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@browsersatdv5 He’s married to a beautiful woman and you’re single. Cope and seethe.
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First press box food delivery of the season: pulled chicken sliders from Mookie Wilson's Legacy Catering, and dipped mini cheesecakes from Mr. & Mrs. Met's Candy Shop.
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Go to that baseball game alone. Treat yourself to that good seat with the perfect view. Make friends with the strangers around you. You won’t regret it. Life is too short to wait for others to do things that will make you happy.
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@JuniorRushing @ashelai_ Ozuna isn't even on the Braves anymore so at this point you're defending a wife beater and drunk driver just for the love of the game
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@ashelai_ Except he’s not. And if you actually looked into it you would see that.
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@RossBarkan They literally play sound effects from the Death Star at Yankee Stadium
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That's fine! Avoid the "Evil." Thank you, though, for agreeing with my thesis.
Rebecca Fishbein@bfishbfish
This is because the Yankees have long been considered baseball's Evil Empire (even if they haven't earned that moniker in decades) and people who move here from other places would prefer not to root for them.
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@nhlpalmieri should be two blowouts in one day with this lineup x.com/Mets/status/20…
New York Mets@Mets
Saturday’s starters 🔥 #LGM
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Yes I moved to NYC from small town Canada
Yes I work in tech and live in Brooklyn
If that makes me a "tech bro gentrifier" then so be it, I'm tired of worrying about so called "real New Yorkers" who do nothing but hate and judge others that come here to make New York a better place
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@MovieNight3000 don't think they were talkin about sitting in half-empty Shea Stadium
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It's wild to believe one team is more moral than the others. NYM owner is literally a centibillionaire who should have gone to prison and is ramming a predatory casino down the throats of working-class Queens. Steinbrenners/Randy Levine are bad, but I'm don't live in fantasyland
Mike Duncan@mikeduncan
Yes because choosing to root for the Yankees if you are not born into it is proof of defective character. This is less about "the gentrifier laptop class" and more about "anyone with a moral center would not willingly choose to root for the Yankees." I would personally be thrilled so many good and ethical people were moving to my city!
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@mikeduncan I got legit bullied at school growing up because "muh 2̶6̶ 27 ringzzz"
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Yankee fans are so funny this way. They're entire fan culture revolves around being loudly and arrogantly better than every other team and fanbase then get ants in their pants at the thought of people not liking them
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Yes Ross there is no ethical consumption in capitalism. That is not the point. The point is that no one with a moral center who likes baseball would choose to root for the Yankees if they were not born into it
Ross Barkan@RossBarkan
It's wild to believe one team is more moral than the others. NYM owner is literally a centibillionaire who should have gone to prison and is ramming a predatory casino down the throats of working-class Queens. Steinbrenners/Randy Levine are bad, but I'm don't live in fantasyland
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@RossBarkan @mikeduncan Unless that is your local team or you were otherwise born into those fandoms, that is absolutely right. Nobody likes a front runner, bandwagon fan.
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@mikeduncan It wouldn't be moral to be a Patriots fan, Lakers fan, Tampa Bay Lightning fan, Golden State Warriors fan, or LA Dodgers fan at this point. I feel like you're not really into sports, which is fine. Or, like a lot of Mets fans, you don't pay close attention.
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@kontos_michael @RossBarkan That wasn't my assertion. Read it again: The Mets haven't been the best team in baseball lately, but they're much closer to being the best than being the worst.
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@_MLBrian_ @RossBarkan You assertion was the were the one of the best teams in baseball and there isn’t a metric that supports that
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Walk the streets of Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Ridgewood, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights. Find a baseball fan who moved to NYC as an adult. Vast majority are Mets fans.
Sam Adler-Bell@SamAdlerBell
It used to be the Mets were dismissed as the schlubbly, uncouth, outer borough white-ethnic team, but Yankees fans, ever unsatisfied, bc of their own insecurities, had to figure out some new way to insist on their superiority, so they all started repeating this lazy bs
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@RossBarkan I struck up a conversation with a stranger last night because he was wearing an awesome vintage Mets jacket. Turns out he is from Massachusetts, moved to New York five years ago, and adopted the Mets as his second team because "Fuck the Yankees."
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Also you're basically from New England, go be a Red Sox fan. They can have you.
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1) Conceding transplants are Mets fan. Glad again to be correct - I do not, in fact, get tired of winning.
2) Yankees and Mets can both speak to NY. But if the Mets actually summed up the essence of NYC, we'd be a C-tier sub-metropolis, barely 1.5 boroughs, failure.
Sam Adler-Bell@SamAdlerBell
to be totally sincere for a second, i can believe that transplants become Mets fans. but i suspect they do so because the culture of the Mets was more attractive to them, and part of the attraction was precisely that Mets fandom involves a greater degree of psychic commitment: the specifically New York character of loving something ugly, enduring inconvenience, and submitting yourself to one big collective neurosis. people who want to become New Yorkers, become Mets fans. And they're right to do so.
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@thebenchesclear The Yankees are BORING and the Mets are FUN
HUMOR. JOY. AND WHIMSY.
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also, even if it’s true that “laptop transplant types” are largely mets fans, what does it say about the yankees that people who are new to the city no longer gravitate towards them? certainly nothing good
casey at the bat@thebenchesclear
very funny to interpret this as some weird social phenomenon related to class and not just people measurably not really giving a shit about the yankees anymore
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