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If the Dodgers moved back to NY, would you dump the Mets as your team and root for the Dodgers?
This poll is only for the scenario that the Mets would remain in NY and the Dodgers would be the 3rd team.
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Only vote in this poll if you're a Mets fan
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Last edited by jnakamura; 11-04-2011 at 01:22 AM.
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White Knight, you're a Yankee fan, not a Mets fan. You shouldn't have voted. :/
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
In Love With This Game
Shouldn't this go in the Mets forum, as it's for Mets fans only?
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Why would any Mets fan under the age of 70 even consider switching? Would they switch if the Cubs moved to NY? The Astros? The Pirates? The Cardinals?
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I'm pretty sure Orioles fans would dump the current Orioles if it meant the Yankees moving back to Baltimore. I wish that would happen so it would piss off White Knight.
Using a stolen chant from Boston Celtics fans whenever an L.A. team is playing up there just reeks of inferiority complex.
If hitting a baseball is the toughest thing to do in sports, then pitching must be the easiest thing to do in sports.
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Agreed..........Originally Posted by ian2813
And the mod will please remove the two votes by white knight and doctor gogol?...they are not Mets fans and have skewed the poll.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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I'm a Mets fan under 70. My father was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and continued to follow them in L.A. I have all sorts of Brooklyn Dodgers paraphenalia. While I was a Mets fan, I rooted for the Dodgers over the Yankees in '77, '78 and '81 (living in NJ, I was pretty much the only one rooting for LA)
I'm a die hard Mets fan, and voted that I wouldn't change my allegiance. But it would be pretty cool to me if the Dodgers moved back to Brooklyn - there was also something fabled about the Brooklyn Dodgers. If they moved to any other borough, it wouldn't mean anything to me. But if they moved back to Brooklyn, I'd probably root for both teams, even if my first rooting interest were still for the Mets.
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Perhaps you should post this poll on Amazin' Avenue or another Mets blog where there will be lots of responses, the vast majority of them from Mets fans.
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Perhaps if they were fed up with their incompetent, repulsive, Ponzi-scheming owners?
"There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game."
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"I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting."
- Dick Stuart
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doctor_gogol, GiambiJuice, White Knight's votes to be ignored because they can't read the poll instructions.
Last edited by jnakamura; 11-04-2011 at 12:54 PM.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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most every mets fan is..........it doesnt mean you just stop being a fan of a team though.
"all the mets road wins against the dodgers this year have occured at Dodger Stadium"---Ralph Kiner
"Blind people came to the park just to listen to him pitch"---Reggie Jackson, talking about Tom Seaver
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Exactly. You do what Dodger fans did and boycott going to the games.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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No one with a brain cares who owns the team. Smart fans with working brains just enjoy rooting for their team and don't give a crap who owns it. Insanely dumb fans actually boycott a team and don't show their support because they SOMEHOW think that will lead to better ownership which will somehow improve their lives in some way (?). Bad fans like that have been ruining this season for the good fans and they've been trying to ruin the Dodgers forever, teaching their kids to hate them.Exactly. You do what Dodger fans did and boycott going to the games.
- Bobby Crosby. Dodgerfilms guy.
Using a stolen chant from Boston Celtics fans whenever an L.A. team is playing up there just reeks of inferiority complex.
If hitting a baseball is the toughest thing to do in sports, then pitching must be the easiest thing to do in sports.
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Crosby's full of crap, IMO.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
FIRE FRED WILPON
As a Mets fan, I like the Dodgers. What other team is as messed up as my team?
Did you see Ned Colletti spend far too much on Juan Rivera or give $3.5 million to Rod Barajas?
NO HANDBALL PLAYING IN THIS AREA
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Isn't that just the 2nd inning? Or 8th?Exactly. You do what Dodger fans did and boycott going to the games.
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I agree completely with this sentiment.
As for the poll: I will root for any and all New York baseball teams. It's what I do now, in fact (I'm a Yankee and Met fan). If the Dodgers moved back? They'd be my third team.
It's the city that's most important. Whatever teams are from there, are mine.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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I agree with this, except I'll only have one team per sport.It's the city that's most important. Whatever teams are from there, are mine.
Using a stolen chant from Boston Celtics fans whenever an L.A. team is playing up there just reeks of inferiority complex.
If hitting a baseball is the toughest thing to do in sports, then pitching must be the easiest thing to do in sports.
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You seen Citi Field in the 8th inning lately?
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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I agree fans should boycott a team if the owners dont give them a good product to root for. There are just way too many fans "in love with the laundry". The 2011 Mets are a perfect example. Their was a minor league team on the field but they were charging major league prices. Would you pay spend the same on a Porsche as you would a Volkswagon? Probably notI agree completely with this sentiment.
As for the poll: I will root for any and all New York baseball teams. It's what I do now, in fact (I'm a Yankee and Met fan). If the Dodgers moved back? They'd be my third team.
It's the city that's most important. Whatever teams are from there, are mine.
Going to 20 games a year then complaining how bad the team is is just ridiculous to me. You supported the ridiculous.
Put it in the books
Hell no, I ain't gonna buy no Porsche! It's spelled "porsh" but they expect you to pronounce it "pour-shuh." What's up with that? Pretentious snobs...
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Gerardo Parra, a lefthand batter, steps in to lead off. Harvey's first pitch on the way, it's a fastball on the inside corner for a called strike, nothing and one, a 93-mile per hour fastball to Gerardo Parra. Parra batting at .281 with 6 homers, 28 runs batted in. - Howie Rose's call of Matt Harvey's very first pitch in the big leagues... Mets at Arizona, July 26, 2012
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Fans should not EVER boycott a team. They stop being fans if that happens. I mean, sure, I hope my teams win, yadda yadda yadda. But if they don't? What am I gonna do, jump on the nearest bandwagon? Your obligation as a fan is to root for your team HOWEVER IT PLAYS. Those who stop, if their team loses, are the very definition of "fair-weather fans".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_PorscheHell no, I ain't gonna buy no Porsche! It's spelled "porsh" but they expect you to pronounce it "pour-shuh." What's up with that? Pretentious snobs...
Pronunciation of "Porsche"
In English use, Porsche is sometimes pronounced as a single syllable ("porsh") /ˈpɔrʃ/, without a final /ə/. However, the company's German pronunciation is /ˈpɔrʃə/ por-shə[61] ("Porsh-eh"). German language words do not have a silent "e", and a final "e" in German is pronounced as an unaccented (minimal emphasis/duration) schwa.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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There's a difference between boycotting putting money in the pocket of the owner and boycotting the team itself.
Most all Dodger fans who boycotted going to the stadium or buying merchandise still watched every game on TV and followed and rooted for the team just the same--this was most apparent during the Dodgers road games in Anaheim and San Diego where Dodgers fans nearly outnumbered Angel and Padre fans in their own stadiums. Many fans I know personally who were part of the boycott made road trips to every SD and Anaheim game the Dodgers played.
No one stopped being fans, they just stopped funding McCourt's lavish mansions and $500 haircuts.
Now that McCourt is gone, the boycott is officially over and Dodger Stadium will be packed once again in 2012.
Last edited by jnakamura; 11-05-2011 at 10:45 PM.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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Boycotting a team is an interesting strategy, up to many interpretations. FYI, Montreal Baseball, Atlanta Hockey, orchestrated such and lost a team. I personally can't fathom boycotting a team to the point where relocation became a possibility. Fans in Baseball (and other sports) in certain cities can also be highlighted as examples, were in danger of losing the team, still didn't show up, and were saved by an agreement for a new stadium.
I suppose the Montreal Expos are an apples-oranges comparison to New York Mets/LA Dodgers fans... who probably are never in danger of losing the team based on pure market size alone. Then, it becomes a moral/passion debate that's 100% subjective.
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