Some interesting baseball facts

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by emfan2377

I didn't mean to imply that Mets fans were angels. Not by a long shot. I just find that Yankees fans tend to have a superior attitude about who's the greatest team ever, never mind best team in NY.

Well why shouldn't Yankees fans feel superior? Their team has been dominant for years. Look at the '27 Yankees, the teams from 1949 to 1953 that won 5 straight World Series, the '61 Yankees, the '78 Yankees and their amazing comeback, even the current run they had going with 4 WS from '96 to '00, plus the 8 straight division titles. Of course there have been great teams elsewhere for a long time. But nobody has the kind of history, not to mention bragging rights, that the Yankees do.

Originally Posted by emfan2377

I've been to Mets/Yankees games at Yankee Stadium with my 9 year old nephew and had stuff thrown at us for daring to wear Mets jerseys. (What adult throws stuff at a child?) Go to Shea wearing Yankee gear and you're more likely to get booed or hear "A-Rod sucks!" as you walk buy.

Here I do agree with you. The Stadium can be hell on anyone wearing anything other than pinstripes. Naturally, thats what makes it the Stadium . But a lot of the time, people do get out of control. I mean, they're hard enough on their own team, much less others. . And a kid should not have things thrown at him either. I'm willing to bet that the fan was drunk, however. I remember after the 2003 ALCS, drunken Sox fans getting into it with drunken Yanks fans leaving the Stadium, and it was a madhouse. Unfortunately, it happens all the time.