The Mets are officially a laughingstock, the butt of jokes even on mainstream entertainment and gossip outlets. Seen on the website “gofugyourself.com“:
You know how sometimes you’ll be dating someone and you REALLY like them and you just keep thinking, “dear God, please don’t let him be [DEALBREAKER],” because you know you’ll have to break it off if they’re [a Scientologist/a vegan/a Mets fan/a chewing tobacco enthusiast/an ardent manscaper/an OJ Simspon apologist/a Real Housewives megafan (that one’s me — in the sense that I am one, not in the sense that I can’t deal with that)/whatever your particular dealbreaker is] and even though you know you can’t live with someone who is home making scrapbooks of the collected works of Lisa Vanderpump (NOT ME although I totally look for her every time I pass her restaurant — I love her, you guys!), breaking up with them is just going to suck? Because when you find out that they are big fans of crystal meth or whatever, what dies is the awesome person you imagined they were.
Hat tip to my wife (hmm … should I be concerned she may be leaving me? Maybe it’s time to root for [any team other than the Mets] …).
The reason that they are rightly the butt of jokes is that the Wilpons no longer have the money to spend on established players…or anything for that matter. I thought it was interesting that Daniel Murphy supported the “moves’ made by the Wilpons to excise Reyes from the team. He saw the “wisdom” in their plan. There is no plan. It’s called not spending money to survive.
Joe, your wife is real pretty. Face facts my friend, it may have nothing whatsoever with the Mets….
Hey! Not funny!
And anyone who thinks irrationally like the person in the quoted text is likely single for a very good reason.
The team has been losing for a few years now. The fact they will lose w/o spending quite as much money makes them a tad less laughable to me. Either way, they have been the brunt of jokes for awhile.
There’s no doubt that my Mets’ fandom is being sorely tested.
You know it’s bad when I get more enjoyment out of this blog
(no offense, Joe) than I do out of the team.
Argh! We’ve reached the level of “O.J. Simpson apologist!”
At least we won’t be the worst in baseball next year or at least that is what CNNSI says. They have us ranked at 25 out of 30 after our stellar offseason. So glad I will not be able to watch this disaster play out!