Random meetings with MFY fans

[metirish]

So tonight I am at the beer store picking up a 12 pack, I'm in line waiting to pay , wearing my Mets cap, in front of me is a guy wearing yankee stuff, he looks at me and says..."huh I guess they ran outta caps in the store wear you bought that", I go " yeah, what does that mean?", the guy behind the counter feels the tension and explains to me, "ahh he's a yankee fan and your wearing a Mets cap",so I'm like yeah I know so what, on hearing my accent he asks where I am form, Ireland I say, he then asks if I like Celtic(Glasgow) and I say yeah I do, then he says how he's a huge Rangers(Glasgow) fan, I just say, "listen you and me don't follow the same teams, I hate both of yours , it was weird, I 'm not a violent person but this guy just rubbed me the wrong way.......anyway that was that...MFY fans for the most part are assholes.

[Zvon]

metirish wrote: .......anyway that was that...MFY fans for the most part are assholes.

Lmao.

[Theoldmole]

No argument here.

[Willets Point]

The Yankee-Mets rivalry is rather tame compared to Celtic-Rangers. I'm glad he didn't hit you over the head with a beer bottle.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

It's kind of funny and kind of sad, the fury you feel towards Yankees fans. They feel none of it towards you. To them, you're something like chafed skin on the scrotum--you annoy them for a few seconds, but they reach down and scratch, and you go away. You'll annoy them again the next time they have to think about you, but you're really never going to get anything like true hatred out of them, not the kind you have for Yankees fans, anyway.

[metirish]

I hear what you are saying Bret, but I hate the Yankee team and yankee way more than the fans, I suppose I hate them because of the history and all the pinstrip bullshit, and yeah I hate the condecending way some yankee fans just dismiss the Mets with things like .."the Mets donna bother me, I mean that team is so useless,Fugetaboutit."....

[seawolf17]

Yeah, Bret's right. Why should we hate anyone who acts like a childish, condescending ass towards us? Thanks for helping us see the light.

[Willets Point]

I've always hated (the unsilent majority of) Yankee fans more than the team itself. No matter how "indifferent" they are to us, they're still pretty obnoxious and childish.

[Guest silverdsl]

I don't hate the fans of any team as a group.I just hate assholes in general and there are assholes who follow every single team who give all fans a bad name. I've had random people scream curses directly in my face as they've passed me by on the street just because I'm wearing a Yankees shirt. To me that's just crazy behavior to do that to a stranger for no apparent reason other than because you don't like the team they're a fan of. There are just a lot of people out there who don't care about other people and how they treat them.

[Guest Edgy DC]

OK, on three, everybody scream something at Silver.

One, two...

[Guest silverdsl]

LOL, see the thing is that I can understand it if I'm at one of the stadiums - fans scream stuff at each other all the time. Or if I'm passing by a bar and there's a bunch of drunk people. Or I'm the lone Yankee fan on a Mets forum. LOL! But when someone (presumably) completely sober decides to randomly harass me because of the logo on my shirt that's kind of scary.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

[seawolf17]

Silver's right... that's just being a dick. I can't say there aren't Mets fans who are dicks. We have our fair share. My best friend is a Yankee fan; it's not really the general population that I dislike, just the obnoxious ones.

[Elster88]

Bret Sabermetric wrote: It's kind of funny and kind of sad, the fury you feel towards Yankees fans. They feel none of it towards you. To them, you're something like chafed skin on the scrotum--you annoy them for a few seconds, but they reach down and scratch, and you go away. You'll annoy them again the next time they have to think about you, but you're really never going to get anything like true hatred out of them, not the kind you have for Yankees fans, anyway.

Way too many analogies around the male member these days.

[Elster88]

seawolf17 wrote: Silver's right... that's just being a dick. I can't say there aren't Mets fans who are dicks. We have our fair share.

Exactly.

[metirish]

Bret the voice of reason?, say it ain't so, also what has pissed me off over the years is the line I hear a lot..." how did an a lad form Ireland become a Mets fan, they never win, our team is the best"....drives me crazy, of course then you have fans like Silver who are cool.

[Elster88]

It ain't so. It wasn't a voice of reason, but rather another way to take a shot at Met fans.

[Guest SI Metman]

I love Yankees fans. I'm going to visit 55,000 of them on April 11th. Heck, I even outsmarted them on their own contest about their own team.

Pray for my soul that day.

[seawolf17]

Good luck, SI. Hey, you can wear your Mets hat, apparently, because The Supreme God Of All Knowledge (who knew God was a Red Sox fan!) has deemed that Yankee fans don't care about Mets fans. So you could go wearing a giant Mr. Met head, whistling "Gets Metsmerized," and you'd probably just be ignored.

[Guest SI Metman]

I was actually thinking of a Pedro shirt that day depending on the weather. Just so I can remind them who their Daddy is.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I find that a lot of Yankee fans, primarily those of the bandwagon variety, do feel threatened by Mets fans, because they cannot handle the concept of sticking with a team through thick and thin. They are threatened by the concept of being able to stay loyal to a team even while it's struggling, because on some level the bandwagoners realize that newly purchased Modell's Yankees gear does not make a person into a true fan, and that's a realization they don't wish to have to acknowledge.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

"Yankee fans .... cannot handle the concept of sticking with a team through thick and thin"

Well, this may not be such an absolute virtue as you're thinking. There may be an equal virtue in choosing to think whether your team is still deserving of your loyalty.

But what I came here to say is something entirely other: namely, that we don't realize how fortunate we are, we band of brothers, we happy few, we Yankee-haters. We sound kind of stupid from time to time, trying to voice the argument that the Yankees win too many pennants, or are ungracious winners, or that they spend too much money on acquiring quality players for their team, and on and on. It kinda sounds like we're opposed to winning or something, or we think there's some kind of perverse joy in finishing in 5th place, or some crazy thing, when of course no one really thinks that. Right?

I said, right?

Of course not. But the Yankees have given us a very thoughtful gift, one that makes it easy to abandon that silly nonsense and address a real issue. The problem with Steinbrenner isn't that he spends money on his team (we wish we had that kind of budget, don't we?), nor that he's a stickler and a prig about winning World's Championships (because we could use just a smidgen of that, too). No, it's that he's such an obnoxious, insensitive, overbearing, scowling, self-righteous, micromanaging, tyrannical, meddling, superior son of a bitch that gives strength to Yankee-haters everywhere.

Think about it. If Steinbrenner were a sweetheart, the nicest boss imaginable, the kindest, most thoughtful, most tender, caring, lovely, smiling, genial, generous, thoughtful owner of a baseball team ever, he could still spend like he does and the Yankees could still have the record that they do, and then all we Yankee-haters would have to cling to would be that sour-grapes winning-sucks stuff on our side, which frankly isn't the best argument going.

So let's all be grateful that Steinbrenner is the unlikable monster that he is, allowing us the dignity of something tangible to express our grievances toward.

[Elster88]

]We sound kind of stupid from time to time, trying to voice the argument that the Yankees win too many pennants, or are ungracious winners, or that they spend too much money on acquiring quality players for their team, and on and on.

Who is this we?

I don't think you'll find one person on this forum who posted the line "The Yankees win too many pennants."

I doubt seriously you'll find "ungracious winners" either.

As for the "too much money", everyone here realizes that the Mets have the 3rd highest payroll.

] then all we Yankee-haters would have to cling to would be that sour-grapes winning-sucks stuff on our side,

*sigh*

Can you spell strawman?


I think the point you were trying to make is that we, as Mets fan, use all of the above that I've quoted as things to say to avoid saying this:

]No, it's that he's such an obnoxious, insensitive, overbearing, scowling, self-righteous, micromanaging, tyrannical, meddling, superior son of a bitch that gives strength to Yankee-haters everywhere.

I really disagree.

But then maybe you have sniffed out the real reason behind everything a Met fan says about the Yankees. You could have us all figured out.

[Guest SI Metman]

My favorite from another non-Mets board I post on. There's a discussion on who was a better catcher in their prime - Piazza or Posada. Of course everyone says Piazza, but one MFY fan is using the argument that Posada is better because he led the Yanks to World Championships.