The world is round. If you disagree, stop reading now. Because as sure as the world is round, Met fans are vastly superior to Yankee fans. Period. This is a given. If you're a Met fan, you revel in this fact; it helps you through your teams tough times. If you're a Yankee fan, you know this just as well, or perhaps better, than any Met fan. You just refuse to acknowledge its validity, to the world if not yourself.
You see, anybody with a twenty-dollar bill can be a Yankee fan. Just pick yourself up one of those bland, black and white Yankee caps, (so prevelant in the crime-ridden sections of most major American cities), acquaint yourself enough with baseball history to know that the Yankees have won 27 World Series, and you're a Yankee fan.
Of course, the major prerequisite for being a Yankee is that you are a loser. You see, lacking that singular factor, Yankee fandom has no purpose. But as a loser, as one in need of some semblence of a positive identity, the Yankees seem to be the ultimate quick fix. No personal accomplishment is necessary, no extraordinary human quality is needed. You just pop on your Yankee cap and somehow, magically soak in the success.
In reality, of course, self-fulfillment is not achieved this way. One's successes must be their own; self-made.
This type of person does not need the shallow satisfaction brought on by Yankee fandom. This individual is confident in his own abilities. He is a giver, not a taker. He need not take his sence of self-worth from the Yankees. Rather, he is able to give his loyalty and support to the Mets.
Being a Met fan is not for the squeamish. The Mets came into the world as the under-achieving stepchild. Yankee fans can robotically spout out their "27 championships" retort. Met fans must think. They must be clever and self-deprecating. They must be loyal through adversity, even with an alternative, better team with the same city limits.
The Yankee fan, by definition, could never live up to such expectations. If he could, he'd never be a Yankee fan. He'd have no need to be.
And so, as far superior as the Yankees have been over the Mets as a baseball team through the decades, even FARTHER superior have Met fans been over Yankee fans.
End of story.
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