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The Mets could not dig up one more miracle at Shea this afternoon and will not be going to the playoffs after losing to the Marlins 4-2 in what will be the stadium's final game. At one point in the day about halfway through their respective games, both the Mets and the Brewers were both down 1-0 and there had to be Mets fans hoping the team could just find a way to limp into tomorrow's one game playoff with Milwaukee.
But the Brewers were able to pull out a come from behind victory. The Mets couldn't. Carlos Beltran gave fans a glimmer of hope when he tied things up at 2-2 with a two-run homer in the sixth. But then the all too familiar story of this September appeared again when the bullpen could not hold on and gave up back to back home runs to the Marlins in the 8th.
Bill Shea Jr., son of the stadium's namesake said, “Some lady had a picture of the stadium and under it it just said, ‘R.I.P.’ I looked at it and I just said that it’s kind of true, because it really is. So, this would be the last funeral. We’ll miss this place.”
Photograph of a Mets fan's reaction after their loss by Julie Jacobson/AP
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It's just better to be a Phillies fan..
Fuck the Mets.
Hahaha! Yesterday the Mets manager referred to a player's strong performance that day as being 'Gangsta'. What a scmuck. Everyone should know that gangsterism has one end result - always - which is losing. He's a loser, so are los Metsos, so are people who paid money to go there today, or will pay money to follow a baseball team managed by a thug manager at the new stadium. Ain't no thing, but a chicken wing, Jerry.
Truely Amazin'
mets = a team for losers, and for losers who live in queens
Fire Minaya.
I can't believe the Mets renewed Minaya's contract before the season was over. What a-holes.
Ryan Church can eat a dick
@gimme, seriously just fuck off already.
Classy comments.
The brutal collapse of this team, coupled with the commentary of gloating, annoying trolls, brings out the worst in us...
Of course I feared and I think the whole park feared what would happen when Schoenweiss came in. The second pitch went over the wall.
The Florida staff handcuffed the Mets offense the last 3 days. Whether that is grinding the bats I don't know. A different approach must be taken the next year and most of the bullpen must go.
The Marlins took a LOT of time celebrating.
The postgame ceremony was quite moving. Short and sweet. About 50 ex-Mets came in and rimmed the infield and one by one, they touched home plate for the last time. Piazza and Seaver were the last two introduced, and they touched home last and walked out the centerfield fence together. Some moisture appeared in the tearducts.
I heard a rumor McCartney would show, but he didn't.
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At least give Ryan Church credit for *almost* hitting a home run to tie it up.
Noooooooooo! They're not lovable losers anymore. They're becoming A-List losers. NYC, why do you do you insist on breaking my heard-hearted hardball heart?
Omar wasn't resigned YET, but they should fire him and manual and start all over.
Jerry was being way to academic with the pitching matchups. For a guy who supposedly "manages from the gut" he should have left Stokes in. Too much is made of mathematical "lefty vs. righty" matchups and too little is made of the fact that EVERY time the Mets make a call to the bullpen it's a huge roll of the dice. If a kid is finding his groove or settling in, LEAVE HIM IN regardless of which way the next batter swings.
I didn't stay for the ceremony; it was taking them forever to set up all of those stupid cardboard photos in the outfield and the crowd around where I was sitting was pretty much ready to start demolishing the place right then and there anyway.
I think Jerry clicked with the players and would not mind seeing him back next year. I think they should totally empty the bullpen, though, with the exception of Stokes, Smith and Parnell.
I doubt they will resign Pedro, Perez, Delgado, Alou or Orlando Hernandez so picking up another quality starter would be good and maybe a few hungry position players with a few notches already on their belt. Minaya turned Shea into a geriatric ward and the vibe of the new stadium should be the opposite -- young, hungry and exciting.
Another spectacular Mets crash and burn! By now, you'd think Shea Stadium would have come down of its own accord.
I can't wait for all you Mets fans to make your annual trip to Citizens Bank Park next spring...maybe after choking two years in a row, your level of obnoxiousness will be slightly diminished (although I doubt it).
^Looks like all the rats in the old Veterans Stadium in Philly didn't go with the rubble.