I’m from Kansas City. The whole town is practically Royal blue.
But how is it in New York seeing they have 2 pro baseball teams and as I understand it, the Mets arent as popular as the Yankees.
Also are they mad that a New York team is being beaten by a team from podunk Kansas City? When they panned the Mets section of the bleachers last night they were NOT happy.
BTW, as I understand it its often cheaper for NY sports fans to come to KC and watch their teams play vs. seeing them in New York.
I don’t think Mets fans care much that Kansas City is a smaller city than, say, Houston or Toronto or any of the other AL teams that could possibly have reached the World Series. Kansas City is just another city, really.
KC and the Yankees had a bit of a rivalry back in the day when they played each other four times in five years in the ALCS, but that was ages ago.
Well, yeah, they were watching their team lose.
This is actually a circumstance that is not terribly uncommon in various sports. As a Toronto resident, if I want really good seats to a hockey game, it can be cheaper for me to fly to New Jersey or several other destinations and get platinum level tickets there than in Toronto. Depends on the airfare, of course (flying to Phoenix would probably kill the ticket savings) or destination (flying to Montreal is pointless as they’re sold out, too.)
From what I understand, it’s not so much that New York has two teams, but that parts of New York has one team, and parts of New York has another team. To a Yankees fan, the Mets are just another team, and vice-versa. It only really matters when they play each other (exhibition or World Serious), and the “visiting” fans can take the subway to the games.
If anything, they’d be angrier if they were losing to a team from Canada.
And believe it or not, the Mets’ payroll is lower than KC’s. The Mets are just under $100M while KC is over $110M.
Autocorrect is funny. But the World Series is srs bzns.
However, there’s also regular-season interleague play, since 1997.
I’m going to disagree. As a Mets fan, I HATE the Yankees. And Yankees fans love to rub it in about how much better* the Yankees are than the Mets.
That would be 1976-1978 and 1980. The NYY won 1976-1978 and lost in 1980. And let us not forget the Pine Tar Incident in 1983.
Many, if not most, New York fans are divided. You like one team and loathe the other in every sport. In 1986, when it was the Mets versus the Red Sox, I was hoping for a earthquake, volcano, or meteor strike, or failing that the longest tie in baseball history that they’d still be trying to settle today, nearly 30 years later. I wanted NO WS champion that year.
I’ve mellowed a bit as I’ve aged. I don’t actively hate the Mets anymore, but I can’t really bring myself to root for them. But I won’t root for KC either. Baseball officially ended when the Yankees were eliminated from the Wild Card.
ETA: It’s not even parts. I grew up biking distance to Shea Stadium, the Mets’ home, but I’m a Yankee fan, as was my father before me, though he was closer to where the Giants played (before moving west, of course). Transplants are far more likely to root for both home teams, while born-and-bred NYers will often pick sides.
Not autocorrect, actually… I just saw that once somewhere, and thought it was funny.
And I guess I underestimated the attitude of New Yorkers. In any event, they’re certainly not rooting for “the other New York team”.
I don’t root against the Mets, many of my friends at Mets fans and I was lightly pulling for the Mets to win once they eliminated the Cubs. But as a Yankee fan I barely cared at all about this post-season once we fell to Houston. The bad part about being a Mets fan is they not the most popular team in any any county in the US and in NJ it runs about 2 to 1 Yankee fan to Mets fans. Mets barely register in Connecticut. Mets are more a Long Island team (including Queens & Brooklyn of course) than a NY Metro area team and they are not a national team at all.
As far as the rivalry go more than half the Yankee fans don’t care about the Mets, we’re too busy hating on the Red Sox. Some portions like both teams but they are fairly rare and the rest do hate the Mets. But it seems like most Met fans hate the Yanks or at least the collective Yankee Fans.
I came from a divided home and I genuinely follow and root for both although if asked I would say I’m a Yankees fan. I am in NJ and not NYC but I have to say there was a lot more excitement in 1986 than there is now. I’m just not getting the same feeling of baseball hysteria. Maybe the team itself is just not as interesting as the 80s team.
The Mets built up to 86, they have been very bad until this year, so the fan base is smaller than in 86. With that core of young pitching, they should be in it for the long haul now and we’ll see excitement build up. At least that is my take on it.
That’s a bit overstating things. The Mets were very good in the late 90s (even made a World Series in 2000) and then in the late 00s.
Sorry, you’re correct, I meant to say leading up to this year they have been very bad for a long time. Somehow my fingers did not cooperate with my thoughts.
As a Yankee fan, I usually don’t care what happens with the Mets. Goody for them if they win something every 30 years or so. However, most Mets fans despise the Yankees (as Post 6 shows), which is obviously the result of having to watch and read about the Yankees’ consistent success and superiority decade after decade.
But this year it’s different. I REALLY want the Mets to lose this one. This Mets team is capable of becoming a real dynasty. The core of 5 young power pitchers (if you include Wheeler) can make the Mets a perennial contender for years to come. Combining that with the Yankees’ recent cheapness, mismanagement and bad legacy contracts creates this fear in me that the Yankees will be reduced to 2nd Class status in NY.
This cannot happen. Ever. Go Royals!
It’s happened before; the Yankees were second class during most of the 60s (even when the Mets were horrendous) and 80s. These things change over time.
In any case, I’ve been surprised that most Yankee fans I’ve run into when I wear my Mets cap these days say good things about the team. Mets fans never root for the Yankees.
And add Rafael Montero to the list of Mets young arms. He seems to be back after playing hurt and when he came up, he was considered to have more potential than DeGrom.
In order to create a dynasty you have to build up a team with good young players then be willing to pay them well to keep them on the team. They managed to do ok with the first part but I have no faith in the Wilpons when it comes to the latter.
There was a big screen TV set up in grand central last night to let people watch the game, and a few dozen people were camped out watching. So at least somebody cares.
My family (from the Bronx) has divided loyalties. I and one brother are Yankees fans, and my other three brothers are rabid Mets fans.
My father and grandfather were NY Giants fans. When the Giants left they naturally gravitated to the new NL team. That’s why three of my brothers are Mets fans now.
I wasn’t much of a baseball fan growing up. I became one after I moved away from NY. I started following the Yankees when they got good in the 1970s while I was living in Colorado. I’ve followed them since.
When I get back to NY during the summer I always try to catch a Yankee game. Sometimes some of my Met fan brothers will go. I also caught a game at Citi Field this summer with two of them. (The Mets lost.)
I think it’s true that the hatred between the two fandoms is mostly one way. Yankees fans mostly don’t care enough about the Mets to really hate them. Saying it’s a rivalry would be like saying Germany and Poland were rivals in WWII. 
But Mets fans certainly hate the Yankees.
I’m mildly rooting for the Mets in this series, just because they’re from New York. But I won’t be terribly disappointed if KC wins, and I wouldn’t have been if the Cubs had beat them either.
It’s similar here in the Bay Area. Giants fans feel mild good will towards the A’s (unless we’re playing each other), but A’s fans loathe the Giants.
I think it’s the same in football, with Raiders fans hating the 49ers, who don’t seem to care.
Inferiority complex.
As a baseball fan I’d say that most baseball fans who are not Yankee fans have emotions ranging from hate to dislike of the Yankees.