Mets may not have provided the motivation to attend any games, but in all honesty I truly believe it may be an age thing too. I retired and moved down to the Tampa area with the other old farts. I try to attend the Rays and its hard even with a first place team. After fighting traffic you have the expenses of parking and food. Then its not a relaxing atmosphere with the super loud music and lights(Citifield is the same) preventing you to kick back and chill. Plus the constant forced on entertainment (cheerleaders at baseball games now!!) And let's not forget the casual fans that attend the game and find it necessary to get up for food or bathroom every half inning. I don't think its a Mets problem as much as the direction of baseball. Give me my TV and Ronnie, Keith and Gary.
Say it again. The nonstop noise and contrived bs/overstimulation at sports events is crap. It's as if the highest priority is holding the attention of the 10 year olds in the audience. Someone somewhere decides this is the way to "entertain" the crowd--as if the ballgame isn't enough.
I'm with you. When you wrote of "emotional connection", I thought of boy genius sending Alonso and Nimmo away. Awful decisions, the only benefit derived was opening a spot for Benge.
I respect that the team showed up after the trading deadline and had some entertaining games. They got into a big hole that they couldn't get out of, but didn't just play out the string. Some players were fun to watch. Maybe the changes in the offseason should have told us that this season was really going to be a building year. Oh well.
I have watched more games recently because of Benge, Ewing, McLean and Thornton. I hope for a better year next year, but I have said that since becoming a Mets fan in 1962. I am also hoping to go to spring training next year.
I am glad to see Andy Green get a contract and I hope the front office doesn't f@ck up again this offseason.
I hope the CBA gets resolved because I am planning a 5-stadium baseball tour for June of next year.
Finally, MLB TV needs to fix this blackout nonsense with broadcast games. I live in North Carolina and can't watch the Orioles or the Nationals. I really don't care about that except when they play the Mets, so I am shut out of watching the last 3 games of the season. :(
Mets may not have provided the motivation to attend any games, but in all honesty I truly believe it may be an age thing too. I retired and moved down to the Tampa area with the other old farts. I try to attend the Rays and its hard even with a first place team. After fighting traffic you have the expenses of parking and food. Then its not a relaxing atmosphere with the super loud music and lights(Citifield is the same) preventing you to kick back and chill. Plus the constant forced on entertainment (cheerleaders at baseball games now!!) And let's not forget the casual fans that attend the game and find it necessary to get up for food or bathroom every half inning. I don't think its a Mets problem as much as the direction of baseball. Give me my TV and Ronnie, Keith and Gary.
Say it again. The nonstop noise and contrived bs/overstimulation at sports events is crap. It's as if the highest priority is holding the attention of the 10 year olds in the audience. Someone somewhere decides this is the way to "entertain" the crowd--as if the ballgame isn't enough.
I'm with you. When you wrote of "emotional connection", I thought of boy genius sending Alonso and Nimmo away. Awful decisions, the only benefit derived was opening a spot for Benge.
I respect that the team showed up after the trading deadline and had some entertaining games. They got into a big hole that they couldn't get out of, but didn't just play out the string. Some players were fun to watch. Maybe the changes in the offseason should have told us that this season was really going to be a building year. Oh well.
I have watched more games recently because of Benge, Ewing, McLean and Thornton. I hope for a better year next year, but I have said that since becoming a Mets fan in 1962. I am also hoping to go to spring training next year.
I am glad to see Andy Green get a contract and I hope the front office doesn't f@ck up again this offseason.
I hope the CBA gets resolved because I am planning a 5-stadium baseball tour for June of next year.
Finally, MLB TV needs to fix this blackout nonsense with broadcast games. I live in North Carolina and can't watch the Orioles or the Nationals. I really don't care about that except when they play the Mets, so I am shut out of watching the last 3 games of the season. :(
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So well put, Linda.
Linda: Nelson Muntz said “Smell ya later.”
Other than that, this post was spot on. The team provided little motivation to invest time and money in attending at Citified.