An MMO Fan Shot by Tom Starita
After a lifetime of telling us to do this at Shea Stadium and Citi Field, I think it’s time to finally listen to Howard Beale…
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s on the disabled list or scared of losing their job. Our shortstop’s not a shortstop; Cuddyer is going bust; we don’t have a leadoff hitter; teams are taking advantage of our lack of bullpen depth, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it.
We know the team can’t hit and the team can’t field. And we sit watching our TVs while some Gary Cohen tells us that today we struck out twelve times and lost six in row, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be!
We all know things are bad — worse than bad — they’re crazy.
It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go to Citi Field anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my 1986 DVDs and my Grand Slam Singles and my Tom Seaver highlights, and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”
Well, I’m not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your Commissioner, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about our mediocre manager and frozen general manager and the Wilpons and how they don’t have any money.
All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.
You’ve gotta say, “I’m a New York Mets fan, goddammit! My fandom has value!”
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!!”
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