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There are still tickets available for April 19th.
Come on people!
Is this present or historically?
I don’t think I can hate the Phillies for a decade, they’re just never that good. My hatred for the Braves will be eternbal though.
*eternal*
see… they make me so angry my fingers get confused.
Who the hell voted for the Marlins?
seriously
the 9 marlins fans.
The rivalry we have with the marlins is so odd… they just hate us because we are good and they think we are also arrogant.
I think they started it….
Braves look like a better team than the Phillies this year… so maybe our rivalry with them will be sparked up again…
No one really cares about the Yankees… at least i dont…
The rivalry with the Cards is a thing of the past… it was one series… never escalated…
I see the Mets having respect for the Dodgers but I don’t see any hard feelings between them…
Cubs?
Top pick: Phillies
Phillies is really a budding rivalry. Aside from last year, there was never anything b/w mets & phillies.
Mets & Braves is still the #1 NL Rivalry and I want it to remain that way when we shake off the phils like the annoying fleas that they are.
I don’t think the Braves are limited to the Mets though. From 1995-2005, pretty much any team in the NL east had a rivalry with the Braves.
Frankly, I’d rather have a rivalry with the Phillies as it’s more regional. Atlanta is like 800 miles from New York and there’s no real city rivalry there (as there is with Phlly vs. NY or Boston vs. NY).
I disagree. Every Braves fan I know hates the Mets more than any other team (along with the Yankees), with a passion, too.
I hear what you are saying, but I don’t think the Phillies will spend enough on a consistent basis for there to be an extended rivalry of the likes of a Mets/Braves.
Sure everyone had a rivalry with the Braves b/c they were the Best team in the NL for a long long time. But if you asked anyone on Mets who they loved to beat it was always the Braves and vice versa. That was the rivalry.
Phililes aren’t even close to that in my book…although I am starting to despise them. The difference b/w them and the Braves is that I have respect for the Braves. Philles get zero respect.
That’s what I’m thinking too. They won’t spend what it takes to keep Howard, Utley, and Hamels in Philly… and they’ll be right back where they started. I think we’ll definitely enjoy a nice rivalry with the Phils for a few years, but I don’t see it sustaining itself long-term… which is a shame because it makes perfect geographical sense.
Heres the thing here–I strongly believe that the rivalry with the Braves is a thing of the past…The only reason it is still at the level its at is because of Chipper, and he doesn’t even play everyday anymore.
The Phils rivalry may be budding, but with the events of the past two seasons, as well as the war of words we have seen, they are now the top rivalry–maybe not at the level yet of the Braves of the late 90’s, but certainly more than any other team right now
As long as they have Larry, and Tom takes the mound at Shea to a Gregorian Chant of boos, the Braves will always be a rival. But, something just isn’t the same. No Maddux, No Smirk, no Don Sutton. It’s just a hair below where it used to be. . . though a pennant race could change that very quickly.
And a lot of that has to do with how quickly the Phillies got in our faces. With the Phillies, we have the Perfect Cliche of rivalries — geographic proximity, bad blood (be it real or the players’ tongue-in-cheek attempt to enter the world of pro wrestling), competitive balance, and a compelling storyline left over from last season. They swept us thrice last year, people. Thrice — and Jimmy Rollins took away an (in my view undeserved, though not a travesty) MVP simply for meeting the lofty expectations floated for him by his own big mouth.
You read a lot of grudging respect for Larry. Smoltz is just too much of a Ned Flanders to really despise. Teixiera?? Escobar? McCann? Does anyone really feel the same way about these players as we do about Cole Hamels, “J-Roll”, or Shane “Fake Hustle” Victorino?
“The rivalry with the Cards is a thing of the past… it was one series… never escalated… ”
ummm…. there was that whole thing called the 80’s.
Oh i guess thats my fault for not being old enough then….
anyway i still don’t see how we are big rivals if its not a thing of today… just like the yankee fans saying their team is the best because they have the most rings…
Because rvialries go through ups and downs — sometimes, the teams just aren’t good at the same time for a long period. That said, with the Cards out of our division, I really can’t see it rekindling unless we have several playoff matchups or serious fights for the wild card (and we can hope it doesn’t come to that, because that would mean one of our other rivals got the best of us in the division.)
NY Sports Talk Radio
how about just “the media”
whoever wrote yankees just made me throw up a little in my mouth.
150 votes for an American League team….. unreal
“made me throw up a little in my mouth.” It’s OLD.
The Yankees are what make me throw up in my mouth. I can honestly say I despise the Yankees more than any other team [in baseball]. However because as pointed out previously they are not even in the same league the game to game rivalry is not the same with the Braves which is THE rivalry. This Philly “thing” has been going on for what, 2 years? The Braves are our enemy forever and always. But on a personal level, I hate the Yankees the most. But the point still is if the Yankees are playing the Braves and you have to pick someone to win you gotta say the Yankees because it doesn’t honestly matter. Oh and by the way, the sports team I hate the most is the Patriots. Thank you Eli you made my year.
welcome to the interleague era of baseball. An AL team can very well be a rival, especially if you play them 6 times a year. i know it means nothing in terms of the record at the end of the year, but it still makes it a legit rivalry.
now if this was 1989 i would have thrown up a bit too, but the fact is those games sell out every year for a reason… and they will continue to sell out every year regardless of how good or bad those teams are… it’s a rivalry, maybe not THE rivalry, but it is a rivalry
The Philly Phanatic is taking some votes from the Phillies!
I voted Braves just because I’ve grown up trying to overtake the Braves who won the division EVERY year and they always had our number. The Phillies thing is way to new…maybe down the road but not now.
The Mets seem to have a different rivalry depending on the decade. 60’s and 70’s I would say the Cubs (although the Mets were so bad other than ‘69 and ‘73). In the 80’s it was the Cardinals. The ‘85 season was really a lot of fun, because we got to see just how good that team was going to be. The 90’s it became the Braves (after reallignment..before that they were insignificant). It continued with the Braves during this decade, but the focus has started to shift to the Phillies. So, there really is no clear cut answer to this question.
btw…I voted for the Braves
This Mets-Yankees rivalry has me a bit confused. I live in Boston now, so maybe I’m out of the loop, but growing up in Queens I don’t remember their ever being animosity between the Mets and Yankees. Sure, we always wanted our side to be better, but there was no “Yankees Suck” mentality. We always kind of liked the Yankees too, as long as we weren’t on the same field. Is there really an anti-Yankee feeling taking hold? I sure hope not because sure as hell don’t want us to start acting like Red Sox fans.
We only see the Braves as a rival because they were the team that had our number. We never beat them so I highly doubt they would consider us a rival at all. At least the Mets-Yankees rivalry fills the house every night, and the city is in an uproar for the entire weekend. No other team brings that excitement to the city.
Again, I beg to differ. Bravos fans hate Mets fans the most.
my step dad lives in GA, and I’ve also found this to be true. I got booed outside of the Fox theater because of my hat once (this is notable becasue Atlantans are pretty polite).
Go to a Met game and you’ll hear a “Yankees Suck” chant every once in a while…
True enough. How often do you hear random “Braves and/or Phillies suck” chants? But still it’s got to be the Braves because until playoffs and the 6 or so games they play during the season against the Mets the Yankees are irrelevant.
Our rivalry is, has been, and always will be the Braves. One year does not make a rivalry (And one year where we GAVE them the division, that is), our history with the Braves has gone back 15 years. The damn music of the tomahawk chop makes me want to punch someone in the face. The Phillies will never reach that level. Stop being so short-sighted, the Braves are the ONLY choice here.
I understand your point, but do you not think the Braves look at us in the same light? When they were on top of their game, we won the division exact 0 times. I mean how much of a rivalry is that?
In my experience, Braves fans aren’t fill