Mets fans should root for the Phillies

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1. Eric says:

   October 27, 2009 at 7:00 pm

   1) Mets fans are New Yorkers (generally). Yankee fans would root for the Mets if the roles were reversed.
   2) Jimmy Rollins is the most insufferable player on either team.
   3) Mets fans hate the Phillies
   4) Mets fans love Xavier Nady, who would technically get a ring.
   5) Yankee fans never booed Santa.

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2. Eric says:

   October 27, 2009 at 7:01 pm

   6) The AL does reign supreme. That’s because the AL is better at baseball.
   7) The Phillies ain’t exactly a low-payroll team.

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3. johnf says:

   October 27, 2009 at 7:46 pm

   I live in Philly and it’s a different kind of narcissism. It’s more like” we like guys who crash into walls and play hard, we like blue collar players…blah blah. All cities have they’re good and bad fans. No one city is better then the other. Tell me one city who praises another cities fans??? There’s bandwagon and die hards in every city with the exception of St.Louis.You didn’t see Phillies fans in Shea and Citi Field until the Charlie Manuel era or Baltimore for that matter which is even closer. Red Sox fans were always in Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards. Oh well Go Philies!!

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4. kiner says:

   October 27, 2009 at 9:20 pm

   This Mets fan is fantasizing about an early Nor’easter and cold spell that drops a foot of snow on the East Coast, thus forcing Bud Selig to cencel the WS (again). The side bennie is that Bud will realize what an abomination November baseball is.

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5. coley says:

   October 28, 2009 at 2:59 am

   Where to start? Eric, you’re right that the Phillies aren’t a low payroll team, but the Yankees payroll is nearly twice Philadelphia’s. When it comes to spending money, there’s the Yankees and everyone else. Also, the AL is the better league. That’s a fact. But that doesn’t mean we NL fans have to like it, or that we can’t enjoy taking the AL down a peg every once in a while.

   Also, I challenge you to explain why Rollins is insufferable, and why the Mets fans love Nady so. Please, enlighten me.

   Johnf, no city is better than the other? You mean to tell me the fans in Boston aren’t better than the fans in Miami? Or DC? What about Tampa, where a World Series appearance did little to boost attendance? Surely you’ll agree that some cities are worse than others? I’m from Philly, and I have no problem admitting that we are a bunch of degenerates. But I don’t mind. At least we’re passionate. At least we care. I’d hate to root for the Rays, to go to games where the stadium is half empty and the crowd is silent.

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6. Dubs says:

   October 28, 2009 at 11:34 am

   There’s bandwagon and die hards in every city with the exception of St.Louis.

   Why do people give unwarranted credit to Cardinal fans? It really grinds my gears. They are just like the rest of the 4 million plus fan bases, except they put on a smile when things go bad. Good for them. They are nice farm people. But they do not deserve any more props than the next set of fans. It is like saying Yankee fans are bigger douchebags than Red Sox fans… actually that may be true. My point still holds.

   /Cubs fan

   PS A Phillies win would make life WAY easier for most of the country.

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7. Kirk Miller says:

   October 28, 2009 at 11:48 am

   Go Phils! As a diehard Giants fan, and therefore a NL fan, I would love to see the “inferior” league beat the “superior” league…again.

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8. Eric says:

   October 28, 2009 at 8:45 pm

   Explaining why Mets fans love Xavier Nady is like explaining why Germans love David Hassehoff. They just do.

   Jimmy Rollins has a history of trash-talking the Mets. A taste is here:

   http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/phils_rollins_rips_mets_YTZ9Vf6xn9ZhAUGDOppvfP

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9. Ben says:

   October 29, 2009 at 3:07 am

   Eric, you can’t be serious about using the NY Post in an argument about trash talking and taste. Did you catch the article called “The Frillies are Coming to Town?” The article was a long rant about how awful Philadelphia is as a city… the New York Post is one of the worst papers in the world, it barely gets beat out by Pravada as most blatant propaganda paper of all time. So yeah, trash talking arguments are now out, both sides do it.

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10. Coley Ward says:

    October 29, 2009 at 11:17 am

    Both sides do it, but Rollins gets points for always being right.

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11. Jeebus_Cripes says:

    October 30, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    “When the Phillies won their World Series last year, we Phils fans viewed it as nothing short of a miracle. We didn’t boast too much, because we understood that whoever or whatever higher power is in charge of dolling out karma clearly fell asleep at the wheel and we got lucky.”

    What planet are you from? Filthy Filly fans were out in droves bragging on ALL the mets websites and ALL NY newspaper websites all year.

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12. Janice Forte says:

    October 30, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    I am a dedicated fan of the Phillies and I would like to know why these Umps see a strike when the diagram they show us on the screen shows a ball. Last night it was a disgrace. I think that at least for the World Series they should have instant replay. Why show us the diagram if they are allowing the Ump to decide. Why do we need a Home Plate Ump when his call is wrong according to the diagram. It’s just not right.

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13. Coley Ward says:

    October 31, 2009 at 11:45 pm

    Janice, I think it’s important to recognize that the pitch trackers that Fox and TBS use are not necessarily accurate. But you’re right that, if a sport like tennis can embrace technology that accurately tells when a serve is in or out, it’s getting harder to stomach that baseball won’t adopt technology that would better call balls and strikes. Especially in light of all the missed calls this offseason. At least, that’s how I feel.

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14. Jeebus "HotRod" Cripes says:

    November 4, 2009 at 11:52 am

    Janice Forte: I think it’s the TV network that gets the calls wrong when their diagram shows the ball outside the zone.

    Keep instant replay in football where it belongs and don’t bring it to our game. Baseball has been played for over 100 years without instant replay and we don’t need it now.

    Umpires have never been perfect. That’s part of the beauty of the game.

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