Who's booing Frank Francisco now?

I'm not the type of person to blow my own trumpet and there's little worse than a guy bumming and blowing that he said this and he said that.

My intro here leads me onto the question of "Who's booing Frank Francisco now?"

This just goes to show you the fickleness of FANS and how my campaign for SUPPORTERS was started.  I'm not daft enough to think that there are thousands of Mets fans out there reading this but if 1 or 2 are then its all good.

Frank Francisco has just saved his 6^th game in a row after getting booed by a large proportion in our Ballpark in Flushing.  The beauty of this situation here is Frank actually backed those boo boys and said he was OK with the boo's as he knew he would change them to cheers soon.  I didn't and I'm sure Frank didn’t think his words would ring true as soon as he has accomplished his task.

Here's the dilemma!!  Would you guys not rather hear Frank gushing that he owed this to his supporters who stood by him when he had a rocky spot in a long season of trying to deliver for the Mets, or are you happy to wait for Franks next mistake to enable you to boo again??

Dilemma time for some I hope or, for the Bitter and Twisted in our ranks it's just a small holiday in your life of misery.

The New York Mets under Terry Collins are a very special team.  We are home grown for the most part, we are playing with a pride in this great uniform and we are most of all winning more ballgames than we are losing.  I for one am loving this!!

As we enter July and the melting hot summer months in New York City the Amazin Mets are sitting at 28-23 and 1.5 game behind the lead of a division of all teams above .500.  With arguably 3 of our main outfield players due to return from the disabled list soon, although when I say main players, we only really have the one who is our very own David Wright and he's proving to all and sundry just how special a talent he is.  Tejada, Thole and Bay will add some experience. What????? Thole and Tejada are experienced?????  In our team of kids I suppose they are which makes our journey even better.

On a side note I listen on occasion to those 2 Muppets, Eric Karabell and Keith Law talking absolute drivel on their ESPN Baseball Today podcast.  Hell knows why but en route to work I do.  I friggin want to ram that mike down their throats the sanctimonious galloots.  They don't even have the courtesy to spend 1 minute talking about the Mets and the Philly pelter just cannot handle that his ballclub is on the way down.  I'm going to love it when they realise they have no farm system producing the quality they have been used to for the past few years.

Phuck Philly!!!!

Lets SUPPORT the team and lets let Terry Collins and Captain Marvel David Wright really know how much both of them mean to us!!

Lets Go Mets!!!

Jason  (twitter @AupaCeltic)

MetsBhoys Podcast #10 - 20th May 2012

Tonight the entire team was in attendance with Jason, Joc, Harper, Nicky and Frankie chewing the fat over all the latest Mets news and results.

There will be no show next weekend so we'll be back on air live in a fortnight.

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Boo Hoo

Just what is it with Mets fans?  Perhaps every other fanbase of every other ballclub is the same but I don't care, I'm a Mets supporter hence it's only about the Mets for me.

I come from a different culture in Scotland when you support a team that entails you need to actually support them.  My football team Celtic, will never hear me booing a player as that is only detrimental to my team winning the game.  Don't get me wrong, I feel like strangling certain players at times but they'll get nothing but encouragement from me as I always want Celtic to win, and I am a SUPPORTER.

This brings me back to the Mets.  Am I a fan or am I a supporter?  Without a doubt I'm a supporter because I'll support the Mets through thick and thin with lately emphasis on the thin.  I'm a believer in the fact we are a ballclub with our feet firmly on the ground, and have a downtrodden attitude that makes the good times all the better when they infrequently arrive.

This season 2012 has been different from recent years in the fact we have lost arguably 2 of the best players to have worn the Orange and Blue and replaced them with kids.  On top of this we signed a middle of the road closer in Frank Francisco and got Torres in for Pagan which some would see as us getting a bad deal to start with but now I'm delighted.  Taking all this into consideration you would think the fans would cut the team a bit of slack and get behind Terry and his kindergarten squad.  If we were supporters we would, but I'm coming round to the fact that a large percentage are fans and I don't like it one bit.

Digesting the above your now asking where I'm going with this and understandably if your not a baseball fan you'd think the Mets were having a howler of a start to the season, and the FANS are rightly pissed off and letting these impostors know exactly how hacked off they are.  No, actually were sitting at 21-17 and the victim of the latest booing was Frank Francisco who got boo’ed walking on, yes walking on to SAVE a game against the Brewers, yes friggin SAVE a game against the Brewers.  Granted, Frank blew 2 save opportunities in Miami in our opener and rubber game last weekend but Frank is 9-3 for the season which ain’t too bad in anyone's book. 

Here is the crux of this rant.  Frank Francisco was actually booed as he took the mound the other night preparing to protect a 3-0 lead where we had only 3 hits against the Brewers 6.  Yes, this club is winning games that we have no right to win and we're shoving all the crap from those doom and gloom know alls all around us right down their throats.  Yes, the New York Mets so far this season are on fire.  We're over achieving according to some but let them bleat.  We have a manager who believes in his team and is not afraid to make the big call, we have David Wright who is the best player in the majors, we have Danny Murphy, we have Captain Kirk……………the list goes on.  On the mound we have the Ace Johan, the dream Dickey and a supporting cast who are doing the damage.

What the hell are we booing for??

Are you bitter that the club is re-building?

Are you twisted because you weren't good enough to play pro ball and these guys are?

Are you jealous of the wages these guys earn?

Or are you bitter, twisted and jealous?

This week we have a Mr Jason Bay resuming baseball activities in Port St Lucie and I for one am looking forward to seeing him back.  I know he's hated, yes actually hated by some Mets fans mainly because they are bitter, twisted and jealous but I'm a great believer we can change as a fanbase and become supporters and not just fans.

What do we want?  Me, for one want the Mets to win every ballgame we play.  The best way of achieving this is to SUPPORT THE TEAM. 

Jason Bay never hides.  Lets support this guy when he walks up to take his 1st at bat and lets support this team into October.

Keep your boo's for any Rat like Reyes who celebrates beating us or anyone who is disrespectful to our ballclub.

Frank Francisco has told us he likes the boo's as he promises we'll be cheering as the season progresses.  Frank, I never stopped cheering you buddy!!

Lets Go Mets

Jason

MetsBhoys #9 - 13th May 2012

Tonight the boys went live 5mins after the gut-wrenching loss to the fish :(

However, we raised our spirits as we looked back at the emphatic sweep of the Phillies and discussed all the positives and the good vibe around the ball club at the minute.

Of course we had more Dumb as a Yankee questions and failed miserably in last weeks homework assignment.

19-15 baby

Lets Go Mets

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Mets and Celtic

I was born in 1970, grew up in a working class neighborhood called Jackson Heights Queens. Jackson Heights at the time was going through a dramatic change as far the people living in the area. 

It was once a heavily Jewish, Irish and German area. Mostly made up of second & third generation Americans. But in the 1970’s it started to change, the people now arriving were immigrants. Mostly from South America, with Colombians, Ecuadorians and Bolivians. You also had Europeans arriving, with the Irish, Yugoslavians and Greeks leading that pack. Jackson Heights also had a large British ex pat population. Made up of people from places like Liverpool, London, Manchester & Glasgow. Just like my folks who were from Glasgow {Dad} & Leeds {Mom} Now most of these people came from an Irish background, so naturally they tended to hang around with the Irish born. 

But as kids, we didn’t give 2 shits about any of that. All we wanted to do was “play ball”, didn’t matter if it was “soccer” or the 15 different variations on baseball that we played.

Now at this time, we’re talking mid 70’s, we had 2 teams in NYC. The Yankees from the Bronx and the Mets from Queens. The Mets had won the World Series the year before I was born and then made it to the World Series again in 1973 & lost to the Oakland A’s. 

Now by 1976 I didn’t really watch much baseball on TV, I played punchball and stickball, and would only watch if my Dad had the game on. Around late June of 1976 my Dad asked me if I would want to go Shea Stadium with him and great family friend Henry Ferguson. Henry was from Coatbridge and a huge Celtic fan like my Dad. But Henry was also a die hard Mets fan, he became one when he moved to Woodside Queens in the early 1960’s. Henry wanted to make sure I grew up a Mets fan, he loved this team with the same passion he did Celtic. Now my Dad was a Mets fan, but not to the same extent of Henry. My father would say "I cannae be a Yankee supporter, they’re tae much of the establishment team, just like the huns" {Glasgow Rangers}. So off I go to see the Mets play the Chicago Cubs, taking the 7 train just 5 stops to Shea Stadium. Man I was in for a treat, the Mets ended up beating the Cubs in the 10th inning. Cubs tied it in the 9th. But it was that day that I got to see the greatest pitcher of that era of the Franchise, Mr Tom Seaver. The crowd was electric. Every strikeout was a chance to jump up and cheer. So that was it, I was cemented as a Mets fan for life.    

Later in life I would read NY writers like Jimmy Breslin and Roger Angell, these guys would write about the Mets and us fans, how it made no sense to be a Yankee fan if you were working class. I have great friends who are Yankee fans, people who I consider to be like family. But I still can’t see the attachment to a team like them.  

Jimmy Breslin “You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?" - Jimmy Breslin

Roger Angell “This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.” - Roger Angell, The Summer Game.

Coming from that working class background, being the son of immigrants it was a no brainer for me.  So for this man, there really is only one baseball team to root for for in New York.

Frankie  (twitter @Frankiebhoymets and for podcast updates @MetsBhoys)

MetsBhoys #8 - 6th May 2012

On MetsBhoys #8 Jason has the controls as Harper is busy putting some money back into the Irish economy by way of the pub. Jason is joined by Joc in Scotland and as usual, Nicky and Frankie in New York City.

Harper calls in after about 30 mins and later the Bhoys are joined by Michael from Hawaii.

Todays victory over Arizona and RA's great day at the mound are discussed along with how Torres coming off the DL has benefited the team and many other facts and figures.

We look at the bullpen and have our usual "Dumb as a Yankee" slot where the novices find out the differences in the NL and AL apart from the DH, and we learn why jumping out the way of a stray pitch is not in Harpers gameplan.

At the end of another marathon episode Nicky and Frankie give us a great insight into their aspirations to re-introduce the world famous New York Comsmos to the top of US football (soccer to some).

Enjoy, and Lets Go Mets!!!

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