#ImAMetsFanBecause

[Vic Sage]

"i enjoy the abiding sense of tragedy, which sustains me through temporary periods of joy."

I didn't write this... but i could have.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm reading. I'm not seeing them all negative. Added some myself. Most are a little of both.

There are plenty of casual Mets fans that follow @mets but aren't part of "#MetsTwitter" so to speak. So they'll respond genuinely and not troll.

But those articles tabulating and over-representing the snarky tweets has encouraged others to make snarky and negative comments. That's precisely how hashtags generally work.

But that's just noise. Almost all of social media is just noise and a poor representative of anything really. (This goes for the Mets, or for hashtags about fraking, or climate change, or popular domestic violence (both NFL and non-NFL edition) cases..)

It's a cacophony of squeaky wheels and the normal wheels just rolling along thinking "Oh, yeah, I like the Mets. Why? Oh, because my first memories are of watching the '86 series with my family and missing Danger Mouse cause the Astro's game went way long" and not noticing the squeaks.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Ceetar wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm reading. I'm not seeing them all negative. Added some myself. Most are a little of both. There are plenty of casual Mets fans that follow @mets but aren't part of "#MetsTwitter" so to speak. So they'll respond genuinely and not troll. But those articles tabulating and over-representing the snarky tweets has encouraged others to make snarky and negative comments. That's precisely how hashtags generally work. But that's just noise. Almost all of social media is just noise and a poor representative of anything really. (This goes for the Mets, or for hashtags about fraking, or climate change, or popular domestic violence (both NFL and non-NFL edition) cases..) It's a cacophony of squeaky wheels and the normal wheels just rolling along thinking "Oh, yeah, I like the Mets. Why? Oh, because my first memories are of watching the '86 series with my family and missing Danger Mouse cause the Astro's game went way long" and not noticing the squeaks.

You take this so seriously. We know that there are real true blue Mets fans out there. Why, they even show up at Mets games. All 2,500 of them.

[Edgy MD]

You sure seem to be taking it seriously enough.

The unfunny and cowardly and the impotent use the internet to pile on. What else is new?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: You sure seem to be taking it seriously enough. The unfunny and cowardly and the impotent use the internet to pile on. What else is new?

Pile on to what .... snarky humor directed at a corporate entity? Are you equating this with the cyber bullying and abuse of a specific individual ... a person?

[Vic Sage]

Well according to the Supreme Court, corporate entities ARE people.

[Edgy MD]

Equating?

It is what it is and I'm saying what I'm saying.

[Zvon]

Vic Sage wrote: Well according to the Supreme Court, corporate entities ARE people.

Ha. Boom!

[Ceetar]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ceetar wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm reading. I'm not seeing them all negative. Added some myself. Most are a little of both. There are plenty of casual Mets fans that follow @mets but aren't part of "#MetsTwitter" so to speak. So they'll respond genuinely and not troll. But those articles tabulating and over-representing the snarky tweets has encouraged others to make snarky and negative comments. That's precisely how hashtags generally work. But that's just noise. Almost all of social media is just noise and a poor representative of anything really. (This goes for the Mets, or for hashtags about fraking, or climate change, or popular domestic violence (both NFL and non-NFL edition) cases..) It's a cacophony of squeaky wheels and the normal wheels just rolling along thinking "Oh, yeah, I like the Mets. Why? Oh, because my first memories are of watching the '86 series with my family and missing Danger Mouse cause the Astro's game went way long" and not noticing the squeaks. You take this so seriously. We know that there are real true blue Mets fans out there. Why, they even show up at Mets games. All 2,500 of them.

no. I take very little seriously. But I like the Mets and don't need people unnecessarily piling on just because they want to vent their own personal anger.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Vic Sage wrote: Well according to the Supreme Court, corporate entities ARE people.

I'm waiting for the Supreme Court to rule that people are corporations so I can deduct everything under the sun.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Well according to the Supreme Court, corporate entities ARE people. I'm waiting for the Supreme Court to rule that people are corporations so I can deduct everything under the sun.

He returns the BOOM with a BAM!

[Vic Sage]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Well according to the Supreme Court, corporate entities ARE people. I'm waiting for the Supreme Court to rule that people are corporations so I can deduct everything under the sun.

"Incorporation - To cause to merge or combine together into a united whole."

Since people are a merger of various organs, chemicals and biological processes combined together into a united whole, it could be easily argued that people are the result of incorporation and, thus, are themselves corporations. So deduct away! I'll send you a cake with a file in it, when i find out what prison you'll be serving time in.

[Zvon]

Vic Sage wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Well according to the Supreme Court, corporate entities ARE people. I'm waiting for the Supreme Court to rule that people are corporations so I can deduct everything under the sun. "Incorporation - To cause to merge or combine together into a united whole." Since people are a merger of various organs, chemicals and biological processes combined together into a united whole, it could be easily argued that people are the result of incorporation and, thus, are themselves corporations. So deduct away! I'll send you a cake with a file in it, when i find out what prison you'll be serving time in.

BoomBamBing!

I think that door should swing both ways. I'll defend ya in a court'Olaw, Bats.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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[batmagadanleadoff]

http://nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d6/d9/dH/dJ/169HJ_3.MP3

Pick it up at about the 1:50 mark.

[Zvon]

Oh boy. I just went to Twitter for the 3rd time in my life. This can't be good...

But some of these responses are classic funny. A few nice ones but everyone's trying to be funny now since it got a spotlight.

I don't even know how to enter one. Do I type the backslash bit and then add my comment? Wait....maybe not knowing how to tweet is good. I don't think the world is ready for me.

[Edgy MD]

http://nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d6/d9/dH/dJ/169HJ_3.MP3 Pick it up at about the 1:50 mark.

OK, I'll just click right h... wait a minute! Are... you trying to get me to listen to Mike Fucking Francesa?!

[Zvon]

http://nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d6/d9/dH/dJ/169HJ_3.MP3 Pick it up at about the 1:50 mark. OK, I'll just click right h... wait a minute! Are... you trying to get me to listen to Mike Fucking Francesa?!

He's actually on some TV channel all afternoon over here in SJ. So you can also see him. Isn't that special?

[ashie62]

I find it all amusing. Some of these tweets are pretty funny really.

[Guest d'Kong76]

"These are real. I did not concoct these."
Thanks for clearing that up!

I'm a mets fan because rooting for the Yankees is like
rooting for a utility company. #true2orgblu

[metirish]

Ceetar wrote: metirish wrote: @Vacarro while #Jeter was idling up 162nd street meeting and greeting and pontificating his flock the @Mets were busy shooting themselves in the foot with a worthless #IMAMetsfanbecause campaign is he fucking serious? what a hack. I mean, wow.

I made this up but you could imagine he wrote similar

[Edgy MD]

How do you pontificate a flock?

[metirish]

Edgy MD wrote: How do you pontificate a flock?

It's Jeter, he can do anything

[Fman99]

#ImaMetsfanbecause Yankee fans have tiny dicks

[Zvon]

See, I don't understand this twitter business. How can Twitter hijack a hashtag, and why would they? What does "twitter hijacks it" even mean. They pulled the plug on it?

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-start-imametsfanbecause-hashtag-twitter-hijacks-it-1.9384020

I wonder who won the tickets. That's the story I wanna hear.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: See, I don't understand this twitter business. How can Twitter hijack a hashtag, and why would they? What does "twitter hijacks it" even mean. They pulled the plug on it? http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-start-imametsfanbecause-hashtag-twitter-hijacks-it-1.9384020 I wonder who won the tickets. That's the story I wanna hear.

I'm no twitter hound, but I think that "hijacking a hashtag" is similar to "hijacking a thread", i.e., to take it in a different direction than originally intended.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Twitter" in "Twitter hijacks it" is more like a metonym (if not EXACTLY like it) than an actual thing, standing for something like "the users of Twitter and the waves of tweets they've sent." Y'know, like in "Twitter is pretty funny on stuff like this, if you don't take it too seriously and/or read-and-digest for too long."

#ImAMetsFanBecause of Doc, skyscraper-tall before they stuck him on a mural.

[Zvon]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: #ImAMetsFanBecause of Doc, skyscraper-tall before they stuck him on a mural.

That is a great one. One of the best. I hope you sent it.

[stevejrogers]

#WhyThisKindOfSocialMediaMarketingBlows Not just sports franchises.

[Zvon]

I guess this question involves the media dept.

I can no longer find the section at the Mets official web site that was about team history. Has this been removed?

I hadn't been there for years. I see now there's a page for Shea Stadium History. That's nice. But where did they stick the team history page?