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!!

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.