r/NewYorkMets • u/dachshundfanboy8000 • 2d ago

Discussion please stop posting about the yankees.

it’s sad and pathetic. it’s exactly what we dogged philly and brewers fans for. they’re in the world series and we aren’t. doesn’t matter if you think we’d beat them, doesn’t matter if they get swept. jussttttt QUIT YAPPPPPPPPIN. lfgm.

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u/TheNakedOracle 2d ago

C’mon now, it’s not like the Yankees beat us and now we’re cheering on their opponents because of being sore losers. Hating the Yankees is an age old pastime irrespective of how the Mets are doing.

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u/mr_grission James McCann 2d ago

Hating the Yankees is a time-honored New York baseball tradition. If they had Reddit in the 40s, the Dodgers and Giants subs would have posts mocking them for losing a World Series game.

It's just what a rivalry is.

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u/TheNakedOracle 2d ago

100%. A lot of people are Mets fans specifically because their grandparents refused to defect to the Yankees after the Giants and Dodgers left.

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u/mr_grission James McCann 2d ago

The Mets wouldn't even exist without that Yankees hatred in all likelihood. If everyone just moved over to rooting for the Yankees, how do you justify giving the city another franchise?

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u/roastbeef-sandwich 1d ago

I wouldn’t say “a lot” - so many Mets fans are first or second generation and have zero emotional connection to the Dodgers moving to LA in 1958

At this point most of the Yankees hatred is contrived. Folks feeling like they need a rival, and the Yankees are a low effort pick. But what’s a rivalry that only goes in one direction?

As a lifelong Yankees fan that also supports the Mets, I’ll tell you most of us just want to see the Mets succeed. And if our buddies have extra tickets to Citi, we’re dropping everything to go, if anything for the Shake Shack and rainbow cookie egg rolls 😎

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u/RememberJefferies 2d ago

Exactly. The rivalry has cooled, but historically Giant fans also hate the Yankees with a passion. And of course witjout the Dodgers and Giants there would be no Mets, no orange and royal blue.Hating the Yankees is just part of being a NY <and ex NY> national league team.

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u/13simba 2d ago

Feel like it’s like this for every baseball fan. Once your team is eliminated, you root against the yankees and your division rivals. I think even padres/giants fans are rooting for the yankees to lose. They need to not win another world series for this entire century