ATLANTA — The Jose Reyes era is over in Flushing, but the shortstop and Mets plan to share one more memorable moment. According to a team source, the Mets will acknowledge Reyes’ nine years in New York with a video tribute on April 24, before the shortstop’s Citi Field unveiling as a Miami Marlin. That game opens a three-game series.

Its barely been a week since Mets fans lost their minds over the plan to pay tribute to Chipper Jones later this year, and now the latest uproar is the plan to honor Jose Reyes when he comes back to town. Now let me start by saying 2 things: 1) I don’t have nearly as big of a problem with this as I do with the Chipper Jones story. I don’t care how small of a tribute it is, honoring Chipper Jones shows just how badly out of touch the front office is with their fan base. Jose played here for 9 years and was one of the few semi-bright spots.

2) I understand that Mets fans are negative to a fault. We’ve been bruised and battered by the rest of the league and our own owners to the point that now that anything happens we act like its the end of the world. Like should we really give a fuck about a video tribute to Chipper Jones or Jose Reyes or absolutely anybody for that matter? No. But the reality of the matter is, we do. So why doesn’t management understand that? Both times when the Chipper story and this Jose story broke, the Mets follow it up by saying its a very minor acknowledgment – well then why fucking do them in the first place? If its so insignificant, why are you even bothering with it? Why are you even giving the media and the fan base more to complain about? The front office has spent the last few years honoring the Dodgers and Mariano and now Chipper and Jose all while cutting payroll and raising prices. The actual Mets and their fans seem to always come in last while they are busy honoring a team who played here 60 years ago, a Yankee, a Brave and a Marlin. Is it the end of the world? No. Is it fucking annoying when the season is over by September every year and the headlines are all about other teams and players? Goddam right it is.

So Mets management and their PR department need to realize they have an irrational and overly emotional fan base on their hands. They need to act accordingly. It ain’t reasonable, its just reality. The team is fucking 7-3 right now in a season where people predicted they’d lose 100 games and SOMEFUCKINGHOW they are still creating negative headlines. Here’s a piece of advice – no tributes. No team slogans or mottos. No gimmicks to try and sell tickets. Just win some goddam ballgames and stay quiet in every other possible way. Because everything else is completely unnecessary.