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2009
An “Ugh” World Series is Likely Now
An article by Former Writers
The World Series Ed Leyro wrote about yesterday is likely to come to fruition—Yankees/Phillies, unless the Dodgers and/or Angels sweep the remaining games. And the way New York and Philly are playing, that’s about as likely as snow in the Caribbean. So we’re going to have to face facts here. Yes, a Yankees/Phillies series is going to be like a Mets/Red Sox series would be to a Yankees fan—and we all know how that one turned out.
But why I’m writing this is because you have to know this has been coming all season. The Yankees led the majors in home runs with 244, while the Phillies led the National League with 224 (tying the Rangers for second place in MLB). The Phillies only batted .258 while our Mets hit .270, but the Phils had the 224 homers and 788 RBI, while we had a paltry league low 95 homers and just 631 driven in. The Yankees had CC Sabathia flat out dominate the American League all season, and even though AJ Burnett was not at his best, he was far better than anything we had at the #2 spot. Heck, we limped home with three or four #4 guys. The Phillies had all world Cliff Lee and then playoff tested Cole Hamels as the #2 starter, and lookie here…they got seven innings of two hit ball from none other than Pedro Martinez last Friday.
So a Yankees/Phillies series was inevitable if you look at it all that way. The numbers don’t lie. Even with guys like Jimmy Rollins not hitting the cover off the ball and shaky closer situation, the Phillies find a way to win, as they did in the ninth inning Monday night. They’ve been doing that all year. The Yankees, well, they just haven’t stopped winning since A-Rod came back in May.
I guess we’re going to have to suck this one up, because you can’t deny how talented these two teams are, and the fact that if they do reach the Fall Classic, they truly deserve to be there. So let’s try to enjoy it for what it is, two teams we hate beating up on each other.
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationals | 26 | 18 | .591 | - |
| Braves | 26 | 20 | .565 | 1.0 |
| Mets | 24 | 21 | .533 | 2.5 |
| Marlins | 24 | 21 | .533 | 2.5 |
| Phillies | 23 | 23 | .500 | 4.0 |
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Hey, the good news is that one of the teams we hate has to lose.
I’m actually going to root for Sillies if it comes to it. I’ve only really hated them for the last few years; Yankee hatred goes back a long, long time, and it’s much more visceral.
Others?
Exactly my feeling. I’ve hated the Yanks since 1941 so of course I’m rooting for the Phils. Besides, I take pride in a team in my division winning the Series.
Pops
Not only that, but I hate the American League, so while it kills me, I’ll have to say go Phillies. We’ll see you next year.
Worst Case Scenario has just happened. Ugh! Not watching the series for the second year in a row.
I will root for the Yankees. I really really don’t want to see the Phillies repeat and hear Jimmy Rollins make comments about the Mets again during the victory parade. I can envision it now: “You know the Mets went out and got not one but two closers, but it takes more than two guys to win a championship.”
I think I will root for the Yankees because they are from the same city.
I just hate the Phillies and Eagles that much.
As much as I hate saying this….I’m rooting for the Phillies to win. I’m a NL guy so yeah, I’ll cheer for them. On top of that, I enjoy seeing the Yankees get their asses handed to them in the Fall Classic. I’d rather hear Rollins run his mouth than all of those douchebags on the other side of town say “27 RINGS!!! HOW MANY YOU HAVE?!?” over and over again.
Anyway, it’s justified if he does run his mouth at the parade. If the Mets truly wanna do something, they should grow a set, the front office should live up to their promise and build a championship caliber team instead of half-assing it, shut up at Spring Training and when next season begins, come out swinging.
I will probably not watch a single inning of the series if it is Phillies v. Yankees. IF I had to choose a team, it would be the Phillies only because they are NL.
Same here. I’ll be checking out the new fall season of shows instead of watching the World Series if the Doomsday Series happens (the Fall CRASSIC, so to speak).
However, if someone put a gun to my head and asked me for my pick, I’d have to go with the Yankees, if only because of their fans. Yankee fans would give us the 27-ring salute, but Phillie fans would be far worse, especially since it would be their third World Series championship overall, meaning they would have more than the Mets. All we’d have to retaliate with is their 10,000 losses and that’s getting old even to this Mets fan.
This is going to be one miserable year as my birthday is two days after a potential Game 7. All I ask if it’s a Yankees-Phillies World Series is that it ends before the seventh game. I don’t want to see coverage of the ticker tape parade on what’s supposed to be my special day!
I wrote a similar article on here where I urged mets fans to root for the NEW YORK team. I’m sticking to it. The Yankees are not the Mets rival.
We play each other 6 times a year for marketing purposes only. The Phillies are yours and my arch rival in our division. You don’t root for your division rivals to win the World Series.
You think Yankees fans would root for the Sox over the Mets?
You think Sox fans would root for the Yanks over the Mets?
What about Giants fans rooting for the Dodgers over the Athletics?
Cardinals fans rooting for the Cubs over the Royals
All wouldn’t happen. Who cares if Yankees fans brag? You think yankees fans don’t know they bought this roster? What’s 1 more ring for them?
Great Points! i totally agree I mean its nice seeing New York City in a good mood even if it is for the Skanks. I hate Philadelphia and I wouldn’t be able to sit at my tv and watch the phillies in philadelphia talking about their championship.
I am a Yankee fan. But I consider this to be a “nonbrainer” for mets’ fans. You should root for Yankees. No matter how much we tease each other, we both were NY caps of different colors and fonts. Shouldn’t that transcend everything? I know, if Yanks were not in WS and Mets were, I would be pro Mets no matter which AL team was playing them.
im also a yankee fan. and come on met fans if Phillies beat the Yanks its like the bully beating up the little brother (mets) and the big brother too (Yanks). so suck it up and cheer for the yanks. I can deff tell you if it was mets-angles i would be wearing my seaver(got when went to a met game as a promo) shirt all the time.
Lets go YANKEES
If I had to choose one, it would be the Yankees. I do not want another Philadelphia team beating a New York team.
Both types of fans are going to be arrogant anyway, but the Phillies are bigger punks.
You CANNOT root for the hated division rival in this world series scenario. The Phillies and their fans are as scummy as they come. Yanks fans are obnoxious about their rings, but Philly is united by a common hatred of New York City and their sports teams, especially the Mets.
If we were in the Series, the Yankees fans would root for our team. They don’t hate the Mets the way some Mets fans hate the Yankees. So if I had to choose a side, I would definitely choose Yankees over Philthies.
Our team and our fan base need to UNITE in a common hatred of the Philadelphia Phillies the same way their fans and players unite in a hatred of the Mets.
Let’s Go Mets!
I have no idea where or when or how you grew up, but I came of age in a world where the city was not only big enough for two bb clubs, but most people definitely had their loyalties. To my mind, Yankees fans are totally unsurpassed when it comes to being obnoxious and arrogant. On top of that, many, many of them are total bandwagon types. I despise the Yank-offs more than any other franchise or team in professional sports and always will.
Philly will never rival NY in any way shape or form, so I can take their insufferable Philthy bragging for a bit more than I’ll ever be able to stomach the supporters for the team that plays in the Bronx.
Besides, why wouldn’t I support an NL East rival. To my mind, that’s the whole point. If the Phils win, we get to brag that we play, ipso facto, in baseball’s toughest division.
Being a NYer to unite against Philly makes no sense to me. Incidentally, I tried this in the 1970s against LA, but it didn’t work; I loved watching the Skanks lose and hated it when they won.
Maybe you’ll think about this again during the regular season when we play the other NY team.
Go Philthies!
I’ve rooted against the Yankees in every other World Series. My Yankee fan friends are obnoxious. But we only play them six times a year.
The Phillies are worse rivals than the Braves in my opinion.
I refuse to root for a rival that despises my team the way Victorino and Rollins and rest of those players do.
Don’t think I don’t dislike both teams here. I just can’t stomach the Phillies having more World Series wins than our guys.
the difference between mets vs red sox in 86 and phils vs yanks today is that back in the 80s the yankees and mets never played each other, so other then geography the teams had no other rivalry so it was easier for a yankees fan then to root for the other NY team.
Today, both the Yanks and Phils stuck it to the mets in the past few seasons…..this is indeed going to be the world series from hell
“World Series from Hell”… I like that!
Living in Philly has been awful since October of 2008. The obnoxious “phans” of the bandwagon variety outnumber the real fans of the Phils by so much its pathetic. The number of hats and shirts I see on a daily basis varies with whether they won or lost the night before – oh so loyal! I’m hoping the Yankees win only so the bandwagon can come to a crashing halt and the “phans” can return to being Iggles fans.
Actually I’m hoping for an asteroid to hit Citizens Bank Little League Park and wipe out both teams.
An asteroid huh…..nice idea….I like it! Would probably wipe out the majority of both teams obnoxious fans too.
Well I said it before and I say it again. Pedro got the last laugh. He is going to the world series.
I was rooting for the Dodgers, but Congratulations to the Phillies and I hope they win the world series.
I’m rooting for a double forfeit due to injuries. I hate both the Yankees and Phillies.
Well guys, I’m still rooting for the Angels!
Some say we have to choose a side. I say that’s ridiculous. Tonight I’ll be proudly watching Rangers-Islanders. The only game I expect I might watch in its entirety is Game 2 (no Rangers, Knicks or Jets that night).
The big lie propagated by Yankee fans is that not only should we be “obligated” to root for a New York team, but that Yankee fans would do the same were the Mets there. Hello? I remember the 2006 NLCS (the Yankees having been vanquished by Detroit), and every bar I went to was full of Yankee fans cheering for the Cardinals. The laugher about how Beltran took a “BP fastball” (another lie) for strike 3 from Wainwright was a rallying cry initiated totally by Yankee fans, not Cardinal fans. In 1999, on the day of Ventura’s grand slam single, the Met game was followed by a Yankee game. The pro-Yankee bar was handing out tomahawks and for much of the game the customers (not one I know to have been from Atlanta) were doing the tomahawk chop before going on to their “Let’s Go Yankees” festivities for the evening. And do we think Yankee fans were quiet and remorseful when the Mets blew it in ’07 and ’08, even though it would have meant another New York team in the postseason? And yes, I’m old enough to remember that there were plenty of Yankee fans (though perhaps not quite as high a percentage) rooting for the Red Sox in ’86…perhaps because the typical (post-’96 bandwagoner) Yankee fan fails to realize that the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry was at best a shadow of what it is now prior to the late ’90′s, and certainly Yankee fans hated the Mets with greater intensity then than they did Boston.
All that said, I can’t root for the Phillies (and that should make the Yankee fans I know content because other than the ’99 WS I don’t remember going so far as to be neutral in a Yankee postseason series). Philly fans give Yankee fans more than a run for their money in the bandwagoning category. While you have to credit Eagle and Flyer fans as being diehards, you couldn’t pull 15,000 certified cheesesteak addicts to Citizens Bank park (or the Vet) for years prior to 2007. I happened to be at Citizens Bank when the Mets won their last game against the Phillies in ’07 (in late June), and taking the Philly subway down to the ballpark from downtown was like being on the 7 train. The fan split in the park that day was 50/50 (and I’m being generous to Philly fans on this). And all you heard about was the Philly fans grumbling about all the Met fans there…Even in our poorest season in over a decade, and with a division rival being the defending world champions (and 90 miles away, to boot!), no game at Citi Field had appreciably more than 20 per cent Philly fans.
So, no sides chosen here. But the one thing I do look forward to is the Fox cameras glaring into the losing team’s dugout after the last out and seeing either Howard and Utley, or Jeter and ARod, staring blankly into oblivion. That will be our salvation for 2009, however decorative.