Cruz
I remember last year around this time when I wrote about how the Phillies weren’t the storybook team they were the year before. Some reader responded that the whole article sounded like “sour grapes”. Looking back on that article now, yea it definitely was. I hated the Phillies just as much last year as I do today.(What Met fan doesn’t?)
I’ll admit it, I hate the Phillies because they’re what the Mets should be. Their GM is smart and their players play hard. But I still don’t care. I could still hate them. With last nights win over the Giants, I hate them even more. I will continue to root against them for the entire playoffs and possibly the World Series.
Is it sour grapes? Yea, it might be but so what. Ask a Phillie fan if they would root for the Mets. You think a Yankee fan will root for Boston? I’ll accept the fact that the Phillies are better, in fact, way better than the Mets but I still won’t root for them under any circumstances. So watching the Phillies drop the opener to the Giants was a great Saturday night, coupled with the tough Yankee loss too. Needless to say, I want to see a Texas/Giants Fall Classic-to hell with how boring it might be.
Hey, while I’m at it, I hate the Braves too, and I’m glad they lost in the first round. Bobby Cox had his time and won his championships and I’m happy for him. I played the smallest violin the day the Braves lost to the Giants. I’m sure their fans were upset too, the ones that actually showed up to the game. They did a pan around the stadium and I saw the Upper Deck of Turner Field with empty seats. Some fans just don’t know how lucky they are.
As far as the Yankees go. Are you kidding? The only thing better than watching Texas win is watching Texas celebrate in Yankee Stadium. I know it sounds cruel but every Yankee fan I know tells me that regardless of what happens this year-their getting Cliff Lee in the Offseason.
Here I am hoping to get a decent GM and I’ve got every Yankee fan setting up their rotation for next year.
Amazing.
So I’ll sit down tonight and root Lee on and hopefully watch the Phillies lose in San Fran tomorrow- one can hope right?
Sour Grapes? Yea, but it’s all in good fun and besides, that’s the beauty of baseball right? Deep down I’m enjoying all of it. Winter is right around the corner and besides waching football once a week I got to start searching the channels for the old Star Trek Reruns and await the Spring until there is life again in the ball parks all around the country.
19 comments
stickguy
10/18/2010-9:30am at 9:30 am (UTC -4)
you have to root against these two teams. This is what my concept of “sports hate” is all about!
I also don’t know as if you can give Amaro credit for being “great”. Very lucky that he was riding behind Gillick pulling the strings, and he inherited a stacked team when he became the titular #1. Halladay fell into his lap like Santana did to the Mets. Oswalt was smart to get, but the Phillies GM who gets a lot of credit for that was Ed Wade!
But, Ruben also has made some head scratching moves committing tons of $$ to aging players. The Howard contract extension (before it had to be done), picking up Rollins option a year early, 3 years to Palanco, etc. I expect him any day to give Ibanez 2 more years!
basically, it seemed his plan was to keep the same team together untl they all qualified for social security together!
Yeah, major sour grapes. I just feel that I have to provide a counterpint to the frequent Phillies are the bestest team ever lovefest.
metsfan4decades
10/18/2010-11:51am at 11:51 am (UTC -4)
Last night the TBS booth commented with Victorino’s 30th birthday today, the entire team will now be on the wrong side of 30.
Correct me if I’m wrong but Hamels definitely isn’t 30+ and neither is Dom Brown – who I have to assume will be on the team next year. Probably others as well.
I get it though – the team is getting up there. –As is the Yankees.
Now, I’ve been saying the Yankees ‘core’ is aging for 3 years now but somehow they seem to keep going. Realistically though, how long can you count on the 40 year old arms of Mo and Posada and the aging Jeter (who they’ll have to resign) and now injury problem ARod?
TRS86
10/18/2010-11:58am at 11:58 am (UTC -4)
Did they mean their starting 8 position players?
metsfan4decades
10/18/2010-12:01pm at 12:01 pm (UTC -4)
I’m not really sure. They could have meant that and I missed that part. It was just a passing comment though – not like they had some 5 minute discussion on it and I could have missed some details.
stickguy
10/18/2010-1:28pm at 1:28 pm (UTC -4)
I did not see that, but I assume they meant the starting position players. Pretty sure Brown isn’t even on the post season roster.
Hamels is also the only SP below 30 (of the “big 4″ that will be bak next year). Heck, they don’t really have anyone in the pen anymore under 30.
stickguy
10/18/2010-1:32pm at 1:32 pm (UTC -4)
they are also locked into some of those aging guys for a lot of years, at large $$. Hopefully injury prone Utley will age in dog years like all Met 2B over the age of 30 at least.
metsfan4decades
10/18/2010-11:45am at 11:45 am (UTC -4)
Gonzo – I couldn’t have said it better myself.
What self respecting Met fan wouldn’t be rooting against the Phillies and the Yankees?
Mr North Jersey
10/18/2010-11:54am at 11:54 am (UTC -4)
I see this subject about the Phillies & Yankees come up more and more lately it seems and I am trying to understand is if it’s because there are people out there saying Mets fans should root for the Phillies or Yankess?
I can’t recall any said Mets fan saying they were rooting for the Yankees or the Phillies.
metsfan4decades
10/18/2010-12:04pm at 12:04 pm (UTC -4)
I think it’s only coming up more and more because last year Met fans were tortured watching the Yankees and Phillies in the WS and this year, they might very well be subjected to the same thing.
I’ve seen several blog posts and comments both last Oct and so far this year on the same subject. I believe it’s just us Met fans venting.
However, there have been a very small handful who have either stated that Met fans should stop with the Philly ‘hate’ and/or should relish watching the best two teams compete in the WS – no matter who it is.
All I’m going to say on that mindset is Bah…..
TRS86
10/18/2010-12:23pm at 12:23 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed.
Mr North Jersey
10/18/2010-12:33pm at 12:33 pm (UTC -4)
You make a good point 4D. I guess I can see how this could be viewed as just mere venting.
I guess I just found it strange the need to declare oneself to be rooting against the Phils or Yanks if your a Mets fan. Almost as if that isn’t the most obvious statement to assume to begin with.
If say the Mets and the Red Sox are in the L.C.S. next season I would not be shocked to hear a Yankee fan rooting
againstfor whomever the Mets and Sox were playing.saltygary
10/18/2010-12:25pm at 12:25 pm (UTC -4)
last year I was rooting for the apocalypse and if they both make it I will be sacrificing chickens to “el diablo” once again.
kistics
10/18/2010-1:27pm at 1:27 pm (UTC -4)
Count me in. I’m wishing for some crazy natural event that doesn’t involve any loss of life and minimal monetary damage which causes the WS to be canceled and neither team wins a WS title.
stickguy
10/18/2010-1:30pm at 1:30 pm (UTC -4)
I can’t think of anything that would cancel the series, at least working within your “loss of life” constraint!
It might get played between the AAA teams, at a neutral site, but it will get played!
kistics
10/18/2010-1:41pm at 1:41 pm (UTC -4)
what if there’s some mysterious ‘sink hole’ thing happening in all of NY/Philly area baseball stadiums. Except for the Citi Field, but Wilpons refuse to let them play in that stadium.
metsfan4decades
10/18/2010-11:30pm at 11:30 pm (UTC -4)
That was highly entertaining.
Cliff Lee, his 13 Ks and a Yankee BP implosion.
Those of you watching, did you catch the mass exodus of Yankee fans there in the 8th? It was like the fire alarms went off in the stadium.
stickguy
10/18/2010-11:33pm at 11:33 pm (UTC -4)
I noticed the score on MLB.com, so actually put on the game in the top 9th. Now this was a fine, fine game!
I did notice that there were a whole bunch of empty seats right behind the plate!
now, if AJ just pitches as bad as he did most of the year tomorrow, this could actually be a series that ends well. Unless they panic and send fatboy out on 3 days rest.
and really, how many extra years/millions did Lee just guarantee himself from the yankees in a few weeks?
metsfan4decades
10/18/2010-11:45pm at 11:45 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, I’m thinking that’s the only downside to tonight’s game.
The Yankees will likely go all in just so they never have to face Lee again.
Those cortisone shots sure do work well.
stickguy
10/18/2010-11:48pm at 11:48 pm (UTC -4)
let them go 5/120 on a guy that will be what, 33 to start, and has some obvious wear (based on the various health issues he has had to work through recently).