The New & Improved Weekly Top Ten List

Over at the Aurora, I had promised, that Rhidonculous Rhino, I would not post regarding baseball until the season started...however, I have made no such promises to the rowdy rollicking Jersey Devils aligned with this blog. Besides, pitchers & catchers are already showing up in camp so I figured "what the hey", want to hear it, here it goes. There are those of you out there who are on the fence, you wear half a Mets/half a Yankees jersey and say this kind of garbage,"I like 'em both" and it makes me sick. Pick a side sucker because the bell is about to ring so let's get ready to rumble...For those of you who are undecided, let me help you out...Reposted & updated from an earlier post:

The Top Ten Reasons The Mets are Better than The Yankees...to Real Fans
Can I have a drum roll please...And the Top Ten Reason the Mets are Better than the Yankees Are:

10.) Our very own Nacho Cheese Sauce, because while the Yanks are just cheezy, we are the straw that stirs the sauce...and that's not 'cho cheese!

9.) Mr. Met isn't just a mascot. Seriously, he is just a normal Met fan with a grossly swollen dome. Sure, the Yanks have Freddie Sez with his stupid Yankee propagandist signs but as far as me and Mr.Met are concerned, Freddie sez, "A-rod likes it in the keister and so does Freddie". Just a sidenote but the original Mets mascot was a donkey and that is still better than some obnoxious elderly man.

Click on Donkey to Know Know Know Him

8.) Colors. We are a combination of the Brooklyn Dodgers & the New York Giants. We carry on where the Duke, Jackie, The Say Hey Kid, Dem Bums, & the New York Baseball Giants left off...They hated the Yankees. They loved baseball and the greatest city in the world. They are us. White, Black, Gray, Orange & Blue. Our Colors. Our New York Baseball team. The Major League Baseball team. Period.

7.) "Ya Gotta believe" & "The Miracle Mets" are the lovable losers who win. The Yankees are the Evil Empire. Ya' know it's true so don't even argue with me, Freddie or should I say:

Lord Vader?

6.) Smoking. This probably won't last forever but for now you can smoke outside at Shea Stadium. You can smoke in the runways which are open air. For all the knocks on La Shea, it is not a claustrophobic place (eg - Spankme Stadium). On the ramps running inside the stadium, you can smoke your brains out...It is the final bastion of hope for smokers in a world full of second hand hating. At Yankee stadium, they have a picnic area that is completely outdoors. Can you smoke outside in this area? Of course not...Can you go outside, have a cigarette and come back in...? No pass out and return...Shea is a cigarette smokers paradise.

5.) The 1986 beer guzzling, fist fighting, cursing, hard nosed, and most importantly World Series winning New York Metropolitans or the Scum Bunch as they called themselves. They are the standard and perhaps ESPN put them on the list of greatest teams at #6 (or something like that) but Mets fans know they were #1. They weren't your run of the mill don't laugh, cry, hug, fight, or be human for that matter Yankee team. They were a team, a family and they were the best I ever saw playing together on the diamond and off of it. Read Bats by Davey Johnson...they were as crazy as they were good.

4.) Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod, or Mrs.Jeter...Whatever, you want to call him, I am just glad that he isn't on our team...Note: I felt this way about that evil inbred Clemens as well...Sorry Texans

As if an intelligent person such as yourself would need any more reasons after this, I will nonetheless provide the top three reasons the Metropolitans are a better team to root, root, root for:

3.) Sausage and Pepper Sandwiches. I'm not exactly sure what food is popular at Yankee Stadium (Me thinks it's probably peanuts or some other form of nuts. Yankees & their fans like nuts in their mouths) and I've been there a million times. But I do know that if you go to La Shea, one has to pick up a Sausage & Pepper sandwich. They are Met-xcellent.

2.) Casey Stengel, Gil Hodges, Davey Johnson, Bobby V., And now Willie Randolph...Our managers tend to be characters. They either sound funny, act funny or say funny stuff...They don't ever look asleep on the bench like some managers (namely Joe Torre). They rant and rave like Davey, they win like Gil Hodges with less talent, some wear disguises like Bobby & sometimes they make low budget commercials for national food chains like Willie Randolph...With that I have to say, "Yeah there's a lot of meat on my Sausage & Peppers Sandwich"...Yes, Willie there is a lot of meat on your sandwich. The manager represents the organization and the Mets are just more likeable in every way. Even Yankee fans can't stand George Steinbrenner.

And the #1 reason the Mets are better than the Yankees: The Mets themselves & The 2006 NY World Champion Winning Mets Line-up:

Jose Reyes - Short Stop

Carlos Beltran - Center Field

Cliff Floyd - Left Field

Carlos Delgado - First Base

David "Mr.Met"Wright - Third Base

Lastings Milledge - Right Field

Paul LoDuca - Catcher

Bret Boone, Jeff Keppinger, Kaz Matsui (okay we've got some work to do @ 2nd) - Second Base

Pedro Martinez - Pitching

There are many other reasons for hating the Yankees but I certainly don't have the time to point them out to you now (during the season maybe!). Just remember these simple facts:

Mets Good & Yankees Evil

Always Remember that the

& If you like the Yankees then you are supporting terrorism:

Open Your Window & Shout as Loud as You Can!!!