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Ya know…the fans so wanted to get Juan Soto. They were going to leave the country if the New York Mets didn’t sign Soto. Oh, wait, that was in regard to something else…if someone became President. Whatever. But fans were going to be up in arms if the Mets hierarchy failed on that acquisition. And, yet, the complaints keep rolling in.
Yankees fans could tell you what you would be getting with Juan Soto. Soto is a VERY good player. He’s is a formidable bat in the middle of the lineup. He was a young talent when he came up with the Washington Nationals at the tender age of 19 and had immediate success.
Yes…I know, I know…everyone is entitled to their opinions. That’s part of being an American. More importantly, it’s a huge part of being a New York Mets fan.
Mets fans are no different than any other fans – they have a LOT to say. I mean, I have a lot to say too. That’s why I write about a lot of observations that I have about the Mets – past, present, and future.
Some years ago, fans expressed their feelings at social gatherings, at the local pubs, or at the office water coolers. Then talk radio became big and you got to hear so-called experts spew their own brand of nonsense and give you the “privilege” (if you were so lucky) to call in and say or ask something, only to have the host belittle or berate you because THEY know so much.
But now…social media gives everyone the chance to have their motors running and a place to blow out those exhausts into the air. Well that’s the way I view a lot of what I read on the various threads.
Spring trainings were always my favorite times of the year when I was a young broadcaster. My days were spent just hanging around and watching all of the activities, sitting back and enjoying the antics of the players, and, oh yeah, getting some sound bytes here and there.
Based in Miami, I got to cover the Baltimore Orioles who were in town, the Montreal Expos who were in West Palm Beach, but I was mostly assigned as the beat reporter for coverage of the New York Yankees in Fort Lauderdale. Yankees, not Mets.
As a baseball nut, it was Utopia for me. But I was kind of disappointed that I didn’t see a lot of the Mets since they were on the west coast in St. Petersburg, way out of our coverage area. But in covering the Yankees, I did get to see the Mets the few times they bussed it down to Fort Lauderdale.
The New York Mets have moved two times. Ok…so once was to another borough and the other time was across the parking lot. Franchises move. That’s how the Mets came along…because the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers moved to San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively.
The A’s are tied, sort of, to the New York Mets, because of the 1973 season…the season of Tug McGraw and Ya Gotta Believe! The A’s have been a storied franchise. Yet, they can’t seem to stay put.
I am so tired of the Pete Alonso saga. Will he continue to be a New York Met or will he be an ex-Met? And why has it gotten to this point? It’s February already.
Scott Boras is not ALL that is bad with Major League Baseball…but he has had a pretty big hand in the ruination of the National Pastime. And this debacle has his fingerprints all over it.
Alan Karmin is an award-winning journalist and author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his life growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. Alan's family were avid Brooklyn Dodgers fans and when the Dodgers moved west, the Mets became the team to root for. The Mets have always been a true focal point, Alan even wrote a term paper in high school to analyze what was wrong with the Mets. While at the University of Miami, Alan honed his craft covering the, gulp, Yankees during spring trainings in Fort Lauderdale for a local NBC affiliate, as well as the Associated Press and UPI. He broadcasted baseball games for the University of Miami, and spring training games for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. New York Mets Mania is a forum for Alan to write about his favorite team and for baseball fans to chime in and provide their thoughts and ideas about New York's Amazin' Mets.
