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The Mid Market Mets

Written by Mike Mariano | 09 July 2010

I thought when things were going well the Mets writers were going to step it up around here!  Silly me for assuming such tomfoolery.  So I'll give some Mets snacking for your feasting this afternoon:

NYPost: They've gotten it wrong, but they've gone for it. There is a sense, a real sense, that the Mets are now operating as a mid-market club, unwilling or unable to dive in to attract the best that money can buy, even if they most assuredly did lavish a $137.5 million guaranteed contract on Johan Santana a couple of winters ago.

Maybe that perception is unfair to ownership, but it's as real as last night's empty seats and as real as the frustration of the fan base that already is resigned to losing Cliff Lee to a higher lend-lease bidder this summer and prepared to lose the left-hand ace to the Yankees this winter.

There's no buzz around the Mets, who appeared particularly lethargic in last night's loss that sealed the club's first losing series in their last seven at home since May 10-12, when the Mets lost two of three to the pre-Stephen Strasburg Nationals.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah... playing in New York must be so hard.  There's only 8 million people there and the Mets can't find anybody to root for them.  And nobody cares and the team is a bunch of lollygaggers and waaaah waaah waaah....

Things are finally looking remotely positive in Metsville and all this is what comes of it?  I understand that everyone pretends to be "middle class" and gravitates towards the middle, but don't sit on a payroll that size and give the "woe is me" sentiment.  Let me fill that writer in on a little secret (as I'm sure most of the Mets faithful would like to do the same):  Players don't want to come to the Mets and fans don't want to watch because of how bad the team most recently was and not only that, because of the thick mismanagement smog that suffocates the team at every turn.  Why the hell would you go to New York where no one knows who's running the show when you could go elsewhere to a better team, with better management and the same money?

Well, that's my Mets rant of the day.  Per the usual, Mets suck -- enjoy your days Mutsfans.

 

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