"We Don't Need You! We Don't Need You!! We Don't Need You!!!"
As Lin Guanglai walked into the batter's box with the bat in his hand, Citi Field felt as if it had fallen into a storm. The unified chant rolled down from the stands; practically every fan in a Mets jersey was shouting the same line, and from their flushed faces you could tell the emotions were absolutely real.
This wasn't the first time Lin Guanglai had been treated like this at Citi Field.
It all still went back to that winter before the 2022–23 season: after Cohen put a more than 750 million US Dollar offer on the table for Lin Guanglai, and with the Mets-centric media endlessly hyping things up and the betting odds constantly moving in their favor, almost every Mets fan thought "the great Lin is coming to his loyal Citi Field." Some had even rushed to buy jerseys with Lin Guanglai's number on them.
