Bigger disappointment 1/15 into the baseball season, the Detroit Tigers (3-10) or the New York Mets (5-6)? Based simply on fan reaction, it might be the Mets. Yes, seriously. We made the mistake of listening to Mike & the Mad Dog for the first hour or so Monday, and fans were apoplectic about the season, and ready to do one of three things: a) Help Keith Hernandez move, and then jump off the upper deck at Shea, b) fire Willie Randolph, c) hunt down Luis Castillo and remove him from our lovely planet. So we found a Mets fan, commenter RomanWarHelmet, and asked him for his thoughts on why everyone’s so blue in flushing. His words after the jump.

Eleven games into the baseball season and Mets fans are looking for blood. Why is there such anger over a 5-6 baseball team?

Hope. Yes, hope.

This team has fed us hope for three years now and has proceeded to crush our hopes the last two. In, 2006 we had the best team in the NL and before the playoffs we lose Pedro and El Duque, still make it to Game 7 of the NLCS, and after Endy Chavez provided all the hope and karma you could ask for, Yadier Molina hits a late homer and Carlos Beltran goes down looking in the bottom of the ninth. No World Series.

In 2007, we built a 7-game lead by mid-September, only to have this team show no heart, make errors, blow games and watched as a seven-game lead with 16 to play go went up in smoke. In the process, our bright shining star, Jose Reyes, the hope of the present and future, disappeared in front of our eyes, leading to more bitterness. This off-season after trading away more hope in Lastings Milledge, we finally reached the pinnacle of hope – two-time Cy Young winner Johan Santana. This team is THE TEAM …we can feel it!

What have they done? Pedro goes down three innings into the season and is lost until May or perhaps June. Don’t they feel out pain? Don’t they want to make it better? They don’t act like it. The truth is, we are getting angrier and angrier because we know that they are going to crush our hopes again. Johan has a bad outing (not terrible but still not what we hoped for) and people boo. I was there. I did not boo. Frankly, I think those who did boo were just booing the situation and not the man.

Duaner Sanchez comes back Tuesday. I hope that will fix our bullpen. It should. I Hope.

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