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Brian Costello is covering the Phillies-side of the pennant race for the New York Post.
In a post to his blog for the New York Post, Costello writes about how the Braves celebrated the Mets loss last night, while watching it from their clubhouse in Philadelphia.
According to Costello, as the Cubs scored in the 10th, the Braves began signing ‘Meet the Mets,’ and mocking the Kevin James Lets Go Mets video from Shea Stadium.
…well, to their credit, i mock that ridiculous Kevin James video, too…nothing against james, who i actually think is funny, but that video of him trying to get a chant going is down-right maniacal…
…that said, ouch…the Braves singing Meet the Mets is sort of like being informed of how the Cardinals were singing the Jose, Jose, Jose chant in their clubhouse following the NLCS in 2006, which you can check out by clicking here…
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im sorry, what place are you in again? seriously?
have fun with jo jo reyes and tommy g next yr.
Salt. In. The. Wound.
Phillies. Bravo’s. Marlins. Nats. Cards.
Everyone LOVES to hate the Mets….
Can we please just win four games and shut them all the heck up?!
We are simply, unequivocally the laughing stock of baseball 2 years running…
Unequivocally the laughing stock of baseball? A team tied for a playoff spot with four games left and whose “collapse” came from a height of being 3.5 games up? I think you’d have a pretty hard time selling that to fans of the Tigers, Yankees, Mariners, Brewers, and about 20 other teams…
Imitation is the sinceriest form of flattery!
I actually think this is funny.
Everyone loves to hate us because we are bad fans that will this team to lose, yet have no problem yelling that the Yankees stink or mocking the Braves chants while we lose every year and they win. We sound like that kid on the playground that makes fun of everyone and when he falls, everyone laughs.
In the past 20 years, the team has turned over more times than a Trump staff list, we have had multiple GMs, coaches, stars, money thrown everywhere… but there is one constant throughout it all. The fan.
We stink as a group and I blame Gary Carter and his curtain calls.
Braves fan here, and I could not have said it better myself….you have exactly put into words my feelings.
who cares? i hope they enjoy doing it all october
Yes, who cares? Anyone ever hear of sour grapes?
Ugh I don’t think I’ve ever hated a sports team as much as I hate the braves.
I thought I hated the Redskins more, because I went to college among many of their irrational and onblivious fans, but the Braves are making a run.
that used to be me but i now hate the phillies more than any team in mlb, nhl, nfl combined
Same here. I hate those things in Philadelphia more than anything in the world.
Well, the Phillies su** too.
I do hate Mike Gonzalez though. What is with that dancing around crap before he pitches the ball? He’s no Jimmy Rollins, but man do I hate that guy.
If he played for the Mets, you would admire his “youthful enthusiasm and high spirits”
What the hell do the Braves care? What a bunch of losers.
Laugh it up boys…you are 20 games out ,and utterly irrelevant in the sport.
All these little punks like Francoeur and McCann are Atlanta bred and grew up hating the Mets in the late 90s…so whatever. At least they helped us on the field this week instead of laying down again.
Hey…more power to them…
As well they should be… I give the Braves credit for knocking Philly off… If our team had half the guts the Braves do, we’d be in the driver’s seat, instead of getting ready to start tearing down Shea on Monday…
Yeah, because GUTS win baseball games.
Guts, heart and sac fly’s… Maybe the Mets have heart but they sure don’t have Sac Fly’s…
That’s what I’m saying… execution wins games. They’ve got plenty of heart, plenty of desire, but that doesn’t always translate into wins. In the end, we will be in the playoffs, but we’re not making it any easier on ourselves. It would have been nice to clinch on Saturday so as to give Johan time to get ready for game 1, but that doesn’t look likely.
Realistically,given the recent body of work from this team, how can you possbily believe this team can make the playoffs?
The recent body of work means little. The next 4 games mean everything, Yesterday’s game has nothing to do with tonight’s game and has nothing to do with the next 4. This team has shown that they’ve been able to come back from bad losses. They’ve done it a number of times this season, and there is no reason to believe they can’t do it again.
We’ve got the talent.
We’ve got the heart.
We’ve got the fans.
And we’ve got 4 games to get it done.
We’ll all be laughing once the weekend is over and we’re in.
Well, some of us are prepared for more diasappointment… And some of us are planning on being there for every pitch…
I’m glad this is my only abusive relationship… LOL
And if our team had all the players the Braves do, we would be eliminated already. I’m not sure what your point is.
I’m sure Chipper Jones would have damn sure hit a sac fly in the 9th last night…
ur an idiot
No I am not, I’m a fan, but realistic. I don’t livein Metsland… This team puts a $150 Milllion product on the field that has not executed for the beter part of 2 weeks now when they have needed to come up big…
This team routinely comes up small..
so go root for the braves or post on their teams site…
Gary, maybe we can send you down to Atl to kick their arses.
Half the guts the Braves do? Easy….they are buried in 4th place. They were inspired last night by their wife-beating manager to beat up a wife-beating pitcher.
Yeah, guts… they go into Philly, and win 2 of 3 when Philly is unbeatable… That’s pretty gutty there…
maybe the braves will trade for burgos.
Yes, let’s emulate a team that is totally out of it and has been for some time…good plan!
And you think our team isn’t totally out of it? Are you watching?
In fact I have been watching, and 1 loss back in the division while tying for the wild card is a pretty broad definition of “totally out of it”
Mathematically of course they are ‘not out of it’ but when you look at a game like last night when the Cubs were handing the game to the Mets, they could not execute,…
Good playoff teams execute in those spots… Playoff teams make productive outs and play smart baeball… This team is not a good playoff team…
But despite all that, despite underachieving, despite a terrible pen, the Mets are STILL right in the thick of a late September race…that’s good…right?
The Mets are bad playoff team, janss, but they are still a playoff team.
And they deserve it also.
It’s pretty pathetic….this team has won NOTHING. NOTHING!! Yet they have ALL the other teams in the East basically despising them.
What a bunch of gutless creeps.
LOL, %f;uck the Braves. I could actually understand the Phillies doing that, but maybe they were too depressed about not winning a game that Jo-Jo Reyes started.
they braves are Helping us by beating the Phils
yet we shoot ourselves in the foot.
if someone opens the door for you and you stumble and fall on your face inches before the door, i’d laugh too? (after helping you up of course)
I just don’t get why EVERYBODY hates the Mets….Are they still crying over the teams from the 80’s? Or are they all just irritated with Jose Reyes? If its the latter, I find it ridiculous, because every single team would love to have him, and welcome him with open arms.
Why do teams hate the Yankees?
The Year The Bad Guys Won
Which was a great book by Jeff Pearlman recounting the 86 season….Read it if you haven’t
Can someone explain something to me? Seriously?
I keep hearing how the Mets are among the most hated teams in baseball. That none of the other teams like them.
Clearly, it’s personal to some of these guys. That a team would mock us that way really surprises me. I mean, forget that it’s unsportsmanlike… these guys just go beyond all reason and devote so much energy to this.
Why? What am I missing?
Ummm. They are from NY, have a ton of money and get a lot of media attention. That’s about it.
I don’t know. I think they somehow keep confusing us with the Yankees.
I dont get it either. I mean the yankees i could see why other players may dislike them (until they hand them a huge pay check). And as far as the media attention the mets get, to me it seems like the only attention the mets get is negative anyway its not like espn is raving about how great the mets are if anything we get too much grief from the national media.
It’s called jealousy and insecurity
Huge payroll. Bias against NY/NY teams/NY fans in general. I know a lot of people I know blanketly, that’s not a word but I’m making it one, hate NY teams in general mostly because of their fans.
If they hate NY teams because of the fans, then imagine what must they think of Philly teams!
Yeah they hate the fans a lot more, but it’s hard to hate them as a whole as much when their teams have choked so hard year after year for nearly 30 years.
What do you expect? These guys were dominant for years and were knocked off their perch by us and have not been relevant since.
But they were not knocked off their perch by us. They did that on their own. And it’s not like we’ve been dominating the league — we’ve won a handful of division titles, been to a few world series, but not all the time or anything. Not even most of the time.
Well we did dominate them in 2006 to knock them off the top. Besides can you get more anti-New York than hick Atlanta?
Maybe we just don’t like your “you’re a bunch of hicks” attitude…
Lol Atlanta isn’t hickish at all. It’s nothing like the rest of the south, and most people in atlanta aren’t sports fans at all.
Do you live in Atlanta?
No, I just moved from there.
Well, I live in the “rest of the south”, which is where many Braves fans reside, and we don’t like being called hicks either. And I know a lot of Braves fans in Atlanta. The fans can’t be too bad if 40,000+ per game come out for the last home series of the year while our team is 20 games back. And before you say it, yes, there were a lot of Mets fans, but not thousands of them.
ugh…i think this is among the last things i needed to hear this morning…is that not the very definition of poor sportsmanship? and yet it will be considered funny by the media…imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and the Mets were mockng the Braves and their fans in their clubhouse by doing the ridiculous tomahawk chop…it would be all over the place about the Mets being immature and sore losers.
I know, why mock us? It is not like we win a lot. I would mock a team with a winning track record. It’s like picking on the handicapped kid in school.
Atlanta Braves:
2005 – 1st
2006 – 2nd
2007 – 3rd
2008 – 4th
Anybody see a pattern here?
It’s either your in first place, or not. First place in division, or first place in wild card. Otherwise, it don’t mean jack.
Today, I hate everything Mets.
3rd place in 06, not 2nd
I hope the Braves enjoy 4th place this year with 3 teams to jump over next year, all of which are better than them. Guess there is bitterness over how bad they are. What is this, 2 losing seasons in 3 years? Nice work hicks!
Thank you, chokers.
Everybody is mocking us.
Being mocked by a team in 4th place led by a wife beating manager and a cheated on my wife 3b is hadly anything to get worried about.
no, the pathetic team that we root for is certainly something to worry about, though.
You Mets fans need some new material…
We need to get some new material, but you call us chokers? Chokers is getting a bit old, even if we are still doing it.
If I weren’t a Met fan, I’d mock them, too. What else can you say about how little fight these guys have? They are worst competitors I’ve ever seen (for such a talented team).
Tell them to sell out….a playoff game.
who hates the mets more: mets fans or the rest on the national league?
toss up
Wow that was fun. This was without a doubt the knock out blow to the Mets. Start getting ready for next year guys because it is over.
The Braves beat the Phillies for the second straight night. The Mets get up 5-1 on Zambrano, piss the lead away, fall behind, have runners on 1st and 3rd with nobody out two straight innings and only manage one run out if it. Oh yes and then the greatest part of the night. A lead off triple with the heart of the lineup coming up and they don’t score. I turned it off right after that because I knew that was it and they would lose it in the 10th.
They should be one up in the wildcard and a half a game behind the Phillies but nope of course the Mets find a way to fail. I stuck by them all year, defended them all year feeling they would turn it around which they did. Of course just like last year they can not finish the job. But know more I am done with them this year.
People say what you want, you gotta believe and you’re not a true fan if you give up on them now and why are so many fans so negative and go to the ballpark and support your team. FORGET THAT!!! I am a 29 year old diehard Mets fan since I was about 6 and I have put up with a lot of crap play from this team but this by far takes the cake.
the thing is, the game last night makes you question the heart of the team to a point that it actually makes me not have much respect for them as a team. what the h*ll was that last night? after last night, i can’t really “believe” they will figure out a way to get to the playoffs and do something once they get there.
Good let them. This team is once again the laughing stock in the league. Do you wanna know what’s even funnier, that this team gave their GM a 4 year extension. This team should be re named Ringling Brothers.
runner on 3rd, no outs……
bases loaded one out…….
ZERO runs scored……
PATHETIC
braves: happiest 4th place team on earth
the thing about them is that even when they win the division they know they aren’t going to win the WS, so why should they care whether they win or not?
because winning the division is a heck of a lot more fun than not winning it…
The Braves really are in no mood to laugh seeing as how they disgracefully underachieved this year.
That said, it is amazing how much people in our division LOATHE the Mets.
Laughing. Stock. Of. Baseball.
Hope Freddie and Omar hear this.
Do you really think they care?
Let the Braves have their fun at least they went out a played hard and beat the Phillies good. They are poking fun that we couldn’t take advantage of it which is 100% true. That was another devastating loss in a long line of devastating losses this year. Amazing we even still have half a chance.
I agree that all the teams in the NL east hate us. Church should be a good witness to that being on the Nats last year. Mets need to feed off that but they just don’t ever seem to.
Just watch how hard the Marlins play us this weekend with a chance to knock us out. Nats play us like world-beaters every time they play us late in the year too.
Yeah last night was the definition of this current Mets team, CRAP! One day it’s the terrible bullpen, the next it’s no clutch hitting, the next it’s both but oh lord last night was the holy trinity of Mets BS. No clutch hits when we needed in the 9th, hideous bullpen AND a small starter who couldn’t last past the 5th inning. What more should we expect though? We hold onto ‘86 because it’s all we have (those of us who can remember it). The new generation has what? The failure that was most of the ’90’s? The crap of ‘02-04? What should we expect as Mets fans? Glory? Hell no, c’mon we should know better. IT’S AMAZIN’ MISERY! No matter what the payroll is, we’ll always be the Mets and that means finding new ways to FAIL. We reward failure. Look at Omar’s 4 year extension? Whatevs, Let’s go Mets, wildcard here we come…….DOH!!
okay in being Atlanta to watch the games last weekend, they make fun of the Mets and Mets fan so much (ie: the diamond vision board before the game on Friday, they were completely making fun of how the Mets blew it last year). Why don’t the Mets make fun of these teams when they come into our house?
why stoop?
The Mets are to the NL East is what Margaret Dumont was to Groucho Marx.
Who. Cares.
If this story is true, than this Braves team is the biggest bunch of losers in baseball. This current Braves team HAS WON NOTHING save for Chipper and Glavine. The “baby Braves” can go eat sheet and enjoy 4th place.
Well said!!
Just like Mike Gonzalez pumping his fists after his saves.
Hey Mike, you are 19 games back. Head back to the dugout before you blow out your elbow celebrating.
Wow, and was just thinking how great Chipper was and how he should be cheered by Mets fans for hitting the HR to help beat the Phillies.
I would be surprised and disappointed if he was one of those Braves making fun of the Mets.
from the article…
“Chipper was watching the game, but was not one of the players celebrating. I do think he cracked a smile when Ramirez homered. Maybe he’s just an old friend …”
Chipper is nt a very demonstrative guy.. I’m sure it doesn’t bother him too much seeing the Mets choke, though.
{sarcasm} I’m sure Tom Glavine had a good laugh reminiscing about the collapse last year.{sarcasm}
obviously you care, or you wouldn’t be saying anything…
Their captains name is “Chipper” for crying out loud. F’ the Braves.
I hope their plane crashes!!
Now thats a bit over the top! Plus then they would be immortalized.
Answer to why everyone hates Mets fan….people like this.
There is only one thing to do.
Win the whole _ _ _ _ _ _ _ thing. (Rickie Vaign Major League)
This isn’t really like the Cardinals mocking the Mets. The Cardinals beat them and then celebrated. With the Braves it’s just sour grapes.
Watching David Wright strike out with Murphy on 3rd and nobody out was almost as painful as Beltran striking out against Wainwright.
If they don’t pull it out in the last 4 that is the image that is going to be haunting me all winter.
At least Wright took a swing!!
I’ve been reading this blog for a while now, but this is my first time posting. I think one of the reasons other teams hate the Mets is because of all the extra things that go on in the games, such as the dugout forming a conga line and doing twenty-step handshakes when they score or do something right. Baseball is still governed by rules of etiquette: don’t steal if you’re up by a significant number after the sixth, don’t bunt to break up a no-hitter after the sixth, don’t stand in the batter’s box until the ball lands if you hit a home run… in general, don’t show up your opponent.
I think you can blame the face of the franchise (Jose Reyes) for a good deal of this animousity. To say that it’s based on one year that the Mets displaced the Braves in the standings is kind of self-flattering. On what would the Cardinals base their mockery, then?
Bobby Cox, Charlie Manuel, Manny Acta and Fredi Gonzalez all pride themselves on playing the game right. It’s very easy to see from an outside viewpoint how simple it would be to fire up your guys a little more for the Mets, who are the flashier side of things.
The best parallel I can draw to today’s Mets are the mid-80s Miami Hurricanes: bold, loud, brash. Like the Mets last year, the Hurricanes self-destructed and fell to a more-reserved Penn State team in their quest for their goal (the national title).
Of course, that Hurricanes team ripped off a couple national titles after that, so there’s hope for the Mets yet.
Full disclosure: I am a Phillies fan, in Philadelphia, although I did not grow up here. I grew up in Wilkes-Barre, which has more New York fans (Mets and Yankees) than Phillies fans, so I consider myself less biased than someone who grew up in Philly.
Anyhow, there’s a perspective from the outside.
My problem, with this kind of “perspective from the outside” is that it completely ignores that this behavior takes place all throughout baseball and not only with Jose Reyes and the NY Mets. You can start with your own team in Philly, where Ryan Howard stands thare and stares at his home runs before he makes a move to round the bases, or your own shortstop who has to point to the sky everytime he reaches base.
Ever watch the Marlins or the Nationals? They do a bunch of the same dance moves when they hit home runs. And Mike Gonzalez does the Marcarena before he delivers each pitch.
My point is that, whether right or wrong, everybody does it. So to blame it only on the Mets is ridiculous.
I personally think that a lot of opposing teams don’t like the fact that Mets fans travel to see their team and cheer for them at their stadiums. You know it has to irk them to hear a “Lets Go Mets” chant break out. I’ve actually read things from players like Brett Myers and Austin Kearns saying that it was frustrating.
I’m not saying that no one else does it, but the Mets take it to another level entirely.
So when your flyin’ hawaiin punk Victorino freaks out when he gets to third base late in a game, do you think “wow, he’s really overdoing it?”
true, theyre mad our fans travel so well. in fact we have some of the best fans in the majors, you just wouldnt know it from the sample in this blog.
What the hell kind of rules of etiqutte are those?
Somebody’s jealous….
Chances are pretty good that they will all die…eventually.
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.