Rant #1,516: Gloat Goat

 
I know it is going to sound as if I am gloating today--and perhaps I am--but the New York baseball world is still ruled by the team in the Bronx.

With the 11-2 pasting the Yankees gave to the Mets last night, the Yankees not only won the current so-called "Subway Series" matchup 2-1, but they also won the season's series from the team from Queens, 4-2.

Yes, the Mets have an excellent team, and that is why they are leading their division by so many games.

But in spite of having that excellent team, the Mets remain the No. 2 team in New York, as they have been for decades.

Even though I don't think the Yankees have the greatest team--and as you know, I have said this on several occasions, both here and elsewhere--the team from the Bronx, the team I have rooted for since 1965, is still the team to beat in New York.

And for the Mets not to be honest about Matt Harvey's innings limit--and the stir that caused two weeks ago when the pitcher and his agent both said they would not exceed 180 innings, and, in fact, Harvey was taken out after five innings last night to pin him at 180--well, the Mets, Harvey and his agent, Scott Boras, deserve each other, don't they?

The Mets have claimed all along that there was no innings limit, Harvey and Boras opened their big mouths about stopping at 180 innings and that was it after the pitcher came back from Tommy John surgery, and that story dominated the sports pages with coverage as if the Mets had won the World Series.

And now we see that there is an innings limit on Harvey after all.

He was winning last night after five innings, throwing a one-hitter at the Bronx Bombers and leading 1-0.

When they took him out, the game was basically over for the Mets. Their relief corps allowed 11 runs, and the Yankees ended up winning a huge game for them, 11-2.

The Yankees are now 2 1/2 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays for first place in their division, and they just happen to play the team from Canada the next three games, in Toronto.

But back to the Mets and their fans ...

Yes, the Mets have an exciting team, a team that potentially can make it deep into the playoffs and maybe even make the World Series.

The team has great, young starting pitching, excellent hitting, and they are a team that has been on the outskirts of everything basically since the 2000 World Series, when they lost to the Yankees for baseball's championship.

Now, they have a team that is getting everyone excited, including their fans, who haven't had much to cheer about in a long time.

I can understand fans getting excited, but I never could understand fans getting cheap.

Just go on Facebook, and you will find some of the dumbest posts I have ever read related to this now completed Mets and Yankees series.

One post showed the Yankees hat set on fire, as if the Mets were going to "burn" the Yankees.

Another one said that the person writing the post lived in Ohio, wore her Yankees gear to show where she was from--the person admitted to not only never wearing Mets gear, but not even owning a piece of their gear, too--but was rooting for the Mets to beat the Yankees.

Huh?

There have been others, but funny, you don't see Yankees fans putting up such dumbness.

Yankees fans take these things in stride. Sure, I didn't like it when the Yankees lost the first game of this three game series, but I didn't get cheap on Facebook, either before this game or now.

The Yankees won fair and square.

What will Mets fans do now that their heroes fell to the hated Yankees, a team of little actual consequence to them? And how about those fair weather fans, who flit from one team to another as much as a bee goes from one flower to another looking for honey?

I don't know, but I know what Yankees fans will not do--

They won't gloat.

There is an even bigger series in Toronto now to focus on, and why stamp your feet when the season still has two weeks to go?

Anything can happen, and Mets fans should know that, based on their past history.

So I just had to write this article, and if it is gloating, so be it.

We are talking about the New York Yankees, aren't we?