Comments on: Quote: They Love Their Team

By: gipper82475

gipper82475 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:25:54 +0000

Having seen the Mets play at Petco, Safeco and Chase Field…I can report that Mets fans out-cheer the home fans at each venue. I was at the game in AZ last year which was the final W in a streak of something like 12 or 13 straight Mets wins at Chase. Mets fans were chanting “Shea Stadium West!” with only halfharted boos in response from the home “fans.”

By: gipper82475

gipper82475 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:33:53 +0000

Ummm… of course not…….the American League isn’t real baseball…so why go to see those teams play their pseudo-sport?

By: attgig

attgig — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:58:54 +0000

“However, when I watch other teams play, very rarely do I hear the visiting team’s fans cheering for their club as loud as Mets fans do when they are on the road.”
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you obviously haven’t been to camden yards when the redsox or yankees are in town….

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:39:17 +0000

I read an article about this in a BOSTON paper, believe it or not. To beat the Yankees, John Henry essentially turned his team into the Yankees. Most Boston fans outwardly don’t care, but I’m sure there’s a core that has a gnawing feeling that they didn’t quite succeed in their “pure” form.

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:37:16 +0000

This is true (I was there as well), but it’s a problem all DC teams (save one — the NFL’s Epithets) have with such a large number of out-of-towners and a relatively transient population. Join that with (1) a crappy team, (2) little DC baseball tradition and (3) 21st century ticket-purchasing base (corporations, law firms, etc.) and you end up with a lot of out-of-town fans (aho get hold of the “firm seats”, etc.) and a relatively quiet group of hometown fans. Things will change when (if?) they can start winning, however.

By: Gary Busey

Gary Busey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:55:59 +0000

LOL @ “Nats fan”

By: gomets6091

gomets6091 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:55:23 +0000

how many Islanders fans do you run into on Long Island? Or Rangers fans in the city? Not too many…the NHL just ain’t that popular these days. And the Nats are only 3 years old, most people in the DC grew up Orioles fans and cheer for both teams these days. I see a ton of kids with Nationals jerseys and hats around here all the time…in 5-10 years, when these kids grow up and the Nats are (maybe) good, their fan base will blossom. Redskins fans might be the best fans in the country, in any sport, and that comes from a Giants fan.

Living in DC now after living outside of Philly, you can’t even compare, DC fans are a quadrillion times better.

By: gomets6091

gomets6091 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:50:33 +0000

ironic, considering they are basically the same thing.

By: Gary Busey

Gary Busey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:05:44 +0000

I was thinking this too. Poor fanless Nats :(

By: mbeli

mbeli — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:00:14 +0000

umm mets play ATL tues coming up, the tues after that we are in philly…is it that hard to figure out