{"id":332127,"date":"2021-08-30T03:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-javier-baezs-foolish-war-with-fans-is-colossal-mistake\/"},"modified":"2021-08-30T03:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:51:40","slug":"mets-javier-baezs-foolish-war-with-fans-is-colossal-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-javier-baezs-foolish-war-with-fans-is-colossal-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets, Javier Baez&#8217;s foolish war with fans is colossal mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Mets, Javier Baez&#8217;s foolish war with fans is colossal mistake<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Ian O'Connor\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ian-OConnor.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Javier Baez had his young son Adrian on his lap, and the kid was wearing a Mets cap, a Mets jersey, and some eye black, just like his dad. If this had all the makings of a Zoom-room charm offensive, well, it turned out to be anything but.<\/p>\n<p>After crushing a 444-foot home run Sunday in his team\u2019s 9-4 victory over the Nationals, Baez swung his heavy lumber on a most improbable target \u2014 the people in the Citi Field stands who had the audacity this month to boo the Mets while they were falling apart. Baez has been in New York for fifteen minutes, half of that time spent on the injured list, and already he has identified the real problem with this team: You.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you, Mr. and Mrs. Met fan.<\/p>\n<p>Baez explained that the players\u2019 thumbs-down gesture following their rare big hits was actually an inside joke, meant as a clear-cut smackdown of the paying customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo let them know when we don\u2019t get success, we\u2019re going to get booed. So they\u2019re going to get booed when we have success,\u201d Baez said.<\/p>\n<p>What a way to celebrate a two-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> winning streak \u2014 by having the home-run hero attack the fans and write his own dream tabloid headline: BAEZ TO CITY: DROP DEAD<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my case,\u201d the second baseman said of the fans, \u201cthey got to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Look who\u2019s talking.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Nationals_Mets_Baseball.1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19286181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Nationals_Mets_Baseball.1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Nationals_Mets_Baseball.1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Nationals_Mets_Baseball.1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Francisco Lindor gives the thumbs-down sign.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the same inning, Baez can make a fan shout in anger and jump for joy. He can be a maddening ballplayer and a magical one at the same time, and identifying his true value between those extremes can be as hard as explaining why the Mets are where they are today, 7 \u00b9\/\u2082 games behind the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>But for all of his recent unforced errors \u2014 getting doubled off second by a mile, swinging at a changeup while it\u2019s 20 feet from the plate \u2014 this one is the least forgivable. The Mets haven\u2019t won a championship in 35 years, and they have put their fan base through one horror film after another, season after season. Things were supposed to change when Steve Cohen bought the team from Fred and Jeff Wilpon, and for three months Cohen\u2019s club was riding high in first place.<\/p>\n<p>That sudden surge of prosperity was a cruel practical joke for the fans who watched the Mets lose 19 of their first 25 August games. Those fans had every right to let Luis Rojas and the players know how they felt about that, and Rojas took the chants for his firing the way a professional should.<\/p>\n<p>        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Podcast\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/amazin-but-true\/luisrojasmetsdaysarerunningoutfeat.tyburrell?accentColor=2a2a2a&amp;bgColor=f6f6f6&amp;font-family=proxima%20nova&amp;logo=false&amp;secondaryColor=cc3333\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n        <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His players should have followed his lead. Instead Baez, Francisco Lindor, and Kevin Pillar were among the Mets who mocked the crowd with their thumbs-down foolishness. Baez made the gesture after he crossed the plate, effectively spiking the ball in the fans\u2019 faces.<\/p>\n<p>Rojas said he had no idea about any of this until a reporter informed him of Baez\u2019s comments. The manager quickly pivoted to his only available defense \u2014 the former Cubs star is new to New York, and learning on the fly how things work in the big city.<\/p>\n<p>But how can Baez not know better? He spent his entire career in Chicago, a pretty tough town, and ended more than a century of sheer misery by helping the Cubs take the 2016 World <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than most, he should understand the pain of a beleaguered fan base, and what it requires to make that pain go away. Winning \u2014 nothing more or less.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, you either perform or you get ripped, and the true survivors here accept that as part of the deal. All the great ones have been booed in New York, even Derek Jeter, who heard it from the Yankee Stadium crowd during a brutal hitless streak in 2004. This is what he said in response: \u201cI would boo myself too.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/New_York_Mets_v_Arizona_Diamondbacks-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1000\" alt=\"Mets\" class=\"wp-image-19286408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/New_York_Mets_v_Arizona_Diamondbacks-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/New_York_Mets_v_Arizona_Diamondbacks-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=500 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><figcaption>Javier Baez gives Mets fans the thumbs down.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeter explained that he would change nothing about the fans\u2019 passion, and that he wanted to be held to their highest standards. He said this after he had won four of his five World Series titles.<\/p>\n<p>Baez hasn\u2019t won or done a damn thing in New York, and he already feels free to pull this low-rent stunt with his teammates, the kind that Yankees pitcher Jack McDowell pulled when he flipped the crowd the middle finger in 1995? Baez said with a straight face that he loves the fans, and likes playing for them.<\/p>\n<p>Man, he\u2019s got the funniest way of showing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no fighting back,\u201d Rojas correctly said. \u201cWhat you\u2019ve got to do, especially in this business, is just work hard and give back to the fan base what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mets fans only want a team they can be proud of. 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