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Originally posted by Andy Jordan:
tbf, you wore a Yankees jacket to a Mets game.
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Ha ha. whs. I'm surprised that you'd be so naive. I have no love for Mets fans, but at the same time, I like the idea that your home stadium should be a hostile venue for opposition fans. Maybe I've been influenced too much by the 'not in our house' mentality of football, and the Yankee Stadium bleachers (esp. before they banned beer sales there, RIP), but to me it is not a person's place to go into someone else's stadium and root for their failure. I assume g'fan was giving at least tepid support for the hometowns, but wearing a Yankee jacket probably made a lot of the knuckledraggers around him miss that.
And to be honest, apart from the 'I almost got in a fight' part, which is unfortunate, the rest describes a pretty fun night out at the park, assuming you're a Mets fan. It's much worse when the crowd just sits there passively. I (finally) got a chance to go to one of the interleague subway series games last year (at Shea), and it was a zoo. It was one pig's head and a conch shell away from a state of nature, and as long as your kept your head down, you had as much fun watching the death of civilization in the stands as you did watching the game on the field.
If you think the Mets fans are the worst though, I beg to differ, although they're probably close. (Phillies fans really aren't even in the conversation, as their bile is directed almost solely at their own team. We're at least smart enough to realize that there's no point getting on another team and/or their fans if your team isn't backing it up on the field.) For worst fans I think I have to go with Red Sox fans.
From their retarded 'Ohmygawd, I lived my whole life to see this. Now I can finally die.' blatherings to their inflated sense of worth (the Nation, ffs), Sox fans are like the hyperactive 10 year old kid who thinks, incorrectly, that he is the most special-ist kid in the whole world, whining, "Look at meee!!!!" at every opportunity. Dude, we see you, we just think you're a moron. Sit down.
You can see this first hand while sitting in the bleachers for a Yankees-Red Sox game. The rivalry has lost a lot of its juice since the Sox won (finally), but the games used to attract the scum of the earth -- jackass college kids who self-consciously wore their Sawx love/ Yankees hate as an affectation (the non-conforming sheep phenomenon, like the wannabes who make PBR the drink of choice at hipster bars all over NYC), and went to Yankee Stadium specifically to be obnoxious. Sitting in Yankee Stadium and chanting "Jeter sucks" with ten of your moron friends as they pop their Ortiz jerseys, while everyone around you stands, points, and starts the Asshole chant (ahhh, good times), well you haven't seen bad fans if you haven't seen this.
Alfonso so poor. 
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