27
2011
Stay Classy, Philadelphia
An article by 
We’re in 4th place – and yet, the Philadelphia Phillie writers just can’t stop writing about the Mets. This piece really rubbed me the wrong way and was noted by Metsblog. The Phillies have a one game lead on the Marlins and about three and a half on the Braves. And yet, Mike Missanelli from the Philly Post had to go ahead and write a piece on his 5 most hated Mets of all time. According to Cerrone, Missanelli is the equivalent of Mike Francesa so…yeah. But here are some quotes from the article that remind us all why we don’t like Philadelphia (as if we needed a reminder.) The article can be viewed in it’s entirety here.
“I hated when all those maggot Mets fans would descend on Veterans Stadium and then Citizens Bank Park in the early days. Those obnoxious, drunken goofs and their annoying New York accents. Those half-human louts who were compensating for the fact that they weren’t Yankee fans and thereby acting out on their inferiority as a species. Those cretin-like new money Long Islanders who had nothing better to do than ride down the turnpike and infiltrate our stadiums like termites on a log cabin. I hated everything about the Mets, including their stupid blue and orange configuration and that ridiculous intertwined old style N and Y on the hats. Mostly, I just hated their players.”
Ray Knight. I just couldn’t stand the guy. A cheap-ass imitation of Pete Rose, who embellished things like pounding his glove and hitching up his pants…
Todd Hundley. I just didn’t like his face. Looked like he should be in some motorcycle gang somewhere, flicking unfiltered cigarettes on the highway. (Full disclosure: I was going to put Gary Carter here, but news just came out that Carter is suffering from brain tumors, so I can’t kick the man while he’s down.)
Turns out that Gooden had willingly submitted himself to the television show “Celebrity Rehab” with that Dr. Drew guy. By the way, my sources tell me that in addition to getting the free rehab, celebrities who go on that show also get paid a stipend of about $250,000. Just think, Doc, how much cocaine that $250,000 will buy once you get out.
I can go as far as to call this drivel and I begin to wonder why I don’t have a defined job in Sports Journalism yet if this is the quality of work expected. In any case, with the Phillies coming in to town tonight, I wonder how many Mets fans will be ticked off about this one. The Phillies may do things right as a franchise, but I wouldn’t go that far with their fans.
Stay classy, Philadelphia. Stay classy.
About the Author: Satish Ram
I am a Senior Writer and Editor here at MetsMerized - where I specialize in Minor League coverage. I have been on the staff since 2007 and I am currently in my third semester of college in New York City. You can find me at www.facebook.com/SatishRam or @SilverHeatMMO. Feel free to message me - I love talking about the Mets or baseball overall with anybody.
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LMAO, was he on drugs!!!!???? man, how can an chief editor of any newspaper allowed this to get out? man, talk about anger issues!
Now, Satish, if you were a Loserdelphian, too, what else would you have going for you?
As disastrous as we looked at Wrigley, I am praying to all gods and goddesses that we destroy the Putrid Pukes from Philthy tonight.
Any one else with me?
russell,
i am with you, but with jason bay in the lineup is dificult to actually get giddy.. this is one of those ” i hope we get 1 out of 3″ situations.. sad.. very sad
What’s really pathetic is that the Phillies fans are such losers, they can’t enjoy their success. They find it necessary to bash everything they can about the Mets, their fans, and the players of past Mets teams. When the Mets were going good (back in the day), Mets fans never gave a rat’s ass about the Phillies, or their stupid fans. And we still don’t.
How did they like Tug and Dykstra?
That is one park, I would not visit.
And wait til 2012, when Phillies fans’ “most hated” Met, Jose Reyes is starting at shortstop for them.
He wakes up every morning in Philadelphia. Wouldn’t that make you angry at the world and ready to lash out at anything that makes you feel the least bit insecure?
Look at the team’s history. They’ve been around about 3x as long as the Mets and have the same number of World Series championships. They are the losingest franchise in sports history. They make the Cubs look proud.
They know that these few years of fleeting success will come crashing down soon. They have a bunch of expensive, aging veterans, their franchise player is locked in for about a decade and is a strikeout waiting to happen, and they can’t hit their (considerable) weight. That and their uniforms look like they should be selling cotton candy at little league games.
I know most people get angry when Phillie fans act like this. I just pity them.
HAHA! Cotton candy vendors…
Let’s not compare histories since the Mets came into being, because the Mets have lost even more games than the Phils since then.
As for the ‘few years of fleeting success’, I’d take those over ‘isolated seasons of limited success’ the Mets have had since I’ve been watching baseball.
That you took the time to even acknowledge this means job accomplished by the person who wrote this. My thought on this is leave this in the gutter where it came from. The only purpose this writer wrote this was to stir up Mets fans and it seems it’s working.
I understand the concept since I do things like that jokingly in High School but…
There you go. Those kind of immature tactics should be left at the door in High School. You can stir up Met fans without attacking Gooden’s drug problems or mentioning Carter’s tumor.
It’s much more fun to react than to just stay quiet, anyway. Usually, I stay quiet, but it’s fun to get the word out for others.
fair enough
Ever hear of the word rivalry before? That’s all this is. You think Mets fans haven’t said worse about the Phillies? You should sit in my section at CitiField. The only one stirring up Mets fans is Fred Wilpon, not the clown who ranted about the Mets.
VERY GOOD point MNJ!
Philadelphia is a dump. It’s city to slums ratio is disgusting and mildly concerning. In the Northeast region where everyone talks about the cities of New York and Boston, Philadelphia is in a very distant third. They have serious inferiority issues and want to toot their horns since recently winning only their second World Series and one of their few championships in the city history, that makes us here in NYC go “oh, I forgot Philly had teams.” For a city who’s only claims to fame are steaks with cheese and a city version of Colonial Williamsburg, they are merely enjoying their brief time in any limelight. Tomorrow we will all forget about this article in a small-time newspaper and Philadelphia will go back to being the after thought of the nation and irrelevant to the rest of the world.
And that’s why the Philadelphia sports fans are the worst form of lowlife.
I’m surprised it took this long, but here is Bill Burr’s classic rant about Philly
Very NSFW because whatever little bit of audio you can hear is most likely some form of profanity. You’ve been warned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4nSzE4N-o
Behold the Garbage that is Journalism…
From Tweets, to blogs, to rants, to posts, news and journalism on a whole has gone from respectible and informative to just plain old crap.
From Joe the Plumber, to TV News citing tweets, to the fictional made up crap we call tabloids, I feel in 10-20 years, there will be no more news papers, no more televised news, no more radio news. Soon, we will all be watching FOX interviewing hicks via facetime on their Iphones, via our iphones.
The Media makes be sick.
You guys can say what you want about the Fans in Philly…
But they do something we Met fans do not….
SELL OUT EVERY BALLGAME!
Gotta give them that!
I’ll go one better. I bet there are more Phillies fans than Mets fans at Citi tonight.
Bet your right…
But considering how many Met fans NOT attending made their ability to GET those tickets is the real crime here!
I’m not saying Philly fans are great fans or anything (they are to the phillies) just saying that they have been drawing rather regularly while we Met fans have been organizing Boycotts (as if thats going to get rid of Wilpon or make them play good) and When Sandy gets his budget to fix things and resign guys they like (such as reyes) they had better get a mirror to yell at the guy who caused there to be no money to sign anyone or fix anything!
If the Philly fans had figured that out back when they were where we are, it might not have taken all that time to create a good team.
metsie,
how old are you?? 11? have you ever gone to philadelphia to actually watch a game?? they sell out NOW coz they’re winning, but trust me bro, philadelphia is a football town, once the team revert back to their sucky way the fans won’t give a f*** about the phillies, just like in 94,95,96,97,98,99,00,01,02,03,04…
I’m 49 Alex, How old are you?
So tell me are you a fan of the METS or are you like the PHILLY fans who only go to see his favorite team when it’s already a winner?
Now tell me about Chicago…They Winning? They Sell out too! Whats their excuse!
You must be young from the sounds of your recent posts so let me try and give you a little upbringing…
It is not SANE to bash someone else for somthing you yourself are GUILTY of!
If you were not guilty you would be on the #7 train right now not typing your rant about Philly fans…
Somethere here about a pot and a kettle if you ask me!