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Tough time to be a Mets fan

Peter Abraham
October
3

If you have a buddy who’s a Mets fan, drop this link on them.

Too funny.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 12:21 am by Peter Abraham.
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59 Responses to “Tough time to be a Mets fan”

  1. Kill-Schill(ing)

    Very funny.

    I also liked this dude’s post about Mets fans. I’ve read his posts on here before, so I suggest it as an amusing read. He calls them the “Me-Too Mets.”

    http://theyankeesrepublic.blogspot.com

  2. pat

    haha that was funny

  3. JZ

    LOL good stuff!

  4. I love Joba

    Here is another one…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....M&NR=1

  5. donniesbetterthandoug

    good news and bad
    steve phillips said cleveland would win but tim kurkjian said yanks would win- i’d feel better if both of them went against us. having said that i’d take phillips’ jinx over kurkjians’ anyday- he is terrible

  6. William

    Tonight on Conan he was nominating someone for being the biggest met fan in the crowd…. the winner hung himself

  7. Dewey

    Hahah, I love the Phillie Phanatic.

  8. mel

    Ah, thanks, Pete. I don’t know which is funnier. Mr. Met must die or Papelbon doing the river dance in his hotpants. Oh who are we kidding.

  9. LCâ„¢

    LOL

  10. Vader

    Regarding the clip of Papelbon doing the river dance in the previous post, if you thought that was bad, check out this site and watch the second clip begining around the 4:50 mark.

    http://www.outincenterfield.co.....rious.html

    Dr Acula

    Is there anyway you can post just the Brady photo? And by the way the hat that 38donuts is wearing is a Yankee Hater hat, that is an interlocking Y&H. They are sold in the Boston area.

  11. Doreen

    Very, very funny!

  12. Lori

    OMG Vader – just hilarious. I really really really did not need to see Papelbon’s bare butt though. Glad you didn’t post this last night or I really would have had nightmares.

  13. jennifer 27 in 07

    Question did the soxs celebrate when they won the wild card? And if anyone thinks the Yankees were over the top in celebration look no further than what went on in Fenway. That was over the top. They were insane up there. Totally childish.

  14. jennifer 27 in 07

    Would you EVER EVER see an article like this in Boston?
    http://trailfire.com/sportsinbox/marks/155748

    How to pitch to big papi? Jesus what is wrong with these people!!

  15. Nate

    Conan loves poking fun at the Mets.

  16. jennifer 27 in 07

    My last post didn’t show up. :( I guess it didnt like the link I added.

    Anyway, go to the newsday site. They have an article up on how to pitch to Alex. Really ticked me off. WOuld you see an article in Boston about how to pitch to Ortiz? I think Not.

  17. Tony NJ

    Celebrations childish?

    Umm yea. That’s the point. If they all sipped a brandy and said cheers they wouldn’t be ballplayers.

    They play a marathon season. This is tradition.

  18. jennifer 27 in 07

    They were over the top.

  19. Henry VIII

    Sorry Jennifer but every team knows how to pitch to players. That’s why they have 2 scouts following every team and detailed reports on even minor leaguers. Execution is a different story.

    And obviously you haven’t been watching this year. Saying you know how to pitch to A-Rod and doing it have been two totally different things.

  20. Tony NJ

    Why shouldn’t they be over the top? What celebration isn’t??? They earned the right to do it. You’re a real square.

  21. Lori

    Jennifer – I think ARod himself talks about how to pitch to get him out. In talking about his post season horrors last year against the Angels, they’ve all been talking about how the Angels were able to expand the strike zone against him and get him to swing at bad pitches. ARod has been saying how he needs to be more patients and hopefully get guys on base in front of him so they are forced to throw good pitches to him.

  22. Rockin' Rich 27/07

    Actually, it should have been Billy The Marlin in bed with Mrs. Met, doing to her what the Marlins did to the mets (metaphorically.

    Go Fish!

    (LOL)

  23. Ray (sox fan)

    It has been interesting to see the number of posts on this blog that have focused on Papelbon, the Red Sox celebration, etc. Did Papelbon act like an idiot…ya probably but the guy can pitch so I don’t care. I have seen literally dozens of posts of here saying how preoccupied Red Sox fans are with the Yankees, but if you guys are losing sleep over whether the Sox celebration was over the top then that speaks volumes about who is preoccupied with who. Was the celebration over the top? As a Yankee fan why should you even care?

  24. Bloomy

    A team should celebrate a playoff spot any which way they want.

    You work hard all year you may as well take some steam away by celebrating hard.

    Its about having fun.

  25. Martin S

    Why do people like Ray ie Sox fans post here in the first place? Don’t you have a home?

  26. Lori

    Ray – I don’t think anyone here is losing sleep over the Red Sox celebration other than from nightmares of having to see Papelbon’s various half-naked dances. Unfortunately with no baseball yesterday, we’re all going through withdrawal. We’ve been reduced to talking about Papelbon, Mr. Met and other various irrelevancies.

  27. Ray (sox fan)

    I hear you Lori! lol

  28. JDnotDrew

    Funny stuff Pete and Joba Love . Keep up the good work. Yanks are goin to give Paps a giant wedgie if they meet so who cares.Get that Red sux celebration out of here.

  29. Giambi has a small unit

    They are basically kids celebrating and no they had a very minor celebration for locking in a playoff spot. You don’t think Joba would have been celebrating HAD the Yankees won the Division? I guess if there’s anything to complain about the Red Sox you will find it on this blog.

  30. jennifer 27 in 07

    Very true Lori!! Those Mr. Met videos are great.

  31. JDnotDrew

    Pete- I’ve now seen more of the sox celebration than the Yanks celebration on this blog. More Mets vids please. Or maybe some clips from 2004, geesh.

  32. jennifer 27 in 07

    And Giambi I guess as a sox fan you have nothing better than to see what Yankee fans say about your team, huh?

  33. JDnotDrew

    Soory not Pete – Vader thanx.

  34. Giambi has a small unit

    Jennifer, you have more video on here on the Sox than a Sox blog has. Talk about infatuation! I guess your bloggers search Red Sox blogs, but that’s OK?

  35. jennifer 27 in 07

    I’m not going to go back and forth with you. Bottom line is, I am not going on a sox blog and posting, whereas you are going on a Yankee blog and posting.

  36. Nick

    Yankee fans searching Sux blogs is for pure entertainment as to why so many people in one region can be so delusional and envious of the Yankees way of doing things.

  37. Giambi has a small unit

    Yeah, celebrating the Division is delusional and envious, Right. That would be nation wide not regional, get it right.
    No Jennifer your not but the other bloggers are.

  38. J-Dawg--Veintisiete en '07

    Infatutation- isn’t that a Rod Stewart song?

  39. saucy

    the sox won the division this past weekend. the yanks clinced a playoff spot over a week ago. that’s why there’s more video/links to the RS celebration.

    science

  40. Ray (sox fan)

    Okay, clearly with the lack of baseball games over the last couple of days we are all getting a little snarly (comment directed at myself more than anyone else). Here is a little sidelight for you. I live in Maine and yesterday actually saw a sign for a TROLL VALLEY campground and resort! If you don’t believe me do a google search for Troll Valley and it will be the third or fourth thing that shows up.

  41. DMan

    Oh man.. This post season could get dangerous for all us fans..
    With all these extra days off and such around baseball, that just leaves more time for fans of every team to talk/argue/yell at one another =]

    Oh baseball, how I love thee.

  42. Doreen

    For the Yankees, for this particular season, the Wild Card was an achievement worthy of celebration. It was an uphill climb almost all the way to earn the Wild Card spot. If, they had fell into the Wild Card position, there would have been no big celebration – more of a “phew, at least we’re in the playoffs” kind of feeling – with the fans and probably among at least some of the team.

    I think the Red Sox were not only celebrating winning the division, and congratulations to them for that, but also for NOT LOSING the division and having to “settle” for the wild card spot – a “phew, we didn’t blow it,” mindset.

    Frankly, I don’t care how teams choose to celebrate; every team has a different collective personality. I just don’t want to watch a team other than the Yankees do it.

  43. DMan

    Doreen-

    I agree.. I think all that watching another team celebrate does, is cause more animosity towards that team.. Which really doesn’t accomplish much.

  44. saucy

    lol ray

    NOW GET BACK TO TROLL VALLEY!!!

    (j/k)

  45. Terry

    Boston thinks of itself as nationwide but in reality NYC is international and universal and takes it’s place alongside the cities of London, Paris, Tokyo, and like cities.
    Boston can be aligned with Little Rock, Arkansas – Savannah, Georgia, – Sacramento, California, and Indianapolis, Indiana.

  46. Doreen

    DMan -

    Do you find also that with all the off time that you end up thinking about all the negatives, all the things that can go wrong, instead of all the good things? I watched on YES last night while Bob, Kenny and Flash went over the scouting reports and all of a sudden it seemed to me that Cleveland is unbeatable! I know that’s just how these things always sound, because they’re pointing out what the Yankees have to watch/plan for, but, the only purpose they seem to really serve is to make me nervous!

  47. DMan

    Doreen-

    I talked about it a bit in my blog (shameless plug, I know, Im sorry) but what they talk aobut on those shows are all about stats. Just nothing but numbers ontop of numbers next to numbers..

    And while I admit that numbers tell part of the story, there is more involved in this game.. And those other things become even bigger come the post season..

    I mean theres not much we can do to not be nervous! But just remember that when it comes down to it, numbers can lie. nothing is set in stone.

    What I do, is compare the ‘feel’ of this Yankee team to the ‘feel’ of the teams in the past few seasons.. This team is different. Theres just something about them that makes them stand higher in my mind than those past teams.

  48. migames

    “Boston can be aligned with Little Rock, Arkansas – Savannah, Georgia, – Sacramento, California, and Indianapolis, Indiana.”

    best thing i have read all day

  49. J-Dawg--Veintisiete en '07

    I’m glad that playoff action is here today. Out of the three games, I’m honestly most interested in the Cubs-D’Backs series. The Cubs haven’t been to the playoffs since ‘03, but they do have several players with experience in the postseason, such as Soriano and Derrek Lee. I’d like to see the Cubbies get to the World Series.

  50. Doreen

    DMan –

    I just read your blog entry on this subject. Good read.

    Anyway, I agree that this team has a different feel to it. But I thought that last year when they overcame the Sheffield and Matsui injuries to win the division, and the previous year when I thought they had that extra something because of how Aaron Small and Shawn Chacon “saved” their season, that those things were enough to propel them through — well, that plus Detroit seemed a good matchup last year.

    What I really like about this year was, aside from one 9-game win streak, they were not a streaky team. They won series. 2 of 3, 3 of 4. To me, that’s they way you have to approach the playoffs. As a series. Sweeps are nice but not necessary. In my mind, they can lose to CC 2 times, as long as they win the other 3 (of course if CC is pitching game 5, then no, that doesn’t work).

    Anyway, you are right that so many things can happen that numbers alone cannot account for, and as long as the Yankees stay within themselves, it should be a good series. I’d love for them to win, and I think they can. Unfortunately, all we can do is watch what we can bear to watch, pace when we need to pace, or, as I sometimes do, leave them room when it gets too tense, or whatever other superstitious rituals we as fans get caught up in to “help” the team win. In one sense I want to fast forward 3 weeks! Already I can’t take the pressure. Thank goodness I don’t have to play!

  51. DMan

    Doreen-

    Hah yup thats all part of baseball! They’ve got to play the games and we have try and watch without getting so nervous we pass out.

    Numbers aren’t everything. They have to play the games!

    This team is ready to win.

  52. Klev

    If you really want to hear a broadside about the Mets, listen to Michael Kay’s Oct 1 pod-cast of his show on ESPN. He lays into the Mets like I’ve never seen/heard from a broadcaster (this side of Keith Olbermann on the Bush Administration…).

  53. Pittsburgh Yankee Fan

    Will George King ever leave ARod alone?

    This team seems more relaxed going into the playoffs this year that any year since the late 90s. I think they’ll play with the same attitude that they brought to the regular season.

    If CC and Carmona have it in them to shut the Yankees down in 3 of 5 games, you have to tip your cap to a pair of 19 game winners over the best Yankee offense in 70 years.

    I don’t think that they do.

  54. chris in fairfield

    the way i see it is like this . mets fans have been crushing our collective stones all season long . saying such things as the mets are the best baseball team in new york . the mets have a better starting rotation . ” our ” pen is just as good as last year . these statements are as untrue then as they are now . yankees fans have every right to bust the collectivs stones of all mets fans . mets fan deserve everything they get . i admit red sox , yankees and mets fans tend to be a little over the top but met fans tend to go a little too far . i feel bad for willie but the rest of the mtes organization including the players all deserve this ; the worst collapse in baseball history .

  55. Doreen

    Klev –

    Wow! What a diatribe. Kay certainly didn’t mince words, did he?

  56. Ben

    This one is priceless…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....0&NR=1

  57. Drive 4-5

    When I think of the Mets & their fans this year, all I remember is a particulary obnoxious Met fan that waved to all the Yankee fans exiting Gate 2 at Yankee Stadium after the June 10 game won by the Yanks 11- 8. “Bye Bye.Your STILL 10 games out. See ya next year!” He kept yelling in the face of every Yankee fan that came by him.

    Well, this Yankee fan would like to say to him and all his brethren….

    Bye Bye. See ya next year!

  58. Dr. Acula

    I got a request yesterday for photos of Tom Brady wearing a Yankees hat.

    Background: He was photographed sporting a Yankees hat in West Village on May 2nd with his grrl, Gisele Bundchen.

    Here are 3-slides

    http://tinyurl.com/38lqsb

  59. LEONOR

    TO ALL OF YOU MET FANS OUT THERE ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS
    GOT RINGS?
    WELL THE YANKEES NEW YORKS BEST BASEBALL TEAM HAS 26 RINGS THATS RIGHT THE YANKEES HAVE A RING FOR EVERY LETTER IN THE ALPHABET. YOU CAN NOT SAY THAT ABOUT ANY OTHER BASEBALL TEAM
    I WONDER IS THAT WHY THEY ARE SO LOVED BY THERE FANS IN WHICH THEY HAVE ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND WHY THEY ARE SO HATED BY MET FANS! WELL I AM SORRY TO SAY MET FANS YOU CAN NEVER EVER BE IN THE SAME LEAGUE AS THE YANKEES, NO MATTER HOW MANY WORLD SERIES YOU TRIED TO WIN YOU COULD NEVER BE WORLD CHAMPS LIKE THE YANKEES!
    I AM ROOTING FOR MY YANKEES ALL THE WAY BUT IF IT DOES NOT HAPPEN I WILL STILL BE SO PROUD OF HOW THEY CAME BACK AND MADE IT TO THE PLAYOFFS, THE YANKEES HAVE MADE ALL OF MY DREAMS COME TRUE WITH SO MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS, IN WHICH I HAVE TO LAUGH AT MET FANS BECAUSE ALL YEAR LONG ALL I HEARD WAS WERE IN 1ST PLACE
    AND THE YANKS ARE GOING NO WHERE WELL I THINK WERE GOING SOMEWHERE WERE WE ALWAYS GO TO THE PLAYOFFS! AND YOUR GOING
    HOME!!!! I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW A TEAM THAT WAS IN 1ST PLACE DOES NOT EVEN MAKE IT TO THE PLAYOFFS? NOW THEY ARE GOING DOWN IN HISTORY FOR THE WORST BASEBALL COLLAPSE IN HISTORY, WHILE THE YANKEES REMAIN IN HISTORY FOR 26 CHAMPIONSHIPS! SO NOW MET FANS WATCH SOME REAL CHAMPS PLAY BASEBALL!

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