1- Being upset in spring training when the Mets beat the Yankees. Going to the Polo Grounds in 1962 and seeing Ed Bouchee homer. Also saw Willie Mays go deep.
2- Going out to the upper deck in left in batting practice hoping to catch a ball. (I succeeded at Yankee Stadium on a few occasions)
3- Going to my first game at Shea in 1964 against the Cards. (I think)
4- Having Sid Fernandez as a neighbor because he rented a home up the street.
5- Going to my last Met game which was the home opener in 1989. (Company outing) Wore my running tights under my jeans because Shea was the coldest stadium I’ve ever been in.
6- Feeling depressed as hell after the 1986 series and all that talk of a dynasty.

And don’t the Jets have a home game next week? I know that they are not viewed as the primary tenants, but still….

It’s an incendiary topic because it has to do with race, except that it doesn’t have to do with race. Omar is like every bad manager (and I mean corporate manager, not on field baseball manager) you have ever run into – he employs friends, sycophants, and reclamation projects whose total lack of value to anyone else means automatic loyalty and obligation to Omar (see Tatis, Castillo, Julio Franco….).

The trouble starts because Omar is more comfortable around latinos and so HIS bias (HIS. HIS. HIS. NOT OURS.) has ruined the team. Too bad his bias is for latinos. If it was for guys from Queens or guys whose last name started with “M”, like his, no controversy.

So this nonsense that those of us who point out the latino thing is biased must stop. Omar is biased and we are merely pointing it out. And, his bias isn’t race-based…he’s just going with what he knows and with people who owe him. This is what every bad manager in corporate history and what some paranoid leaders (nixon) have done.

So – here I go – Omar’s latino bias is real and I’m just pointing it out. Don’t blame it on me.

What is sad is I have been a Met fan for 40 years…and this past season was the first time ever I got to a point in any season and said I had enough as I turned off the TV and tuned out. I have never givin up on any Met season, never before and anyone who knows me will tell you I could never turn my back on the any of their teams they put on the field. It was not the team’s losses that made me want to turn away I understood the injuries, etc… It was being lied to and fed stories like I have no comprehension, like I do not actually care for this team or other all the while the Wilpons and Co. wanting more of my dollars…what made me a Met fan and not a Yankee fan growing in NYC was havin heart that was true, true to my team. I know the Yankee fans will roar but I tell it like it was they dissapeared when their Yanks were down. But when my team was losing I would sit in any seat in Shea or other stadium to watch them play, any seat. That team was family no matter how good or bad they played I wanted to be there for them. There were a bunch of summers as a kid I went 50-60 games per at Shea, 50-60! not because of season tickets or wealthy family, no but because of the dime i earned from allowance to hawking newspapers I bought tickets. Road the #7 smiling like smiling all the way. Every birthday and Christmas I would ask for tickets to games and Mets gear. If I could not be in the seats I was there in some way for every game. I would watch them on TV, if not on TV I had an AM radio I carried with me during basesball season so I could listen to them. Last season we kept hearing when they get back. Yes when they get back in 2010 not 2009 as you kept saying. As time went by I knew we fans were being strung along…well now it is my turn to say “when the Mets organization-ownership gets it, gets it back that their fans matter most I’ll be back……..”

Yes, Omar made mistakes in the people he hired. I think that is the tip of the Omar iceberg. The GM’s job is the major-league team on the field, and to oversee the contruction of a productive farm system. This buffoon has riddled the big-league team with bad contracts (no one’s fault but his, there was no gun to his head to sign Alou at age 40, Perez for 3, Cartillo for 4, Franco for 2 with the insane notion that he is a clubhouse guy, Valentin would have you believe that Franco was a divisive force, etc), and wht’s worse, the organization has no prospects of any value. Mejia, Havens, Davis, et al are a few years away. So if you look at it, he has failed at every aspect of his job. It is as clear as can be. If I did that, or any other employed person did that, we would be collecting unemployment and searching monster.com.

Why on earth does this man have a job? That, I think, is the reason people have no faith and are not buying tickets.