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What is worse than a losing team? A team that looks like it has no spark to it. What is worse than Mets fans booing that team that doesn't have any spark? Fans not showing up to the park because of the team with no spark. Even before the sell off this week, Mets fans had given up on the team. It is one thing when the team might lose because they just aren't playing well, hit a rough spot, or losing to a better team. It is totally another thing when the Mets play with no passion, give no hope that this team could turn around, this team is like a teenager going through their feelings where they just don't care about things that don't interest them.
This team's payroll was crazy high but it reminds me of a Hollywood movie production where they might over spend on. project and during editing they realize they aren't going to make their money back and shelve it for the insurance money. It's a shame that the Mets players seemed like they didn't care being on the field or being paid to play a game. I do feel like that came from the top though. The Baseball Ops folks don't seem like they have any passion for the game and it filtered down all the way down through the organization.
I also realized this team could have been assembled the way it was because of the impending labor issues after the season when the CBA expires. No one know how the next CBA is going to be structured. Will there be a salary cap and salary floor? Will there be provisions so there can't be 50 players on a team getting deferred paydays? I think Stearns was hoping to catch lightning in a bottle with the team he had this season and it just didn't work so there was a sell off.
The Mets organization has broken the fans again. If there is a lockout(there more than likely will be) will the fans come back? Is baseball going to be fundamentally different after this time? Seriously, baseball has already lost its popularity to other sports couple that with the Mets sucking and the possible lockout, what is going to happen with this team's fans.
I even have checked out for the most part. I want to not but between the organization making it hard to deal with going to a stadium parking wise and the way a lot of things are done at the stadium it has become a chore to go to the games. It feels like I should be getting paid to go to "work" when I go to a game.
If I didn't have this blog, the QBC, and go to games with the7line, I don't know how many games I would have gone to this season.
