Who to Root For

As a Mets fan my biggest baseball fear of the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies squaring off in the World Series is becoming a reality. I know I have to make a decision of whom I will be rooting for. After a significant amount of time thinking about it came up with some rational ideas and decided I had to be pulling for the Phillies to be winning it all, again.
For as long as I remember the Mets biggest rivals have been the Braves. In my early baseball years I would watch as Mike Piazza and Chipper Jones would square off and it would get intense. In 1999 the Mets even faced the Braves in a playoff series, which had some of the most amazing plays ever happen in them such as the “grand slam single”. Over the past few years the Mets and Phillies have seemed to be making a new rivalry with players from each team bad mouthing the other through the media. All though this seems like a heated rivalry truth be told it is not that big a deal due to the constant beating on the Mets the Phillies do. In my heart of hearts I will never hate any player on the Phillies the way I loathe Chipper Jones. So in reality the Braves are the Mets real “bad guys”.
Although the Phillies may not be as bad as the Braves do not get me wrong I still hate them with a passion of 1000 fires. Last season I had the tragedy of watching them celebrate as they won the World Series. Since that day I have heard the gloating of the Phillie fan and it is not pleasant. If the Phillies repeat and win it again these fans will have nothing more to me to say they already said it all, but if the Yankees win it they to will have all that to say to me and I will have to hear it from both corners.
Last but not least my favorite reason of why I will be rooting for the Phillies comes from my respect of the game. If the Yankees win this years fall classic what will that say for small market teams such as the Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals. These teams cannot hold on to their big time stars due to the high demanding salaries of these players. These teams have to rebuild every few years just to stay competitive and be a moneymaking organization. The Yankees on the other hand this past off-season alone spent close to 400 million dollars alone on 3 players. The core of there team and most of there best players came via the free agent market, at least the Phillies core players are home grown and brought up through the system.
As you see this matter is no joke to me. Baseball is the love of my life and this has been the worst year for it in my life arguably ever. To salvage some sort of happiness I will leave with this. LETS GO PHILLIES!!!!!
by Sean Hack