Having His Say: Mets Fans Rejoice at Yankee Ineptitude

Why are Mets fans taking so much glee from the disappointing Yankees season? One Mets fan lists his reasons...

Yankee fans are so used to winning they become so cocky. It's the sense of entitlement that the post-season belongs to them. Ever go to a game at the Stadium and the Yanks are losing? The fans still cheer because they expect a comeback. Worse, every offseason, my Yankee fan friend tells me the latest free agent stud they are pursuing because, as we all know, money's no object: They were getting Beltran, Guererro, and how great it was going to be when Nomar comes to play second with Jeter and A-Rod. Last year they were getting Santana. This year my friend tells me, oh don’t worry about it the Yankees will be getting Sabathia next year. That’s what I mean about expectation. They just expect the Yankees to get these players and expect them to make and win the World Series every year.

So it’s a tremendous pleasure to see them sulking and now how they say “oh I’m so tired of them this year, they suck.” Yankee fans have no idea how to handle this type of situation, it’s foreign to them. Maybe it’s not the fans fault since their team has been so great for so long. They are so used to getting all the great players, and not really because of the money they spend but it was because the players always wanted to play for the Yankees and not the Mets. Thanks to Curt Schilling, not only has he just about single handedly removed the “Curse of the Bambino” but he made it chic to turn the Yankees down to play for them.

Now that the Yankees season is just about over, I haven’t watched a Mets game in a week and they played 3 major games against the Phillies this weekend. I can walk down the street and talk to any Yankee fan and know that as I am talking to them I am laughing inside because they are not making the playoffs for the first time since 1993. They are squirming. What’s even funnier is that it’s going to be so hard for the Yankees to get back to the playoffs next year and beyond now that Tampa is better and even the Blue Jays have so much better pitching. At this moment, the Yankees are maybe the 7th or 8th best team in the American League--not to mention fourth in their division.

Getting back to the Mets, I understand that they have not been in the World Series since 2000, but they have a great core of players. Wright and Reyes along with Santana will keep them on top or close to the top for a long time. It’s up to GM Omar Minaya to fill in the pieces correctly. As long as they are going in the right direction, I’m happy.

Let me just finish by saying what all Mets fans are thinking: Win or lose, the season has already been a success knowing that the Yankees will not make the playoffs.

This is the second piece from Wayne Davis, who's glad he didn't get stuck with Tom Brady in his fantasy draft