This is in no way going to be a baseball-centric blog, but, c'mon, it's the post-season. Promise the next ten after this won't be about baseball.
I surveyed a couple of Mets fans about a possible Yankees v. Phillies World Series. This says it all.
fromElliot Choi
Fucking apocalypse. I have discussed this with multiple Mets fans. It breaks down according to geography. Mets fans in philly do not want to be here for another World Series parade and be surrounding by smug asshole phillies fans. Plus we can't have a team in our division win back to back championships.
On the flip side, Mets fans in NYC, do not want the yankees to have another parade in the city and also to christen the new stadium with a fucking championship.
I see it as the marginal negative value to me of the yankees winning another title is way less than the marginal negative value of the phillies winning another World Series. Either way, fml.
Thoughts, Mets fans?
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ReplyDeleteAlright. So I've spent a while thinking about this, and I think Elliot's right -- if you're a Mets fan in NYC you want the Phillies to win; if you're in Philly you want the Yanks to win. As he stated, this regionalism is just a way to try avoid the most annoying aspects of this World Series from taking place in your home town.
ReplyDeleteBut what if you're a Mets fan who DOESN'T live/spend lots of time in either city. In that case, I think you are rooting for the Yanks. Why? Well simple -- what makes most Mets fans dislike the Yanks are the cocky, pain in the ass, know-it-all, paternalistic Yankees fans that dominate the metropolitan NYC area. They are really fucking annoying. But take them out of the equation and what are you left with? The Bronx Bombers (which probably has a fanbase where you live, but minus the natural jack-ass quality all New Yorkers/New Jersey-ians have) versus Jimmy Rollins' "me me me -- fuck the Mets" attitude. In that case, who would you root for? The Yankees themselves never have any shit-talk for the Mets, while the Phillies have TONS. It's only the Yankees FANS that feel the need to shit on the Mets and Mets fans. So remove the fans, and the choice becomes easy.
Of course, since I live in NYC and find it difficult to stomach the prospect of drunken fans jeering me and my Mets-fan brethren while parading down the Canyon of Heroes (and then again each time I wear a Mets hat until next year's All-Star Break), I cannot remove the fans. Instead, the fans -- and even when they aren't talking smack you can tell they are sneering and looking down at you -- that becomes the motivator. So as hard as it is for me to swallow...
Go Phillies...