Twitter on Fire Pending Gigantic Met Announcement

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Apparently Jeff Wilpon remarked that the Mets had met with a player late last night, have "4 or 5 balls in the air" and may make an announcement later today.

Twitterized fan base priding itself on not believing a word the Wilpons say now in a frenzy over promised "big announcement."

[Edgy MD]

I'm trying to take this with a grain of salt and not make too much OF IT BUTICAN'TANDIJUSTSHATMYPANTSANDOMGWHAT'STAKINGSOLONG?!?!

[Ceetar]

I think he said "may have something" rather than Humongous Announcement, but really anything short of an Davis for Trout trade will be disappointing given the whipped into a frenzy Mets fans on twitter now.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And then if the Mets announce that they've signed a middle-inning reliever to a one-year contract, people will say, "Is THAT all they're gonna do?"

Despite my knowing better, I sometimes scroll down to read the stupid comments posted at the bottom of Internet news articles. And the "fans" are already all over Sandy for not having done anything yet.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I don't follow a lot of these Metly tweetfolk. Is the scuttlebutt that it's a signing? Byrd-type-stuff notwithstanding, the GM/Owner Meetings don't usually see many big signings, do they? (More of a tradin' post, if anything.)

[ashie62]

One can only hope...aint gonna be Granderson or Cruz...

[Guest d'Kong76]

He prolly twatted because he found out that the hotel up-
graded his suite for the winter meetings to a super-deluxe
suite. Woo hoo!

[Ceetar]

Alderson said "no".

[Guest d'Kong76]

No suite upgrade?

[seawolf17]

I hate Mets twitter. I'm slowly unfollowing people because most of them are fucking idiots.

[Ceetar]

seawolf17 wrote: I hate Mets twitter. I'm slowly unfollowing people because most of them are fucking idiots.

to be fair, this is something else that's not specific to the Mets.

People are mostly fucking idiots.

[Edgy MD]

seawolf17 wrote: I hate Mets twitter. I'm slowly unfollowing people because most of them are fucking idiots.

Invite the non-iddies by to try this place out, wouldja?

[metsmarathon]

you and your high standards...

[Edgy MD]

It's going to be Nelson Cruz, right?

[metirish]

Edgy MD wrote: It's going to be Nelson Cruz, right?

NO FUCKING WAY???????


Don't get my hopes up Edgy.....

[Edgy MD]

I had no idea you were so hot for the Cruz Missle.

[metirish]

Well, there's not much else out there in the way of serious slugger potential, I have my doubts though...don't see it mate.

[Vic Sage]

"twitter on fire" seems like a good idea to me... just sayin'.

[metsmarathon]

i wouldn't mind ellsbury, although it depends seriously on the price.

[metirish]

And?????

Anything, or anyone?

[Ceetar]

just for specifics:

�We�ve got a couple more meetings. And there might be hopefully something cooking later. Right now, it�s quiet. Sandy�s been in meeting all morning. He�s got a couple more meetings this afternoon. So we�ll see where we are.�

He literally said "right now, it's quiet" and people took that to mean OMG SIGNING

[Edgy MD]

New pants.

He owes me NEW PANTS.

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: New pants. He owes me NEW PANTS.

Guys your age are more prone to that

[metirish]

Martino wraps up the nonsense, and wow, Boras actually did sat that!


ORLANDO -- Wednesday should have been a normal, regular, average early offseason day: Mets officials sat with agents, reports and rumors filled your Twitter timeline, and Scott Boras made a Scott Borasy comment. It only got weird because so many fans of the team are loaded up with a complicated blend of fried, excited, skeptical, exhausted and impatient.

The one takeaway from an afternoon filled with a big hot mess of nonsense was that the Mets will only be taken seriously, by the industry and public, when they follow through on pledges to spend more money, and win more games.

Here is the timeline: In the morning, Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon stopped to speak with reporters gathered at the J.W. Marriott Grande Lakes for the final day of the GM meetings. Asked about his team�s pursuit of free agents, Wilpon said:

�We�ve got a couple more meetings. And there might be hopefully something cooking later. Right now, it�s quiet. Sandy (Alderson) has been in meetings all morning. He�s got a couple more meetings this afternoon. So we�ll see where we are.�

Was that a hint that moves were to come, maybe even by the end of the night? Well, you can see where Wilpon�s words might be interpreted that way, especially by a fan base so eager to know which players the Mets will acquire, in an offseason where they promise to be more active. But no, he did not explicitly say that the team was going to sign a player or complete a trade before 11:59pm on Nov. 13, 2013.

In reality, it was just another hot stove day. Alderson and his lieutenants, J.P. Ricciardi, Paul DePodesta and John Ricco, split off into meetings. Eventually, one of those meetings will produce an agreement with a player -- it could happen any moment -- but team sources made clear that as of Wednesday evening, nothing was imminent. Ok, cool, whatever. Nothing to see here yet, but the Mets are working on stuff.

In a completely unrelated development, the Mets sent out news releases announcing Boyz II Men and Huey Lewis concerts at Citi Field. Which, if you can stop being angry for a moment, you�ll realize is kinda funny.

Try telling the Internet to laugh. The people tweeting at me were not pleased with the Mets. Matt Cerrone, who runs one of the bigger fan sites, the SNY-affiliated Metsblog.com, wrote:

�I hope the Mets are aware of how bad this looks to their hungry fans. I mean, while 99.9% of their online fanbase were typing with their hair on fire, moaning and groaning about feeling mislead [sic] and disappointed, the team is tweeting about Huey Lewis and Boyz II Men... it speaks to just how thirsty we are for action, which should be a note to the team about our mental state��

That last point is actually the core of this whole hot moment. Let�s review Mets history since the early, glorious days of Omar Minaya in 2006. There was the Adam Wainwright curveball, the divisional collapses, Jerry Manuel chuckling, Bernie Madoff, Matt Harvey�s UCL.

Conditions are supposedly improving soon, but it hasn�t happened yet. Until it does, a portion of the fan base can be excused for being irrational and antsy, and Boras can be excused for jabbing the team.

"The Mets are like NASA," Boras said Wednesday afternoon at the GM Meetings. "They have big rockets, a lot of platforms and very few astronauts. Astronauts are hard to find. They've got one guy with the 'Wright' stuff. That's for sure. And they've got a lot of 'Arm'-strongs, too. But they're certainly a club that I'm sure is in a pursuit of a higher level of talent.�

Har har har. Come on, that�s decent stuff. And the Mets weren�t mad. Said one high-ranking team official, �Well, we�re trying to get more astronauts. I don�t think there�s a problem with him saying that.�

The astronauts are expensive this year. Marlon Byrd, who is hardly John Glenn, convinced the Phillies to guarantee him $16 million dollars. �Everyone is shocked by the asking prices,� said one Mets official of the available free agents. The team knows that in order to sooth a frazzled fan base, it will have to transition from shock to acceptance, and pay someone before long.

[Edgy MD]

In other news, #lolcerrone is trending on Twitter.

[metirish]

Edgy MD wrote: In other news, #lolcerrone is trending on Twitter.

why?

[Guest d'Kong76]

How does one trend?
Someone start a Twitter 101 thread in the NBF.

[metirish]

Well, Beiber trending is one thing, but Matthew Cerrone?

Get enough twatters hash tagging about you and you trend

[Vic Sage]

Get enough twatters hash tagging about you and you trend

ok, we've clearly crossed some kind of line now because i seriously don't know what this sentence means. and, more importantly, i do not want to know.

[Edgy MD]

metirish wrote: Edgy MD wrote: In other news, #lolcerrone is trending on Twitter. why?

I joke. I just think it's pretty hilarious that he gets quoted by a legit outlet claiming that the Mets are to blame because he's turning into a nutcase... because they didn't give him enough to talk about November 13.