MetsBhoys #12 - 17th June 2012

This week Jason, Harper, Frankie and Nicky recapped the last fortnight in the world of the New York Mets. We discussed the ups and downs in the sides form and talked in depth about the fantastic season RA Dickey is having.

We were also joined briefly by Jim a Red Sox fan who gave us an 'outsiders' point of view on the Dickey phenomenon.

Lets Go Mets

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Shame on St Louis

By: Nickybhoy

I wanted to post this a bit separate because I wanted to offer my opinion on why the Mets fans should be happy but also move on, however, I also wanted to add a little blurb about the coverage from the ST Louis press on the no hitter. There was this headline as well as overblown shots of the Beltran ball down the line on the cover of the dispatch.

I think everyone is well aware of the bad call, and we all know it happens in baseball, but anyone else find this ironic from the city that made an icon out of Mark McGuire?

AMAZING MOMENT..BUT JUST A MOMENT

By: Nickybhoy

(I tell you my story and i take it into perspective. I am not taking away from the moment at all, but just being honest on what I feel as a die hard fan. I waited a few days to I can write on the subject without the blue and orange shades on)

I was sitting in work and I got the call that someone close to Kat was in the hospital and she was waiting to see them. She said that she might not get home to late and that we would probably not make the game. Of course, given the circumstances, I had no thought about it being an issue and I really still don’t but would be lying if I said it didn’t hurt.

In 1991 I was sitting on the 3^rd base side of Shea stadium with my old man and we were watching a game in cold conditions. David Cone was pitching and in the 7^th inning, he had yet to give up a hit. I looked over at my dad, who is not very good with cold weather and he was shivering.

“Dad, we can leave if you want”

 His response “I am not fucking leaving while he is throwing a no hitter”.

 As we all know, it didn’t happen and as we sat there freezing, Howard Johnson did not charge a ball up the third base line and Cone lost the no-no.

21 years and many pubic hairs later, I sat there in my living room watching as it was happening again. Johan’s high pitch count kept me from getting too excited and I was convinced it was not going to happen.  

Then came that catch by Mike Baxter. What a fakin catch by the kid from Queens. After the catch Kat and I looked at each other and said “it would happen tonight, wouldn’t it”.

It kept going and going and up came the 9^th inning. I was nervous. I was standing in front of my TV pacing back and forth and my stomach felt like it was a playoff game. Then it happened. Johan Santana got the final out of the first no hitter in New York Mets history. I jumped, I yelled and as I watched the team celebrate I cried. I never thought I would see the day.

It hurts that I was not there, but it was still as magical for me. In fact, if you were there or not, you probably had a tingling in your body. This was a fantastic moment, not only in Mets history but for this season as well.  

The Mets were projected by some to go 2-160 (well it seems that way) and Friday night seems to have put the Mets in the category as a team with something special happening and one that should be taken seriously.  Friday night was a moment that many Mets fans should be excited about.

HOWEVER, it must also be put into perspective. While great, There is still a lot of baseball to be played in 2012 and as a fan of the team, my goal in life is not to see them get their first no hitter. 

See, 3 days later and I still hear a lot of people trash talking about this game and i am still seeing the corny little Facebook meme's about the game. 

AGAIN, it was great, it was like a climax, however, the moment is over. And if I must be honest, it is a moment I would trade in to see the Mets celebrate on the mound come late October.

MetsBhoys #11 - 3rd June 2012

NO HITTER enough said...

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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