So here we are...

We've all spent months preparing for the inevitable: Jose Reyes leaving. Personally, I thought it would be easier than this to let him go but I can't seem to wrap my mind around how he will, in all likelihood be wearing a horrendous Miami Marlins jersey come spring training. I've grown up with him being a member of this team, and now that he's gone for all intents and purposes I don't know how watching this team is going to be enjoyable at all for the next few seasons, especially if Wright continues his regression. If ever there was evidence that the Wilpons are bad owners, it is the fact that they let their star player walk due to their own personal financial problems, and that they are too proud/stubborn/stupid to realize that they are only hurting themselves and more importantly, the team.

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We are going to hear so much shit from Pomes-like fans.

I am worried about attendance this year.

I think it's fine.

by NetsMets4Life on Dec 4, 2011 8:35 PM EST reply actions

I am worried about attendance this year.

LOL LOL LOL

One day, this team is going to kill me.

by fxcarden on Dec 4, 2011 8:51 PM EST up reply actions

What with the wailing and the gnashing of teeth

I might need to take a break for a while.

Today, as yesterday and the day before, it looks like a long shot that we get Jose back, and the Marlins seem as likely as anyone to get him. Sucks, but this is baseball. It’s like Ruth or maybe Damon, if we and the Marlins were both perennial contenders — in other words, lol. I mean, I feel the pain of losing Jose, but it’s not like this is not par for the course.

I guess my point is, let’s try and be a little bit dignified about it.

by SuperT on Dec 4, 2011 8:58 PM EST up reply actions

what is there to be dignified about it

we are the laughing stock of this town and have been since 2009.

One day, this team is going to kill me.

by fxcarden on Dec 4, 2011 9:04 PM EST up reply actions

Oh, now, now. There is always the Knicks.

by CervezaVerde on Dec 4, 2011 9:07 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

I don't care about basketball

baseball is my life, and I enjoy football late in the season, with an occasional sprinkling of hockey.

One day, this team is going to kill me.

by fxcarden on Dec 4, 2011 9:10 PM EST up reply actions

Oh, I just meant there is always the Knicks to be the laughing stock of NY

by CervezaVerde on Dec 4, 2011 9:11 PM EST up reply actions

The Nets will soon move into the City, so they'll take over that title

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by Russ on Dec 5, 2011 8:46 AM EST up reply actions

Islanders

"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat." -Bob Uecker
"Who is the girl in the dugout, with the long hair? What's going on here? You have got to be kidding me. Only player personnel in the dugout. I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout." -Kieth Hernandez

by metman726 on Dec 4, 2011 9:17 PM EST up reply actions

So crappy, we forget they're New York

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 4, 2011 9:30 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

hahaha rec for funnies

"Fantasy, reality, science Fiction. Which is which? Who can tell?"

by feslenraster on Dec 5, 2011 8:59 AM EST up reply actions

I don't think it will be the next few seasons

I only see 2012 looking bad. Once we know what we have in our big prospects we’ll have a better idea of what to build around.

"Amazing strength, amazing power - he can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball."
-Casey Stengel on Lucas Duda

by piazza62 on Dec 4, 2011 8:40 PM EST reply actions

fire sale this coming June

hopefully, Santana and Bay come back strong.

"they're still shitty"

by Help!I'maRock! on Dec 4, 2011 8:44 PM EST reply actions

hopefully Wright comes back strong

He’s out the door too in July if they blow up the team.

Mark Cuban for owner! Save us from the Wilpons!

by Greenpoint Ian on Dec 4, 2011 9:25 PM EST up reply actions

Look on the bright side.

In a couple of years, the Marlins have another fire sale, and we get him back.

Ralph Kiner: You've gotta change the script, I don't like the script.
Gary Cohen: What's wrong with the script?
Ralph Kiner: Well the script should be the Mets win every day.

by StorkFan on Dec 4, 2011 8:50 PM EST reply actions

But, but... Ya Gotta Believe!

by CervezaVerde on Dec 4, 2011 8:56 PM EST reply actions

I believe

I’ll have another drink

One day, this team is going to kill me.

by fxcarden on Dec 4, 2011 8:58 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Jose Reyes left?

News to me.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 4, 2011 9:03 PM EST via mobile reply actions

It seems like a formality at this point

There is no hope.... there is no future....there is only GRISSIONZ

The 2011 Mets- Rock bottom: We haven't reached it yet

by Syler on Dec 4, 2011 9:04 PM EST up reply actions

In what world?

Not the one we live in.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 4, 2011 9:04 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

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One day, this team is going to kill me.

by fxcarden on Dec 4, 2011 9:05 PM EST up reply actions

Obe my phone, it's not showing the photo

Anything good?

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 4, 2011 9:12 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

It's a guy holding a sign that says

“the future ain’t what it used to be”

One day, this team is going to kill me.

by fxcarden on Dec 4, 2011 9:20 PM EST up reply actions

But the reporter say in espanol that marlins offer to mucho pesos

by CervezaVerde on Dec 4, 2011 9:09 PM EST up reply actions

And he say source was mucho crediblo

by CervezaVerde on Dec 4, 2011 9:10 PM EST up reply actions

Anonomyso?

Ralph Kiner: You've gotta change the script, I don't like the script.
Gary Cohen: What's wrong with the script?
Ralph Kiner: Well the script should be the Mets win every day.

by StorkFan on Dec 4, 2011 9:38 PM EST up reply actions

It's wierd

This whole time I’ve been saying to myself, “You know what, if Reyes leaves its ok. The Mets will be just fine without him.” But now that he is actually gone I feel like shit.

Bobby Baseball - The future of Amazin' Avenue.

by Bobby Baseball on Dec 4, 2011 9:55 PM EST reply actions

Lol, I'm actually the opposite

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 4, 2011 10:01 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Same here

I was dreading that he might be lost. Now that he is, I’m over it… for now. It might sting when he comes back to Citi Field.

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by Russ on Dec 5, 2011 8:48 AM EST up reply actions

This

It’s hard not to reminisce of hot summer days at Shea where I’d go to get a hot dog and come back to see the ball in the gap and Jose blasting out of the box and into third…

"Amazing strength, amazing power - he can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball."
-Casey Stengel on Lucas Duda

by piazza62 on Dec 4, 2011 10:04 PM EST up reply actions

Man, we really have to hope that the Wilpons have to declare bankrupcy.

Either to restructure this crushing debt for themselves or to sell the team to a billionaire who can wipe out the debt himself.

We’re a couple years removed from a new stadium, we’re in market #1, team owns the cable channel and the Mets are still being run like middle market team. It’s ridiculous.

by FrancoTAU on Dec 4, 2011 10:03 PM EST reply actions

Middle market? Optimistic

It’s a poorly run small market team. They give money to all the wrong people and nothing to the right people.

"Amazing strength, amazing power - he can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball."
-Casey Stengel on Lucas Duda

by piazza62 on Dec 4, 2011 10:06 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

gave

Sandy knows what he’s doing and watching him with the media tonight he seemed livid that they didn’t have the budget to resign Reyes, and I was hoping that at some point he was actually going to speak his mind and not just read the script that the Wilpons gave him.

by metman726 on Dec 5, 2011 1:25 AM EST up reply actions