I still don’t know how I feel about Tug today.
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During the 2000 playoffs Bobby Jones pitched an amazing game against the Giants in the NLDS. At that game Tug threw out the first pitch. He ran out to the mound in a Mets jacket. When he got there he ripped it off to reveal a t-shirt underneath reading, “Ya Gotta Beleive!” in orange and blue”. He smiled to the crowd and fired in the ceremonial first pitch. Given this, I assume he had made his peace with the team and it’s use of the phrase by this point. It helped to cheer up a packed house that had just been forced to endure Cindy Lauper singing the national anthem.
Did he want us to stick it or not? Was he just caught up in 1980 Philly Phever? Did he make peace with us? Would he just wave at anyone?
I rememeber somewhere Keith Hernandez says he considers himself a Cardinal first (boy do we need David Wright to win some rings and play 18 years at third in Flushing) but I don’t recall him ever being mean to either franchise.
Somewhere along the way David Cone became a Yankee, and Darryl kind of did too for a while. Less so with Doc, but of course he saved his no-hitter for out of town.
Our heroes are few.
As for this Phillies rivalry – everyone acts like they are our Red Sox. Nobody ever gave a darn about the Phillies until The Collapse. Nobody cared when they won in 1980 or 1983 or 1993. The rival was the Cubs, then the Cardinals for a few years (who cares about them now), then the Pirates were hated (again, who hates the Pirates now), then the Braves (in 2009 nobody cared) and now the Phillies. If the 2010 Mets win 95 games and the Nats win 96 we’ll hate them and forget about the Phillies.
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