All-Time Most Hated Mets

First Base: Keith Hernandez
Left Field: George Foster
Pitching Staff: Victor Zambrano, Shawn Estes

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That’s really all I’ve got.

Marlon Anderson, Roberto Alomar, Lance Broadway (if those allegations about beating the crap out of that guy are true), Jorge Julio, Paul Lo Duca, Jeremy Reed.

That’s about it really. I always seem to like most Mets players just because they’re Mets. I don’t even hate Kenny Rogers.

Vince Coleman, LoDuca, Rogers,and Dave Kingman were all pretty big doueches. I always hated Zambrano strictly because of the circumstances through which he arrived. I’ve grown to hate Lenny Dykstra even though I liked him alot in the 80’s. Jerry Manuel definitely gets to manage this bunch.

I can see Francoeur falling in the hate category in 10 years because he is the shining example of many of the issues with the Mets front office, but I still like him well enough at this point. I kind of hope he plays well this year just so that my memories of him don’t become jaded down the line.

Sealed it with the postgame Reyes-parody celebration, did he not?

KILLED me as a kid. That it took Lenny and Roger McDowell to bring him in trade made it hurt worse.

(Cedeno’s not a bad call for the OF, though.)

Not only was he was terrible and old, but he also took so long to throw each of his awful pitches that each game I went to where he pitched last year seemed to last for weeks; unfortunately, it was a lot of games for those of us with Sunday season tickets. With those horrible star-free injury ravaged line-ups they were sending out last year, the last thing we needed was for them to last a second longer than necessary.

I also hated Marlon Anderson, for being paid $2M a year to battle with the Mendoza line.

The guy was terrible for most of his Mets career, was slow as all hell to the plate, and most of all, pulled himself out of Game 3 of the NLCS after one inning and five runs, when he knew the team’s bullpen was completely withered, and really needed at least five innings; the single most gutless performance by a starter I’ve ever seen.

Others on my list include Benitez, Billy Wagner, Heilman. and Zambrano.

Oh, and Art Howe.

1b – Bobby Bonilla
2b – Luis Castillo
SS – Mike Bordick
3b – Greg Jefferies
C – Jason Phillips
LF – Kevin McReynolds
CF – Jay Payton
RF – Roger Cedeno
SP – Aaron Heilman ( I know, but he did come up as a starter)
RP – Gulliermo Mota

Cedeno punctuates the list. I believe it was Keith who said on a broadcast, “he plays centerfield like he’s getting chased by a bee.” He was just sooo bad, and he deserved the booing he got. If I remember correctly, Rey Ordonez got pretty surly at the end of his Mets tenure also—that pissed me off.

I didn’t mind Doug Mientkiewicz until he decided to issue the Mets a parting shot when he left, saying how poorly run of an organization they were. In 2005, this really wasn’t warranted—he didn’t handle getting eclipsed by Jacobs as a pro by any stretch of the imagination.

I HATED Looper. I don’t know why people say, “You know, Braden pitched the whole season with shoulder trouble and didn’t tell anyone. He just wanted to help the team.” Why is that honorable? There was a point at which he wasn’t helping the team at all when they were still in playoff contention. If he wanted to help the team properly, he would have taken his DL stint. Like a commenter said above, the Reyes chanting sealed it.

for the dual sins of underperforming during his contract and joining the phillies? and did he not have less than kind words about the organization after leaving? i’m not sure about the comments being made. personally, i liked the guy ever since he said he’d drill the bambino in his fat ass, but he’s a name i thought i might come up

C Lo Duca
1b Mo Vaughan
2b Jose Valentin. I just hated him coming back every year, though thats also Omar’s fault
ss Kaz Matsui
3b I’m too young to remember Jefferies, but from what I gather he was a pretty big douchebag
OF Cedeno, Darryl Boston and Vince Colman. Again I’m too young to remember the last 2, but from what I gather they’re douches.
P
Lance Broadway and Amoborix Burgos both aren’t nice people
Guillermo mota gets an honorable mention

I wouls have to look back at all the lineups to really weigh in on this.

I would say C- Jason Phillips was a big disappointment, he was moved to 1B and hit decent, than went back to catch and disappeared.
1B Mo Vaugh by far
2B- Castillo
SP- Zambrano- especially because we traded Kazmir for him

How has nobody mentioned him yet. I have “hated” a very, very small percentage of Mets in my life. I even loved all-time assholes like Jeff Kent & Vince Coleman. Bobby Bonilla was probably my all-time least favorite, Bernard Gilkey, Billy Taylor, Mel Rojas, Greg McMichael, Guillermo Mota, Jorge Sosa, &, finally, Tom Glavine for taking a giant dump in a pizza box and handing it to me….twice. In between his first and last starts, I really liked him, but I can’t forgive him for those awful bookends – my two worst times at Shea, ever.

Oh, and Shane Victorino. I don’t care that he’s never been a Met, I hate him so much I figured I’d just mention him here.

My most hated Met of all time is Omar Minaya.

But some people I strongly dislike include
Paul LoDuca- mainly because he took over for Mike Piazza and at the time I thought he “stole his job.” I’ve just never been able to like him since.
Lastings Milledge- my brother started acting “gangster” thanks to him. It wasn’t pretty.
Scott Schoeneweis- Like many, my household referred to him as Scott ShowinShit.
Aaron Heilman- Well, you know.

And he’s not a Met but I feel the need to mention him because I hate him more than any other baseball player…Matt Cain. Keep your 94 MPH fastballs to yourself, thanks.

He is so lazy, he never runs his hardest and is always slacking off. I still remember that game in Boston when he hit an easy triple but he walks down the first base line and only gets a double. It wound up costing us the game. I hate all the players who don’t hustle. They are getting paid millions and millions of dollars to play a game and they still aren’t motivated. Jerks.

C- Paul Lo Duca
1B- Doug Mientkiewicz
2B- Roberto Alomar
3B- Alex Cora?
SS- Kaz Matsui
OF- Timo Perez/ Roger Cedeno/ Jeff Francoeur
SP- Victor Zambrano
RP- Ambiorix Burgos

I actually hate very few players (lots of the players in my lineup are just people I don’t like). The people I really hate are Alomar, Kaz, Cedeno, Zambrano, and Frenchy. I don’t actually hate Jeff Francoeur, but I hate everything he represents. If he had a 15% walk rate I’m sure he’d be one of my favorite players.

My list includes Kenny Rogers, Alay Soler, Roberto Alomar, Kaz Matsui, David Newhan, Jay Bell, Vince Coleman, Bobby Bonilla’s second incarnation, to name a few.

for not starting to hit until after they were traded away.

nobody else comes close in my book. He sucked, he was a juicer (shocking!), he seems like a total scumbag in real life, and the “Jersey Shore”-style Mets fans who call in to WFAN to say how much they hate Beltran because of his hair highlights loved the guy.

The above reasons in combination cannot be topped.

because he had admitted throwing away balls at the beginning of his career, plus the whining and cries of racism at every stop. I still really dislike him, but I have to admit he was not a problem last year (until the very end, and even then it was mild by his standards).

Ty Wigginton and Bobby Bonilla

Bret (Bleach) Saberhagen; Kingman was already mentioned; they’re at the tope of the douchelord division in this group, along with Coleman, who had two strikes against him: a) a Cardinal from the White Rat era and b) a jerk generally speaking. And I didn’t like Bonilla either time he was here.

Tom Fucking Glavine

Shane The Pisser Spencer

This took some time but here it is.

C – Steve Chilcott (never made the squad but was the 1st pick in ’66. Reggie Jackson was #2. Enough said.

1B – Eddie Murray (’92 – ’93) Disgruntled and angry was another in retarded post championship picks. Plus replaced Dave Mags an all-time favorite of mine.

2B – A tie between Roberto Alomar (‘02-’03) and Gregg Jeffries (‘89-’91). Both of whom you can lay the blame squarely in the laps of their fathers. The should of raised better humans rather than machine like ball players.

SS- Kevin Elster. (‘88 – "91) Don’t really have any good reason except I had to pick someone and since he replaced Santana from my beloved ‘86 squad seemed as good as any from the third dark ages (’89-’96)

3B – Easily Jeff Kent (’96). The move to third brought out his true colors as a first class ass.

LF – Vince Coleman (’93) . The only season I have actual questioned my loyalty to this organization and he was one of the main reasons why.

CF – Juan Samuel (’89) Just a bad idea. Maybe he was a decent dude, but not in centerfield. A complete disaster.

RF – Carl Everett (’95) Any one who beats their children or covers it up for his wife makes this list hands down. Never got past that, never bought into his “eccentric” act. A total loser.

SP – Bret Saberhagen (‘92 – ’95) Total jerk. Was involved in every stupid prank and situation either directly or indirectly during this dark period of Met’s history.

RP – Doug Sisk (‘84-’87) The luckiest closer ever. Those who think Franco made you sweat either don’t remember or were too young and stoned to remember the pain this man would put you through every time he took the mound. Didn’t even try till he put at least two men on base.

For those who think we are in disarray now nothing was like the shame and pain of the early ’90’s. I had a hard time even reviewing those rosters of spoiled superstars. At least during this underachieving Minaya era I think the palyers for the most part are good guys (even Ollie.)

Didn’t know who Jackie Robinson was, threw firecrackers at kids, said the fact we didn’t have turf was keeping him out of the HOF and sucked royally in the OF and hardly got on base.

I really didn’t like Mel "Blow"has.

I hated this guy, he would do nothing, then when the team sucked in the game he would yell and scream at them thinking that would do something.

also becuase during his time we had the trio of Pulsipher, Wilson, abd Izzy in are system and all three woun dup having arm problems after getting to the majors.