Coincidentially Dec 5th is the day the 21st amendment was ratified, re-legalizing the consumption of alcohol.
Don’t tell me the Seaver trade was worse. We shouldn’t be arguing which Mets disappointment was worse instead of debating batting titles and MVPs. I feel how I feel, and you feel how you feel. This is the single worse day I’ve experienced as a Mets fan.
Don’t tell me about the contract, or that you know how it’s going to turn out. No one knows that, and there aren’t probability charts for injuries. Everyone is different. Can you really go from hoping that ball finds the gap so Reyes gets a triple, to hoping he pulls a hamstring or isn’t worth it in a couple of years? Would you really have been upset of the Mets ‘overpaid’, which is something that only happens in retrospect, to keep a player like Jose Reyes on the team? Does anyone seriously root for a long-term fiscally responsible plan when they go to baseball games? I don’t. I just wanted to see Jose Reyes and my Mets. Add in that Carlos Beltran is also gone, and Johan Santana may never be the same, and it’s hard to swallow.
Also, don’t tell me I’m “Less of a fan” for being less interested in the Mets without Reyes. There is no rulebook to fandom. The truth is most of you are also less interested in the Mets, just unwilling to admit it. Less people will go to games, less people will buy jerseys. The team being likely worse only further plays into that. Jose Reyes was one small part of the big picture, but without his portion I find myself noticing the other pictures, other places to spend my money, in the building. I’ll never not be a Mets fan, nor will I ever stop rooting for them, but that doesn’t mean I’ll devote the same level of energy and commitment that I have in the past.
To sum it up in a way that to me seems to represent baseball pretty well: I’m less excited about the Mets and less confident they’ll be successful in the near future than I was following Beltran striking out against the Cardinals to end the ’06 season.
Lose your best playing without making him an offer and then
RAISE TICKET PRICES for Spring Training?
We should be out of it by the second week of March!
Reality is stranger than fiction.
Save my season seat in PSL for 2014!
LGSPT (Semi-pro team)
I spend every off season excitedly, hopefully waiting for the new season to begin. Now? Not even remotely looking forward to it.
I fully understand where you’re coming from.
For the record, as a 40+ year die hard Met fan, I was a teenager when they traded Seaver. It was a dark day and it signaled the start of the worst Met teams I’ve ever followed, IMO.
I still say they missed their chance to sign Reyes at their price during the last off season. Then again, that’s b/c they probably had no intention of signing him to begin with. Don’t believe they foresaw the 2011 batting title going to Jose either. That about sealed our fate of getting Reyes back.
While I agree with your last sentence, I still be devoting the same energy to following this team that I always have.
Sucker for punishment maybe – but there you have it.
Once a die hard Met fan, always a die hard.