Meet the Mets Fans, the Most Cynical Group Around

Fans of each team react in different ways throughout the season.

Fans from Philadelphia will change their mind on the team and each player’s worth from game to game, sometimes from inning to inning.

Yankee fans will always have the feeling that they will win the World Series, regardless of how they have played all season.

Mets fans are the exact opposite, however. No matter what happens, they will always have that feeling that something bad will occur. It seems as though the players or the coaches cannot do anything that meets their approval.

Fans will flood the message boards and talk radio shows trying to find who was at fault for every loss. When the team wins, there are still complaints over how they cannot find consistency.

And can you blame them? The past three seasons have ended in disappointment, and the four seasons before that basically ended in April.

The problem is that these fans will start complaining about the team too early in the season. This one is only three weeks old, and fans are already trying to make trades and fix problems that might just be flukes.

More than almost any other sport, the first few weeks of the baseball season mean very little to the success of the team.

Players get hot and cold. Teams get hot and cold. This might happen in April and will give people false hope. Fortunately, the water usually levels by the time Memorial Day comes around.

I can confidently say that Mike Pelfrey, John Maine, and Oliver Perez will all lower their seven-plus ERAs as the season progresses, just as much as I can say that Johan Santana will not finish the season with a 0.46 ERA.

My message to Mets fans: CALM DOWN!!!

The key players are hitting well, and eventually it will lead to hitting with runners on base. Dan Murphy is new to the outfield and will eventually get better in time.

Oliver Perez will find his consistency and become the dominating pitcher we expect him to be. OK, well maybe not the last one.