Carlos Delgado hit two home runs yesterday and the fans begged him to come and acknowledge that he had been welcomed back into their good graces. Delgado did not come and wave his cap and put on a smile to greet the fans and thank him for their cheers. The fans booed him after that.

Good for you Delgado.

In a move that I'm mostly unaccustomed to doing, I'm going to go ahead and rank on Met fans for their behavior.

I get it, we had the biggest collapse in Major league history. The Met bullpen is more bull than pen. No lead is safe in the eyes of Met fans when Aaron Heilman or Scott Schoenweis comes out to pitch. Delgado is in a slump. David Wright is in a slump.

Normally, I would agree that everyone with the exception of David Wright deserves to be booed. But, when they booed Johan Santana in his second start, it became apparent that the Met fans were not fans at all but merciless, and unclassy. Almost a modern day Roman Coliseum that wants to see nothing but excellence or else.

Or else what Met fans? Im going to dig real deep into my stash of cliche's and pull one out for you "baseball players are human beings too". If you throw a 98 MPH fastball at their heads, do they not concuss as you will too?

It has now gotten ugly between Met fans and Met players, almost to the point that this became an issue. As it should be. Met fans have been unreasonable and booing at any hint of bad things. They are not real fans, they are savages looking for blood and babies that want something without having to earn it.

Here's a newsflash Met fans, take a page out of the Braves fans. They have had plenty of years to cheer on their teams because they were always trotting out a great pitching staff and a talented group of players, and never once did you ever hear of unrest amongst their faithful.

It has seemed that with growing expectations, the Mets fans have begun to believe that little voice that is speaking inside of them that tells them that everything that is done wrong is grounds for belting the boo song.

Its not. Folks, the Mets are not the best team in baseball and judging by the talent that is oozing out of that Diamondbacks team they are not the best team in the league and by the current record, they aren't even the best team in the division.

I don't have a problem with booing when the time calls for booing but not at the drop of a dime, in which case the Mets fans have been doing. They don't even wait anymore for the pitcher to set up for the next pitch, any sign of trouble, they begin to beckon their booing chords.

But when their team could use some fans to clamor some noise, its like walking into a cemetary, just plain quiet.

Is this a backlash from the horrible season they had? Perhaps. But let the past be the past. Its over, the Mets are now in the record books for having the worst collapse in all of Major League history and we can not change that until a team becomes even bigger dopes.

But for now, what we can change is our attitude. Next time you head out to a Met game, leave the hate at home. Forget those vengeful lyrics to the boo song that you Met fans have come to sing and expect to sing when you come to a game.

Start cheering on your team. I promise you things will get better, and when they do, dont expect your heroes to go out and celebrate with you, because they don't forget the boos. If you need proof, all you need to remember was the non presence of that tipped cap and the bald head of Carlos Delgado when he was beckoned for a curtain call after his second homerun that added an insurance run to a game they had to win.