Would you like to bet MONEY on that? It is a fact that the Phillies advertise on 660 WFAn. Howard Eskin can confim that if you want a second source. Last year he was complaining about all the Mets fans at Phillies games. I called him and told him about the ads running on WFAN. He looked into and it was true.

Bdawk is a moron. He tried to take a shot at me because I schooled him on the fact that his hero Brian Dawkins is going to get cut this year. Sorry folks, Dawkins is gone just like Trotter, Vincent, and Hugh Douglas.

Because I have a right to free speech to tell those fans how much I hate their team in a public space. Why is that so radical to you?


I would if I was in SHEA, not Citizens Bank Park. I am well within my rights to tell Mets fans what I think of them and their team.


Zete is right about one thing though, the only way to really stop them is to by the tickets up ourselves. I was going in 97, maybe all those people that showed up the last week and playoffs last season should actually *gasp* go to "regular" season games?

Your plan is radical because it is low class. You said yourself that the only way to stop Mets fans from going to the game was to buy the tickets. Acting like a drunkin idiot isn't going to stop them and you make yourself look bad.

When you go to a game outside of Philadelphia do you think the oposing fans should treat you like chit?

Drunken idiot. And I highly doubt that with all of the FAMILIES that attend games, they're all drunken.

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Would you care for some cheese with that whine? PBers possess a gene to whine about everything.

WE'RE PHILADELPHIA, DAMMIT! GET IT? GOOD!

On Friday,

I had this woman right in front of me with the most annoying voice screaming in left field "Lets go Mets, you suck Burrell" over and over. I gave her 1 inning with the basic "shut up/alright" comments to her but she kept going. I started wispering things in her ear that if I repeated here, I would probably be banned. By the 5th inning she popped, stood up and cursed me out in front of the entire section. When security came and took her away (She was also screaming she would never be back, so I guess it is working one at a time Zete), the entire section stood up and cheered. When the next beer guy came by, a random stranger two seats down bought me a beer and said thanks. So how did I make myself look bad when all the Phillies fans cheered when I got a Mets fan kicked out?


When I went to Wrigley last year,

I wore a Phillies hat and got heckled by a few fans as I expected. When the Phillies scored or made a great play, I clapped but did not scream at the top of my lungs, and overall respected their stadium and didn't try to start "Lets go Phillies" chants in their own stadium. Because I took the hecklers in stride, most of the people left me alone. But I don't remember anyone laying down a blanket for a picnic with me, inviting me to scream "Lets go Phillies" on national television. I also didn't insult or make fun of the Cubs when they lost, like a lot of the Mets fans did on Friday. I don't heckle and curse at all Mets fans, I am talking about the jerks that cheer here like they are in their own stadium.

Towelie is right. There is an etiquette to follow when at an opposing teams stadium. Being a blatant jerk0ff at an away game isn't right at all.

On another note, I travel to Shea often to see baseball games there, and I never have any serious confrontation with Mets fans...because I don't ask for it.

If you want the kind of fans who would respect the fans of the opponents' team, you need to come to a football game during any Fall Saturday in College Station, TX. One of the friendliest fans anywhere. If you go there wearing your team's colors, heck, you'll get many Aggies to even offer you free beer and welcome you to their tailgate, so long as you're not a wise-ass about your team and treat both teams and both fandoms with respect.

As for Philly and its city-based private teams' fans... I've not seen it myself but I've heard way too many horror stories for me to accept that at least some of that has to be true. Why is it? Perhaps because Philly does have a problem of rude people...they're rude at the airport, at any other service-oriented place. It could also be that the city has more than its fair share of poor, uneducated folks for whom rooting for a city-based team counts for being "from Philly." It's their civic duty, so to speak. Me?-- I really don't care that much about any of the private franchises, they don't show much loyalty to a city and since so many AMericans (myself included) move so often from city to city, having one city's for-profit team as something to root for really doesn't add up for me. Now I'll say this though: if Cowboys and Eagles are playing, I'm going to root for Cowboys to lose, no matter what! And I guess I do have a soft corner for my Houston-based teams (Rockets and Astros). May be it's that I didn't go to these sports growing up so I don't have any pride in any of those teams...may be that's what drives people to exaggerated fandom...the fact that their daddy took them to all the Phillies or the Eagles games. But getting drunk, thowing batteries on opposing team's players, having a loud potty-mouth, booing one's own team when they're down, etc... are just not activities I consider when I think of "good" fans.

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New term of the day 1/24:
Electile Dysfunction: The inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either of only parties in the 2008 election year.
http://www.votenader.org/index.html


5/22, because i'm feeling punny:
As the great Jedi English teacher was quoted in saying, "metaphors be with you."

I love it when out of town fans show up at Flyers games. They're quite entertaining.

Johnny, eldondre, I & Company went to a Flyers/Rangers game and the row of Rangers behind us were worth a lot of laughs... especially since for 2 whole periods the game was completely boring, tons of guys tripping over their own edges on the ice, even after the Flyers girls made sure to rub the quarters down and the Zamboni came to get the surface as smooth as possible....

a player would go in a straight line through the neutral zone, trip on his own edge and then "BOOM" right on his back, with no other players around him, or the hockey puck.

Then all of a sudden in the last period, the Rangers and Flyers finally decided to play some hockey and we got to see a really wild game that ended in a Flyers-straight shootout.

Fun fun!


And of course, the "Flyers Fan" who dances up in the last row of the stands is always a hoot.

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Don't forget:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUJF...eature=related

If it is all the male members of the family, everybody over 14 has probably been drinking before they got to the Sports Complex, especially if they got there from the NE or SNJ.

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Don't forget:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUJF...eature=related

Mets fans are not human. They are pugnacious, pungent, vile, and obnoxious. They deserve what they get.

**** the Mets!

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