I like these Phillies fans. They are obsessed with our second place team and they bring the funny.
First they throw this at us:
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…which is actually funny (including)
Last year, Mets star third baseman David Wright — public face of the MLB ’07: The Show video game, Vitamin Water sports drinks and Fathead posters — made several public statements about how he’d be cutting back on “endorsement deals and promotional activities,” to focus on the game. Two weeks later, he made his second visit to theLate Show with David Letterman. To this day, athletepromotions.com informs me I can book Wright for “Corporate Appearances, Endorsements, Speaking & Autograph Signings
This fair point…
Mets prospects enjoy an absurd amount of hype. Remember Paul Wilson? Alex Escobar? Rey Ordoñez? Bill Pulpisher? Ed Yarnall? Lastings Milledge? You wouldn’t if they played anywhere but New York, which treats every one of its new prospects like the second coming of Howard Johnson.
That’s kind of true. As is this…
The Mets’ last championship team was basically an advertisement for wasted talent. As a sports fan I feel deprived that Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden — two sure-fire Hall of Famers whose careers were derailed by excess — never got their day in the sun. Would they have flamed out as quickly playing for the Royals? Maybe, but they didn’t have a chance on the Mets.
Don’t get mad at me. I didn’t write it and the dude is right.
Then because that column was enough he added this one: More Reasons To Hate The Mets
Last year the Mets, a professional franchise worth well over $800 million dollars, allowed themselves to be Rickrolled. For those who are still unfamiliar with this phenomenon, Rickrolling essentially boils down to this: sometime in 2007 the entire Internet seemed to band together and attempt to ensure that Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up†gets played as many times as humanly possible. Well, last year the Mets were conducting an online poll as to what song the fans wanted to hear this year during the 8th inning. Naturally they weren’t savvy enough to counter the prank, and ended up having to change the rules to avoid playing the song at each and every homegame. Which brings me to our next topic ..
They can’t even win at picking songs without cheating.
And finally…
You know that guy sitting in the cheap seats who wastes an entire inning trying to get everyone in his section to start the wave, then angrily curses the crowd when everyone tunes him out? That guy is every guy at the old Shea.
Well done dude. Now I want the Mets to go out and beat you effers every game this season. Bring it on!
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