Does anyone else regret resigning Cespedes?

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, you're not missing anything that won't make you want to poke your eyes out.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll have to be sure to visit there if I ever want to be motivated to poke my eyes out.

[stevejrogers]

How do you interpret the “JUST RETIRE ALREADY” comments every time David Wright’s return process gets reported on?

Also Syndergaard has a public persona rep as a bulldog “good teammate” type that Cespedes has never had, public perception anyway, after four teams now.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Not to steer off Cespedes too much, but this is part of the twittersphere
that is officially Mets? Like where we get lineups from but a different section?
Out and out bigotry is tolerated on an MLB twitter account?

[Edgy MD]

No, it's a community of followers sharing a hashtag. Many are kind. Many are unkind. No small amount are miserable and diseased.

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: No, it's a community of followers sharing a hashtag. Many are kind. Many are unkind. No small amount are miserable and diseased.

This. I've unfollowed most of them because it's toxic.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Edgy MD wrote: No, it's a community of followers sharing a hashtag.

I don't totally understand some of the workings of Twitter.

[Guest 41Forever]

d'Kong76 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: No, it's a community of followers sharing a hashtag. I don't totally understand some of the workings of Twitter.

You can set a search on #Mets and every time someone uses that hashtag you'd see the tweet whether or not you are following that particular account.

Twitter seems to bring out the worst in people for some reason.

[Vic Sage]

41Forever wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: No, it's a community of followers sharing a hashtag. I don't totally understand some of the workings of Twitter. You can set a search on #Mets and every time someone uses that hashtag you'd see the tweet whether or not you are following that particular account. Twitter seems to bring out the worst in people for some reason.

anonymity emboldens our worst instincts. that, and the presidency.
We are what we do when nobody can see us (or to the electorate).

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: No, it's a community of followers sharing a hashtag. I don't totally understand some of the workings of Twitter.

Let's say your entire office is Mets fans and they're all talking about the Mets. #MetsTwitter is the 3-4 guys over there that you'd rather didn't voice their opinion. Most of the time you just ignore those people, but sometimes someone you talk to more regularly about the Mets happens to also be talking to one of them and you overhear it.

Oh and the company newsletter (the beat guys) love poking the bear and talking about those 3-4 guys opinions because they're #hottakes

In most cases those 3-4 guys are unaware that they're the undesirables as well.

[Centerfield]

I don't get why Mets Twitter gets a bad rap. I mean, twitter is a vehicle where you can choose what you want to follow and block out the others. No?

So in the workplace example, you can literally fill your break room with only those whose voices you want to hear.

[seawolf17]

Centerfield wrote: I don't get why Mets Twitter gets a bad rap. I mean, twitter is a vehicle where you can choose what you want to follow and block out the others. No? So in the workplace example, you can literally fill your break room with only those whose voices you want to hear.

Exactly. I stopped following most of those dingbats years ago. It's toxic, though, as any Twitter group can be; a bunch of assholes apparently harassed one of the female Mets fan Tweeters (Miss Met, IIRC?) a few weeks back so much that she deactivated her account for a while.

[G-Fafif]

Centerfield wrote: I don't get why Mets Twitter gets a bad rap. I mean, twitter is a vehicle where you can choose what you want to follow and block out the others. No?

Good summation. There's always gonna be jerks. They can be avoided.

[Edgy MD]

I was just citing where the toadstools can be found.

[Centerfield]

Understood. I’m just saying toadstools are everywhere. Unfortunately. Twitter, Facebook, family reunions.

I like Mets Twitter. I get fast news, different perspectives, and opinions of those that aren’t worried about getting their press credentials revoked by the Wilpons. It’s refreshing for me to know others are like minded.

Sure there are jerks. I don’t follow them. Pretty simple.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

d'Kong76 wrote: Cespedes is injured and takes longer than expected to heal: "What a wimp. He's dogging it." Syndergaard is injured and takes longer than expected to heal: "Poor Noah. I hope he gets ready soon." One guy talks to the media more. One guy wakes up white more. I'm sorry, but I call bitter crud biscuits on the notion that fans* are basing this on race, skin color or ethnicity. What percentage of Mets fans* do you suppose really are analyzing injury recovery actions based on black, white or whatever? OE: or the press/blog world

People don't often sit down and say to themselves, " I think I'm going to let race color my perceptions of things and act accordingly." They just, y'know, do so.

It doesn't mean that's the only factor in the varying levels of slack allotment/crud biscuit apportionment among injury-rehabbers... but it is very likely A factor. That pointing that out upsets you or strikes you as BS or makes other people want to label the pointer-outer a "SJW" or "divider" doesn't make that less true.

[Centerfield]

And that’s not to say this affects everyone’s thinking. But it certainly affects some.

Anyway, back to Cespedes, last night’s game made me realize that the Mets are just not going to win until he comes back.

They are terrible without him. Proven time and time again.

Maybe next year we have him train with someone not named “Barwis”. And I know this sounds like scapegoating, but you know, if only to shake things up.

[Guest d'Kong76]

SJW? Give me a break. I was wrong, apparently some fans think Cubans
are lazy slackers. Please don't lecture me or put me on trial over other people's
prejudices.

[dgwphotography]

Apparently, Cespedes started a running program yesterday, running a series of 60 yard sprints at 75%.

Also, apparently Edgy is the biggest racist here. ;-)

[Edgy MD]

Give me a few more trips to the vending machine and I just might be.