{"id":508,"date":"2009-10-27T20:15:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-10-27T20:15:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:15:53","slug":"2009-world-series-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/10\/27\/2009-world-series-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 World Series: Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone has made light of, this World Series sucks for a Mets fan.<\/p>\n<p>Mets fans are pretty split on which side they\u2019re rooting for, if you can even call it rooting.\u00a0 Funny thing is, you see plenty of Yankees fans saying that we should be rooting for them, but I don\u2019t hear any Phillies fans making that same argument.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/i02qBX2woK51860MlIRXFQ?feat=embedwebsite\"><img src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_kk5d4G688eU\/Suea-9widoI\/AAAAAAAAC38\/i60w4NxpDaI\/s800\/Frillies.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/CeetarsNose\/Mets?feat=embedwebsite\">Mets<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Personally, I\u2019m rooting for the Yankees to lose.\u00a0 I don\u2019t get any joy or any more grief no matter what the Phillies do, but the Yankees winning would really irk me.\u00a0 It\u2019d blow my theory of them being cursed for knocking down the house that Ruth built, it\u2019d give even more fuel to the \u201cJeter\u2019s the best player ever\u201d arguments you hear, as well as the constant reminder about how much they\u2019ve won.\u00a0 Their eight rings to the Mets two would start to get a little insurmountable, whereas three for the Phillies wouldn\u2019t be as rough.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/K6ukDCNT2QKqFhtbPf7yuA?feat=embedwebsite\"><img src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_kk5d4G688eU\/Suea-3SZwsI\/AAAAAAAAC34\/SDrxR6FSC5Q\/s800\/yankeescap.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/CeetarsNose\/Mets?feat=embedwebsite\">Mets<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Some say that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/10\/25\/sports\/AP-BBA-Yankee-Stadium-Concrete.html\">cracks<\/a> in Yankee Stadium will open up and swallow both teams into Hell.<\/p>\n<p>Some compare it to 1999 although despite how much it sucked losing the Braves, the Braves fans were never in the equation as hated rivals.\u00a0 Others suggest we ask who the Yankees were rooting for in 1986 and root accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I\u2019m just not watching.\u00a0 I get no joy out of watching either team, and if you factor in all the game-delay tactics, the 50 million pitching changes, and the pop-fly home runs, I\u2019m just not sure it\u2019s going to be fun to watch anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be watching the Islanders at the Rangers Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone has made light of, this World Series sucks for a Mets fan. Mets fans are pretty split on which side they\u2019re rooting for, if you can even call it rooting.\u00a0 Funny thing is, you see plenty of Yankees fans saying that we should be rooting for them, but I don\u2019t hear any Phillies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/10\/27\/2009-world-series-bad-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2009 World Series: Bad News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[575,19,124,71],"tags":[2984,856,2968,2973,857,858,581,2964,363,506,2970,133,855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}