Pronoun choice

[Fman99]

Which do you use when speaking/typing/thinking about the guys in blue and orange?

Here's some context for you...

_________ need a run here!

or...

The umpires were really giving ________ the shaft on those balk calls.

[metirish]

We and Us......no doubt

[Theoldmole]

Depends who I'm talking to.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I very rarely use the "we."

A Phillies fan I know asked me last week, "Did you guys win last night?" and I had no idea what he was talking about.

[soupcan]

I try to rarely use 'we'.

I think during the course of a game I may say 'we' or 'us' but in general terms I say 'they' or 'them'.

I mean, after all, I'm not on the team or employed by the Mets in any capacity so...

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sometimes I think, "we need a hit here" but in that sense I'm more thinking of we, the fans, not we, the team.

[metirish]

I'm certain I don't say we or us in public , only at home.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I use we when I'm wound-licking (We suck!) and in the company of other people who would also use "we."

They in more formal settings, with non-baseball fans, professionally, etc.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I try not to use we but still catch myself doing it anyhow.

[Guest holychicken]

We/us when they have done well.

The Mets when they suck ass.

[metirish]

Unlike Keith I never say Metsies

[Guest Edgy DC]

I like coinages that eminate from a Metly root.

[soupcan]

="metirish":21zi6zxe]Unlike Keith I never say Metsies[/quote:21zi6zxe] Yeah, um, I say that.

MFS62 May 19 2009 07:53 AM

I never use "we/us" when talking about the team. I'm not on their payroll. I sometimes use "we/us" when talking about the fans, but more often just "the fans". Later

Vic Sage May 19 2009 09:29 AM

my mom used to call them "your Mets" when discussing them with me after a loss; they were "my Mets" when she talked about them after a win. Context is everything.

Fman99 May 19 2009 09:30 AM

="Edgy DC"]I try not to use we but still catch myself doing it anyhow. This is me also. I find myself about to type "we" and change it to "the Mets." We are Mets fans. We are not Mets. So maybe, abstractly, "we" could mean, "We Mets fans need a hit," or something like that.

Zvon May 19 2009 06:54 PM

I use both, as well as "the Mets". Never gave it much thought as to why which comes out, but upon reflection I'd have to say I usually use "we" in anticipation of events about to happen and "they" in retrospect of what has happened. Might have something to do with being in the moment while viewing a game. Also how, when viewing a game, I feel the team as well as us fans are kind of in the same boat. Before things happen we all have our hopes. After things happen is the reality of what the team did. I usually use "the Mets" in referring to the team when I am not observing them play. I chose we/us for this poll because I think most of what I say in terms of rooting for the Mets is said with hope.

Kong76 May 19 2009 07:24 PM

VS: my mom used to call them "your Mets" when discussing them with me after a loss; they were "my Mets" when she talked about them after a win. Context is everything <<< Funny, mine too many times. She took to calling them your/my Metsies though. I like that Keith has the balls to call them the Metsies on tv.

Lundy May 20 2009 10:27 AM

Use of we/us happens often at the ballpark, where you feel like you're a part of the action: "C'mon Carlos, we need a hit here!" But use of them/they often happens in discussion afterwards: "I can't believe they only had three hits" Also: the let's in "Let's go Mets" is a contraction of "let us"

TransMonk May 20 2009 10:34 AM

Typically WE/US. Sometimes THEM/THEY. But mostly WE/US. I'm not ashamed.

[MFS62]

I never use "we/us" when talking about the team. I'm not on their payroll.
I sometimes use "we/us" when talking about the fans, but more often just "the fans".

Later

[Vic Sage]

my mom used to call them "your Mets" when discussing them with me after a loss; they were "my Mets" when she talked about them after a win.

Context is everything.

[Fman99]

="Edgy DC"]I try not to use we but still catch myself doing it anyhow.

This is me also. I find myself about to type "we" and change it to "the Mets."

We are Mets fans. We are not Mets.

So maybe, abstractly, "we" could mean, "We Mets fans need a hit," or something like that.

[Zvon]

I use both, as well as "the Mets".

Never gave it much thought as to why which comes out, but upon reflection I'd have to say
I usually use "we" in anticipation of events about to happen and "they" in retrospect of what has happened.
Might have something to do with being in the moment while viewing a game.
Also how, when viewing a game, I feel the team as well as us fans are kind of in the same boat.

Before things happen we all have our hopes.
After things happen is the reality of what the team did.

I usually use "the Mets" in referring to the team when I am not observing them play.

I chose we/us for this poll because I think most of what I say in terms of rooting for the Mets is said with hope.

[Guest Kong76]

VS: my mom used to call them "your Mets" when discussing them with me after a loss; they were "my Mets" when she talked about them after a win.
Context is everything <<<

Funny, mine too many times. She took to calling them your/my Metsies
though. I like that Keith has the balls to call them the Metsies on tv.

[Lundy]

Use of we/us happens often at the ballpark, where you feel like you're a part of the action: "C'mon Carlos, we need a hit here!"

But use of them/they often happens in discussion afterwards: "I can't believe they only had three hits"

Also: the let's in "Let's go Mets" is a contraction of "let us"

[TransMonk]

Typically WE/US. Sometimes THEM/THEY. But mostly WE/US.

I'm not ashamed.