Remember when you were a kid and you wronged someone and didn’t want to say you were sorry, but a parent made you apologize? Well here this the message sent via email is from the New York Mets to me moments ago:

Dear Mets Fan:

All of us at the Mets are bitterly disappointed in failing to achieve our collective goal of building upon last year’s success. We did not meet our organization’s expectations — or yours. Everyone at Shea feels the same range of emotions as you — our loyal fans — and we know we have let you down. We wanted to thank you for your record-breaking support of our team this year.

Equally important, Ownership will continue its commitment in providing the resources necessary to field a championship team. Omar will be meeting with Ownership shortly to present his plan on addressing our shortcomings so that we can achieve our goal of winning championships in 2008 and beyond.

You deserve better results.

There you have it, folks, that is the closest you will get to an I’m sorry. I am a little surprised. That was the last thing I expected them to do.