ESPN needs to stop talking New York Sports if they think NYC has always been a Yankee town

[Oville]

Then where do these fans disappear to during the Yankees runs? When the Mets win, eveeeeeerybody all the sudden loud and proud. Gear is flooding the streets. Everybody talking.

The other 70 decades, they barely speak

No fans of any franchise are repping hard when their team is losing.

 

[Oville]

Mets haven’t won shyt since I’ve been alive


Get handled by the royals in the WS brehs

Last NY team to make the World Series though

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

No fans of any franchise are repping hard when their team is losing.

Never met jets or Knicks fans I assume then

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

I mean i am watching this and it is laughable that they think NYC has always been a Yankee Town, no offense but the Yankees dominating NYC has only been recently( as of 99 to be honest) .. Since the Mets inception the Mets ran NYC and in the 80's up til the Yankees got Derek Jeter it wasn't even close that the mets ran NYC so i don't get this notion that Jalen is talking.

And to be honest if the MEts can string together just 3 playoff winning seasons and a world series it will be back to being 50/50 and the MEts taking over again.

Citi field shyts on Yankee Stadium in every way

Jalen Rose takes

 

[Oville]

Never met jets or Knicks fans I assume then

Yes, and they hide as well. Met's fans travel to other's teams stadiums as much as anyone. And for a franchise that plays in the same town as the most successful/storied franchise in NY sports the fact that we have the fan base that we do is incredible.

 

[god shamgod]

The cubs have one title since 1908 and that was 2016 judge is the face of the league nor betts trout Bryant etc

Javier Baez a bigger face of mlb than that injury prone big oaf judge

Yankees got sonned by the Red Sox in postseason series Then the Red Sox went on to win championships not once but twice and you talking about face of the league who gives a fukk

 

[ExodusNirvana]

this is interesting to read

I had no idea the Mets were that big in New York

They're not

Only in Queens

This thread is stupid, you don't get to be one of the most profitable teams in the world if you "only won in the late 90s"

 

[obarth]

Last NY team to make the World Series though

And there you have it. As a Yankee fan, making the World Series is a base expectation. Two years ago, in a season where we were supposed to be rebuilding, we made the ALCS and lost. I wasn't happy to get there, I was disappointed, over the season, and ready for the next one to begin ASAP. Y'all out here bragging about merely making the WS. Ol participation trophy ass nikkas

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Yankees 26 games over .500
Mets struggling for a wildcard spot

 

[Megadeus]

this is interesting to read

I had no idea the Mets were that big in New York

The mets so much as go on a 10 game win streak and jump up a few places and its ALL you hear about on Local NY sports radio. It just hits different when the Mets are doing well. When the Yanks are hot Met fans fall back and let them have their shine.

But When the Mets are hot you even got Yank fans calling in all flustered that the Yanks aren't getting all the attention anymore, its like clockwork. Lol look no further than this thread. Yanks are a better run organization that has more consistent success, but that Mets buzz is just something else, it does somethin to the city.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

No fans of any franchise are repping hard when their team is losing.

See Yankees and cowboys fans off the top of my head. Lakers too.

That’s the point. Some fan bases are eternal. These dudes could lose every game and their fans still bragging and talking shyt with the yankee (cowboy, lakers) fitted and jersey

All that winning let’s them never feel like they lost. Cause they can rehash “rings” and always feel on high. Those franchises never lose their city

 

[SadimirPutin]

The mets so much as go on a 10 game win streak and jump up a few places and its ALL you hear about on Local NY sports radio. It just hits different when the Mets are doing well. When the Yanks are hot Met fans fall back and let them have their shine.

But When the Mets are hot you even got Yank fans calling in all flustered that the Yanks aren't getting all the attention anymore, its like clockwork. Lol look no further than this thread. Yanks are a better run organization that has more consistent success, but that Mets buzz is just something else, it does somethin to the city.

So the Mets are kind of the baseball version of the Knicks

A diehard fanbase cruelly at the mercy of inept ownership

Learn something new everyday

 

[tremonthustler1]

The sports media LOVES the Yankees but om WFAN 8/10 of the calls are Mets related
Not sure what it means, but it means something.

constant winning isn't necessarily good for sports talk radio. It's hard to vent when you win.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

So the Mets are kind of the baseball version of the Knicks

A diehard fanbase cruelly at the mercy of inept ownership

Learn something new everyday

It really is pretty funny when you look at it that way. Most teams up here have bad ownership if you look at each team.

 

[King P]

The angle that OP took is

That being said, he is right from a historical standpoint, he is correct.

The Yankees originally started as the Baltimore Orioles, before coming to NY as the Highlanders and then became the Yankees. They were originally looked at as interlopers, an outsider team. They were the original Brooklyn Nets in a way. They shared a stadium with the then NY Giants (technically the Giants rented it out to them), who at the time was the #1 team in NY.

Things didn't start looking up until they got Babe Ruth. Then they ended moving to the Bronx (really the Giants kicked them out of their stadium because they were upset at all the attention the Yankees were getting after the Ruth acquisition. Going to the Bronx was supposed to be a banishment) and started to build up their franchise. They overtook the Giants, but were in a tug of war with the Dodgers, going back and forth. Wasn't really a clear cut #1 though back then. Wasn't until the late 40's/early 50's that the Yankees took a large lead and then was fully in control once the Dodgers and Giants left NY. Since then, the Yankees have built up such a stronghold on NY baseball that nobody can touch them.

That's why I laugh when people talk about how Nets will never make a dent in NY and it will always be a Knicks town just like it's always a Yankees town. When they don't realize that there was a time where the Yankees were the bottomfeeders of NY