@GreedyStripes 1st rule for a Yankee Fan--never root for the Mets
— David Bruder (@DBYankees1) October 15, 2015
I learned a very interesting tidbit of information this week
that I previously didn’t know, apparently it is an unpopular decision for a fan
of the New York Yankees, myself, to root for the New York Mets and/or against
for Yankees great and captain Don Mattingly. Who would have thought that?
Look, I am a Yankees fan first and a MLB fan second. I have
no second favorite team or an American League team and a National League team
like some. I root for the stories more so than I do the players, the coaches or
the managers when the Yankees aren’t in it. I expressed an opinion on Thursday
morning that I was rooting for the New York Mets for one night only because I
wanted the New York team to win the series, I didn’t see anything wrong with
that. Boy was I wrong.
My Twitter feed was lit up, was lit up for 7:00 am in the
morning anyway, with questions about Don Mattingly. They are legitimate
questions but it’s all dependent on how old you are and how much baseball you
watched in the 80’s and 90’s. Me personally, I wasn’t born until November of
1985 and didn’t really start watching baseball as a religion until the 1994
season. I probably only started watching it then because the Yankees were so
good, remember it’s okay to be a bandwagon fan at the age of eight years old.
That makes no sense. Why not root for Donnie Baseball??? https://t.co/Ux4bFlzDGh
— Bernadette Pasley (@LadyWriting) October 15, 2015
I wasn’t watching in November of 1985 when Mattingly won his
American League MVP Award and I was barely watching before the strike and the
team made it to the AL Wild Card against the Seattle Mariners. I have a loyalty
to all Yankees players, past and present, but it’s just not as strong for
players I didn’t grow up watching I guess.
In 10-20 years when Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Andy
Pettitte and Jorge Posada are being disrespected or discussed in a way that
does not fully represent the player and the people that they were I guess I’ll
understand. No disrespect was intended, I love Don Mattingly and I wish him
nothing but the best in LA or wherever he may go. I was just rooting for the New
York team but now it’s back to Go Yankees instead of Go Mets!
@GreedyStripes your rooting against Donny Baseball for the shit Mets??
— ~LenDiesel~ (@LenDiesel21) October 15, 2015
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