I have been a fan for 40+ years and have given every Met player and front office person the benefit of the doubt up front.

minaya is a fraud. manuel is a weirdo, a freak, a media snake charmer, and not fit to manage a MLB team.

I reached these conclusions based on their results. I’m not “cutting them down” for fun or out of spite. manuel was in my doghouse right away the way he laughed, joked, and charmed his way through his first press conference. Whether you were pro- or con-Willie Randolph didn’t matter — when you inherit a team (or division of a company, or delivery route, or any job) from someone who just got fired, decorum calms for some solemnity and measured words. Ol’ jerry just yucked it up on randolph’s grave.

I won’t recount why I turned on minaya. Anyone who spends time on Mets blogs knows the team well enough that that isn’t necessary.

I respect your opinion David in Manhattan but I also disagree with it. My impatience, bluntness, and anger with this team are derived from nearly 50 years of abject misery, humiliation, and failure the Mets have heaped on us with merciful bouts of competence (’69, ’86, ’99, ’00, ’06) and one back door run (’73) thrown in every 10 years or so to head fake us into thining we root for a competent, winning organization.

A lot stuff comes down to trust. As a fan, can you trust your manager to manage the team, manage the game, even after we lose three in a row? If Jerry sits a player, or pinch hits for him, bats him 8th or whatever, that is his decision and he shouldn’t be totally second-guessed if it is not successful. Remembering that in baseball, an average of 2 of every 3 at-bats wind up in outs, and you lose around 4 of every 10 games no matter how good the manager’s strategy or hunches may be. Sometimes we win six or seven straight, when the hits are dropping in, then lose three or four in a row when they all get caught, or our guys are dropping the ball. We have seen this illustrated out on the west coast this week. Life goes on, the pendulum swings back. Look at the Marlins now, how fortunes changed after the flashy 11-1 start!

A big part of the manager’s job is to motivate, teach, and challenge the players. And to win as many games a possible. He wants to win this thing as much as anyone… at least as much as anonymous late-night bloggers and callers on the FAN. Have some confidence that he is trying to do what it takes to win. He is privy to information in the dugout that we are unaware of — about unannounced injuries, who is saying what, practicing more, mentally prepared, etc.

My opinion, Jerry Manuel is already one of the top five Mets managers ever (go ahead, name five better ones), and I’ve got a feeling that with these core players, he will eventually wind up as our all-time number two, behind only Gil Hodges. There is a lot of baseball to be played before that all comes around, including October baseball and November ticker-tape, countless thrills to come, but I say they all that is more likely to occur if we back our manager and GM, instead of cutting them down.

Thanks for the Omar comments. I was getting tired of being the only one who thinks this way. I appreciate the support.

Ryan Church NEVER threw the fucking idiot Mets (obama minaya in particular) under the bus when they messed with his health last year during concussiongate. He had the class to keep his mouth shut.

Meanwhile, everyone’s favorite ‘gangsta’ (god, I want to punch manuel when I think of that ‘gangsta’ shit) makes excuses for that fucking dog and idiot Jose Reyes (he wouuldn’t have had a triple even if he hustled. Oh, ok – I get it – it’s ok to dog it when it turns out it didn’t matter) and everyone rolls out the carpet for “sheff”, baseball’s charles barkely: an angry, mouthy, idiot who throws r-bombs around like they mean nothing. Really – calling Joe Torre a racist? What the FUCK are we doing with this creep on our team.

So – let’s recap: Ryan Church – has the dignity to not criticize the Mets for thier abhorrent (sp?) behavior after his concussions(s). He makes a mistake, albeit a bad one, and gangsta takes a page from the dallas green playbook and publicly humiliates one of his players.

Meanwhile, Jose Reyes, the poor man’s Rickey Henderson, gets a free pass for his countless blunders and big bad sheff and his countless dribblers, foul homeruns, and intimidating but empty bat waggles gets welcome here with open arms.

FUCK the Mets.

I wouldn’t blame Ryan Church for going Lenny Randle / Frank Luchesi on that douce manuel but he has too much clas for that.