To those of you who for some reason seem to think that hearing the Yankees fans chirp is more annoying than our division rival winning their 2nd World Series title in a row, I say to you the following:
I would root for Apollo Creed to not get up in Rocky IV after being physically manhandled by Ivan Drago. After Ivan Drago says, “If he dies, he dies” I’d say, Yeah!” before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for Alex Forrest played by Glenn Close to be with her one true love, Mr. Daniel Gallagher played by Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for the show Seinfeld to be taken off the air without ever having a final season before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for Ross Perot to be the President of the United States before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for Michael Kay & Steve Phillips to partner up for a morning talk show on WFAN before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for a MySpace account to be a job requirement before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for Veronica’s Closet to be brought back to NBC before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for Joanie NOT to love Chachi before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for Mike Francesa to take over for Gary Cohen before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for baseball to diminish it’s steroid abuse policy, and the NFL to diminish it’s personal conduct policy before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for Mike Tyson after he bit Holyfield’s ear off before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for the team from Remember the Titans to sit out the entire season due to integration before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for Global Warming before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for the unemployment rate to go up before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for the Hunter in Bambi before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
I would root for all Dog’s NOT to go to Heaven before I eeeeeeeeever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
The bottom line is this. The Yankees fans will always have the upper hand when it comes to the supposed Mets/Yankees rivalry which really only exists to sell tickets to 6 games. The one thing that is not a certainty is whether the Phillies fan will have the upper hand on us Mets fans. We can’t take away their championship last year, and we can’t deny it’s value. However, we certainly can unite as New Yorkers and say, “Philadelphia is not better than New York.”
To root for the Phillies is rooting for their fan base to have experienced 1 more World Series title than our fan base. The Phillies players are constantly disrespecting the team we love, and our fan base. Whether it be Jimmy Rollins, Cole Hamels, or Shane Victorino. When was the last time Derek Jeter said anything negative about the Mets and their fans? So what you have to hear “27,” a few times a day. What’s the big deal? How is that any different than the rest of your life? It’s not as though we can deduct championships from the Yankees, therefore it will never end. Acting as though if they don’t win this year you won’t have to hear it from the guy in the cubicle next to you is ridiculous.
On the other hand, watching as the team that has caused you pain and anguish for almost your entire sports life do the same to the team in your division you loath the most, well that my friends is priceless.
If in the same shoes and the Mets were playing the Red Sox, 9 out of 10 Yankees fans would root for the Mets. How about if the Jets played the Eagles in the Super Bowl, would Giants fans root for their division rival? You don’t cheer on division rivals. This ain’t the pesky little Marlins of 03 where it’s just funny to watch them beat the Yankees. This is the team and the city that represents all of which we despise.
If you as a Mets fan are wearing red or cheering on Victorino as he tries to elbow Jeter at SS, or slapping hands as Jayson Werth hits another dirty HR, you can forget about being respected as a Mets fan by those Yankees fans you encounter every day. You can hang up your Mets jersey and turn your playbook in to coach, because you’re done. Tonight, and for the rest of the series, be a New Yorker.
Finally, I would root for the New York Yankees before I ever root for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Kind of ironic there was a Phillies gear google ad below this piece, lol.
Just a question: I wonder whether this blogger was around in 1976 through 1978, because a Yankee-Phillie World Series came close to happening in all three years. Would you have taken this position then? Would you really have preferred the Bronx Zoo to the likes of Mike Schmidt, Greg Luzinski, and one Frank Edwin McGraw? Would you not have enjoyed George in his prime going berserk if Steve Carlton tossed a two-hitter in the Bronx? Or Larry Christenson belting home runs into the short YS porches (FEH, DH!)? And if you think smug Crankee fans strut their stuff about “owning” New York now, care to remember the days of M. Donald Grant and 700,000 attendance in a rotting Shea? Today the Mets are “second fiddle”, but if we’re worried about our relevance, they are today “second fiddle” having drawn 3 million and lots of press for being underachievers. In the ’70′s, New York was closer to a one-team town than at any time since 1958-61.
I agree that I can’t root for the Phillies. But it’s just THESE Phillies I can’t root for. If there’s a Yankee team I could root for, I haven’t seen one.
No, I wasn’t around then… but my “hatred” for the Yanks was only really born in 1998 I’d say. I mean growing up a Mets fan in the 80′s I barely knew the Yankees existed to be honest. I don’t see how any real baseball fan could have hated the 96 Yankees. Sure, after they won and the bandwagon began to roll away is when the re-birth of hatred occured, but that was a team that if you’re being honest, there was no reason to “hate.”
I’ve disliked Philly sports teams for as long as I can remember. So it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s the Phillies, Eagles, Flyers, Temple University, or even the Sixers. Heck, I don’t even follow the NBA but I don’t like the Sixers.
SCHAD… DON’T ROOT FOR EITHER, ROOT AGAINST PHILLIES! IT’S SIMPLE. INASTEAD OF GO NYY! OR GO PHILLIES! TRY PHILLIES’ SUCK!
Im a die hard mets fan, but i will root for my city before i ever root for that mess of a city in pensylvania.
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I’m a die-hard Mets fan and I will Never, EVER, under any circumstances, root for the Yankees.
I going with the lesser of the two evils which are the Phillies.
This is not about New York City in my book, I just “hate” the Yankees. I root for them to lose almost as I root for the Mets to win….and for me, personally, I’m not changing.
The Mets let me down, the Twins let me down, the Angeles let me down, and the Dodgers let me down. Only the Phillies are standing.
Let’s go Phillies….and I’m hoping one of the Phillies pitchers (Pedro?) has the balls to continually go high and tight on Gay-Rod because he is too dam comfortable at the plate right now.
I’m going with the lesser of two evils, which is why I’d rather have the Yankees sweep.
I have to be around lots of South Jersey Phillie fans each day, and i can’t take them. If I were around Yankee fans every day, I’d pick the Phillies, but I’m not.
They’re both going to give us grief all winter, but I’ll take a 27th Yankee title, before I ever root for the Phillies.
OMFG!
People, stop wasting time on this (And, um, yeah, I do get the irony of commenting!).
There is no better or worse argument about whom to root for in any remotely objective sense, so let’s just give this silliness a rest.
That said, Sweep ‘Em Phils!
I dont think Met fans as a whole can all root for one team or the other, we all have our own personal reasons for rooting for either the yanks or phils….I live in north jersey and am surrounded by yankee fans and my grandfather lived in south jersey and was a huge phillies fan……so i hope the yanks get embarrassed
DUDE WTF is wrong with you???
you would actually root for global warming and unemployment to go up than root for the phillies???? i mean yeah i hate the phils too but dam you’re taking it way too far there…oh and HOW DARE YOU ROOT FOR THE HUNTER IN BAMBI? lol…
what a total waste of space. get a flippin’ life already.
Let’s all just root for a double forfeit where they both lose or a rain out until February that cancels the World Series.
Are you saying we should all be building arks now?
ha ha! this is awesome. Go yankees?
C’mon son! I don’t think that being a Met fan defines who I hate or don’t hate. In fact I think being a fan is all about the love. My love for Mets is a peaceful non hating one being a New Yorker and related to NY Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers fans back in the day. However, being a Met Fan here in Philly Land ( i currently reside in Old City in KillaDelphia) I can never forgive natives here for the classless and merciless harassment I have received for simply liking my team. As a Mets fan I remember that we were founded and immediately terrible. In 1962 the Mets had the worst season in the MLB. Yet, people were still fans. Gil’s Mets made being at the park fun. Some who are old enough to remember remain fans. I will never be a Yankee fan. That is my blood will never run will pin stripes and blue. I don’t get choked up over going to the Bronx. I bleed Orange and Blue. I get chills when I see the Worlds Fair grounds and I have people in Queens. Yet as much as the ever so arrogant Yankee fans can be, I will never root for a team whose fans think that baseball is bloodsport. Where anyone not born in the town is an ‘outsider.’ Where the legacy for baseball is racism and some argue the source of ‘the worst treatment of Jackie Robinson in the MLB.”Dick Allen, the Phillies, and Racism” by William C. Kashatus
Baseball should be a family game. Remember as well, the Yankess above it all are a NY Team. As a New Yorker there are no real out of town rivalries. There is no greater city in America. If one NY team can’t beat em,’ let’s hope the other one can. Don’t hate the Yankees. Be a Mets fan. Root for the team who can beat the Frillies. Root, root, root for your home team. If they don’t win it’s a shame. C’mon Yankees, kill ‘em.
You put my sarcasm much more poetically. Nice job. May I also add, “Hell yeah!”