Today, I hate the Mets. I hate everything about them. I hate their management, their players, I don’t even like their new stadium. And it’s not even because of the way they treated Willie Randolph. Certainly he deserved a better fait. Certainly Omar should have fired Willie before he got on the plane Sunday evening. But that’s not really why I hate the Mets.

I hate the Mets because of the way they have made me feel this season. I’m so tired of finding myself in this emotional position once again. Rooting for a team of overpaid players who don’t at all appear to give a darn about the game we as fans so dearly love. I’m tired of days like yesterday when the rest of baseball makes fun of us and refers to the Mets as the laughing stock of baseball. It makes me sick that they are justified in their claim.

It made me sick to see Jose Reyes show up his new manager on the first at bat of the game. What a petulant brat. Hey Jose, get a grip and here is something else to chew on. You are the fourth best shortstop in the division. Right now I would take Jimmy Rollins, Hanley Ramirez, and Yarnell Escobar over you. What you need to do is to grow up. You exemplify everything that is wrong with this team. In retrospect its too bad Omar did not trade you one up for Santana last winter. At least the Mets would still have all those young players that were given up.

The Mets had every right to fire Randolph although I would not have. I have stated that many times before. Personally, I wish Minaya had waited till the All Star break before pulling the trigger. By then, if the Mets were still stumbling along, no one would have questioned the move. Minaya said he made up his mind on Monday and flew to California to tell his manager he was through. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it. Of course there is more there than meets the eye but I’m tired of speculating. Frankly, I don’t care anymore.

All I know is once again I see a baseball season of our discontent. Another season where the Mets flounder after touting such high expectations. Another summer in which the Yankees take control over the baseball world in New York. If you haven’t noticed, the Yankees have won 5 in a row and are now 5 games over .500.

I wish I could root for a different team but I know that’s not possible. I am just so fed up with this team and their complete inability to sustain any kind of success. Will Jerry Manuel really make a difference? Will he make the older players younger, the chronically injured players well, the underachievers achieve? If he does than nothing that happened yesterday will ever matter. If he doesn’t then yesterday, like so many other days in Mets history, will be nothing more than another day at the circus.