I’m not mad at Johan Santana but I do feel he’s got to man up and well, be “THE MANâ€. This is what bugs the living shit out me about professional athletes, they want all the money and glory they can get their hands on but so few of them step up and show they deserve it. The Mets have two players who cashed in big time and have not lived up to their huge paychecks in both Santana and Carlos Beltran. Again don’t take this as a Santana/Beltran sucks rant as it’s no where close to that as both players a solid performers and not the reason for this season of suckitude but I think as Mets fans we look at both players and say “ You chose to come here, and take the big money and I thought we paid for great not good or very goodâ€.
I wonder about the mind set of some of these players, I mean if your Santana and your happy to be a Minnesota Twin and you have had success there and the media consists of maybe five folks with notepads and a microphone surrounding you instead five hundred in NYC every night does all this money make you happy? Right now you’ve got more money than you , your children or you children’s children could ever spend but you come off like a guy who would love to call out “do over†in coming to NYC. Didn’t you or your agent do any homework on what it’s like to play in this town and take a lot of money. Didn’t you know how demanding New Yorkers are? This attitude is nothing new, it goes back to the 1600’s when the Dutch fucked the Indians over for Manhattan Island (here’s 24 bucks and for you Chief some necklaces for your Misses) We expect not good but great here and no excuses. No umpires missed calls no blaming non support on offense no blaming teammates errors no none of that all we ask is if we pay you for great then goddammit gives us great.
You know the Mets are going to win today as the team that love to be mediocre will spilt the series.
I’m trying to figure out what is going on in Omar Malaya’s mind here. I think by the end of next weekend we will know if Omar and the Mets will be buyers or sellers come trade time. With the Cardinals and the big one with the Phillies (and if I were you Johan Santana you had better pitch the game of your life against the Phillies because it will get beyond ugly if you don’t) next weekend the season comes down to the Mets having to go at least 5-3 for Omar to be a buyer anything less it’s sell, sell, sell.
Every time I say I’m not going to get worked up over the mediocrity of the season I do and now I’m looking at next weekends games at Philly as the be all end of the season. What makes matters worse is I don’t know if I want the Mets to win in CPB or get their ass kicked. If they win all four then does that become the turning point and where Omar puts his GM belt on and goes out and gets Raul Ibanez or Randy Winn and make a run at the division or just take the beating and blow up the team and start over. I hope it doesn’t make me a bad Mets fan by hoping for the later because just listening to David Wright on a interview on WFAN here we are June 29 2008 and he is still being asked questions over last years collapse. Last years disgrace is still stinking and the black cloud still hovers over Shea to the point where I don’t think this group will ever live it down or get over it. But all we here from the players is “we still haven’t played our best baseball†Well, no shit but I still feel the Mets last played their best baseball May of ’07 since then they have under preformed and have yet to show they have the ability to back up their words.
So I guess by this time next week that question will be answered.
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This post was written by kranepool on June 29, 2008
I hope to post something today but I’m having some issues with my computer
Those are words I never want to hear! We look forward to the posts. I hope it gets resolved soon!
I think we all know that the Mets will NOT be sellers and we all know why – the new ballpark. They have to pay for it and the only way that will happen is to put a competitive team out there from day 1 so people will pay the ridiculous price to watch them. To do that, they will replace some bad parts once again with aging older free agents. There is no other way. They will hit free agency to get a LF and a 1B and maybe a starter and that’s going to be it, maybe shuffle around some relievers. You would think that they would learn from the other New York team that buying aging free agents will only cause an expensive disaster – we should know, we’re already in the middle of one.
Doesn’t seem that long ago we were all so excited about the upcoming season and now it’s still only June and we all probably wish it would just end.
Another anti Beltran column. Amazing. After struggling the 1st year in NY ( which many players do) all he has done over the last 2.5 seasons is average 34 HRs 113 RBI and 111 runs scored while playing a gold glove centerfield. That is not good that is GREAT.
To judge Santana on 1/2 a season is absurd, especially considering his track record of being way better in the second half. Also, to blame a player for taking the most money they can get is also ridiculous. Do people in any other profession get blamed for getting the most money they can?
C’mon Frank, our guys are just three and a half out, and we’re only halfway through the season! This thing is still up for grabs, and the Mets are outplaying the Phils and Marlins lately. With J-Gangsta now at the helm, the second half figures to be very interesting.
As for Citi Field, even if the Mets play badly there in 2009, it is a cinch to sell-out every game.
BTW, it seems that very team in baseball is hitting less than last year. Obviously, less steroid use is one factor…any others?