Led, the Revenge

This is right up there with Nemos insistence that the Mets fortunes were somehow tied to the level of attention paid to the game during an IGT.

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Mark Healey

As far as Kazmir he was...I have never defended him on any other signing / trade he made...did I like him? Yes, as unlike many occupants of the current FO (not Omar, he's a class act) he wasn't a self-important tool. He also signed KKKameron, Kaz Matsui and dealt for Kris Benson.

Hey, man, I was at the game last and that was what struck me the most. Don't talk to me about the mainstream media, who were all kissing the Mets' fannies after the Schoeweneiss signing.

As for posting it here, I haven't written in awhile and wanted to share it over here. I think some people here enjoy hearing my persepctive, and some don't. I enjoy the debate.

As a player I liked him, especially in 1987 and 88, but he was a symbol of the passionless Mets teams that followed the '86 championship.

Mark Healey

You shot first, 84, with the "incomprehensible" comment. Sapre me.

Thanks for taking the time to edit the piece for me though,

metfan SD

I don't get to a lot of games, living in San Diego. I made my annual trip this week and went to Monday and Thursday's games. The crowd was plenty energized on Monday, even though 5 Nationals runs in two innings turned a 1-0 game into a 1-5 worrier. Still the stadium was rockin' in the bottom of the sixth with bases loaded, one run in and Reyes up. Two groundouts got another run in, and the Nats answered with 2, 0, 3 and 3 runs while the Mets had two hits and a sac fly by Beltran in the 9th.

How exactly should any fans react to this?

Likewise Thursday's crowd desperately wanted to see the Mets win. People who call a crowd pathetic while the team didn't have a lick of offense are looking in the wrong direction. When you get down by three runs and can't even get a man to second base, hey, that's a pathetic performance by the Mets, not the fans.

lgm6986

Incomprehensible was kind. It was one of the stupidest pieces of sh*t I've ever read, and tonight proved it. I lost count of the standing ovations after about 63. Fat lot of f*cking good that did, huh?

METSSC

Crowd was great tonight

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GET THE PIECE OF CRAP McGimpy OFF MY TEAM NOW!!!!!

The McGimpy does most things upside down: eats, sleeps (an average of 23 hours per day), mates, and gives birth. Because of the McGimpy's upside down life, many of the McGimpy's internal organs (liver, stomach, spleen, pancreas) are in different positions from other mammals. McGimpy sometimes lets out a cry or hissing sound.

During the rare times the McGimpy goes down to the ground (such as to change trees for food), it moves very slowly.

mets84

I shot first? Why don't you go back and look at who started the thread (and why).

You wanna roll with the big boys, maybe you can learn to take some criticism. I'm happy to provide more if you're game.

15 Day DL Alou

Ironically, Character has been the best reliever down the stretch.

Metsie7

Spot on article, Mark. Home crowd is only into it when they are WINNING. Main reason why the Metsies hold the BEST ROAD RECORD IN THE MAJORS. I've seen more passionate positive Mets fans at road stadiums.

Just take down Shea already...it's cursed. We'll get swept out this weekend by the 2 last place teams...and it will be Shea's fault

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Bay Ridge Dave

Shea Stadium is a lousy starting pitcher, and ever worse reliever.

F*cking Shea... hitting 3 batters in one inning.

Get this piece of crap Shea off my team NOW!!!

Bay Ridge Dave

Credit is due. He has pitched fairly well.

I'd say he'll be back next season, if only because he as two more years on his deal, and no one else is going to want him. Hopefully, he will get his knee fixed over the winter + clean slate = better pitcher in 2008....

mets84

And hopefully the Mets are in a position to use him as a left-handed specialist.

If not, nothing will have changed.

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15 Day DL Alou

Ollie was not pretty last night, but Wright FU(KED him over big time. That was the bone head play to end all bone head plays.

Last year I was wishing people would stop saying 10 years with him and Reyes just because I am sick of looking ahead with the Mets when there has never been a now. The thought of him and Reyes next to each other for Ten years now feels very Metesque.

Bay Ridge Dave

It happened later on, but Reyes should have come up with Cabrera's 2 run single...

Rey-YES

I just got back from today's game, and I can tell you (if it wasn't already evident on TV) that the crowd was into it from the beginning. Before Maine threw pitch #1, people were up cheering, and chanting the "LGM".

Maine said in the interview afterwards that the fans got the team pumped up.

Maybe it was because 50,000 fans read this thread or the Gotham article and took it to heart.

Or maybe they just felt like cheering anyway.

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