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Maybe it's my grumpy old age.
Maybe it's my cynacism.
Maybe it's my sense of the possibility of facts should come before a good story.
I don't know.

Last night, Mets fans and baseball fans in general went gaga with the Wilmer Flores game winning home run. In tears about being traded a few days before, he now hits a game winning homer.
Hollywood stuff for most.
Not for me and maybe it is one of the reasons above.

The Mets created the Flores tears. They made public a trade in which they backed out.
In my mind, they had traders remorse in dealing Wheeler and Flores for Carlos Gomez.
Their remorse justified. A crappy trade for them.
They backed out using Gomez hip as an excuse.
They knew right away that they were never going to make the deal.
Flores, never pulled from the game.
Manager never told.
Still, the Mets front office has a zest for wanting Mets fans to believe that they are doing everything possible to better their team.
A transparency that is the opposite when it comes to Mets players state of health.

Flores paid the price for Mets mismanagement, in tears, thinking that the team that he was playing for, did not want him.
Now, the Mets are riding the coattails of the 'feel good' story of Flores winning a game with a home run. It's not right.
I feel good for Flores. I really do.
The Mets put him through an unnecessary Hell on a public stage.
Good for him.
The Mets?
Despicable.

I'm probably the only one that feels this way. So, if you're a Mets fan, continue to bask in your latest victory and the hoopla that accompanied it.
Afterall, I'm just a cynical, grumpy old guy.

i saw a .250 hitter who's done nothing to justify having a job hit a hr off the gnats 6th guy in the pen.
if you're a cynic, i don't know what i am dan!

it's a joke of a franchise that may/probably will piss away the twilight years of what appears to be a fearsome rotation. it would only be fitting.

Dough, I'm as cynical as you about baseball, have been since Doc was suspended for coke in 87. However, I was happy for the kid, a kid who wants to be a Met. The Mets are owned by a bunch of clowns, so my joy was not for them, but for the team that I've been rooting for since I was a kid. In the crazy days we're in, I still love baseball sometimes, and the other night was one of those times...

Le Grand Orange wrote:Dough, I'm as cynical as you about baseball, have been since Doc was suspended for coke in 87. However, I was happy for the kid, a kid who wants to be a Met. The Mets are owned by a bunch of clowns, so my joy was not for them, but for the team that I've been rooting for since I was a kid. In the crazy days we're in, I still love baseball sometimes, and the other night was one of those times...

I get it. I really do.
This is why, however, I don't understand fandom.
The Mets made Flores cry with their shoddy management.
You even say they are owned by clowns.

Fandom becomes habit for some.
'I'm a Mets fan no matter what!'
They are proud to proclaim.
Why?
If Wal Mart screws me with crappy management or I don't like them, I quit going.
Why is fandom different?
It's geography. It's family. It's something that just is....habit.

Good for Flores. What is lost is that the Mets were the root and cause of his original angst.
In short, they made him cry.
Good for Flores that he did well.
Good for him.
But for me, I'll remember the shabby way they treated him and their fans with their reckless publicity stunts a lot more than a home run.

I agree dough. sort of like my country love it or leave it or my country right or wrong. it is just geography. born in a different place some of these people become terrorists. but I love my blackhawks- as long as they win.