7
2011
Philadelphia Inquirer: Mets Fans Are Extra Creepy
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Came across this post via MetsBlog and thought I would share it here.
John Gonzalez, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, had some harsh words for the Mets and Mets fans in particular. In a column entitled “Mets Are A National Punchline”, he writes:
The Mets don’t have to be good or even mediocre for you to loathe them and delight in their misery. If anything, curb- stomping them while they’re down is just as enjoyable – if not more so. And here’s the best part: Philadelphians aren’t the only ones doing it now. Taking shots at the Mets is fashionable just about everywhere these days – especially in New York.
You will find an accompanying video there in which Gonzalez really goes off:
“There really is no rivalry, because the Mets are not that good. In the past ten years they have only had a better record than the Phillies once. Thar’s not a rivalry.”
“It’s not that we hate all people from New York, we just hate Mets fans. There’s something extra creepy about them.”
He then goes on to insult the person interviewing him, apparently a New Yorker, and says,
“It’s all about having an outlet to vent. You have to let it out and not keep it all pent up inside, otherwise we end up like you.”
In his final thoughts he explains why he thinks they are so creepy,
“I don’t get them. They come down here.. Hangin’ around… They’re show up early before games at Citizens Bank Park… Just stay out of our area, please. Why don’t they just stay where they are in Queens.”
When asked if he’d ever traveled to see the Phillies in Queens he replied with a laugh,
“Never. If I want to go visit somewhere awful, I’ll just go to New Jersey. ”
Here is a link to where you can see the full video.
I couldn’t even inagine a Mets beat writer doing something similar against the Phillies or their much creepier fans.
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yeah i bet he wouldn’t make those comments to a mets fan’s face.he’d end up in the east river.
Interesting.
So if there really is no rivalry as this guy states, then why dedicate space in a newspaper to us.
The Mets win–we get made fun of.
The Mets lose–we get made fun of.
The Phillies? No one care.
New York has class, Philly is just trash.
It took the Phillies 97 years to win a World Series and another 28 to get their 2nd. From their inception they made the post season twice in 88 years. Their up on top right now but their fans remind me of a teenager with his first car. They really don’t know how to drive but they have that false confidence, the cell phone, Ipod but their careening down the road knocking over garbage cans, cutting people off, giving them the finger. It won’t be long before they wreck the car and get grounded and when they do CBP will be as empty as the Vet used to be and Howard’s contract will become an albatross.
Enjoy it while it lasts Phillie fans, cause it could be another 88 years in between playoff appearances.
Best. Analogy. Ever!
LOL very well said.
…Why is it that these people have jobs?
No, really. He has no respect for anybody involving the Mets, it seems.
“I don’t get them. They come down here.. Hangin’ around… They’re show up early before games at Citizens Bank Park… Just stay out of our area, please. Why don’t they just stay where they are in Queens.”
Right, so Phillies Fans coming to NY to watch games and boo us is ok, but if we show team spirit to go watch games in Philadelphia, it’s wrong? I call BS.
I’m going to presume the Philadelphia Inquirer has no credibility if they have somebody like this on their staff.
I have lived in south jersey for a long time, and have gone to many met/philly games (at the vet, and at CBP). Up until the last few years there were often as many, if not more, met fans at the park.
I live in Philly. This is the type of reaction he wants. He’s trying to get a rise out of Met fans. Gonzalez’s act is real played out. He came onto the seen a few years ago with this schtick, but he’s become too predictable and all he does is recycle the same material when he takes shots at the local teams.
He lost his radio show a couple of months ago because nobody listened to it. He’s a bum, and he’s holding on for dear life. Don’t let this bother you. He’s not a beat reporter, he’s a columnist that doesn’t know where his next story is coming from anymore. I don’t think this is a representation of the views of all Phillies fans. Most people in Philly can’t stand this guy.
We have had a few guys here just like that on radio/TV and still do.
As far as the rivalry thing goes…he’s right. Mets have been worse than the Phillies 9 out of 10 years…and Phils have won the division 4 straight times. It sucks, but besides the close proximity of the teams, there really is no other reason that this matchup is a rivalry to anyone besides Mets fans. Although, everything else he had to say was simply run-of-the-mill Philly verbal diarrhea.
wait…that guy on the video is employed??? He looks like a hobo.
Why are we giving this POS more face time with reprinting the crap he wrote?
He has obviously never witnessed a Filthy fan at Citifield. So disrespectful they chanted “Lets go Phillies” while HOFer Tom Seaver spoke.
Same fan base that barfed on a CHILD………..
He has got to be kidding himself
Perhaps the most telling part of the whole thing is when he says:
“I don’t get them. They come down here.. Hangin’ around… They show up early before games at Citizens Bank Park…”
So, let me get this straight: Getting to a game EARLY makes Mets fans…bad? Maybe we should take a page from Phillies fans: don’t show up until our SS calls us out 2/3 of the way through the season, and, when we finally do get there, chant for our favorite football team through the baseball game. Because that’s apparently what “good” fans do.
What a piece of work this clown is. Where do they come up with this junk? This guy must be a displaced National Inquirer hack with nothin’ better to do than trash the Mets. Oh, like Phillies fans are better? The same people who boo Santa Claus and the little kids of players taking part in family games on the field are better than Mets fans? Wasn’t it Philadelphia fans that a Nat’l Magazine (GQ I think) that named the WORST in professional sports? Case closed. Honestly, as a Mets fan I’m not really insulted, rather I find his little diatribe kinda funny really. If there are any media outlets in Philly that have a shred of class left they really need to try and put a stop to all these punks cause they only cause that cities reputation to sink that much further.
the real funny part is that he claims the mets are irrelevant, there is no rivalry, etc, but he talks about them all the time.
since I read that paper, I know he talks about the mets in almost every column, even when the teams are not playing.
If there is no rivalry, then why waste inches of a newspaper where you could be writing something of value…like how Chase Utley isn’t coming back any time soon? If there’s no rivalry, why waste your breath saying that you would never go see the Phillies play in Queens? Mets fans go to Philly and get their lives threatened by Philly fans because they LOVE their team.
This isn’t the first time Gonzalez wrote a totally classless column about the Mets. But at least we’re loyal. According to GQ, Philly fans are THE WORST SPORTS FANS IN AMERICA. How about writing something about that?
I’m all for an intelligent baseball conversation, but Mr. Gonzalez (pardon my French) is an asswipe.
And we wonder why some guy gets killed in LA by simply being a SF fan….
And who do we have to blame for these types of things?
THE PRESS!!!!!!
They really should make you get and maintain a licence to be a reporter. It should be revolkable should any story you print turn out to be completely false or in such poor taste (as this one is) that seems to forment hatred and potential violence against people merely on the basis of them being able to be identified as from a different group!
Pandering to the lowest common element has become a license to print money in this Country
In Gonzalez’s defense, he’s a joke in Philly……Yes, we make fun of Mets fans, just like Mets fans make fun of us. Gonzo’s is a hack who’s barely holding on to a job. The fact that a reputable paper like the Inquirer keeps him around is puzzling. Don’t worry. You likely won’t see an interview from him again
You have to understand the guy…of course he’s bitter…he HAS TO LIVE THERE!!!!
he was born and raised. he isn’t just living with them, he IS one of them!
he is the guy that is supposed to be the “humor” writer for the sports section. He does on line chats too. Sometimes he is a little funny, but not often. making dumb NY jokes is one of his staples, and it certainly plays to his audience!
he also epitomizes the philly native with an inferiority complex.