The Worst World Series Ever

The only match-up the Met fan dreads for, is this: A Yankees- Phillies World Series. The World Series is a matchup of the best of the best in baseball. But not for Mets fans.

In 1997 Major League Baseball scheduled interleague games between the National League and the American League. From that day forward the rivalry of New York has grown each year. For Mets Fans it has been a tough rivalry, from the beaning of Mike Piazza by Roger Clemens to the World Series matchup of the two teams in 2000 only to see the Yankees win the series four games to one.

The Yankees are a New York baseball team (in many people’s eyes, the only New York baseball team), that has won twenty-six championships, the most in baseball and in any sport. They are the dynasty of dynasties. The Yankees are the Mets’ older brother that has won forty-six of the seventy-seven games played between the two clubs. However, the Mets mean absolutely nothing to Yankees fans. To Mets fans, they are Abel, and we are the jealous haters.

But why wouldn’t Mets fan be jealous? The Yankees fans have had twenty-six times to celebrate while the Mets fan only two. The Yankees have had the highest paid players year after year and perform up to their standards. While the Mets only thought they were getting the best players and played like the injury prone head cases they actually were.

“The Mets are choke-artists” The famous quote by the Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels that has fueled the Mets-Phillies rival. The Phillies fans some of the cockiest fans in baseball, but why shouldn’t they be? They are the most current World Series Champions, and have reached the Championship for the second year in a row. The Phillies fan makes sure to always stick it to the Mets fan. From stealing the Mets famous rally cry “You Gotta Believe” coined by Mets pitcher Tug McGraw, who also pitched for the Phillies, to Jimmy Rollins boasting that “We are the team to beat” every year. The Phillies have homegrown talent that is solely responsible for their success in the past few years, something the Met fan only wishes for.

This season for the Met fan was something to rip up and put into the fire. Wait for next year, again. It was pathetic, from spring training lineups during the regular season, to a brand new $800 million ballpark looking like it was the home of the Dodgers. No one thought it could have been worse, until now.

Mets fans cannot root for the cross-town rival Yankees because we hate them; we despise everything that they are. I personally have never set foot in Yankee stadium nor do I plan on it any time soon. The Phillies are our division rivals who gloat at our demise. How can the Met fan root for any team? We simply cannot.

I will tell you that I will watch the World Series not because I am rooting for either team but because I only picture the Mets being there one day, something that is sad but true. This will be the worst week ever for a Mets fan.

By: Michael Franklin