Do NOT misunderstand me. I am a New York Mets fan. Period.
But since my team didn’t do so well this year (understatement of the decade), I had to make a choice: root for someone in the MLB postseason or stop caring about baseball until next year. As I’m still trying to learn as much as I can about the game, I went with option #1 which meant…rooting for the New York Yankees.
I have my reasons.
- As much as I don’t like the Yankees, being the snobs from the same town as the Mets, I really hate the Red Sox and it now goes so far beyond just being annoyed at T traffic during the season. In sports, you don’t have to have rational explanations for rooting for or against a team. I knew it would annoy Red Sox fans here if the Yankees won.
- And as much as I don’t like the Yankees with all their A-Rod crap, come on. I was not going to root for the Philadelphia Phillies! They are in the Mets division, won last year, and are just a bunch of punks that complain about the game, their opponents and even their own season. See comments made by a certain Phillies pitcher about wanting his season to be over. If they won two years in a row, they’d be just completely insufferable next year.
So yeah, World Series over. 2009 season done and in the books. It is SO time to move on. The Mets can continue to get healthy, maybe add (perhaps subtract) a few things and a year from now, this post will be all about the other New York baseball team that won the World Series.
Sleep tight David Wright.
