The Other Fifteen

I’ve never liked the Mets much. I suppose they’re preferable to the Yankees, always, and the friends I have from New York who are Mets fans are all less obnoxious about baseball than my Yankees friends, but they’re still the Mets. There’s still something about them that just irks me. Maybe it’s the fact that they spend so much money but almost always suck when it counts.

Now, to be fair, there’s a certain team that has also spent lots of money with seemingly no results (since making the World Series in 2006, at least), but we won’t talk about them. And they aren’t from New York and their state’s economy is in the tank so they have some leeway from the average baseball fan.

But the Mets are the Mets. New York gets no free passes. They want us to feel sorry for them because they’re lovable losers, but this is just not possible. The Washington Nationals they ain’t.

Except….well, when one of your outfielders is afraid of the ball, I think your team has officially hit rock bottom. Is this more embarrassing that the Nationals? I think it might be. Even though the DC baseball club has spelling issues, at least they aren’t pussies in right field.

Gotta give it to you, New York: for once, you have a sorrier team than the the Nationals.