Life As A Mets Fan

You kind of have to hate yourself to be a New York Mets fan. You're second-tier in your own city, your team is always just good enough not to be awful but bad enough not to be good and your stadium is right next to the freaking airport. This torture is brilliantly realized in this post from Mets blog Fear and Faith in Flushing, in which author Jason Fry, with the season half over and his team at the .500 mark, implores team brass to give up on the season and build for next year. He even argues it will make life easier for fans.

In fact, I think it'll be more fun and more encouraging if we let go, if we accept. This club just has too far to go to play postseason baseball this year: Too many old players aging too fast, too many young players who won't be ready in time, too many declining or dead roster spots that can't be cleared in the next couple of weeks. It's not going to happen, and that's OK.

As Mets general manager Omar Minaya says he's a buyer, not a seller at the trade deadline this year, this whole thing seems like a perfect primer for Mets fans to wail about missed opportunities for rebuilding, or some such silliness. Honestly, Mets fans are turning into fatalists; we guess they're just replacing Red Sox fans.

The Towel, Thrown In [Fear and Faith in Flushing] Minaya Says He's In Hunt [New York Daily News]