The Mets And Their Fans Will Always Be Pathetic Losers

Tommy Smokes10/10/2022 5:15 PM

Last night, the New York Mets made their collapse official. They went from a 10.5 game division lead to being eliminated in some fake playoff round where they got one measly hit in an elimination game. Now you may think that's embarrassing in its own right. But wait, there's more! In the midst of their feeble one-hit offensive performance, they resorted to accusing opposing pitcher Joe Musgrove of cheating and had the umps check his ears for sticky substances. Turns out he wasn't cheating and the Mets are actually just bad at hitting the baseball. But okay, whatever. Can't knock Buck for trying right?

But wait there's an even MORE! You may have seen Mets closer Edwin Diaz and his infamous Trumpets walk out music this season. They even had Timmy Trumpets come in and play the song live. The entrances would often go viral as Citi Field would ~~go berserk~~ whip out their cellphones and record it in silence. Now I shit on it all season long because I am a Mets hater to my very core, but I can now admit that it was a little bit cool. It was no Enter Sandman, but it was a cute little gimmick. Well that gimmick is now over as the Mets killed it forever last night.

Down four runs in the eighth inning, the Mets decided to play Trumpets and have their stupid little mascot dance along to it with his pretend trumpet. Mets fans talked all season long about how magical Trumpets would be in October. Well, tell me how magical that moment was as Padres fans danced along and mocked the fact that you were playing this when Diaz was coming in to protect a four-run DEFICIT. (He would in fact give up a double and make it a 6-run deficit). It was one of the few good things this franchise had going for it, and they managed to ruin it forever. Trumpets is now officially a meme song. Diaz can never walk out to that music again at Citi Field. The only lasting memory of the Trumpets era will be Padres fans and Mr. Met dancing along to it as the Mets were eliminated from the playoffs.

It's just further proof that no matter what the Mets do and no matter how much the fans try to say the franchise is finally heading in a positive direction under "Uncle Stevie" and how things are actually different this time.... things for the Mets are actually exactly the same and always will be. That franchise and its fans will always be pathetic losers playing second fiddle in New York City to their big brother Yankees.

They may have thought this season would be different, but it's just more of the same. Mets fans will be spending October like they always do. Sitting at home with an eliminated team rooting against the Yankees in the playoffs. It's all they have. The happiest moment of the baseball season for the Mets every year is when the Yankees get eliminated from the postseason. In my lifetime (since 1996), the Mets have advanced further in the season than the Yankees only three times (2006, 2015, 2016). Three times in 27 seasons.

Now if you bring this up to the sewer rats Mets fans, all they'll talk to you about is 2015 and how the Mets have been to a World Series more recently than the Yankees.

Never in my life have I seen a fanbase celebrate losing quite like the 2015 Mets. No team has ever been prouder of a non-championship season. Second place may suffice for those perennial losers, but over in the Bronx we only celebrate actual World Series championships, not being runner-ups. And yes, it's true that it's been awhile since the Yankees have won it all (2009). I'll be the first one to admit that it's been an unacceptable stretch of championship-less baseball..... HOWEVER.... Mets fans are the last fanbase that have the right to say anything about the Yankees. They have NOTHING over us. They haven't won a World Series in 36 seasons, so a drought of 13 would be a welcomed sight for them. Even this season when I had to hear all season long about how the Mets were the new hot franchise in town and owned the city, it's the New York Yankees that are playing in the ALDS while the Mets are eliminated. You have nothing over us. Nothing.

Now you may be wondering why I have this intense hatred for the Mets. Well, let me explain. I'll be the first to admit that I do care about the Mets. I'm NOT one of those Yankee fans who says "I don't pay any attention to them. Who cares about the Mets?" I do. I hate them with a burning passion. When they lose, it makes me very happy. I grew up on Long Island where half of my classes and half of my friends were Mets fans. I didn't have to deal with Red Sox fans until I got to Barstool basically. So sure, 2004 and 2007 and 2013 sucked seeing Boston win, but I didn't have to go into school and deal with Red Sox fans rubbing it in. No. I had to deal with sewer rat Mets fans rubbing it in as if it was their team that won the World Series. I had to deal with Mets fans whipping out their "2-time World Series Champion" jackets on April 24th to claim that there was a new big brother in town when the Mets were 14-7 and the Yankees were 9-12. Sure, they blew that lead every single year, but those morons never learned. For every bad Yankees moment I endured in my childhood, it was Mets fans I had to face rubbing it in to me. Because that's the only joy they've had for years. Celebrating the Yankees lose. When you can't win for yourself, that's what you have to resort to. Even this season when the Mets should have just been enjoying their best team in years, they were focused on the Yankees.

One New York did team did in fact collapse, blow their division, and not reached the Division Series. But it wasn't the Yankees. I'd say that Mets fans should've been more focused on their own team this season, but when their entire lives have been spent rooting against the Yankees instead of for their own teams, I understand that it's a hard habit to break.

But hey cheer up, Mets fans. 101 wins is nothing to scoff at! And hey the future is bright! I'm sure your farm system is totally loaded and probably one of the best in baseball since you've been bad for so long, right? No? Oh. Well at least you don't have any key free agents this offseason and can keep your core in place, right? No? deGrom, Diaz, Nimmo, Bassit, Carrasco, Walker and others could all be gone? What??? Shit. Well at least you don't have a division rival with a championship core locked up for the next decade? Shit wait, what's that? The Braves just extended ANOTHER young star in Spencer Strider and have all their young stars signed through the 2020s? AND deGrom grew up a Braves fan????? Damn.

At least you have an owner now though who's not afraid to spend money.