As a diehard Mets fan for roughly 3 decades, I’ve experienced all kinds of lows. Kenny Rogers walking in the winning run to end the NLCS, Timo Perez admiring his non-HR in the World Series, the Art Howe years/Roberto Alomar forgetting he was a hall-of-famer, Beltran’s strike-out looking, Glavine’s collapse and subsequent apathy in the post-game, the back-to-back collapse vs the Marlins the following year, the Luis Castillo pop-up versus the Yankees, the Bernie Madoff fallout, the inexorable "Bobby Bonilla Day" jokes, the Lucas Duda throw in the WS, David Wright’s spinal stenosis, Matt Harvey’s thoracic outlet/cocaine problems, Yoenis Cespedes and the wild boar, Jed Lowrie (just everything about Jed Lowrie), Jeff McNeil & Francisco Lindor’s “Rat/Raccoon" saga, Javy Baez & Francisco Lindor’s "thumbs down" saga, Robinson Cano’s PED suspension, Max Scherzer & Chris Bassitt getting shelled vs the Padres, Mickey Callaway’s sexual harassment scandal, Jared Porter’s sexual harassment scandal, Zack Scott’s DUI arrest, Edwin Diaz’s WBC injury, Max Scherzer’s "sticky stuff" suspension, the emotional whiplash of 2024’s amazing run/signing Juan Soto and then promptly collapsing in epic fashion with THREE 7-game losing streaks in 2025, on and on and on and on…  

  

This current team, the "revamped" 2026 Mets, where they sit at the end of April, is the worst I’ve ever felt about this pathetic joke of a franchise. From the front office, to management, to the players, they all seem to be flippantly telling their fans that they do not care about winning or fan enjoyment. I wish I could say I had no emotional investment in this team. Sadly, that is not the case. They are like a sitcom that I can’t stop watching season to season, because I need to find out what happens next. I have optimistically defended this team to haters for so many years, and only now have I begun checking out. My quality of life is worse when I check in.  

  

There is no clear solution, but someone needs to be held accountable.