What New York baseball Is
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by user Wrightsmyboy
As I'm sure all of you know the Mets are playing the Dodgers right now and have just played the other former New York National League baseball team in the Giants.
Most of you, well really all of you don't know that Dodgers are my second favorite baseball team, and had they stayed in Brooklyn even with the creation of the Mets, I'd still be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan right now. And the Dodgers were actually my favorite when I was little, I'm a 100% Mets fan, but he Mets symbolize more than just another baseball franchise.
The Mets are the symbol of what New York baseball used to be, why New York is the baseball capital of he world, and why the hall of fame is in New York state. Before the late 70's when the Yankees got Reggie Jackson and they became New York's team (until 1985-1988) National League baseball was New York baseball. The Mets blue and orange is for Dodger Blue and Giants orange. The Mets really have the honor and the burden of representing the times where there were 8 straight subway series World Series. When a New York team was in the World Series 14 out of 16 times between 1947-1963 when the National League was beast. Baseball's Golden Age.
The Mets carry a Burden of a time when New York was baseball, and National League baseball was New York Baseball. And the question you might ask is what does that have to do with now? Well not for nothing but all baseball is a history, breaking a record, winning the World Series for the first time in 86 years, the changing and making of history is the reason true baseball fans watch the game. That's what baseball is!
And though we are the team, for the time, right here, right now. This team right here, right now, when the Yankees are down and falling we're just getting better needs to take back New York. And needs New York baseball not be frowned upon by the rest of the nation because of the spending the Yankees to win, but looked up upon because the Mets are the team and New York once again becomes the place. That's what the Mets need to do right here, right now, we even have the media on our side now. So we are the team for the time. That's what we need to do.
We did our part so far: we beat the Yankees, and if you ask me we're going to have to beat them again in the World Series. But all that that I stated is all the more reason we need to beat the Dodger and the Giants, and remind them what they left back here in New York. A represent New York York National League baseball that left for the money.
That's why I love Mets because they're the replacement of NY National League Baseball. I'm sure a lot of you think I'm getting into it to much but whatever.
So that the real reason, whether they just made it to be a corny phrase or not:
We are the team.
This is the time.
We are the Mets.
Date
Tue 06/06/06, 10:51 am EST
