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Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

metsguyinmichigan Oct 06 2009 11:40 AM

I know, I know. Reading past the byline on a Wallace column is an exercise in self-abuse. But my colleagues are already tired of me ranting (and they're all tense about the Tigers game today.) Wally opines: "The truth is, the Mets' problems begin and end with accountability, and that begins and ends with ownership. The Wilpons have yet to take real responsibility for anything, from building the wrong ballpark to overvaluing their tickets to overrating their team's vaunted "core." Really, the Mets are rotten to their core, which extends deeper than the clubhouse. Still, the men responsible for it all speak no truth and pay no consequences. No one of any importance pays for Jeff Wilpon's mistakes. No one but the flunkies and the fans. To the Mets, they are one and the same." Back this up, Wally! The wrong ballpark? What the hell is that supposed to mean? It's a beautiful park. Overvaluing the tickets? I seem to remember a lot of empty seats at Yankee games, too. Mets treat fans as flunkies? How so? With the exception of one over-reaching goofball, we were blown away at the difference in how we were treated this year. And the best part: The Mets are rotten to their core. What in the hell is that supposed to mean? Wally seems to forget the other team, which has multiple front-line players involved in high-profile steroid issues and built an insultingly expensive ballpark out of reach to many of its fans -- $2,000 seats? -- and gracelessly jettisoned a future Hall-of-Fame manager who has taken his team to the playoffs each year since he's been gone. ARRRRRGGHHH

RealityChuck Oct 06 2009 11:45 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

Have you created a macro to fill in this thread subject? Seems it would be handy to only have to hit one or two keys to say it.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 06 2009 11:47 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

I didn't read the article, and I don't plan to, but it's possible to criticize the Mets without relating them to the Yankees in any way. If the Mets tickets were overpriced, they were overpriced, even if the Yankees tickets were more overpriced. "Rotten to the core" is just stupid. It reminds me of a brief item that I read in the Philadelphia Inquirer a few weeks ago that said that one NL scout (unnamed, of course) says that the Mets are so messed up that it will take them eight years to contend again. This was intended as a little treat to the Phillies fans/Mets haters who read the Inquirer sports section, but it's nonsense. I can't imagine how a team can be so bad that it will take eight whole years to recover.

RealityChuck Oct 06 2009 01:16 PM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

[quote="Benjamin Grimm":ctttv0hq]I can't imagine how a team can be so bad that it will take eight whole years to recover.[/quote:ctttv0hq] Ask the folks in Pittsburgh for help imagining it.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 06 2009 01:26 PM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

I didn't say it was impossible to lose for eight or more years. I just think it's impossible to be in a hole so deep that it there would be no hope of emerging for eight years.

Edgy DC Oct 06 2009 01:33 PM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

What's bogus isn't that it's inconceivable. It's that it's unforcastable.

metirish Oct 06 2009 01:36 PM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

It's the same article Wally has written for years.....Wilpon is a clown....Mets fans are fools....Mets can never do anything right...yyybbb....

RealityChuck Oct 06 2009 08:44 PM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

[quote="Benjamin Grimm":1791dzhe]I didn't say it was impossible to lose for eight or more years. I just think it's impossible to be in a hole so deep that it there would be no hope of emerging for eight years.[/quote:1791dzhe] Eight years ago, was there hope of the Pirates emerging?

seawolf17 Oct 07 2009 03:17 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

[quote="RealityChuck":dkfniumy][quote="Benjamin Grimm":dkfniumy]I didn't say it was impossible to lose for eight or more years. I just think it's impossible to be in a hole so deep that it there would be no hope of emerging for eight years.[/quote:dkfniumy] Eight years ago, was there hope of the Pirates emerging?[/quote:dkfniumy] In retrospect, maybe not, but you couldn't say in 2001 that you knew, definitively, that they were going to suck for eight more years. Their 2001 team included a 27-year-old Jason Kendall in his prime, Aramis Ramirez (23 years old, 34 home runs), Brian Giles (30 years old, 37 home runs), Craig Wilson hit 13 homers in 183 ABs off the bench, a rookie SS in Jack Wilson... at least there was something there. (Hell, a lot less than the Mets have now.) Stop feeding into Wally's crap, people!

Ashie62 Oct 07 2009 05:26 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

[quote="metirish":3mzfgasb]It's the same article Wally has written for years.....Wilpon is a clown....Mets fans are fools....Mets can never do anything right...yyybbb....[/quote:3mzfgasb] Yes..made more idiotic by his use of language. He is certainly not a wordsmith.

Fman99 Oct 07 2009 06:46 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

[quote="metsguyinmichigan"]I know, I know. Reading past the byline on a Wallace column is an exercise in self-abuse. But my colleagues are already tired of me ranting (and they're all tense about the Tigers game today.) Wally opines: "The truth is, the Mets' problems begin and end with accountability, and that begins and ends with ownership. The Wilpons have yet to take real responsibility for anything, from building the wrong ballpark to overvaluing their tickets to overrating their team's vaunted "core." Really, the Mets are rotten to their core, which extends deeper than the clubhouse. Still, the men responsible for it all speak no truth and pay no consequences. No one of any importance pays for Jeff Wilpon's mistakes. No one but the flunkies and the fans. To the Mets, they are one and the same." Back this up, Wally! The wrong ballpark? What the hell is that supposed to mean? It's a beautiful park. Overvaluing the tickets? I seem to remember a lot of empty seats at Yankee games, too. Mets treat fans as flunkies? How so? With the exception of one over-reaching goofball, we were blown away at the difference in how we were treated this year. And the best part: The Mets are rotten to their core. What in the hell is that supposed to mean? Wally seems to forget the other team, which has multiple front-line players involved in high-profile steroid issues and built an insultingly expensive ballpark out of reach to many of its fans -- $2,000 seats? -- and gracelessly jettisoned a future Hall-of-Fame manager who has taken his team to the playoffs each year since he's been gone. ARRRRRGGHHH

Stop reading him. Put the crack pipe down. We'll get you on Intervention.

I ignore all of the major NY papers' writers and articles re. the Mets and I can honestly say my fandom, and my life, suffers not a bit in their absence.

MFS62 Oct 07 2009 06:52 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

When I wake up tomorrow, I will still be a Mets fan. When he wakes up tomorrow, Wally will still be an asshole. Later

Benjamin Grimm Oct 07 2009 08:03 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

[quote="Fman99":238url6n]I ignore all of the major NY papers' writers and articles re. the Mets and I can honestly say my fandom, and my life, suffers not a bit in their absence.[/quote:238url6n] That's how I am with WFAN. I dropped them cold turkey more than four years ago. The only time my radio dial is ever set to 660 AM is while the Mets are playing. And I think I'm a little more sane as a result of that decision.

Edgy DC Oct 07 2009 08:19 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

Still, I think there's something healthy --- with respect to the commonweal --- to demanding better sportswriting. Michigan may be a touch too emotionally involved, but I think he's on the right track. There are too few sportswriting jobs left that one of them should go to Wallace Matthews while far better talents are writing copy for Eddie Bauer.

The Second Spitter Oct 07 2009 08:37 AM Re: Wallace Matthews, uber-idiot

I just read the article. I think that's what they refer to in the industry as "slopoganda".