WHISPERS AND LIES

Lets get into the current and past injury situations of the Metropolitan baseball club. I feel very strongly that as a customer of this team I should (within all legal privacy laws) be told the ABSOLUTE truth about illness and injury to our team. You just know this is not being done by the Mets ownership! And I am sick (pun) and tired of it!
Whats really up with Jose and his thyroid? Notice the word ends in roid. But that is a later discussion. Jose says he has a sore throat, the team claims an overactive thyroid. Carlos Beltran claims he needs surgery, the team claims rest will work. Bravo to you Carlos for going out and listening to your doctor and having the surgery. Carlos Delgado last season has hip surgery. OUT FOR THE SEASON. A-ROD CAME BACK IN A MONTH FROM HIP SURGERY! Nine months later Delgado had to quit his comeback and have more surgery on the same hip. Who did the Mets send him to last year? Dr. Ruth?
Have you EVER read an injury report that said your favorite player will be out 2 to 8 weeks. He could be back in 4 weeks if they REMOVED his thyroid.Dr.Omar this morning claimed that there is no medicine for Jose's overactive thyroid. The Mayo clinic website says "Several treatment options are available if you have hyperthyroidism. Doctors use anti-thyroid medications and radioactive iodine to slow the production of thyroid hormones. Sometimes, treatment of hyperthyroidism involves surgery to remove part of your thyroid gland". I'm going to go with the Mayo clinic.
LIES. Over and over again. The whispers of course are the famous 3 letters HGH. Hey if Jose went to A-Rod's doctor I understand the whispers. Who's running this medical ward? We must establish that Omar is just the puppet. Jeff W. pulls the strings and hands the words to Minaya to say.It is a real shame too because Omar is still one of the best baseball men today. But he doesn't get to make the decisions any longer. It's fred's favorite son beating this franchise into the ground.
One day this summer they will call a press conference and fire Omar. And he will take his talent and build a winner somewhere else.
This organization has been beset with terrible injuries . Bad luck? I think not. Terribe ownership? Now thats the (overpriced) ticket ! When was the last can't miss pitching prospect who didn't go down with season or career ending arm problems? Jon Matlack? And he didn't have a long career either. Maybe we should hire Tommy John as pitching coach. Lies. Have you ever heard of a 3 week case of pink eye. PLEASE!! WHAT DO THEY TAKE US FOR? Idiots?
We must come back to this issue in the next post. Any comments on your favorite Mets injury will be fun. Until then I am "waiting for visiting hours".

TICKETS ANYONE ?

Citi Field: Seating and Pricing mets.com: Ballpark

Lets just say you want to take in a ballgame. You want to go see your favorite team: the Mets. It's a sunny warm June afternoon and Johann is scheduled to pitch. You go to the web to buy a ticket or you call Citifield or you take the #7 train to Flushing. Now you have to decide among the 39 different seating areas. 39 ! That's right. 39. And then in these 39 categories to figure out the price of today's game you need to know if the game is : Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze or Value. What the #@&*#. Ill make it a little easier for you. The Platinum games are only opening day and the 3 Yankee games. After that --Good Luck.
Does it really have to be this way? Fred Wilpon keeps talking about the good old days. About catching a game at Ebbitt's field to see his beloved Dodgers. You walked up to a kiosk on Sullivan place and bought a box seat or a grandstand seat or a bleacher seat. That was easy! Then you went in and took your seat and root, root rooted for the home team.
Forget the price differences from 1955 to 2010. The fan at least knew where he wanted to sit and where that ticket would place him. I've been to Citifield 20 times and all I know on the above list is the Promenade. And I know that I can't get into the Promenade club unless its printed on my ticket ( it isn't in most cases). And I know that if I have tickets in the best , right behind the plate Promenade seats I can't take my friend who is in a wheelchair because those sections can only be reached by climbing 14 steps from the Promenade food court! ( my heart is still beating fast from last summers game there)
What is a "baseline box gold"? How close to a "baseline box siver" is it? the price difference is after all DOUBLE!. But a baseline box seat is a bargain at $36
I'm sorry -on value days!
Is all this confusion necessary? Can't the Wilpons find an accountant who can figure out how much they need to earn per game and come up with lets say 4 or 5 price levels. And lets lose the OLYMPIC'S color coding system. 5 colors!! the Olympics only give out 3 medals. If the IOC follows the Wilpon method the USA takes home 96 medals this year! " hey mom see my VALUE medal". How proud she will be!
So click on the link above and prepare to be AMAZED. Or so confused you go see the Brooklyn Cyclones instead.

Just checking in.

Just a month to go to start the 2010 season. This one , I fear , may go down in history as the culmination of the fall of the Mets franchise. The fall began with the bat on Carlos Beltran's left shoulder in game 7 in 2006. Until that moment we just knew the season was ours. We just knew the Omar Minaya moves were about to bring glory to the team ,the fans, our beloved manager Willie Randolph and the ownership . We just knew that 2 hits and the tigers could prepare to be the last crushed team on our way to a year for Mets history books. Instead the franchise has been on an unprecedented free-fall since
What happened?
Where did it all go wrong?
See the title of this blog! Mismanagement by ownership. Arrogance of Jeff wilpon. Head in the ground by Fred Wilpon. A General Manager who has become a babbling puppet of Jeff W. A loss of a fortune by Fred W. A beautiful new ballpark which no real Mets fan can afford. With fancy clubhouses for the rich only! A Medical and training staff with less skills and medical knowledge than the school nurse we had to see to go home sick. ( in fact that is what the majority of the team did last year---go home sick)
So I have turned to the bloggersphere to vent and reach other Met fans who are as sick as I am of this turn of events. Oh, I have been here since 1962. I have witnessed the 13 and 17 game losing streaks. I have seen the double header losses of 17-3 and 13-0. I can remember the 120 loss season with the 4 starting pitchers who lost at least 20 games each.
We understood in those days . We laughed and were only a little frustrated.
But today we are saddled with the Wilpons and we can not laugh. We can not understand.
We can not bear under the weight of the Minaya's, the Bernazzrd's, the wierd smile and press conferences of the Manuel's. We can not spend another day involved with a team owned and (mis)run by the WILPON'S!!
i HAVE MORE $$ IN MY POCKET TODAY BECAUSE I DID NOT RENEW MY SEASON TICKETS. This is a season ticket ( sometimes 2 seats-sometimes 4 seats ) which I have owned since 1987. In 1986 I bought individual games -often on game day- to 34 games and went to a playoff game and a world series game. Try that little trick in this market today. Last year the team was so bad I sold 60 % of my games. I am tired of being a ticket broker!
The Wilpon's turned me into a ticket broker and a disappointed fan
THEY MUST SELL! So we -the true fans can come back.
I will be in touch