A First for the NY Mets Brings Out the Worst in Mets Fans

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Earlier this week, the New York Mets swept the New York Yankees in their first regular season "Subway Series" of the season.  It was the first such time that this has happened since 1997, when regular season inter-league play between National and American League teams began, and even though I am no die hard sports follower, I am a Yankees' fan and I just had to respond when some of my friends felt the need to gloat on Facebook after the sweep had been completed.

I learned a long time ago not to get too involved with sports.  I loosely follow all four major sports: baseball, football, basketball and hockey (my favorite!), and when I was much younger I used to be a super duper die hard like many sports fans, catching every single game and never missing a beat.  But I eventually learned that living and dying with a team is not a good way to live.  First of all, it's a passive activity, where a person watching the game has no control over its outcome, and when you do live like this, you're moods tend to elevate and deflate, consequentially, after wins and losses.  Also, when you find yourself not being able to miss a game, you tend to miss out on a lot of other things that life has to offer.

That being said, I still follow sports, catching games when the mood strikes me, but the only thing I do on a semi-regular basis is check out the box scores to see how my team is doing.  Of course, being a Yankee fan, I wasn't happy about the outcome of the week's series, but I wasn't going to go into a depression because of it.  Then I checked my Facebook page...

Mets own this town!!!

Anytime they beat the hated Yankees is a huge barrel of fun for me!

I love how Yankee fans are crying that the Mets beat there AAA team.Well boo freakin hoo they had to field a team like most of the MLB without a 20 million dollar player at each position.for once they could not buy a win.

These are just some of the many,, many comments made by Met fans, and I'm sure there are many more like this that I hadn't seen.  Now I don't have any problem with Met fans celebrating.  They have all the right to...but when you have to disparage the Yankees in doing so, well that's another story.  I already know, and have seen this week, their answer to my complaint: well we're doing it because of Yankee fans.  Okay, then, I understand if you're gloating in the faces of Yankee fans who do the same thing, but I am not one of them, and besides, isn't that a little childish?

To me, it's a classic example of little brother-big brother envy.  The Yankees are probably the most storied sports franchise ever, and even with their 27 World Championships (most recently in 2009), there have been countless times that they've been in the running for the championship and didn't make it.  The Mets, on the other hand, have won two World Series titles and are rarely in the mix to win it all.  So sure they have a reason to celebrate, but not to gloat.  Currently the Yanks are in 2nd place, only one game out of first, and the Mets are in 4th, and ten and a half games out.  Here was my FB answer for those gloaters:

Okay, now I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, but I've seen enough posts from Met fans gloating over their sweep that I had to say something. Ok, congrats Mets. You beat the Yankees 4 times in a week, but PuHleese!!! All that gloating just exudes your envy because you know that if the Mets were to win the Series every year from now, we'd mostly be dead by the time they ever reach the Yankees' success.

So okay, yeah, congratulations to the Mets.  And to the Met fans who choose to gloat like they won the World Series, I say see you in October?

The Empire State Building in blue and orange after the sweep

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October 7th, 2011 - So much to write; Metro Fridays tonight; Writing Wednesday, two days late; Yankees sputter

TGIF everybody! It’s Columbus Day Weekend, I’ve got the next three days off and I couldn’t be happier for that. The tailbone is still smarting…I just can’t get comfortable no matter what I do, but we’re two days past where we were last time I posted and two days closer to feeling better. Here’s some of what’s been happening.


Source: Institute for Public Accuracy

So much to write, so little time

I’ve got so much to write and I’m still experiencing the frustration at not having the time to get it out. I’m afraid that I’m going to lose some of my ideas or that they’ll become too stale before I get to them, but I’m hoping that the weekend will afford me the time to get some things out there. I really want to get some points in on the Wall Street Protests and there are a couple of gay issues I’d like to address, as well. And then there's stuff on Mary J Blige’s new CD, Lady Gaga and Madonna….Ugh! Like I said, so much to write, so little time...we’ll see what happens.

Metro Fridays Tonight!

Tonight is the Grand Opening of Metro Fridays at the Lizard Lounge and I actually convinced my buds Rich and Bobby to come along with me. I'm hoping that it's going to be good enough so that I'll have a nice place to go to besides the city on a Friday night, so we'll see. If you want to know more about Metro Fridays, check out this piece:

Metro Fridays Comes to Lizard Lounge Friday, October 7th

Writing Wednesday, two days late...

Here is a two-day late version of “Writing Wednesday.” As you can see, I haven’t written too much:

Betty White a club singer?

Yes, last week 89 year-old actress and comedienne Betty White was the featured rap singer on a club song by British artist Luciana. There’s a link to the song in the piece…kinda funny!

More of the best Halloween spookfests on Long Island

This one’s an Examiner follow-up to a previous article about various haunted attractions around Long Island with several more cool places to get spooked for Halloween.

More Quotes to Inspire and Enrich Life

My latest collection of inspirational quotes taken from those I follow on Twitter. Great stuff!


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A-Rod and the Yankees a bust

Well, last night we all found out that it just wasn’t meant to be for the Yankees this year as they lost the series to the Tigers, 3-2. The highly controversial and many think overrated and overpaid Alex Rodriguez struck out to end the game 3-2 in the Tiger’s favor. It was the second year in a row in which A-Rod ended the Yankees season with a whiff. Hmmm????

Ah well, a disappointment, but it's not the end of the world. We Yankee fans are spoiled…they’re virtually always in it and that’s a lot more than other teams, many other teams can say.

Well that’s all for the moment. I’ve got something else to share, but I want to address it in its own post, so keep an eye out for that. Until then, have a good one, and enjoy the longtime Yankees’ theme song to end a game or a season. Just wait til’ next year!




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October 5th, 2011 - Tailer's Broken; Bowling for Pizza; Let's Go Yankees!

Happy Hump Day everyone! I know it’s a little late in the day to celebrate Hump Day, but it is an especially good one since there’s a 3-day weekend coming up. The weather really got beautiful today after what seemed like two weeks of rain and cold temperatures. I actually woke up freezing this morning, but thankfully things warmed up as the day wore on and now its primo comfortable!

It’s been a long couple of weeks and I’m frustrated because I haven’t been writing. Things have been so busy lately that I haven’t had too much time to write and when I do find a little time, I’ve been getting writer’s block. I see stories and get ideas all day long, and when I’m in front of my pc…nothing! I just hope things slow down so I can get my groove back on. Anyway, back to my story…


A broken coccyx

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Yup, it’s broken!

I did not go to work today. Instead, I paid a visit to my doctor because I couldn’t take the pain anymore. For some reason the literal ‘pain in my butt’ has been getting worse instead of better these past few days and it’s been so bad it’s even been keeping me awake at night. You don’t realize how much pressure your tailbone takes until you hurt it. Ouch!

Anyway, as I thought, the tailer’s broken and there’s nothing they could do about it, which is what I expected. They gave me pills, of course, only one that I’ve taken so far. They’re anti-inflammatories and so I don’t think they’re going to do much. The one I took a few hours ago hasn’t done anything. We’ll see…

I tell ya, I have a new appreciation for those who live with chronic pain. After about two and a half weeks of this, I am kinda sorta cranky and a little down. Through all of the busy-ness that has been my life lately, being in constant pain just makes it worse. It sucks too, because before that damned fall I was on top of my game, and now I’ve lost it. I guess I’ve just gotta wait it out…


Source: Te Deum laudamus!

Bowling for pizza

I think that maybe one of the reasons I was hurting especially bad this morning was because I bowled last night. I joined a once-a-month bowling league with my friend Rita and we had to make up the night that we missed last night because we signed up late. Bowling was not the sole cause of my pain, but it definitely didn’t help as I literally crashed once I got home at 10:45, which is really early for me.

I haven’t bowled in years! I used to be in a league when I was a kid and I always enjoyed it. In fact, I still have the same ball from when I was like 13 years old, lol. Rita and I are going to be bowling with her friend Karen and her boyfriend Joe. I’d met Karen once before and liked her, and the two of them were looking for something fun to do and so they chose this really laid back league. While most leagues play for money, this one awards bowlers with an even better prize: pizza. And the #1 team gets pepperoni on theirs. Woo hoo! (Hehe, I’m joking…I think!)

All in all it was a fun night. We bowled right here in Patchogue, a place where I deejayed “Friday Night Bowl” once upon a time. I was the first one who arrived, and to my pleasant surprise there was actually a gay bowling league going on. I’d heard about the league, but that was a long time ago and I didn’t know they still played, and on Tuesday nights. I remembered it right away when I saw a couple of familiar faces. I gotta say it was weird to see so many gay men outside of a gay bar.

Hmmm???? I’m gonna have to put that one in the mental register for another time!
Anyway, once we were all there we saddled up to our lanes and bowled. It’s been at least four years since I last bowled and wouldn’t you know it, my first two rolls were strikes! Yeah baby, I still got it! Well, sort of. I started off like a house on fire and bowled a 166 my first game, but as the games wore on I got tired and I wasn’t feeling too good, so my game got worse. Not too shabby, though, for the first time in a long time. I bowled a 118 and a 120 in the last two games. Cool!


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Let’s Go Yankees!

I’ve been a sports fan ever since I was a kid, and the Yankees were always a part of that so even though I don’t usually watch them too often, I’m keeping an eye on them in the playoffs. Say what you want about the Yankees, but money does not always equal quality and so at least they get quality enough for their money to be in it virtually every year. You can’t say that about any other sports team, I think.

Anyway, last night the Yanks needed a win to tie the series with Detroit or go home. The game was on at the bowling alley and when we left it was 5-1, Yankees. They eventually won 10-1, which I’m not too happy about. Whenever they score too many runs, they can never seem to buy any their next game. Let’s hope that I’m wrong.

Post Script

Oh, like I said before, there are so many stories I want to talk about here and on the other sites I write for, but there’s no time. I have been following with great interest the Wall Street Protests. I’m just salivating to weigh in on it, and I will, but hopefully not too late in the game. I am hoping that it gets even more attention than I’ve seen it getting, which is a whole story unto itself. In any case, I think that if more people knew about it they would pay more attention to it, which is definitely a good thing!

Walmartian of the Day

Oh well, Writing Wednesday’s gonna come late this week. It’s just par for the course! I leave you with our Walmartian of the Day. These guys are hot, aren’t they? Shopping for a Saturday night dinner on the porch…



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New York Yankees: 2009 World Champs