

Well after Sunday, watching the Yankees gain their 40th. Pennant, it got me thinking about the two teams playing. I have been a fan of the Yankees as soon as I was introduced to the sport by my parents. I loved watching Donnie baseball, and thanks to may dad Dimaggio, Munson, Mercer, Gerhig (I know before my time) until 96 when Derek Jeter came on the scene.


New York Mets fans have a lot of reason to dislike the Yanks. I mean they are the team that you come in second to in everything. You aren't even the favorite team in your own city. You make a new stadium and the yanks have to make a grander one and have a grander opening then you do. You then try and bring in high priced talent having the 2nd highest payroll for the 2009 season (2nd again to the Yankees) and all the injuries cause you to come in dead last of your division. Your paying players to nurse their injuries instead of helping yall win a division. Plus the last time you made it to the big show, you lost to the Yanks.

Now yall may strongly dislike and have ring envy for the Yanks but what you feel for the Phillies is pure hatred. The Phillies have been a thorn in yalls side for years. They are in your division and have also war of words the past few years to go with being the reason yall are shut out of the playoffs. But the difference between you and Phillies is that the Phillies have backed their words on the field and have a ring to show for it and a few division titles to add. Let's take one player on the Mets that I do halfway like- David Wright. A Hampton Roads born and breed boy. Well his mouth recently has written a check that it can't cash. He posed the question about Rollins in '07, "What has Jimmy Rollins ever won?"

But on Wednesday when the series opens up, gotta make a decision who to root for? But let's hope it’s for the hometown team going for #27 and think there is always next year but until then...

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