2006-07-11 20:24:58 · 12 answers · asked by beachdiva954 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
It is a battle of prestige. A subway series in New York is as big as a playoff series. It is the title of New Yorks Finest. LOL
I'm not kidding people although it's not the same league it's a battle of the borroughs, and it gets ugly.
2006-07-11 20:43:59 · update #1
Yes, I was ecstatic to see the Sox break that curse! Most of my fellow Mets fans that I know love to see Boston blow them away! I can honestly say when the Yankees were in every series and playoff game in the past I personally would pull for any other team but them, when the Sox did it, it was like YES! You are so right about the love triangle!
2006-07-13 04:47:18 · update #2
This is a tougher question than one might think. While the Red Sox are an original AL franchise and the Mets date only from 1962, Mets fans have inherited all the traditional Yankee hatred of New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers fans, and the Giants hated the Yankees (then called the Highlanders) so much that the 1904 World Series was called off lest the mighty Giants sully themselves by playing the upstarts! (Boston, however, slipped past the Highlanders at the end, alas too late.)
Still, despite all the traditional rivalries, Red Sox fans have had to endure more arrogance and more suffering on a more frequent basis, playing the Yankees 22 times a year (later 18 when expansion hit, and I guess it's a little less now). Mets fans have always been able to exact a certain amount of revenge, as when the Mets won the Mayor's Trophy game in 1963 (!) and when Tom Seaver, then pitching for the White Sox, won his 300th game against the Yankees.
Also, Mets fans have always been able to dismiss the Yankees as playing "American League" baseball. (The very idea of having the National League in New York is why the Mets were created in the first place - all those Dodgers and Giants fans did not suddenly switch to the Bronx Bombers.)
So, as a Mets fan, I have to say that Boston fans dislike the Yankees more.
(An interesting sidelight on the Mayor's Trophy game in the 1960s: the Yankees would bring up a pitching prospect from their AAA farm team in Syracuse for the game, and generally gave Mickey Mantle the day off. Mets fans, while disappointed about Mantle, understood about his legs and did not begrudge him his rest. We actually cheered the Yankee greats in those days, too. The Mets, meanwhile, fielded their regular lineup, and often used the pitcher whose day it was in the rotation. In 1969, for instance (the game was played on September 30, just before the end of the season!) they played it as if the Yankees were another NL East opponent, and won, 7-4 Luckily, it was Don Cardwell's day in the rotation. Oddly enough, there is no compliation of Mayor's Trophy results on the Web, probably because it was an exhibition game for charity - the Yankees also played the Giants and Dodgers 'way back when. It is no longer played, and probably will not be revived now that the two teams play each other in the regular season every year.)
2006-07-12 10:50:11 · answer #1 · answered by BroadwayPhil 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a matter of long vs short history. The Red Sox and Yankees have been going at it since 1903. The Mets only came along in 1962. I think the Red Sox have come in second when the Yankees when 1st something like 30 times in the past 100 years. The Mets and Yankees have met formally in Interleague play only for 10 years and in the World Series once, so the deeper loathing of each other is not long enough as with Boston. In 1994, all Met fans I know were so excited at what the Red Sox did to the Yankees in the playoffs, so there certainly is a three-way "love" triangle.
2006-07-12 21:20:38 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boston
2006-07-11 20:25:48 · answer #3 · answered by gentsocar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boston. Mets fans just ignore the entire AL anyway so why would they even bother hating the Yankees bar when they play interleague? I think Mets fans hate Chipper Jones more than the NYY.
2006-07-11 20:29:54 · answer #4 · answered by fugutastic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boston. The yankees suck and there so old i think atleast every week has to get some hurt in someway. And the mets got swept by the RedSox.
2006-07-12 02:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by GFMLM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dislike them the most and I'm a Boston fan
2006-07-12 01:35:13 · answer #6 · answered by littleman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't stand any of those three groups, though Mets fans are by far the most tolerable of the three.
2006-07-12 02:18:43 · answer #7 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red Soxs. They see them more often than the Mets, and it is more meaningful.
2006-07-12 02:04:48 · answer #8 · answered by taitaia12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orioles fans
2006-07-12 02:21:20 · answer #9 · answered by P. Charles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boston ........... i hate the yankees and im not a boston or mets fan
2006-07-11 20:29:14 · answer #10 · answered by shesmysunshine4ever 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋