Far be it from me to tell Mets fans what to do but booing Johan Santana is absolutely mindless, but I understand your anger. With all the vitriol that is spewed by me at this site believe it or not I’m not a boo-er. Not even when dogs like Bobby Bonillia and Vince Coleman disgraced the blue and orange uniform did I voice my displeasure vocally. The one time I screamed at player I was thirteen years old and I told Tim Foli how much he sucked while he was on the on deck circle, Crazy Horse came over near where my friends and I were sitting (this was 1971, you could sit any place you liked in those years at Shea) and told how he would shove the bat up my little teen aged ass. So maybe that was a lesson learned.
What the media and some of my fellow bloggers are failing to realize is Mets fans are arriving at Shea in foul mood to begin with. I have not venture to Shea yet but I few friends of mine have and they tell me what a pain in the ass a day to a Shea has been. Think about it, you sit in traffic that is bumper to bumper, and then you have assholes who try to cut in the exit like they are fucking royalty. Now you get off the GCP and try to enter a parking lot. If you don’t want the frustration of driving you can be packed like an anchovy on the 7 train. And you expect people to have a happy face on when things go bad on the field. Where the fuck do you think you are Mayberry?
What the Mets don’t understand and this is for What Me Worry? Willie and Everybody’s All-American David Wright, the stink of last September still lingers like cat piss on a carpet. What does the organization want from us? To sit there and act like nothing is wrong? If that’s the way the Skill Sets, Omar and What Me Worry Willie feel they are all in the wrong profession and the wrong town. The players walk around like they are above criticism because no one is held accountable in the clubhouse. Brady Clark is probably a very nice young man, who made an innocent mistake with his base running blunder yesterday but he’s got to go. Collateral damge. The Brady Clarks of the baseball world are a dime a dozen and besides the Mets need a middle infielder badly to fill in for not only Jose Reyes but for Peg Legs Castillo who hurts himself just tying his shoes.
Speaking of Reyes I am more concerned about him than ever as this hammy “strain” tells me his conditioning is lax and I think it has to do with management telling him to tone down his act as they may have taken some life out of Jose. Something to keep an eye on.
With all the hostile negative bullshit, the good news is the Phillies and Braves are in the same boat as the Mets. All three teams have bullpen problems with the Braves pen (0-4 5.20 ERA) the worst of the three. The problem is of the three teams the Mets are the ones that have not proven they can rise up and take the division when it’s a close race.
Is there anything more ridiculous than the Highlanders digging up their a cement floor in their new tenement to get the Red Sox jersey that a worker buried there? The serious look on the workers faces that dug it up was hilarious. Then Lon Troost Douchebag in charge in the
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This post was written by kranepool on April 14, 2008
You hit the nail right on the head, Steve. There seems to be a sense from this organization that because they went out and dropped four prospects and the GDP of a small Latin American country on Santana, that everyone was going to show up in a terrific and forgiving mood this year.
Well, the problems of last season went way beyond the need for a starting pitcher, even a great one. The team - despite coasting along in first place most of the year - definitely underperformed all season, and everyone who watched them knew it. Yet they (from the manager on down) seemed to act as if they could not understand why everyone wasn’t thrilled. And then came The Collapse.
Omar made a huge mistake in keeping Willie around. Someone had to pay for last season, blood needed to be spilled, if for no other reason than as a purification ritual, and it should have been the guy in charge, the guy who never batted an eye as the team folded, the guy who misused, and overused, and lost the trust of his bullpen.
So what does Willie do this offseason? He goes and tells Jose Reyes, one of the few guys on this team who shows any emotion at all, that he needs to tone it down. As if the team’s problem was that it was TOO excitable and having TOO much fun. Effing brilliant.
I don’t think that management did itself any favors in unloading Milledge either. Why keep around an exciting kid who shows great promise, and a little sorely needed attitude, who literally reached out to high-five the fans? And I think that fans sense that it was just that attitude that got him run out of town. Yes, I know, Church and Schneider are doing well, but that trade definitely hardened the feelings of some fans over the winter.
So now here we are, with a bench and roster stocked wherever possible with 35 and overs, a manager who seems to dislike young players and the emotion that they sometimes have the audacity to show, with several key pieces already predictably injured. Add to that a slow start, and what looks like more of the same “what, me worry?” take on the whole thing, and what you end up with is a fan base that has a sense that they care more than the team does. Not a recipe for a happy relationship.
Booing Santana, ridiculous though it may be, is not really about Santana. It’s about a sense of frustration that was building all of last season, which came to a head with the Collapse, and which the club has done precious little to address - regardless of their shiny new pitching acquisition.
Remember the chant at Shea has to be
Willie Must GO, not Lets Go Mets…
Remember
Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO
Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO
Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO
Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO
Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO
Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO
Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO
Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO,Willie Must GO