Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Why it must suck to be a Met fan during this World Series











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. I love the way the man played and my dad would always point out how he never takes a play off. He is always trying. Now growing up in the latter part of my youth in Hampton Roads area there was not much baseball other than high school or the Triple A team the Norfolk Tides who at the time were affiliates of the New York Mets. But even though being exposed to Mets players I never wavered from my love from the Yanks. But now living in NYC this is my first time experiencing the Yanks in the Big Show while living hear and there is one group in particular that despise this World Series...New York Mets fans. It hurts them to the heart to see their division rivals and their home city rivals playing each other.
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?" Well Mr. Wright since your statement he has since won an MVP, and a championship ring to compliment that and now going for a 2nd ring. And since your Mets have had the biggest chokefest in '07, that the Phillies and Jimmy Rollins benefited from in the end. And now Mets fans get to watch Howard and Rollins mature while yall are still hoping for Wright and Reyes to.
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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