No celebration this year Shane!
I’ve been very tentative the last few days when it came down to discussing the Pennant race. I don’t know about you but the last thing I wanted was a rematch of last year’s Fall Classic. I been sitting back and letting all the Yankee and Phillie fans talk and talk and occasionally throw a Met joke in regarding Golf.
Since the moment I woke up this morning, all I’ve been watching it Giant/Ranger highlights from this weekend.
So who’s laughing now? I understand the Mets are Light Years away from where the Yankees and Phillies are at this moment but this was a good weekend of baseball for Met fans. Not only will there not be a rematch of last year but both the Yankees and Phillies end their seasons more questions than answers.
I have to give some credit to my father-the Yankee fan. He hasn’t been excited about the Yankees since the Summer. He didn’t like how the offense would sputter out for days and hated the pitching. He called the Yankees going out in the first round. When they beat the Twins, he assured me that the Rangers or Tampa would crush them. In contrast, I expected the Yankees to step up and be the storybook team they always are but maybe age and some real bad managing finally got the best of them. I’ll play a small violin. I’m quite sure the Yankee checkbook will get a workout this off season.
But listening to my father made me come to the realization that I really hate the Yankee fans who don’t know their own team-the guys or girls, who think the Yankees will win simply because they are the Yankees. I’ll leave my father alone, but I’m killing everyone else. Don’t worry, they expect and deserve everything they get. As a side note, I loved watching A-Rod strike out for the end of the game and Josh Hamilton is just awesome to watch.
When it comes down to Phillie fans, however, I’m going to make it my sole purpose to give them as much heartache as possible. They’ll get no sympathy from me and believe me, they don’t deserve any. If you think the Yankee fans are bad, try watching a Phillie news station. When they interviewed fans on Friday night, they were downright arrogant and why not, they were supposed have the best three pitchers in the National League. I guess they don’t now. I honesty think that this was the year for them, the starters, the line-up, and the attitude just spelled out World Series. I loved watching The Giants celebrate on the their home field. Citizens Bank Park became a library with the only sound being the white Phillie hanky’s hitting the ground. As a side note, Uribe’s shot is a double in Citi Field. What the old saying, live by the sword? That’s what Phillie gets from playing in a bandbox. And I better not hear that the Phillies are crying the blues when they have to start paying for players now that they traded 9 prospects in a year. I don’t want to hear it. My father tells me that he would bet serious money on Jason Werth wearing Pinstripes next year. I wouldn’t doubt it.
For the record, I will watch and enjoy the entire World Series, there will be history made regardless of who wins. And when the Fall Classic ends and Thanksgiving rolls around, I’ll load up that plate with a little extra Turkey and stuffing.
15 comments
GravediggerHebner
10/24/2010-11:32am at 11:32 am (UTC -4)
Of course they’ll be no Shane Victorino celebration this year. There is never a Shane Victorino celebration. He and all his Phillies teammates play the game the right way. They step in the box, take their swings, make their plays, keep their heads down and act like professionals who’ve been there before. It’s the rest of the league that’s filled with celebrators, not Philadelphia. Just ask the Phillies, they’ll tell you themselves.
Clearly the photo attached to this post is altered. No Phillie would ever do anything like that.
metsfan4decades
10/24/2010-12:00pm at 12:00 pm (UTC -4)
LOL !!
+1
hazmet
10/24/2010-1:28pm at 1:28 pm (UTC -4)
ditto, lol.
I loved the phillie bench shot early in the game where one of the bench players made some sort of celebratory hand wave antic and started high fiving the bench after an Oswalt strikeout. Jeez talk about needing to calm down, celebrating a strike out in like the 3rd inning on the bench like it was a big run scoring.
metsfan4decades
10/24/2010-12:04pm at 12:04 pm (UTC -4)
First and second generation in my family are all Met fans.
First generation – old Brooklyn Dodger fans – hate the Yankees like only that generation can.
Second generation has a life long hate of all things Yankees too, but the ‘hate’ is a little more passionate now for the Phillies.
Third generation is a mix of Yankee and Philly fans. (Where did we go wrong?)
As I sincerely like my nieces and nephews, I’ll try not to gloat too much.
As a Met fan, I couldn’t have scripted a better outcome for the upcoming WS. Unless we can rewind the tape and the Mets would somehow be headed there.
khmustache
10/24/2010-12:06pm at 12:06 pm (UTC -4)
well hello everyone! back from my self-imposed sabbatical… and i couldn’t be happier! looks like things are looking up in mudville these days! no yanks, no phils and a real gm in the coming days…
in all honesty, i haven’t been this excited for an off-season in a very long time. i know the mets aren’t going to contend right off, but it’s going to be great to see what they do to change the atmosphere.
and not too mention watching the phils start the inevitable post-watching-strike-3-in-the-deciding-game-of-the-nlcs-decline into oblivion and absurdity… or maybe that’s just the mets who do that…
khmustache
10/24/2010-12:07pm at 12:07 pm (UTC -4)
also, please forgive the numerous grammatical errors… little rusty
rustyjr
10/24/2010-12:32pm at 12:32 pm (UTC -4)
Welcome back from the Tim teuful school of shuffle and blog editing !! Hope to see you around alot more !! Btw on the mark as always gonzo
hazmet
10/24/2010-1:24pm at 1:24 pm (UTC -4)
little rusty?
Isn’t that the illegitimate son of Rusty Jr?
Welcome back & agree should be an interesting Hot Stove and maybe even hopes for actual mid season deals to improve the squad with a new GM.
metsfan4decades
10/24/2010-12:18pm at 12:18 pm (UTC -4)
Hey, there he is….
I’m not willing to write off 2011 – yet. Too early to tell as we don’t know what the team will look like. That, and I’m thinking the NL east isn’t going to be all that strong next year.
- Nats losing Dunn and Strasburg out for the year
- Phillies losing Werth and getting older
- Braves still looking for another bat or two and a closer
- The Marlins, well they’re the Marlins (until that franchise opens their purse strings a little more, they’re always going to be looking for that magical year where all their young prospects contribute).
GravediggerHebner
10/24/2010-12:26pm at 12:26 pm (UTC -4)
Welcome back and agreed about the excitement for the off-season. The Minaya regime had fallen into a fairly consistent pattern of “1 of the top 3 FAs and a bunch of hope-for-lightning-to-strike signings.” The largely unpredictable nature of this hot stove is a welcome change and I look forward to some different types of moves. Hell even if they’re the same types of moves I’m just looking forward to the judgment of a different front office in making them.
Prismo
10/24/2010-1:34pm at 1:34 pm (UTC -4)
Howard taking that 3rd strike sure did remind me of a certain moment in recent Mets’ history…I wonder if the Philly fans will be as hard on him as Mets fan still are on Beltran.
kistics
10/24/2010-1:57pm at 1:57 pm (UTC -4)
That is exactly what I was thinking when Howard took that pitch (I think it was little more borderline strike than Wainwright-Beltran pitch). Not to mention the fact that $25M did not have ONE RBI in NLCS. Perhaps this is a turning point in Phillies franchise, just like what happened to the Mets after Wainwright-Beltran pitch.
Anyways….. haha!! Phillies suck!!
kistics
10/24/2010-1:57pm at 1:57 pm (UTC -4)
Oh yeah and Yankees SUCK TOO!!!! haha!!
khmustache
10/24/2010-2:24pm at 2:24 pm (UTC -4)
didn’t a-rod take a called strike 3 as well? lets hope the decline starts for both of those teams
TRS86
10/24/2010-3:09pm at 3:09 pm (UTC -4)
My thoughts when Howard took that pitch last night were “and it was not even a curve ball”. What goes around comes around.