The Mets Were MIA This Weekend. So Were Their Fans.

The New York Mets' in-house Paper of Record  today excused the team's play this weekend by saying that it was tired.

Aw.

Just how tired it could be after a week at home and with a chance to play its first significant games all year is beyond me.  Perhaps they could use some Geritol.

Or perhaps—like Tinkerbell—they just didn't have much oomph because they didn't hear much clapping.

Big, three-game set at home against a hated rival, with a chance to move into a playoff spot and...Mets fans failed to show up.  Attendance was only 31,437; 38,300; and 30,170.

In other words, at least 3,000 seats were always available, and sometimes a full quarter of the Stadium Formerly Known As Shea.

Hey, we understand.  There was a lot going on this weekend.

The U.S. Open, last big week in the Hamptons.  Who stays in town?

Though aren't we always told what blue-collar, lunch-bucket folk Mets fans are?  Hmm, could that possibly be a silly stereotype sold by the sportswriters who love them so?

Never mind.  But the fact is, the Metsies are only 9th in NL attendance this year.  They have only cracked the 40,000 mark 9 times this year—and two of those games were against Guess Who.

By contrast, your New York Yankees cracked 40,000 fans 9 times in APRIL.  They have now done it 53 times, and that's despite a plethora of doubleheaders.

So far this season, the Yankees—first in the AL in fans—are outdrawing the Flushing Flashes by a cool million.  Guess it's not quite the Mets' town yet...