Yankees or Phillies?

[Frayed Knot]

The Phillies have my permission to win as many games in the MFY series as we win in our upcoming one.

[Elster88]

Both games ended with a score of 4-2 yesterday, and the lead over Philly is trimmed to 8 and 1/2.

[Centerfield]

I can't believe what I'm hearing here. I hate the MFY's as much as anyone else, but rooting for them to lose is a far, far distant second to me rooting for the Mets to make the playoffs. Go MFY's. Go Mystique and Aura. Go Power Pinstripes Pride People.

To root for the team directly behind the Mets citing their big lead strikes me as getting way way too comfortable here in June.

[Willets Point]

Could also be evidence that there are some among us who feel that the Mets cannot win this on their own in a potentially tight (and exciting race) and that they need the other teams to flop in order to win. I prefer that the NL East be a strong division and that the Mets come out on top because they control their own destiny and that regular season play keeps them in tune for tightly-played post-season games.

[Frayed Knot]

]I can't believe what I'm hearing here. I hate the MFY's as much as anyone else, but rooting for them to lose is a far, far distant second to me rooting for the Mets to make the playoffs.

I'm just genetically pre-disposed to root against the Yanx - I just can't do it*.
And, yes, given the choice of Mets & Yanx winning pennants vs both losing out I'd obviously pick the former over the latter. I guess some of us are just tempting fate by feeling we can win this year even without help for this 3-day period; hence my chicken-shit answer that I'll grant the Phils as many (but not more) wins in this series as we get in ours.




* I even tried early in my life to root for both but failed miserably. Nor did I jump on the bandwagon (which a sizeable minority of Met fans did) when the Cone/Straw/Gooden Yanx were breaking through in '96. I still blame those "fans" for causing the MFY late-'90s run.

[Frayed Knot]

And if you want someone to blame for the Yanx "falling apart" once they come up against our division, look no further than Ryan Howard for tonight.
- A 3R HR breaks a scoreless tie in the bottom of the 1st
- Then, after the Yanx had tied it 3-3, he hit a 2R bomb (both off Mussina)
- The Yanx then caught up and tied the game a 5 when Howard stroked a 2-out/2-RBI triple off lefty specialist Mike Myers who was, of course, brought in just to face him.

Heading for the 8th inning it's 7-5 Phils - and Ryan Howard has all 7 RBIs

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

D-Dad and I were talking with MK's former teacher tonight - a very nice man, despite being a Phillies fan. We were discussing the Phillies/MFY's series, and how MK was conflicted about it. The teacher observed, "Yes, I can see that - for him it would be like Hitler facing Stalin."

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Phillies fans simply don't realize that, to Mets fans, the Phils are neither Hitler nor Stalin. They're more like some random Prime Minster of Canada.

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx tied it up at 7 then went ahead 9-7.
So then Ryan Howard has a chance to turn a monster night into a FREAKIN MONSTER night comes up with 2-on & 2-out as the winning run ... and grounds out to end the game.

[Willets Point]

Ya can't do it all.

[Centerfield]

I tuned in for the end of the game. When I flipped on the game, I was hoping to find that the game was over and Philly was lost. But instead, I found the Phillies rallying and Mariano on the mound. And instinctively started rooting for the Phils to win it.

By the time Ryan Howard came up I had to remind myself that I wanted the Yankees to win.

Sure, I posted earlier that I was going to root for the Yankees to win. I don't think I realized until tonight just how counter-intuitive that would be.

[Frayed Knot]

I look at it this way:
While I'm watching I'm hoping that the Yanx look bad; that they lose a Mussina-started game right on the heels of losing a Unit-started game; that a 1st-baseman they have no hopes of landing for at least 5 years makes them his bitch while Steinbrenner berates his people for "allowing him" to play elsewhere; that Mariano blows the game after pitching two innings which also blows his availability for the next game.

And then if it doesn't happen ... well I can still justify that it's OK because it helps us.
Either way; I WIN!!!!