In response to Stephanie:
Regarding my predictions at the start of the season: I don’t think anybody could have foreseen the Mets season that took place. It surpassed any sort of late-season collapse by leaps and bounds. Every starting position player, all but one starter in their rotation, and their second-best reliever were all injured for a significant period of time. If people knew that’s what would happen, I don’t think anybody would have predicted the Mets to win anything.
Regarding my thoughts on the Yankees-Phillies World Series: How dare you suggest I’m not rooting for the right team. I have not declared at all who I’m rooting for, nor have I made any predictions. Even if I was rooting against the Yankees, I have every right to. I am not a Yankee fan. I have no requirement to root for them just because they play in the same city as the Mets. The parallels to ‘86 are non-existent. The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is a completely different animal than the Mets-Phillies rivalry, which only really began two years ago. Three if we’re being conservative. In reality, I am rooting for neither team. I am a baseball fan, and am rooting for great baseball games. And we will probably get them. For the first time in a long time, the World Series includes what are clearly the best two teams in the Major Leagues. And in a way, it’s a win-win for me: one of these teams will lose and go home miserable.
“This, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon,” wrote John Coppinger on his blog, the Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus, who falls in the boycott category. “There is no happy ending. Satan has been unleashed.” And, he continued, “The next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.”
Zach, every time I see you post about baseball I think about how extremely off you were in your predictions at the start of the season.
I don’t mind if Mets fans are opting out of rooting for a team. I’m more confused by the Mets fans that opt to root for the Phillies. All us Yankee fans rooted against the Red Sox in ‘86.
