24
2009
Hey Mets Fans, WAKE UP !!!
An article by Former Writers
I’ll be the first to say that a Yankees-Phillies World Series is the ultimate slap in the face to any Mets fan. Our two most hated teams going head-to-head in a best of seven series for the title of baseball’s best. But instead of whining and complaining that there’s no one to root for this year, let’s find the silver lining in this cloud.
Two weeks ago when the Yanks were still battling it out with the Minnesota Twins for the Division Championship, a friend of mine, who claims to root for both the Mets and Yankees, kept reminding me that he is a New Yorker first, and then a baseball fan, and insisted that I was barking up the wrong tree.
Since that time, I’ve been feeling almost guilty for bashing the Yankees as much as I do. The truth is, I don’t dislike the Yankees. They are a good team, trying to win, just like any other team. I do, however, dislike their fans. I often found them to be arrogant and childish, and act like sore losers when they don’t get what they think their team deserves. Maybe they are just spoiled and don’t know how to handle losing. Or maybe they just demand the best, and really, what’s really wrong with that?
But I digress.
Let’s face it. The Yankees may be the only team in baseball that actually can beat the Phillies. So as Mets fans, we need to ask ourselves what we want more – the Phillies to lose or the Yankees just to not win?
I prefer the Phillies to lose. So if that means the Yankees win, so be it. I’d love to say that New York put the Phillies in their place. And since our Mets couldn’t do it, then let the Yankees take care of it. The Yankees are only our cross-town rivals. The Phillies are our division rivals. And after their mocking “Ya Gotta Believe” signs in Philly, I think it’s time someone – anyone - puts them in their place, before it gets out of hand, and we have to hear about their 26 Championships one day.
Let’s Go Yankees !!!
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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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I”m back and forth on this big problem of the world. lol…. At first I wanted the Yankees, now I might want philly… Being around Yankee fans at work is so annoying….But being at a Mets vs phils game and seeing WS 2008 and 2009 shirts are annoying also… lol…….The phills have just been good, and a caller on WFAN made a good point in 1999, they rooted for the Braves, and so did I… I might not root for anyone I guess…. such problems of the world.. lol
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It’s just so hard to root for either team. I might be able to ignore the World Series if the Yankees and Phillies play each other, but I won’t be able to ignore the fans of the winning team.
I’m just hoping for the Angels to borrow some of the magic used by the Red Sox when they played Game 6 and Game 7 at Yankee Stadium in the 2004 ALCS. That way, we won’t have to worry about who we’ll be rooting for in the World Series. We’ll know.
By the way, has anyone seen Curt Schilling’s bloody sock? There are a few Angels pitchers asking about it…
ED, SERIOUSLY, DO U TRULY BELIEVE, THAT BARRING ANOTHER “GREAT FLOOD” THE ANGELS HAVE A SHOT AT BEATING PHILS? BESIDES AS A SELFISH NYM FAN, I PREFER THE PHIGHTENS DON’T EVER FACE LACKEY IF HE MIGHT WEAR BLUE/ORANGE IUNTIL HE DOES WEAR BLUE/ORANGE. LOOK YABKEE FANS ARE ARROGANT AHs, I UNDERSTAND THAT BUT EXCL 6G/YR THE YANKS DON’T MATTER TO US AS A TEAM, THE DIFFERENCE BET NYY FANS & NYM FANS IS IMAGINATION. THEY DON’T HAVE ONE & HAVEN’T NEEDED ONE. IT’S ALREDY TAKEN THEM 10 YRS TO LEARN TO COUNT PAST 26 & THEY NEEDED REMEDIAL HELP FROM THE FLD MGR WITH HIS FLASHCARD JERSEY. BUNCH OF ‘WITNESS PROTECTION’ HIRED HITMEN, ANONYMOUS JERSIES THAT, IN MODERN BASEBALL IS THE EPITOME OF THE YANKEE ARROGANCE TRADITION, IF U DON’T KNOW US BY OUR NUMBER, U SHOULDN’T ROOT FOR US! REDICULOUSLY ARROGANT. SURE IT WORKED ONCE WHEN IN THOSE NUMBERED PRISON STRIPES WERE RUTH,GEGHRIG,MANTLE,MARIS, HOWARD,FORD MIGHT ALSO WORK FOR A-ROD,JEETS,TEX,JORGE; BUT SWISHER,MITRE,HUGHES? C’MON THAT’S REDICULOUS.
It’s only one start, but Lackey pitched very well against the Phillies in his one career start against them, giving up one run and five hits with eight strikeouts in 6.1 innings. In his career, he’s 12-4 with a 2.63 ERA against National League teams. If the Angels do come back to defeat the Yankees, then I’ll take my chances with Lackey pitching Game 1 and possibly up to two other games against the Phillies.
I’d like to actually have a rooting interest in the World Series, so I’m hoping for the Angels to make it. Otherwise, if it is a Doomsday Series, with apologies to Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi, it’ll be “no Series for me”!
Its a little easier for me being a Mets fan out here on the west coast. A Yankees/Phillies World Series will be a non-event out here. There wont be any big headlines about either team. But ….. I would have to say that I would want the Phillies to lose. Just something about seeing Rollins with his head down in the locker room after just losing the World Series makes me smile……
Definitely I hope the Phillies lose, they are to cocky and I hope Cole Hamels is on the mound for the losing game and chokes up the losing runs!
Lets put it this way….Assume for a second that the Pirates were an AL team, whose rivalry with the Phils would be similar to all the other intrastate rivals…Now, imagine a Bucs-Mets world series. Given the fact that the Phils players themselves were still shouting off about the Mets during their WORLD SERIES parade, don’t you think that Phils fans, if they were in the same predicament we are in now, would hope and pray for a Mets loss?
Absolutely they would. I can tolerate the Yanks. Their fans are awful, and we will of course have to hear about the win constantly, but at the end of the day, they aren’t the rivals. Philly is.
I despise both teams, but I think hoping the Yanks beat the Filths is the lesser of two evils.
Just playing devils advocate…….Fhil fans were not “mocking’ the Ya Gotta Believe. When Tug McGraw was traded their he brought his saying with him to the dismay of all us Met Fans.
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I wouldn’t root for the Skanks if they were the proverbial last team on earth. I seriously would eat rat poison before rooting for them, sooooo go get ‘em Phucks!
I’m a Baseball fan and usually watch the series just because I love the game. Since the Angels may still pull it off I will hope until then but, if they lose then I won’t watch the series. I cannot bring myself to root for either of the two evils, provided they do meet.
A series ain’t over til the Phat lady sings. I say…
Let’s go Angels!
Heck, we’re Angels by one degree of separation…Nolan Ryan was traded to the Angels directly from the Mets.
Sadly, this is the best I can muster up in these very quiet days.
Maybe if the Yanks win they will keep their wallet in their pocket for a change.
Denise, Have you forgotten about the Angels? I, for one, have not given up hope that they may stil pull this off. LGA – Let’s Go Angels!
Nope cant do it, wont do it. And Im about sick of the bandwagon fans jumping on board. Im just choosing to sit out this World Series. Thinking about the future – Mets in 2010!!!
I too would prefer that the Phillies win in a World Series matchup with the Yankees. As a New Yorker and a Met fan since “62″ who now resides in Arizona listening to those pompous Yankee fans who feel that it is their birthright to win the Series every year just pisses me off. Top it off with the millions of front running fans who show up when the Yankees are in the playoffs and of course the Steinbrenners and I could root for the devil himself before I root for the Yankees.
As far as the Phillies go…yes they are our fiercest rivals but you gotta give them credit. They are a great ballclub with a great attitude. Unless the Mets add a couple of very good starting pitchers and get healthy then we are not going to do more than possibly compete for a wild card position at best. It is time for a player like Jose Reyes to first get healthy and then to stop that irritating dance of his and play smart baseball. Until the Mets solve a few problems and improve on the field…that swagger look is just a joke. The team is just not as good as the Phillies at it stands now. No shame in that especially under the circumstances of this past seasons events…
Let’s go Mets in 2010
Yankees Win all the way, please 4-0 bash the phillies.
The phillies are our most hated rival. No matter how much you hate the yankees, there is absolutely no way you can cheer for the phillies. I hate to say this, but the way the phillies have talked about mets, and treated them and made fun of them.. the yankees have way more class even though they have very little of it too
My ultimate wish is for the Angels to beat both the Yankees AND Phillies. But right now I have about as much confidence in LA beating Philly that I would in the Mets beating Philly. Besides, it would be nice to say that New York beat Philly, even if it is the Yanks instead of the Mets. The Yankees have a chance to do something good for us, so just let them finish the job that we couldn’t. They are on our side, for a change, although not intentionally lol . “Let’s hear it for New York, New York, New Yooooooork!!!”
Sorry Denise. I love your post and reasoning, but my hatred of the Yankees far surpasses that of the Phillies who I’ve only really started hating a few years ago. My hate for the Yankees is deep seeded and everlasting. Three years ago I hated the Braves more than I did the Phillies. I still do. There is no way I root for the Yankees. Not ever!!!
This is why I’m just going to ignore the Doomsday Series if it happens. I didn’t see a single pitch of 1999 Braves-Yankees Series after the Braves defeated the Mets in the NLCS and if the Yankees go in, I’ll be watching something else (and blogging about something else as well…).
We must be kindred souls because I too chose to ignore the entire series as well. Thats one of the dozens of reasons I hate the Braves so much and more than the Phillies. When we signed Tom Glavine I seriously was sick for two days.
JOE, ENJOY THE SERIES & DON’T EVER,NEVER ROOT FOR THE YANKEES. JUST ROOT LIKE HELL AGAINST THE PHILLIES!!!!LMAO!
Denise — you are taking the easy way out of this one here. Cheering for the Yanks because everyone else around you is. We all hate the Yankees because they roll through life feeling they have the RIGHT to be in the World Series every season. And the Yankee Fans now believe they have the god-given RIGHT to be in the World Series each season. It’s terrible.
Give the Phillies a break. They are just flat out better than our Mets. They have exciting home grown players in Rollins, Utley, Howard and Hamels. They are exciting to watch. They play the game the right way.
The Yankees once again Bought more TRUE Yankees in Teixiera, Sabathia and Burnett. The #1 hitter and #1 and #2 Pitchers in the latest Free Agent class. Why cheer for them? Sabathia didn’t even want to come here. But the Yankees paid him so much more than anyone else could afford — now he’s a TRUE Yankee? Get real. Show me a player who takes less money to play for the Yanks…..
They have the highest payroll season after season. They are supposed to be in the WS every season. Why do we need to cheer for them now?? They are exactly what is wrong with baseball.
If your a baseball fan you cheer for the Phillies. If you just want jump on the Bandwagon like everyone else — you cheer for the Yanks.