Why Do We Have To Root For Either Team?

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• Mets faithful October 28, 2009 at 6:43 am

  I dont like the Yankees, but man do I hate the Phillies.
  • Joe D October 28, 2009 at 9:10 am

    I’ve only started really hating the Phillies in the last three years. I’ve hated the Braves for at least 15 years of solid hate. But I have hated the Yankees for a lifetime!

    I wonder why so many Mets fans hated the Phillies so much prior to 2006? Did I forget something because they hadnt won a world series in like a gazzillion years prior to last year. The Braves on the other hand have always taunted us.

    But Ed is right, why root for anyone? I wont even watch let alone root.
    • sixxis October 28, 2009 at 10:37 am

      I’ve hated the Phillies for 26-7, for Juan Samuel, for David Cone only getting 19 K’s,for “They win The Damn Thing” game,I’m sure I can come up with a few others but, you get my point.
• Mykey October 28, 2009 at 9:07 am

  Thank god for the other 3 sports!!!
• Jim C. October 28, 2009 at 9:24 am

  I hate Yankee fans more than the Yankees but I hate the Phillies and their fans alike. But I as well am not rooting for either team, just for good baseball. Either fan base will rub it in our noses because they are in the WS and we are not. So whatever team loses, those fans will still rub it in because they were there.
• russell Zanca October 28, 2009 at 9:52 am

  I understand why it will hurt so many of you to watch this WS, but it’s the WS!!!

  I guess I just love baseball way too much to let a little thing like another appearance by the Evil Empire and the new Seed of Chucky ruin it for me.
• Paul Nassau October 28, 2009 at 10:05 am

  I have no problem rooting for the Phils. I take some pride in their being in my division. And I’m getting $170 for my $100.
  Pops
• dogman October 28, 2009 at 10:21 am

  As a Met fan, I have no problem rooting for the Phillies.
  I reject the stratospheric Yankee contracts that will buy winners till the cows come home. I appreciate the purer rules of play in the NL; No DH, that is. Take off your Met caps and give credit to an organization that has done almost everything right in the past few years.
  If you’re a fan of good, gritty, fundamental baseball you really should move beyond petty fanaticism. Root for your league.
• Kempie October 28, 2009 at 10:31 am

  Being from the Netherlands I like that good game between Venezuela and NL as well:-).
  I think I will root for Phils:
  1) they are in our division
  2) I attended the May 7th game with my son and it was great fun beating the World Series winner. We were so much better than them back then!
  3) Less Fraud going on like in A-Fraud?
• sixxis October 28, 2009 at 10:40 am

  I tell people that I won’t watch any of the games but, they remind me I’m a baseball fan and can’t avoid watching, so I’ll prob. peruse the games while watching Rangers and Knicks games. I’d rather just have a winner declared without any games being played.
• Blue & Orange NY October 28, 2009 at 11:03 am

  hey guys,

  sorry for responding late this, but this is something i wanted to get off my chest…why am i hearing a lot of met fans wanting to root for the Phils…it doesn’t make sense, one caller said well i rather see that fan only 8 times a year compare to my next door neighbor…..ahhh rubbish….that Phil fan will still find a way to u, especially these days, if they win we willllllll never stop hearing it plus it gives them more ammo and scrutinizing pressure on the mets next year, f that….maybe because i’m living in Miami where they hate NYer’s but no matter if i was living back in queens or down here in the 3rd world country, i will still root for the stankees….pick your poison people, its the stanks….shit even if they lose the fans will talk shit, because of all their championship so have the phils have more ammo to do the same….met fans it’s time to side with the stanks on this, hey if it was us and boston do u think the stank fans will be for beantown
• Jeff October 28, 2009 at 11:20 am

  I am not going to lose sleep over the fact that one of our adversaries will win the World Series. I will relish the thought that one of them will have their hearts broken.
• Tom October 28, 2009 at 11:48 am

  you have to root for a team because someone is going to win the series. Its pick your poison. You can’t just say “oh just a good series.” NO! Someone is going to win and as a man you must decide which team you would rather have win the World Series. Because again, someone is going to win…
  • Mack October 28, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    As a man I will not root for neither team. I do that because I am a man of convictions. If Cuba went to war against Libya, I will not root for Qadaffi or Castro either. It’s not for us to choose a side when both sides represent something I detest.
    • Tom October 28, 2009 at 12:27 pm

      but someone is going to win….

      then how about you dont call it rooting…

      as badly as you HATE both teams there has to be a team that you would rather see win…AS A MAN YOU MUST PICK 1
      • Shadmeister October 28, 2009 at 2:38 pm

        One of the teams is going to win, and no matter how much you commit to one of them, if you’re a real Met fan, you won’t truly be happy.

        However, one of these teams is going to lose, and as a Met fan you will be quite happy.

        I much prefer taking the latter view.
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• Rudibager October 28, 2009 at 12:56 pm

  I feel like the way you decide which team to “root” for is very circumstantial.

  I graduated the University of Delaware in 2008. For those of you who might not know, Delaware is primarily a “Philly state”, in that most of them are Philly fans, being that it is the closest big city to their area.

  I saw maybe four people EVER wear Phillies jerseys up until October 1st, 2007. It was ALL Eagles and Penguins gear before then. On October 1st, 2007, I witnessed a transformation. Philly was suddenly becoming a “baseball town” again. These chums came out of the woodwork in the worst way. Of course. it all happened in my face as I wallowed in deep shock to my Mets getting bounced from the playoffs in one of the most epic collapses in MLB history.

  I lived in a house of 8 people for my last two years of school. I was the only Mets fan in the house, the rest were either Phillies (after they made the playoffs) or Yankees fans. While the Yankees fans do feel entitled, at least they are FANS. They actually do watch and care about the team every year. Maybe that’s just because the Yankess are always relevant every year and don’t throw up stinker seasons in recent history (other than last year). However the fact remains that the Yankees fanbase, at least the ones that I knew, at least kept up with their baseball knowledge.

  One of my housemates DESPISED baseball. He would always beg us to change the channel when it was on. Last year, my first year out of college, I got a text message from this punk after EVERY SINGLE game that the Phillies won in the playoffs. Then he said his boss called him a bandwagon fan, and I agreed, and he had the nerve to get into an hour long argument with me about how “They’re a Philly team so I can root for them if I want to”. Well you sure can! But you didn’t root for them when they sucked, so you are indeed a bandwagon fan!

  Some Mets fans say that the Yankees are an abomination because of their free agency moves and payroll. I say that the Phillies are an abomination because of their fanbase. Aside from Victorino and Rollins, I respect the Phillies players. They deserve a MUCH better fanbase than they have, and I will root for the Yankees to stick it to those sorry SOB’s.
• FP Mets October 28, 2009 at 2:03 pm

  The Fall Crass-ic. Don’t watch if you don’t want. There’s football, hoops and puck going on. combine that with new episodes of South Park, the Office, and 30 Rock theres plenty of other stuff to do. Hopefully these chums play so hard they rought themselves up for next year.
  • Ed Leyro October 28, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    I am a big South Park fan as well as a Utah Jazz fan, so I’ll be watching tonight’s new episode of South Park at 10 PM followed by ESPN’s coverage of the Jazz game at 10:30. At least I have my TV viewing set for Game 1 of the Doomsday Series.
• Shadmeister October 28, 2009 at 2:27 pm

  With all due respect, I read these posts from people, “God dernit, I HAVE to root for…(name the team)”, and to me it seems akin to the alcoholic who just has to go to the bar, even though he knows it’s bad for him.

  As I posted on another thread, don’t succumb to seemingly good-natured promises from Yankee fans of, “Well, if the Mets were there and the Yankees weren’t, I’d root for them.” Ask yourself if s/he rooted for the Mets or for the Cardinals in ’06. I know of none who rooted for the Mets, and I know one who spent $75 buying Pujols gear for the occasion. And people who think they’d back the Mets against the Red Sox are only somewhat less delusional – when that actuality really happened in ’86, Yankee fans were overwhelmingly pro-Boston or neutral (the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry not being nearly as media hyped then as it is now).

  And Philly fans are even worse bandwagoners than Yankee fans. Of the four major sports teams in Philadelphia, the Phillies were easily the least popular of the four well into 2007. I went to a game at Citizens Bank Bandbox in June of that year that was at least half full of Met fans – Philly fans, despite a world championship, despite being 90 miles away, and despite the Mets having their worst season in six years, never could top 20 per cent of the crowd at Citi Field for any of the games.

  If you’re a New York sports fan, Rangers-Islanders is the perfect way to show a Crankee fan your “New York loyalty” tonight. If you’re tempted to show loyalty to a league, save it for Games 3 and 4 when a Crankee pitcher flails Timmy Lupus-like at a BP fastball. And be ready to cackle when fans of both teams moan about what a launching pad/bandbox the other team’s park is. Any other advice? I don’t know…read a good book?
• Yankee27 October 28, 2009 at 7:19 pm

  Y! A! N! K! E! E! S!
  Here come the Yankees
  Let’s get behind and cheer the Yankees
  They’re gonna learn to fear the Yankees
  Everyone knows they play to win, cause
  They’re the New York Yankees!!!

  OK Mets fans, I wonder how you can hate the Yanks for Free Agency when they spend boatloads of money as well, but with little results. Maybe we don’t win the series every year, but at least we are relevant. As I have said before, I rooted for the Mets in the 1986 series because they were a great team, and the fact that they were playing Boston made it even easier. So Mets fans should join the dark side for one week so they can witness the Empire Strike Back!!
• Metfan380 October 28, 2009 at 8:35 pm

  I just hate philly so much. The way they put the mets down every year. They have called us choke artist saying every year that their the team to beat. I still hate the yankees but I just hate philly more. Who ever wins we are still gonna hear it from both sides.
• chaz October 29, 2009 at 5:07 pm

  very well put ed I am on your levelw with this, as mest fans we should not be rooting for anyone besides our boys in the orange and blue and I hate both the yankees and phillies with a passion but in the end one has to win so whoever it is Ill deal with it but next year its a clean slate