Mets Fan Gives Phillies Respect
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Here’s a Mets fan who’s got it right. My hat’s off to Mike Kent, the Mets fan who wrote this piece giving respect to the 2008 MLB World Champions, the Phillies. Kent writes:
The Phillies deserve credit and respect from all of baseball, and mostly from the Mets.
Yes, I know if you are a Mets’ fan then that is hard to say. The Phillies won the World Series last year and therefore are the better team, at least for now.
It bothers me that lots of Met fans come up with lame excuses as to why the Mets were better than the Phillies last year like. “JC Romero is a cheater,” and “we would have won if we had one more reliever,” or, “who cares, it was the worst World Series ever.”
Well, the fact is, the Mets did not have another relief pitcher, and JC is not the only reason they won. You can’t say anything about the great players that lead the Phillies to the World Series win.
And the World Series may not have been the best for Met fans or the rest of baseball, but I bet it was something special for the Phillies’ fans. And they should not give a [expletive deleted] about what we think.
Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, Brad Lidge, and Chase Utley lead the Phillies to the amazing win. And the Mets lost the NL East and thew wild card because they were not consistent, the Phillies were.
And even if the Mets do have more talent then the Phillies, it does not matter. The Yankees have the best talent in baseball and they did not win the World Series in eight years, are they the best team in baseball?
No, they are not.
And yes, I know I write lots of articles saying the Mets will win the NL East this season and I stand behind that; but I have never taking anything away from there great run last season.
So one again, great season, great run and great win Phillies. 2008’s best team in baseball.
And Mets’ fans, give the Phillies some respect. They deserve it.
Yes, 2009 marks a new season and everyone starts with a clean 0-0 slate on April 5th, MLB opening day. And yes, there are quite a few NL teams, including the Mets, gunning for the Phils. But the Philies ARE the champs until proven otherwise. They have procen their mettle catching the Mets from behind, not just once, but twice. The one area that I dispute with Kent is over the Romero affair. I have seen insufficient proof, despite his MLB 50 game suspension, to prove that JC actually cheated with a banned substance.
While they have great memories of 2008, the Phils also have a lot to live up to for the bar has been raised substantially by their 2008 post-season efforts. Will they live up to it? And manager Charlie Manuel put them on notice; “last year ends today” (the beginning of spring training). The next 162 regular games will tell a story. But in the meantime, as the saying goes; “To be The Man, you gotta beat The Man.” The Phils are training hard to face all comers in the fresh 2009 MLB season.
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