Get Mets in shape, Mr. Wilpon

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South Berwick, Maine: Dear Mr. Fred Wilpon: I have been a Mets fan for almost my entire life. My father took me to my first Mets game at the Polo Grounds in 1962. It was an experience that sparked my love of baseball and of the Mets, regardless of whether they won or lost. Being a Mets fan is not easy. You have to be willing to have your heart broken. But I can no longer watch the Mets. Of all the pain I have experienced over the years as a fan, nothing compares to witnessing the utter ignorance and stupidity of Mickey Callaway and Brodie Van Wagenen on display at each pathetic game played by my beloved team. I am not a baseball expert, but even I can see that those two men are driving the Mets into the ground. From trading players who were an integral part of the team and fan favorites like Wilmer Flores and Travis D’Arnaud, to trading away great young prospects for aging stars, to plain old bad game management that puts good — even great — players in unnecessarily embarrassing situations over and over, Callaway and Van Wagenan have made watching the Mets unbearable.

I will always be a Mets fan. There is no other team that can take their place in my heart. But I won’t watch another game on TV or attend another game at Citi Field until changes are made at the top. I’m on strike until you replace the current management with leaders who show proper respect to the players, the fans, the game and the Mets’ legacy. John Rudolph

Heat wave survival

Brooklyn: I recommend to your readers to make natural healthy ices by pouring fruit juices like mango juice, apple juice, pineapple juice, grape juice, and orange juice into Ziploc bags and freezing them and then enjoying the ices with a spoon. It is a lot cheaper and healthier than store bought ices, and can make you and your family enjoy summer a lot more.

Levi Ginsburg

Beat the stigma

Island Park, L.I.: Members of the NYPD deserve the right to seek help by psychiatric professionals and take medication as all other people do. It is professed that doing so will not effect their careers, but, as a 26-year veteran of the NYPD (now retired), I know this to be untrue. Granted, the police department offers numerous anonymous programs to their employees which offer emotional support. But, those most in need of help do not take advantage of these programs because they believe they will be passed over for promotion, transferred, suspended, fired, etc. Officers should be able to seek help without the possibility of termination or modified

assignment. A published directive will surely help and possibly save the lives of NYPD personnel who are struggling with life’s problems, without resorting to suicide. Christine Servedio

Speed trap

Brooklyn: I was driving through a known, local speed-camera location, at a legal speed. I glanced at my rear view mirror and I witnessed a flurry of flashes triggered by cars passing through that stretch of road. It was 5:30 p.m., school is out for the summer, and school would not have been in session anyway. Unless it was malfunctioning (which I doubt), the city has gone hog-wild drunk with this new-found ability to mug motorists with impunity. This seems to me an illegal use of the game “Gotcha!” and puts the lie to the assertion that these cameras are supposed to stop the torrent of incidents of school students being wantonly mowed down by all the reckless drivers.

Stan Rosenson

The culprit

Bronx: Voicer Daniel Correa claims the U.S. can’t fix what’s broken in the countries immigrants are fleeing from. Actually, the U.S. has a long history of breaking those countries with our interventions, support of coups and sanctions against governments that don’t take orders from our government. The problems in Honduras and Venezuela are clearly the fault of our policies toward those countries.

Richard Warren

Waste of money

Brooklyn: Why are taxpayer dollars supporting another hearing when it’s quite clear Michael Robinson is not the criminal but the victim after 26 years and should have automatically been exonerated upon hearing the genetic company’s results at the July 17 hearing (“DNA evidence challenges conviction of man who served 26 years for Queens murder,” July 17). Enough is enough. It’s time to let Robinson heal and enjoy the remaining years of his freedom once and for all.

Yvonne Lee

Whoops

Manhattan: In Thursday’s story about two subway deaths and one injury during a 14-hour span, your reporter twice described a 46-year-old man who was hospitalized as a “senior.” Wouldn’t someone in their mid 40s be considered middle-aged? Aren’t senior citizens defined as being over the age of 65? Seems your reporter suffered a senior moment.

Alana Wilson

‘Man’ down

Cinncinnati: Re “‘Manholes’ are now ‘maintenance holes,’ ” (July 17): I think we should change all words which include the letters “man” since, well, they are offensive, no? Let’s change maniac, mango, manhunt and manhood for starters. We could have the New York City Board of Education mandate — ooops, there’s another curse word — that no public school student use such words. We might even manage — ooops — in such a manner — ooops — to free our lingo of all such offensive manifestations — ooops. Paul Bloustein

For the farmworkers!

Flushing: Kudos to all who have persisted over the last 35-plus years on behalf of the farmworkers of New York State! Vincent McElroen

Bad eggs

Brooklyn: What happened to the three NYPD auxilliary officers and the pedestrian who they struck? An example needs to be made of them so that the actions of a few does not tarnish the great work done by the world’s largest volunteer police force. The three auxiliaries that knowingly disregarded their patrol

/ALLISON JOYCE/GETTY IMAGES guide and caused damage to private and departmental property, and more importantly caused physical injury to the very people they swore to protect, need to be removed from the auxiliary program and be fully prosecuted for the actions. I say these things not only as a lifelong resident of New York City, but as a former NYPD auxiliary sergeant.

Daniel Colón

Double standard

Syosset, L.I.: I am confused. One is allowed to hate Donald Trump (or any other rightleaning designee)? But one is not allowed to hate the Squad (or any other left-leaning designee)? I’m not saying I hate, or don’t hate, either of them. I’m just trying to understand the rules.

Drew Oringer

The big bucks

Whitestone: It recently came to my attention that a hair salon in Los Angeles was charging $2,000 for a haircut with one of the owners! (What chutzpah)! No, I am not saving my dollars to fly from New York to Los Angeles for that “very special haircut!” My spouse and friends will simply have to “love me” as I look returning from my very local and caring haircutter from Queens!

Leonore Brooks