06-18-2008, 02:45 PM
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The Mets remind me of a large...company I used to work for. They bought up lots of smaller companies where things were a lot simpler. That company, the big one, was great at telling you your business even though your business had never been theirs until a minute ago. That company would shove motivational slogans down your throat. Now and then that company would send somebody around with a clipboard to tell you you were being moved to a new and smaller workspace — that you were being "restacked," that you were no more than a file to them.
Except when I worked for that company, the tradeoff was I got paid, so I, like a lot of muttering malcontents, put up with it. But those of us who had been bought up knew our own business...and industries and the soul that informed them. That large, ravenous company never would. Last I heard, it had sold off most of what it bought up in the previous decade. It hadn't a clue as to how the stuff it acquired actually worked.
That's the Mets to me lately. The Mets are always telling us what's good for us, what we like, what kind of fans we need to be. We will love Omar Minaya and Willie Randolph because they're New York feelgood stories. We must be made of lead to not be taken with them, just as we must be uncooperative to not fall for "Sweet Caroline" or any other forced group singalong, just as we should be anxious to pony up for $28 t-shirts and $15 parking, just as we should be grateful for the car dealers who pull down what should be our sacred countdown numbers, just as we must be reminded again and again and again to, Everybody, Clap Your Hands...even when our closer has just extended a game that should have been over by now, even when we are in no mood to clap anything for anybody.
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