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