Another crappy championship series for some New York area fans

The thing about having eight professional sports teams in one media market means there are lots of fan combinations. But if you live around the New York area, you know some teams tend to go together. Like many New York Giants fans tend to be New York Yankees fans and also New York Rangers fans and probably New York Knicks fans. And many New York Jets fans happen to be New York Mets fans who then might also like the New York Islanders and then it starts to get a bit murky. The reasoning behind affiliations vary, from liking the more long standing teams like the Giants, Yankees and Rangers who have all be around for at least 80 years. Many Jets/Mets/Islanders fans live on Long Island where the Jets held a practice facility, the Islanders play and the Mets are the easiest baseball team to visit. Then there are the Devils and Nets fans that kind of buck the system, but these are generalities and I bet this comments section can be filled with the various combinations of fanhood (which you are more than welcome to share.) I myself buck pretty much every system falling into the Giants/Rangers/Nets/Braves category, but that’s a long story.

The point is there is a large group of people who must be rolling their eyes at the fact that the Phillies and Rays are hitting the World Series this year, especially coming on the heels of a Super Bowl that featured the Giants and Patriots. These would be the Mets/Jets fans and while I know it’s nowhere near as hard as watching your in town rival take on your division rival in the Super Bowl, it will be hard to watch your division rival Phillies take on the Rays in game 1. Mainly because the guy pitching is Scott Kazmir who the Mets dealt to the Rays for Victor Zambrano. (Sorry for the early morning binge and purge session, Mets fans.) But before you go running towards the nearest bridge to jump off of, take solace in knowing that there’s another group of fans, a group that just so happens to root for a team that you may hate more than the Phillies that may not be so happy with the pairing as well. Although, I bet Yankees fans are way more excited it’s not Boston again, so maybe I’ll take that back. Still you may not want to jump off that bridge!