Oh Mets official, I’m so sorry. You really don’t get it, do you?
Ken Davidoff has written a pretty interesting piece (which you can find behind Newsday’s paywall). I’m a cheapie so I can’t read the entire thing but from what I’m getting on twitter (source is the awesome @hotfootblog who you should absolutely follow), a Mets official told Ken that the Mets think fans are disappointed that the Mets didn’t get Molina.
I have yet to meet one Mets fan that feels that way.
To Ken’s point, is there that much of a disconnect?
The quote is also scary, “We’re gonna get hammered for whatever we do right now.”
No you’re not.
You’re going to get hammered for stupid things.
Believe me, I’ve become one of the leaders of the cranks and I don’t wake up in the morning wondering how I can bust your chops. I want to love this team. If I didn’t love this team I wouldn’t spend 4 hours a day doing this.
I want your team to succeed. I want to love you.
Did you not see the love when the Mets announced the Hall of Famers?
Mets fans don’t complain for complaints sake. We complain when we walk into a new stadium and are greeted by Dodgertown. We looked for a picture of our heroes and couldn’t find one. We wanted to watch the game but there was plexiglass in our face, and then Dave Howard told us we were wrong. We wanted to wave at the left fielder but couldn’t see him. We wanted to buy some “retro” jerseys but you put dropshadow on it. We wanted to think 2010 would be better than 2009, and it was bad enough that Beltran is still hurt but you couldn’t keep the message straight that day.
You aren’t going to get hammered. Treat the fans with respect. Don’t try to sell us on garbage. The fans that are doing the most complaining aren’t the ones who only showed up in ’86 and ’00 – it’s the fans that were there for you in 1979 and 1993 and 2009.
Finally, please remember, we’re the customers. We’re always right. We didn’t want Molina. We aren’t killing you. It’s amazing that you don’t know this.
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The Mets are going to get killed for anything they do, because anything they do (or say for that matter) is just stupid, or we, the fans, find the stupid inside of it. The only thing wrong they did with the Mets HOF, for example, was that the game wasn’t included in the Sunday+ plan. But we found it. They’ve done so many stupid things in the past few years that we’ve almost been conditioned to look for the negative instead of the positive.