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and the Mets are down to their final strike

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@chopthestickx @Spidermonkeyy93 Bravo, chop, the stick

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@Spidermonkeyy93 😂😂😂

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@UnderdogMLB Thats not what he said 😂

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@anthonyBrixcity @SeanHrycyk Ass take. He was not even bottom 5 worst 1b in the league

[Jimmy Alexander Sheret @JimmySheret]

I have to agree when people say Mets fans might be the dumbest fan base in baseball, if not all of sports. The mental gymnastics I’m seeing to justify Pete Alonso leaving are unbelievable.

We’re talking about arguably the best and most important homegrown player this organization has had in the last 30 years—a guy with a legitimate chance to finish his career around 500 home runs and put together a Hall of Fame résumé. Yet somehow the fan base has convinced itself that losing him was the smart move.

“He opted out.”
“He hired Boras.”
“He wanted to leave.”
“You don’t give a 31-year-old FB that kind of contract.”
“He cant play defense.”
“He’ll decline.”

Blah, blah, blah. Excuse after excuse to defend an organization that hasn’t won a World Series in 40 years.

At some point, maybe the problem isn’t always the player. Maybe Pete got tired of feeling underappreciated and disrespected by management and decided he’d had enough of the clown show.

And this is exactly why the Mets continue spinning their wheels decade after decade. The organization makes questionable decisions, and instead of demanding better, a huge portion of the fan base immediately starts doing PR work for management and explaining why every failure was somehow necessary.

Forty years without a championship, yet people still defend the same nonsense year after year, decade after decade. Maybe constantly accepting mediocrity and rationalizing every bad decision is part of the reason nothing ever changes.

Pete Alonso walking out the door shouldn’t be celebrated as some brilliant piece of roster management. It should have Mets fans asking how the organization allowed one of the greatest power hitters in franchise history to reach the point where he no longer wanted to be here.

At this point, Mets fans have developed something resembling organizational Stockholm syndrome. They’ve been conditioned by decades of disappointment to defend the very organization that keeps disappointing them. Every bad decision gets rationalized, every star who leaves suddenly becomes replaceable, and every failure gets repackaged as part of some bigger plan.

Instead of holding the Mets accountable, too many fans identify with the excuses. They defend the front office like they work there. After 40 years without a championship, maybe the Stockholm syndrome is the strongest tradition this franchise has left.

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@UnderdogMLB 30 bombs for the rangers next year

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@UnderdogMLB @BNightengale Cora to the mets

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@DannyAbriano

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@CaleCrypto Gm!

[𝚔𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚕𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛 @KLobstar]

a red dot shines on my chest as a single gunshot echoes, but I look down and I am unscathed

on the rooftop above me the Duolingo owl holsters his pistol, the sniper dead

my phone chimes- “Tu esposa contrató a un sicario.” I don’t understand because I haven’t been studying

[MARKET INSIGHTS! @IManghaila]

panic seller vs big investors.

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@BBallGround It literaly doesnt matter. Any combo is unstoppable.

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@_Nidia_R She wasnt that hot as a fly girl

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@Abnegazar1 @BCassSF23 @WNBA_Analyst @StephanieWhite Dog shit take

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@Hoopss

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@JimSchneid1228 @NarutoNolimits Who hurt you

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@Sofia50020Sofia Willy wonka

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@romanhelmetguy Anyway meatloaf? Bro?

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@BBallGround Good keep skubal away. He would just abandon us when we need him most anyway

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Why does everything feel fake?

We have a Congress that won't pass something 83% people want.

We have courts that release criminals faster than police can arrest them.

We have schools that graduate kids who can’t read.

We have colleges that charge $200K for degrees that don’t get you jobs.

We have a non-profit system that profits from our tax dollars.

We have a health care industry that profits from you staying sick.

We have “representatives” who don’t represent us.

We have “news” networks that report opinions and call them facts.

We have an insurance industry that fights every single claim.

None of it works the way they tell you it works.

And deep down, everyone knows it.

It just all feels so so fake…