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At Amazin’ Avenue, Eric Simons describes an anti-Mets movement in the national media, which he uses to frame 
our favorite team as underdogs - despite having a $115–million payroll, being a week or so away from winning back-to-back division titles, and having been in first place for roughly two years straight.
…honestly, i don’t read or watch as much national coverage as i used to, mostly because i don’t value a ‘professional’ columnist’s or broadcaster’s opinion more than i value yours…to me, when it comes to opinion, we all count equally…so, if there is a Mets bias, as eric suggests, i would not know about it…
…seriously, we’re not debating national security here…it’s sports and entertainment…so, i am far more interested in what we, as fans, are saying…i’ve always been fond of self-awareness, anyways…
…however, as a Mets fan, surrounded by Yankees fans, media coverage aside, i will always feel like an underdog…until the Yankees are knocked down from their pedestal, i will likely always feel this way, no matter how many division titles or regular season wins the Mets pile up…
…this is why, as much as i want to deny it, and as much as i know it is wrong, deep down inside, i can’t help but hope the Mets can play the Yankees in the World Series…i slap myself when i say that out loud, believe me…but, damn, how great would it be to get one more shot at Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera…i mean, even Roger Clemens and Andy Pettite are back…
…of course, if the Mets lost…again…yikes…i have no idea how i would handle it…which is why i am not ‘cheering’ for the Yankees to make it…if the Mets are there, and the Yankees get in, great, let’s do it…bring it on…but, until then, like the player will say, ‘i’ll take it one game at a time.’…
The only real bias I notice from local writers is clearly Klapsich from the Record. He is a yankee homer and apologist and rarely shares the same enthusiasm for our Mets. He has a puff piece about Joba today up (says he is part Pedro and part Clemens). He has written about Hughes and Kennedy as the next coming. Yet he continues to be relatively negative about Perez and Maine and Pelfrey. While occassionally he can heap some praise on the METS, he tends to end it by suggesting the NL is like the minors compared to the AL.
We all know about Steve Phillips, Rob Neyer and Morgan but IO think the league is where you should look. NL coaches and players alike seem to heap the praise properly on our METS. Bobby Cox, John Smoltz, Charlie Manual, even Chipper have all acknowledged the METS run here as being obvious they are the best team in the NL right now.
ummm uhh wallace matthews anybody?? i can see it now november 2nd mets win world series under it a little coverage piece by our friend wallace “is winning a world series really winning if the winners havent won”?
HE TRIED TO PUT A SHADOW OVER TOM GLAVINES 300TH WIN. hes crazy@!!
This weekend, at least in the D.C. area, we are treated to all three Yankee – Red Sox games on national television (two on ESPN, one on Fox). How many games of the (arguably) equally important Mets – Phillies series do we get to watch? You guessed it, zero.
Matt, I had almost those exact same thoughts about a Yankee Mets world series yesterday.
Cheer for Met Yankee world series? No way in hell. I’m not one of those fans with the inferiority complex of “Well, it’s not really the same if we don’t go through the Braves and Yanks in the postseason to win the World Title.” Screw that. We control our own destiny, and can’t help what other teams make it into the playoffs. It doesn’t matter who we play, just so long as it ends the way we want it to end.
The 2006 Cardinals clearly were not the best team last year, but I’m sure that thought didn’t ruin the champagne shower for them and their fans. How you get there is meaningless, it’s the end result that matters.
I doubt anyone is thinking that it’s not a “real” championship unless we beat the yankees; just that it would be reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaally sweet if we did (and proportionately painful if we lost to them).
i just teared up thinking about the mets losing to the yankees again. . .i dont know if i could handle that. this world series wouldnt be like 2001. the teams are on more level ground. considering that the yankees havent won a series recently. man, i dont want to think about it.
Well I understand, and feel, the need for revenge against the Yankees, my true desire is not revenge. It’s to render them so meaningless than revenge is pointless. If they both make the World Series, all those fair weather, “New York” Fans that are currently rooting for the Yankees are still going to root for them, regardless of the outcome. Ifthe Yankees miss the playoffs, or go 3 and out, then those fans begin to migrate to Queens, giving money to the Mets, that leads to more money for them, more aquisitions, and hopefully more winning.
The Yankees can keep their fair-weather fans.
I’m really torn on wishing for anotehr Subway series…the last one was so painful!
But, the upside of actually beating the Yankees and taking the Championship? It would be ridiculous….
All of that aside, let’s just get there first. Wasn’t last year painful enough?
The way I see it, this is pretty much just specific to me, but none of my teams have won a championship in my life (not counting when i was 1 in 1986), Ive seen the Mets, Raiders, and Knicks all lose in crushing heartbreaking fashion in the championship series/game, and I was at game 5 of the 2000 WS to add to it….So since Ive NEVER been able to celebrate a world title i dont care WHO it comes against hell i dont care if by some strange rule the royals make the WS. Although I dont care who we beat playing the yankees to me the risk outweighs the reward since I know the risk and I know how brutal that feels but since I dont know what it is to win a WS i dont want to risk having that terrible feeling in my gut for 5 months. Since i dont know what it is to beat a non yankees team theres no comparison to say “id be happier if we beat the yanks”.
It really coalesced for me as long ago as ‘86 when Vin Scully just could not manage to keep the disdain out of his voice when doing the postseason games. I know Scully is practically revered among broadcasters, but I have hated his guts ever since.
As far as the hometown sportswriters go, I just read them for the facts, as much as that’ s possible. I don’t have a lot of respect for too many of them. It seems to me that what passes for sports journalism these days is a continuous process of tale-carrying and pot-stirring– junior high school gossip carried into perpetuity.
Slap yourself hard, Matt. Never wish any level of success for the Skankees. Hard to imagine winning a championship and saying “jeez, I wish it were the Yankees we beat, I’m unfulfilled.” To me, it was far sweeter last year seeing the Spanks get ousted in the 1st round, knowing we were going deeper than they.
Frankly, I’m still rooting for a late surge by Detroit to oust the Yucks. A pox on their house.
For me, in some ways, possiblly the best scenario and worst, would be Mets-Boston WS. It would be the worst because, until proven otherwise, they ARE the best team in baseball. For those of us, including myself to a degree, that felt like the Cards had no business being in last year’s WS, the Mets were the NL best. AND, we got slapped silly by the Red Sox last season. Also, the Red Sox have clearly the best record in baseball this season. So, for us to play the Red Sox would be frightening, yet if we beat them, we could safely say we are true champions of the ML. Of course, there would still be some in the Bronx that would say it was cheap, because we didn’t beat the Yanks, so we wouldn’t be the Kings of NY. And those in Atlanta that would say we tied the season series with them, but whatever. Actually, I think most Braves fans are gonna “shutty” as the King of Queens says – they probably have already crawled under a rock until the spring.