New York, New York

McNasty Note: Yes, I live in Colorado. But not always. So no, I don’t give a shit about any Colorado teams. Unless they are awful and then I enjoy reading about their misery. That's a New York thing.

When did NY baseball fans become enlightened? I know they are savvy in the ways of the game of baseball but enlightened? They love both teams as not to damage the players' self-esteem? WTF? I’ve been reading articles in the NY sports pages these days that many fans root for both the Mets and the Yankees. How sad.

Rooting for both teams? Sorry, not where I grew up in NY. Perhaps it’s the younger generation that has this two-team love. I guess it’s a typical response to growing up in the liberal waste-land of the USA. But some of us dinosaurs grew up in a time and place when you were either a Mets fan or a Yankees fan.

Both? No way. A good day in NY for me was a Mets win. A better day for me was a Mets win and a Yankee loss. A bad afternoon was a Mets loss but things looked brighter in the evening if the Yankees lost too. A truly sucky day was a Mets loss and a Yankees win.

Same for football. If my Jets lost the early game (which they usually did) on early Sunday afternoon the day was not completely lost if the Giants could suck ass later in the afternoon. Ditto for hockey and basketball.

Of course, this two-team dynamic only exists in a few cities, and only NY has it in all sports. Well, all sports that count anyway.

If you root for both teams what the hell do you do when they play each other? Hope for a good game? Moron! Its sports, not the chess club.

The papers in NY talk about Mets fans having an inferiority complex living in Yankee Land. That is true for some Mets fans.

For me it has nothing to do with the fact that the Yankees are usually better than the Mets. That’s just the result of one team owner owning that team because he wants to win and the other one saddled with many different owners over the years that obviously didn’t buy the team for the right reasons.

The Mets latest owner has his favorite son in charge. Neither one of them is gonna win the Nobel prize for baseball. For me it’s much simpler. That’s just the way I was raised. There’s only room for one team in each sport in your heart. If you say otherwise you’re not a Mets fan or a Yankees fan, just a baseball fan.

I suppose these are the same folks that like all beer. Ick. Remind me never to go to their house for a party.