5 Things Mets Fans Can Do For The Mets

A couple of days ago I posted 5 Things the Mets could do for their fans. Here’s what we can do for the Mets.

5 Things Mets Fans Can Do For The Mets

1. Love Citi Field.

Enough with the worn shitty field and taxpayer field jokes. I’m yet to meet anyone who thinks Citi Field isn’t a great place to watch a ball game.

The Mets delivered us the best park in New York City and even managed to set the bar high on concessions. You get some really good food for your money at Shake Shack and Smoke Joint, and the better beer at better prices goes down easily. Compare what you can get for $20. At Citi Field with what you can get for the same amount at any other sporting venue in the New York Metropolitan area and you will be impressed.

Bottom line, the Mets knocked it out of the park with their new park, even Yankee fans agree.

2. Stop behaving like Yankees Fans

Unfortunately, appreciating Citi Field is one of the few things Yankee fans do well.

By and large, Yankee fans are not good baseball fans. They may be great Yankees fans, but they see the world through Steinbrenner’s dark glasses, and their win now, win always world is not pretty. Let’s give our players some support. Let’s try to see the bright side of things. Get over the idea that postseason baseball is an entitlement. Baseball is about the journey. If you’re lucky, really lucky, once in a great while that journey ends with winning the world series. Appreciate the rest, even the pain.

3. Stop Behaving Like Imbeciles

Enough with the ridiculous “Jeter Swallows” chants. The Mets would be lucky to have a player who is half the leader he is (and this coming from someone who hates the smug look on his face). Enough with “Yankees Suck”.

Focus on our team, on our guys. Try supporting a player when he’s down, or even when he’s just doing ok. Luis Castillo is hitting .285 with absolutely no protection in the lineup. Notice the good.

4. Check out the Mets Foundation

The Mets have some interesting community service initiatives going on. Consider donating some time or money to one of them.

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/community/index.jsp


5. Your suggestion here

I’ve run out of ideas. What do you got? What can Mets fans do for their team?