Losing Streak Side Effects

[Edgy MD]

It's not really a side effect, because I don't know it's particularly irrational, but ... I'm really starting to actively dislike Francisco Lindor. 

I don't like him at bat.  I don't like him in the field.  I don't like him on the bases, on the occasions when that happens.  I don't like how he's carrying himself.  I don't like the body language.  I don't like the mental errors.

I don't like "My Girl."  I don't like The Temptations.

Some of this has to be exaggerated, right?  They're losing so I am inflating negligible things.  Or maybe I ignored more substantial stuff in prior times.  I don't know.

At this point, with all the player loss and player dumping this offseason, about 75-80% of the identity of the franchise that rests on the players rests on him.  (At least, with Soto out.)  So that's not good.  I have adored watching Lindor throughout his Mets career, during good and bad periods, and suddenly, I have an aversion to the guy.

How much of that is projection and/or scapegoating, I do not know.  I am too close to the subject (me) to be objective. 

(I'm still kind of crazy about his wife and kids, though.)

[ashie62]

I thought he was and is your favorite player

Overreaction in either case I'm guessing 

I find My Girl pukeworthy and have for some time

[Edgy MD]

My favorite player is Rusty Staub.

Well, Kelly Leak — then Rusty Staub.

[whippoorwill]

The whole My Girl thing has always puzzled me about Lindor. And I do like the Temps.  And Lindor. 
And doesn’t he have another odd song?


 

[metirish]

I'm starting to dislike them all ,Lindor is a polarizing player for many Mets fans ,I personally don't think he's much of a leader 

[Centerfield]

I like Lindor. As bad as he’s played he’s the least of the Mets problems. I believe he and Soto and Bichette will be good when all is said and done. I don’t think you can say that about anyone else in the lineup.
 

The biggest side effect of losing is questioning what exactly is wrong with this organization. On the surface you can look at an entire lineup of underperforming guys and blame them. But when it’s a different year, with many different players, a completely different coaching staff, you have to wonder what is going on in this front office and why there is so much failure year after year. 

[Edgy MD]

Hey, I don't wanna dislike him.

It just happened, OK?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I don't like Soto and I don't forsee there ever being a time where I warm to him. 

 

Lindor has a history of getting his head up his ass when he's uncomfortable, and I can see why he dpesn't like Soto. He's robotic and ill at ease, possesses nothing of the marks of a marketable superstar--plus I strongly suspect he's on steroids. You do too.

Hes worthless to us on the bench having leg injuries. His legs are ginormous and he's hurting them? He's an overtrainer. Not a good fielder. Here for 15 long years. 

[Edgy MD]

We'll also be up against it if and when Soto and Polanco return and neither are healthy enough to play anywhere but DH.

I guess my hope for Soto is that people start walking again when he gets back.

[Benjamin Grimm]

 

This really looks bad.

[Edgy MD]

Death Valley days.

[whippoorwill]

[The Hot Corner]

I am quickly losing interest in this team.  They are not at all fun to watch.  I have better ways to waste my time, than watch this collection of underachievers and has beens.  

I miss having players that I "knew".  Win or lose, and the last half of 2025 was a lot of losing, but I still enjoyed watching the Mets.  I just don't relate to this team.  I'm sure winning would help, but they are essentially "strangers" to me.  

[Benjamin Grimm]

I know what you mean. Despite the jokes about "rooting for laundry" a fan's interest relies on a sense of continuity from season to season. There are always changes, and the team evolves from Tom Seaver to Lee Mazzilli to Darryl Strawberry to Bobby Bonilla to Mike Piazza to David Wright to Jacob deGrom etc. But sudden wholesale changes definitely lead to a feeling of disconnect. Especially since some of the more prominent players this year are likely to be short-term transients, like Robert and Polanco. And likely Peralta and Bichette as well. We could focus on the younger players with many years as Mets ahead of them (McLean, Alvarez, Benge, Baty, Vientos) but some of them are likely to go for the next one-year veteran rental.

 

[duan]

in a fit of irrational enthusiasm I paid for MLB.TV in one go this year. I'm suspecting my games watched is going to be low even in comparison to other years. every night game involves me being awake at 00.05 or so which is tricky enough at the best of times. 

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Edgy MD]

Is that from 1962 or yesterday?

[Edgy MD]

A positive side effect to a losing streak is that you're more likely to spot your friends in the crowd.

[Edgy MD]

OK, fine!  I like Lindor again!

[A Boy Named Seo]

I love Lindor. He's not been right early on, physically or mentally it seems. But he's a great player, seemingly a really nice and good-hearted person, and I'm sure "My Girl" is a tribute to his wife or daughters or both. He's the girl daddiest #girldad ever and I'm happy he's on our team. He represents the New York Mets really well.

[Edgy MD]

Preach.