On the Mets beat

Where is Corky Jeff Wilpon? Hey Jeff, your team is a joke, and your classless attitude toward the Yankees during the Subway Series at Shea is the best example of how your franchise is being run. The Yankees fans are laughing at you and your team of misfits. Your fans do deserve better. But with this caveat. The older fans. They are not like the 18-30 year old who continues to think they own the soul of this baseball city. They do NOT chant Yankees suck after the first game of the season. These fools get just as excited when the Yankees lose and when the Mets win. Fred you deserve this mess. I don't know if daddy's money is going to save you from this giant PR mess!!! Have a nice offseason. The Yankees will be on TBS on Thursday if you want to watch a playoff game.

Thank you, Mets, for your colossal choke! Couldn't happen to a nicer team. Be sure to tune in and watch the Phillies in the playoffs.

I hope Witless Willie and Glavine get one way tickets out of NY. If the Wilpons allow them back, Shea stadium should be empty next season as a sign of protest.

I am so ashamed of what me and my team accomplished this past month! We were cruising to the NL East Title! Jose! Jose! Jose! was pulling up his shirt and jumping into Castillo's chest every game! We had not a care in the world! We were the brash Mets! We strutted around like we had 20 World Series Rings! We were the "Toast of the Town!" well maybe the "Toast Of Flushing (Toilet)" Now we are just Toast! I tried to get the team going, by shaving my head and looking like McMurphy from Cuckoo's nest......I was really looking for the "Curley" look of the 3 Stoogies! I tried to get the locker room together, but what can you do when 70% of the room is eating goat, refried beans and Empanadas. The other half hamburger! I couldn't get a decent plate of pasta in there! I gave up! Just like we all did. I guess I will have to join the fans at Modells and buy a Boston hat............Again!

Jose! Jose is Gay! Jose! Jose!

Willie stopping being a dull puppet. Scream and break some chairs. Do you have a SOUL?

It's not Willie's fault that the Mets lost. How can you blame a guy who really had no weapons in the pen except for a couple of guys. I can see why he used Sosa and Wagner until their arms fell off. The other guys out there (Schoenwiess and Heilman) just didn't do the job and they weren't an effective bridge to Wagner. He also had to depend on a couple of 40+ year old starters in Glavin and Hernandez.

If Omar goes out in the off season and gets some decent pitching, the Mets are going to run and hide in the east next season. It will be a cakewalk.

I don't care that the Phils won this thing this season, the Mets are still a better team.

The Phillies just played better down the stretch.

It's the curse of Ray Knight! It lives for a 100 years!

Just like a player is what the back of his card says he is, a team is what its record says it is. The Phillies did not win in the last two weeks, they won over 162 games.

Making excuses is not the way to get better. Overconfidence did this team no good this year, and pretending that they were the best when another team won more games is exactly the same thing.

Let’s wait until late September next year before we watch any games. The reason is twofold; we won’t be disappointed and we can reduce their revenue. Reduced sponsorship and empty seats might make them feel a sense of urgency.

"When the lights,
go down,
in Flushing,
and the sun,
shines,
on theee Bronx,
oh I want to beeee theere,
with myyy Yankeees"

Oh I am having a blast with this. Thanks Fred, Omar and crew!

Surely more to come....

Will this feeling of letdown ever go away?? I am just absolutly shocked and Im just hoping that this is all just a horrible nightmare. Its reality though...Im sure I am amoungst the many that are shaking their heads in just total disbelief. I will be back next year to support my team and just hope they can bring the October Classic back to Flushin...It doesnt do anything to jump on the bandwagon of who to blame or who should be fired. Right now we as Mets Fans need to step back and heal...In time I will be lose this lump of pain in my throat and the sadness that I feel and focus on some of the highlights of this incredible season...David Wright is AWESOME and in my book is the Player of the Year...You know where the two quietest places are in NY now????...The NY public library and Shea Stadium in October....:<(

How Sour Has the Apple Turned?

Would you trade Jose Reyes for a young ace - Johan Santana, for instance?

http://www.hotstovenewyork.com/2007/10/01/how-sour-has-the-apple-turned/

I am going to show my age here but "Beat the Mets,Beat the Mets step Wright up and beat the Mets bring your kiddies bring your wife , guaranteed to have the time of your life because the Mets are really dropping the ball watching those home runs go over the wall(watching fair balls while standing at home plate also)"

While ascribing guilt to this team is tantamount to throwing a rock in the air and hitting someone guilty, I am going to utter the unspoken taboo as to the failure -- the disparate camps at Flushing, the diminished-English speakers and the growing Latino presence.

Frankly, it seems that many on the team were afforded greater carte blanche or room to fail whether they're Latino or not. For example, let's start with Julio Franco. Was it his venerable age or his exalted status as some kind of English/Spanish ambassador that made him and his pathetic bat a fixture for a year and a half? Was Carlos Delgado left in the lineup to struggle against lefties because of a hope of him getting hot or simply to not offend the big guy? Does El Duque decide when and if he'll pitch because of his veteran status? Does Pedro refuse to go to New Orleans for additional work because he's an accomplished ace? Does Reyes get to mug and prance and loaf because he's just so plain lovable? Does Guillermo Mota get a bigger contract than Chad Bradford because of his fastball?

I could go on, but I think the point is clear: there is a chasm in the team from ownership to Omar to Willie to LoDuca/Wright/Wagner to Reyes/Pedro/Duque, etc. Frankly if the Mets want to "reach" most of their players, they'd be better served with a Latino manager. Failing that, they can start to make a greater attempt to have everyone fall under the umbrella of the team, something that clearly was not evident the past two years.

Excluding the inevitable personnel moves, the Mets need to decide on the predominant language and culture of the club going forward.

Let's discuss the "growing Latino presence." 14 of 25 players on the Mets are Latin. 10 of the Yankees 25 are Latin. So what? This "predominant culture" bs is annoying. As long as the players hit the cutoff man, run out ground balls, it doesn't matter where they come from.

Yeah, I'll make sure and tune in for all four of the Phillies' playoff games.