ownership do something or was responsible for the Mets acquiring Piazza, that is just absurd. This blowhard does nothing more now then try to suck listeners in with his arrogance and anger filled acts to improve ratings. His target: Yankees fans who love to hear him go off on the Mets. Mike Francesa’s time on the airwaves in NY has come and gone as far as I’m concerned, I can see right through him.
Mets fans everywhere love what he did yesterday because what he said was the truth and his act as you put it was exactly how a lot of Mets fans feel. You really think Yankee fans are thinking about us Mets??? They go to the playoffs almost every year, and have plenty of championships to show, while our season ends in july, early august.
Francesa is gettting praised by Mets fans because he said what many Mets fans feel, not to mention everything he said was true.
In 100 % agreement with you Joe about Mike Francessa His disdain for the Mets and the Wilpon’s has the wolves and vultures circling the organization from top to bottom.
I don’t understand why so many fans seem to think that Sandy Alderson was wrong in not being a buyer at the deadline to get the team over the top. The truth is that the team overachieved in the first half and Sandy knew it. There was no quick fix for us that would get us to the playoffs with all the holes we have and there was no sense in giving away our future. The team has not quit on Terry Collins but when you add in the Santana implosion to the slumping second half woes, the downward spiral is easy to understand. I personally think that the team took a terrible emotional hit when their ” WARRIOR ” Johann was no longer a force for them.
The future of this team is the young arms that have been maturing. We have seen what Matt Harvey is capable of and yesterday’s performance by Collin Mc Hugh has to be encouraging. If Zack Wheeler has a good spring training we may end up seeing a totally different starting staff next year. Add them to Dickey, and Niese and the return of Dillon Gee and even a rested Santana and we will have something…
The rest of our problems will have to be dealt with….I don’t have the answers but I am sure the brass will not sit back and do nothing..
Francessa can’t be silenced but we can try to ignore the loud mouth tampon of the Yankees!
Couldn’t agree more.
Most fans realize his rants are intended to stir the masses for his ratings.
Whether he has some valid points or not isn’t even the issue for me. I just can’t stand listening to him, about anything.
Saw some debates on air last night claiming ‘the Yankees are in trouble’. If they continue their downward spiral and lose their hold on top of the AL east, their won’t be any Met fans calling into his show….it’ll be all Yankee fans screaming ‘this can’t be happening’. LOL.
Francesa sucks.The Wilpons and this team suck more
The ‘Tokyo Rose’ of 21st century Met baseball. If you’ve been watching you didn’t really need this buffoon to tell you what’s wrong with our Mets.
Like I have said before, solidify up the middle C, 2nd, CF to go along with Tejada then take care of LF and RF. Pitching wise, get a couple of the kids up, even if they get roughed up a little is better than seeing retreads.
It’s drastic but I see the Mets shedding roughly $18 million in payroll because I do not expect to see the following players on the Mets
Pelf (if so it’d be minor league deal), Rauch, Torres, Cedeno, Hairston, Byrdak, Young, Johnson, Acosta, Parnell, Thole, Turner
I’m estimating a payroll of roughly $80mil after arbitration and before any moves.
So regardless of what the budget is or isn’t – they should have about $20mil to spend minimum and that’s if the budget doesn’t even move since they spent $100mil this year.
Your estimate of 80 million is correct. Just keep in mind that Davis, Murphy, and Parnell are arbitration eligible and will probably add a little more to it.
Also if you don’t expect Thole back then you probably have to add a little for a FA or trade acquisition for catcher. Shoppach is making close to 1.2 this year as a backup.
Salty:
A player with three or more years of service, but less than six years, may file for salary arbitration.
Ike Davis will not finish 2012 with 3+ years of service. So the only way he gets to file for arbitration is if he’s a Super 2 player which I am unsure about.
I have the Mets declining arbitration with Parnell (long shot I know), and I penciled Murphy in at $1.5mil which is how I got to the 80mil #
For super two last years cutoff was 2 years and 122 days of service. MLBTR thinks it’s going to be 2 years and less than 146 days of service so Ike should be able to pull it off. Ike has been in 119 games, so there is a good chance he will make it. I think Rubin also confirmed this on twitter last week that it is expected.
If you don’t apply arbitration and keep the yougins salary at league minimum (also based on who you feel is coming back) you are at 75.82 million.
1st: Davis, Ike 0.48
2nd Murphy, Daniel 0.48
Valdespin, Jordany 0.48
3rd Wright, David 16
SS Rubin Tejada 0.48
OF Duda, Lucas 0.48
Bay, Jason 16
SP Harvey, Matt 0.48
Niese, Jon 3
Dickey, R.A. 5
Gee, Dillon 0.48
Santana, Johan 25.5
RP Francisco, Frank 6
Parnell, Bobby 0.48
Josh Edgin 0.48
Total 75.82
Slap on another 2.15 million if you want to count Saberhagan and Bonilla
Unless they are sure they’ll sign 2 Shoppach types, I can’t see how they don’t bring back Thole. For the rest, I could see Rauch being brought back, based on performance, but his salary is a little bloated.
And did the budget this year factor in signing draft picks? Or is that a separate thing from the budget?
I’ve been a Mets fan since the 60′s (84 years old) and can never remember a more pathetic team…lifeless, embarassing, joyless…With a 2-14 record in last 16 home games, no reason to go to the ballpark to see such impotence….not a major league team. Wilpons should apologize to the fans, then sell the team to someone with more savvy. Alderson has been a disaster and Collins not much better.
As mentioned before, it’s not the slump but the failure to execute, to cover their position properly, to show that they even care more than for themselves. There is no pride in the team that just a few months ago made it a point to wear the same theme-type clothing when embarking on a road trip. Colorado was never in it to begin with.
Isn’t Ike Davis a bit too young to start thinking baseball is just a job? When Keith talked about the dog days of August he wasn’t referring to teams still not acting like professionals – just how hard it was trying to remain doing so. And young kids are still hungry but I mean, even Baxter thrown out at second on a base hit?
A good friend of mine is also an ardent Sandy supporter and recently wroteto me “It’s frustrating as all hell, but these are typical growing pains. What
WASN’T typical was the 46-40 start. You look at these same guys and wonder
where THAT came from. Be happy we had that instead of a 110-loss season.”
But I had to remind him that was not what he was saying around the All-Star break. He said this team was different than the 2011 edition which according to him was just “hanging around”. Because of that, he loves the move to have gotten Wheeler. He was, however, keen on this club (like we all were) in early July despite the season long slumps by Duda and Davis and too much reliance on our starting pitching and Captain Kirk. Like some other Sandy supporters, he was also explaining why the Met bullpen was not the awful one it was being made out to be – bad, yes, but not awful compared to others. He also felt this team was in a much better position thanks ito two wildcard slots and the league being mediocre.
Now he writes me and says these are growing pains and the the team was cutting it’s teeth.
A team that can hold it’s own for the first half two years in a row is not one that is a state of re-building. It has already proved itself to be competitive. That’s why I think the team is so demoralized and the actions of the front office are a major contributing factor. They were playing their butts off and needed help and no action was done by the front office. When the Mets started slumping after the all-star break, how many games were lost not because we did not have the ability to come back in late innings for we did – we fought back. Our efforts were wasted because almost night after night the shoddy bullpen that Sandy acquired over the winter blew it for them. It was this way throughout the first half too and it’s to their credit that they managed to be seven games over .500 at one point and a shame in realizing they could have been much higher had it not been for the bullpen – Sandy’s bullpen.
And Sandy made no effort to at least try and resolve it. Remember, it was the bullpen that blew at least four games for the Mets during that stretch against Atlanta and Washington. And yet Sandy still wanted to wait to evaluate the team? The bullpen was killing an otherwise good team and he still needed time to decide whether or not to make moves?
Ownership is broke and has no money to spend to helping to get decent players to support the current group when they were in the race. Even Sandy said one cannot expect to get a fifty percent player and be anything other than .500 (which we aren’t).
Yet those are the ones he kept on acquiring.
And when talking about power hitters that are out there he again referred to cost and them being productive but not five star players. He then alluded to our young pitching prospects in the minors but if he demanded a top five prospect in return for a bench player like Hairston, how does he expect to get any better a productive player in return when he is talking in terms of mid level pitching prospects as trade bait instead? Nothing for nothing gets nothing.
Remember Tug McGraw mentioning that as a Phillie his fellow teammates felt depressed having to come to New York to play? That was because ownership turned a great franchise into a morgue with it’s moves and non-moves based solely on the oh mighty dollar that even opposing players wanted no part of it. Seaver saw this coming long before the bad blood spilled over.
Yes, an ownership and it’s front office can definitely play a major role in a team’s downfall. It is happening before our very eyes. And it’s easy to use the term “rebuilding” to excuse what they have done to wreck a still very competitive team the past two years. Yes, they had a core of good players and they needed moves to help make them stronger. And if our kids on the farm are not yet ready why not look at the free agent market now – and by that, I don’t mean Mo Vaughan or Roberto Alomar and the like.
Other teams got players to help them before the deadline. Sandy says we now have some good mid-level pitching prospects that he would use as trade bait. He had those six weeks ago too. Mid level prospects and cash goes along way as we’ve seen with fire sales.
The Wilpons are trying to hold onto ownership at all costs and are dragging the team down with it. They are not broke due to no revenue coming in since we are the biggest market in the country and SNY plus merchandising reaps in hundreds of millions each year. Outside issues caused them to downsize the Mets to the budget of a Kansas City or Pittsburgh. In addition, the Mets had enough good players that they did not have to start from scratch. Ownership would have hired a different general manager and would have been conducting business much differently had their personal finances been different. If they hired a good general manager, one that was a baseball man instead of dollars and cents man, they could have been improving the present without short changing the future – as Atlanta, St. Louis do – and surprising others. Look at the Chicago White Sox. They were picked to be toward the bottom by many and yet they are now in first place. The Pale Hose are a perfect example of how a team can have some off seasons but bounce back by moves to help instead of re-building. Last year their record was about like ours was as well. So they made moves to improve instead of to rebuild.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/
Teams don’t have to compromise the future to stay relatively competitive over a long period of time. Teams can build from within and from without and not need to go into a five year rebuilding plan. That is, if they use the resources they have available to them and don’t need them to pay off rising debts. There would be no fifty-percent players like those Sandy went and got, that’s for sure.
Francessa is no genius, unless stating the obvious is a sign of genius. We all know what ails our team and have done all the ranting and raving for years. So because a talk show host decides to point out the flaws in our team that we already knew about is no revelation. I’ll admit he is doing his job, but that is it. Mets just need to be sold to some one who has a plan to bring consistent, competitive, championship caliber baseball to Queens. The Mets seem to be the only franchise that plays roulette every year in hopes of a big pay off instead of having a plan and following it. So 2013 will come, we will see some promise, we do get the allstar game don’t we? We will get happy and by the trade deadline T.C., Wright, Santana, & others will be gone, and we will be spitting mad once again about our last place Mets. Mercy!
fact: if you care what this fat bastard says, you are stupid.
It’s rants like this where sometimes I think Francesa is a closet Mets fan. Seriously, the guy’s voice was cracking and his veins were probably popping out of his neck during this tirade in a way that you forget that he’s a Yankees fan. Say what you want, and yes, he can really be a jackass at times, but you’d be an absolute fool to disagree with anything he said in that video. To be swept by a team that’s 46-73 just says it all.
Yea but you have to wonder if his rage was actually at the Mets or the fact that he couldn’t talk about the Yankees because the ratings and phone calls are all from irate Met fans! LOL