Mets playing like team worth fans’ money despite disappointing Citi Field attendance
NY Post
It’s OK to come back.
I get it, Mets fans. You are skeptical … or worse.
The Mets underperformed last season. They sold at the trade deadline. They did not replenish the galaxy this past offseason. They followed a strategy under new head of baseball operations David Stearns that felt more Milwaukee than Broadway. Then they opened the season, at home, winless in five games.
I see why you have been staying away from Citi Field, frustrated how a year of promise imploded in 2023 and feeling betrayed that Steve Cohen didn’t try to problem solve again with his wallet.
And I don’t want to tell you how to spend your money. Times could be tough. A day at the ballpark might be stretching the budget too far. But if you are just playing prove-it-to-me with your favorite club, then this group should be ebbing closer to winning you back by doing what most often attracts fans — winning.
They did that for the 10th time in 13 games in a Wednesday matinee in which they completed a three-game sweep of the Pirates with a 9-1 rout. They are doing it with fewer luminaries, but with the smaller pieces assembled by Stearns adding up to perhaps sum-thing special.
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Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.
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