Don’t forget before you tune into tonight’s Mets-Cubs game join me and Ed Kranepool on Mike Silva’s NY Baseball Talk atÂ
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This post was written by kranepool on September 24, 2008
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Thanks for the heads up, I’ll tune in.
Sheesh. My brother sent me a heads-up telling me that WFAN is doing a special segment on Shea at the same time. I was all set to tune in to that. Now I have to choose between that and your segment with number 7. Worse, I spent an hour listening to Paulson & Bernake and I’m probably going to have to turn in before we hit 11pm.
Ahh, great photo, Steve.
For all the people who demand only victories and boo the players who fail to produce them, remember that when the Mets got started we went that first decade without a whisper of a chance to win a championship (which is why it was so amazin’ when it did happen in 1969, shocking everyone, except perhaps Gil Hodges). So never any chance to make the postseason, in fact we always were in 9th or 10th place, finishing an average of 40 games out each of those first seven years.
But we rooted for the team, we went out to ball park, we admired their character, hustle, and resillience, and cheered every little scratch single or play made. It was our team.
And Steady Eddie, a kid signed out of Monroe High School in the Bronx, was one of the guys we all loved. Even though he made a hell of alot of outs, like everyone else.
You were great, thanks for sharing some Shea memories. While living in LA has kept me from the old place for the last two seasons I’m going to miss the old place when it’s gone.
Will, thank you for as much as I bitch and moan about Shea Sunday will be a tough day there for me.
Eagle, click on the link as you can listen to the interview at your leisure
David, how badly come we have used an Ed Kranepool last night?
Any Met fan who “demands only victories” doesn’t know the history of the franchise.
The anger I feel (and hear, read from other here and on WFAN) relates to HOW they lose and how they underachieve. The ’69, ’73, and even ’99 teams are loved because they had no business going as far as they did.
The current disgrace/mess is paid handsomely to win but they lose in excrutiating, humiliating fashion while the con man who put this crap together smiles and gets four more years.
Anger at the current generation isn’t because they’re losing. It’s because they are gutless, sloppy, overpaid, and emotionless.
What are you going to do about it? You going to the new yard next year? Jeffy’s Treehouse, with the chop shops, shitty commute, and $700 beers? You going to buy Mets gear to wear in public so everyone knows you support losers and pay ofirmative minaya’s salary?
I’m boycotting. I’ll watch on TV, I’ll check the scores on my blackberry, etc. But unless WE ALL SEND FRED and JEFF A MESSAGE WHERE THEIR EARS ARE – IN THEIR WALLETS – this mediocrity will persist.
If you continue to support these dogs with your wallets, you are part of the problem. I planned all year to be at the last game at Shea, but wild fucking horses won’t drag me there.
What’s it gonna be, Met fans? You gonna keep funding this crap or is it time to say ENOUGH!!!?