Calm the frig down. Yesterday I'm listening to Mike and the Mad Dog on my way home from work and and Mets fans are completely out of control right now. After one good season Met fans think their the hottest thing since sliced bread. Saying their the most exciting team in baseball, that they are going to overtake the Yankees, destroying Jimmy Rollins... I'll break it down point by point...1. Mets = Most Exciting Team in Baseball - It's tough to label a single team as the most exciting team in baseball, each team has different story lines and each game is it's own entity. The Mets have Wright, Reyes and Beltran three supreme talents but how many people outside of New York City are going out of their way to watch any of these guys. I love Reyes I think Reyes is really exciting, but would I rather watch Johan Santana, or Dice-K, or Pujols the answer is yes.
2. Overtaking the Yankees - This is the most laughable thing I hear everyday on the FAN from Met fans. They always have to compare themselves to the Yankees and say how they are a younger team and more exciting and blah blah blah. You are not going to overtake the Yankees this year, this decade, or this century, just face the facts. It's no different for the Nets and the Jets they are the 2nd team in the city for better or worse forever. Arod gets more publicity locally and globally than practically ever Met combined. Just enjoy the fact you have a terrific team with solid chance of winning the NL and possibly the World Series, stop comparing yourselves to the Yankees, it's a standard you will never live up to. Division Titles since the strike: Yankees 11, Mets 1.
3. Grilling of Jimmy Rollins - Rollins said that he thought the Phillies were the team to beat in the NL East, that's it. It wasn't a bold statement, it was the typical I think my team is good and we're going to win statement, hell he didn't even guarantee anything, and the Philies were predicted by many to win the Division, it wasn't a ludicrous statement at all. Yet, Met fans feel the need to crucify the guy like he spat out obsurd statements. It's not as if he's Felipe Lopez saying the Nationals were the team to beat in the NL, that would have been completely obsurd. Just enjoy the fact the Phillies are struggling to start the season, no reason to kill Rollins.
4. Mike and the Dog, Hate the Mets - Another recurring theme on Mike and the Mad Dog, people calling up and saying the hosts hate the Mets and give them no respect. Get over yourselves. Both picked the Mets to win the division and win 90+ games. Both continually say the Mets are a good team. Neither will proclaim them automatic NL Champions, and why should they. Russo's Giants are going to completely suck this year, so all season long he will be rooting for the downfall of the Yanks and Mets, just laugh it off at the fact that his team stinks and his best player is a roiding cheater and they shelled out boatloads of money for Zito a staff #2. And Met fans typically hate Francessa because he tells them the Yankees are more important to New York, they are, it's a fact.Met fans need to just focus on their solid team, with questionable starting pitching, and the upcoming battle with the Braves for the division. Stop whining and stop comparing yourselves to the Yanks.
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