More Met Fans than Yankee Fans in NYC?

Conventional thought often maintained that nyc was historicall a national league town . Some of that was steeped in the fact that the Giants and Dodger fans subsequently became Mets fans and in many families rooting interests and handed down generation to generation.

Casual fans are front runners and when the Mers are down (which is usually) the casual fan flock to the more successful Yankees.

However, with the resurgence of the Mets, it aldo appears that long dormant Mets fans awakened and all things being equal appear to be more interest in the Mets than Yankees.

Personally as a Mets fan i respect the serious Mets fan more than the serious Yankee fan. It takes feep roots to weather the pain of rooting for a mostly losing franchise where even when you win, losing seems to lurk just around the corner.

For the Yankees, in the free agent era at least, losing is a temporary condition remedied by signing the best players in the market that most franchises could not afford.
 
and Hillary was going to beat the Donald. How accurate were those polls? That said WTFK? :unsure:
 
Conventional thought often maintained that nyc was historicall a national league town . Some of that was steeped in the fact that the Giants and Dodger fans subsequently became Mets fans and in many families rooting interests and handed down generation to generation.

Casual fans are front runners and when the Mers are down (which is usually) the casual fan flock to the more successful Yankees.

However, with the resurgence of the Mets, it aldo appears that long dormant Mets fans awakened and all things being equal appear to be more interest in the Mets than Yankees.

Personally as a Mets fan i respect the serious Mets fan more than the serious Yankee fan. It takes feep roots to weather the pain of rooting for a mostly losing franchise where even when you win, losing seems to lurk just around the corner.

For the Yankees, in the free agent era at least, losing is a temporary condition remedied by signing the best players in the market that most franchises could not afford.
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It's been tough being a NY pro sports fan through the years
Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rangers is a tough combination to root for
The year of glory was 1969 - Mets, Jets and Knicks won championships
And 1969 was the year that my wife of nearly 45 years and I had our first date
Well 3 out of 4 ain't bad :)
 
Conventional thought often maintained that nyc was historicall a national league town . Some of that was steeped in the fact that the Giants and Dodger fans subsequently became Mets fans and in many families rooting interests and handed down generation to generation.

Casual fans are front runners and when the Mers are down (which is usually) the casual fan flock to the more successful Yankees.

However, with the resurgence of the Mets, it aldo appears that long dormant Mets fans awakened and all things being equal appear to be more interest in the Mets than Yankees.

Personally as a Mets fan i respect the serious Mets fan more than the serious Yankee fan. It takes feep roots to weather the pain of rooting for a mostly losing franchise where even when you win, losing seems to lurk just around the corner.

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you just described what being a st johns fan is like also
 
Conventional thought often maintained that nyc was historicall a national league town . Some of that was steeped in the fact that the Giants and Dodger fans subsequently became Mets fans and in many families rooting interests and handed down generation to generation.

Casual fans are front runners and when the Mers are down (which is usually) the casual fan flock to the more successful Yankees.

However, with the resurgence of the Mets, it aldo appears that long dormant Mets fans awakened and all things being equal appear to be more interest in the Mets than Yankees.

Personally as a Mets fan i respect the serious Mets fan more than the serious Yankee fan. It takes feep roots to weather the pain of rooting for a mostly losing franchise where even when you win, losing seems to lurk just around the corner.

For the Yankees, in the free agent era at least, losing is a temporary condition remedied by signing the best players in the market that most franchises could not afford.
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Older Yankee fans have perspective - the barren decade of 65 to 75 and the horrible late 80s, early 90s when they were truly among the worst in baseball.

Many newer fans - those that would put Jeets ahead of Mickey or Yogi - have been spoiled rotten from 96 onward and think a sub 90 win season is the end of the world.
 
Younger Yankee fans in their mid 30s have perspective as well, at least those who really followed the team growing up. That group grew up the late 80s/early 90s Steinbrenner mess so they have perspective.

I'm at a Met fan, but the fact that the Yanks haven't had a losing season in like 25 years running is damn freaking impressive. And while having the pockets to spend helped, the biggest misconception is that $ is solely responsible. The single biggest factor in the run of the great Yankee teams from the mid 90s through 2000s was the 5 home grown players who were all stars, two of who are among the best ever at their position, the other three of which are a tick level below the HOF.

Imagine developing at the exact same time a legendary closer, legendary SS, all star lefty SP, all star C and all start CF? That is what the Yanks did.

NY fans are fickle but until we win a bunch of titles the Yanks will always be a force in this town.
 
I love how some of Yankee fans give themselves weggies, and then wonder how it happened.

Why even bother posting that poll in the first place. It is manufactured nonsense by media who have nothing going on, but to generate a story. I am a Mets fan and I don't care. In fact, those bandwagon jumpers can stay where they are. They are too feckless for my taste.

Of course the Mets will be more popular now because on opening day, they are in the world series discussion. The Mets were rock stars during the mid to late 1980's.

It pretty simple. You have the die-hards on both sides, and then the ones who just go with the side that is the trendy choice.

If the pitching remains healthy, the Mets can absolutely win the world series. With healthy pitching, they are actually built for the playoffs.

I am very aware nothing is guaranteed. Again, if the arms are ready to go every 5th day, I feel good about their chances.

And one more thing: Let's go Mets!
 
The Mets will always be second class just like the Jets and Islanders. I'm not sure anyone cares about the Knicks and the Nets. Lol

But honestly like someone said the poll is worthless and who cares. Both sides of every team in NY has suffer through bad times. Bandwagon fans will always be there, the Mets have just as many as the Yankees.
 
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