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What would you do...
Keep rooting for them. The city they play in is irrelevant. | 1 votes |
Keep rooting for them, but only until NY is awarded another NL Franchise | 2 votes |
Fuck them. Root for the Yankees. | 0 votes |
Fuck them. Fuck baseball altogether until NY is awarded another NL Franchise. | 10 votes |
Fuck them. Fuck baseball forever. | 3 votes |
Other (explain) | 5 votes |
Centerfield Nov 05 2013 07:26 AM |
...if the Wilpons moved the team to Las Vegas? I noticed today that the New Orleans Hornets are now the New Orleans Pelicans, dropping the "Hornets" they inherited from Charlotte. I was wondering if anyone from New Orleans still root for the Jazz, since they moved to Utah. Or if anyone from Charlotte still rooted for the Hornets, despite being in New Orleans. You get the idea.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 05 2013 07:30 AM Re: What would you do... |
I voted for Fuck them. Fuck baseball altogether until NY is awarded another NL Franchise. but I think I might also become an Orioles fan.
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MFS62 Nov 05 2013 07:36 AM Re: What would you do... |
I voted "Other".
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themetfairy Nov 05 2013 07:39 AM Re: What would you do... |
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I voted for this, although I'd probably just follow Oakland more closely.
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Frayed Knot Nov 05 2013 07:43 AM Re: What would you do... |
I'd pick another team to root for.
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Edgy MD Nov 05 2013 07:52 AM Re: What would you do... |
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I clicked other, but this describes my view.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 05 2013 07:52 AM Re: What would you do... |
I'd walk away from baseball entirely.
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Centerfield Nov 05 2013 07:53 AM Re: What would you do... |
In theory, I'd love to say goodbye to the Mets too. But I think I'd find it very hard if I turned on the TV and saw Wright and Harvey wearing orange and blue.
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Edgy MD Nov 05 2013 07:55 AM Re: What would you do... |
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I'd squat ultimatemets.com and absorb the billions of dollars associated with that domain and related interests.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 05 2013 08:00 AM Re: What would you do... |
I guess it would become a legacy site. I'd become one of those people who keep the light on for extinct franchises like the St. Louis Browns and the Philadelphia Athletics.
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Mets – Willets Point Nov 05 2013 08:14 AM Re: What would you do... |
I suppose I'd just become a full-time Red Sox fan. I've never been able to root for a team that plays in a city with which I have no connection, and I've no desire to become a Yankees fan.
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Edgy MD Nov 05 2013 08:16 AM Re: What would you do... |
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One more get-rich-quick scheme falls apart. My stupid big mouf!
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Ceetar Nov 05 2013 08:48 AM Re: What would you do... |
keep rooting.
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metirish Nov 05 2013 09:12 AM Re: What would you do... |
Fuck them. Fuck baseball altogether until NY is awarded another NL Franchise
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 05 2013 09:20 AM Re: What would you do... |
Of eleven voters so far, I'm the only one who's cutting all ties.
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Mets Guy in Michigan Nov 05 2013 09:23 AM Re: What would you do... |
I would buy the new expansion team coming to New York, build a stadium with some features of Shea Stadium and devote the entryway to Gary Carter. I wouldn't have a statue of Gary Carter, but spell out K-I-D in big letters so people could gather and pose around it.
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Edgy MD Nov 05 2013 09:32 AM Re: What would you do... |
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Exceptforyourstupidlegacysitethatyouwon'tevenbothertoupdateIHATEyou.
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Frayed Knot Nov 05 2013 10:12 AM Re: What would you do... |
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Except that they most likely wouldn't be wearing blue & orange as I think the new-city/new-identity trend will remain the rule of the future. Also, within a dozen or so years (and likely even sooner than that) just about every single player you associate with the NY Mets would be gone, either from the Vegas Whatevers or from baseball entirely.
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Mets – Willets Point Nov 05 2013 10:13 AM Re: What would you do... |
This thread makes me depressed.
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Frayed Knot Nov 05 2013 10:19 AM Re: What would you do... |
Sure, but when you consider that the last time an MLB team abandoned a U.S. city was during Nixon's first term, I tend to write this exercise off less as depressing and more as a matter of theoretical speculation.
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Edgy MD Nov 05 2013 10:38 AM Re: What would you do... |
Hey, the Expos abandoned San Juan!
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Mets – Willets Point Nov 05 2013 10:44 AM Re: What would you do... |
But nobody in this thread has suggested they'd lead a violent insurrection and force the Mets to stay in Queens, under new ownership.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 05 2013 10:51 AM Re: What would you do... |
I think it's an interesting question, because it's made me realize that above anything else I'd be relieved to know the Wilpons were packing up and leaving. I'd retain a soft spot for David Wright probably, but otherwise? They've already destroyed everything, they just need to go all the way.
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metsmarathon Nov 05 2013 11:25 AM Re: What would you do... |
i'm somewhat split between fuck them and all of baseball until the horrible iniquity is corrected, and follow them and longingly wish for their return.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 05 2013 11:38 AM Re: What would you do... |
I know that we've had this discussion previously. Maybe I can find it...
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 05 2013 11:41 AM Re: What would you do... |
Here it is, from January 2009, almost five years ago:
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themetfairy Nov 05 2013 11:50 AM Re: What would you do... |
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I seem to be reasonably consistent.
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metirish Nov 05 2013 11:56 AM Re: What would you do... |
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I'm happy with what I said back then
although the Dodgers were a different animal back then.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 05 2013 11:58 AM Re: What would you do... |
Me too!
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batmagadanleadoff Nov 05 2013 12:14 PM Re: What would you do... |
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I'm with you.
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TransMonk Nov 05 2013 12:31 PM Re: What would you do... |
I'd find another team...after some time off.
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Mets – Willets Point Nov 05 2013 01:06 PM Re: What would you do... |
My goodness we're a gloomy bunch.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 05 2013 01:16 PM Re: What would you do... |
I think that question would go back to whether our dads/granddads were Giants or Dodgers guys.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 05 2013 01:21 PM Re: What would you do... |
I come from a Brooklyn Dodger family, so that's where my allegiance would have been.
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themetfairy Nov 05 2013 01:35 PM Re: What would you do... |
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Same here.
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Mets – Willets Point Nov 05 2013 02:08 PM Re: What would you do... |
I expect I'd be a Dodgers fan too.
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Ceetar Nov 05 2013 02:23 PM Re: What would you do... |
I suspect I'd be a Yankees fan.
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Lefty Specialist Nov 05 2013 02:30 PM Re: What would you do... |
Giants fan. And my wife, having been born in Brooklyn, would have been a Dodger fan. And we'd probably have fought like cats and dogs and never gotten married. I'd lurch from one meaningless relationship to another, never finding the female Giants fan of my dreams. Growing more despondent, I'd probably wind up face down in a ditch.
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Zvon Nov 05 2013 03:00 PM Re: What would you do... |
My response from 2009 is still the same, cept I wouldn't bother with the Phils. GO PIRATES!
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G-Fafif Nov 05 2013 03:30 PM Re: What would you do... |
Goddamn these are depressing hypotheticals.
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Ceetar Nov 05 2013 03:35 PM Re: What would you do... |
Can I toss in a Gorilla Wrench?
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themetfairy Nov 05 2013 04:44 PM Re: What would you do... |
I don't think that's much of a monkey wrench. More a red herring - it wouldn't make a difference.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 05 2013 07:57 PM Re: What would you do... |
Red herring, blue herring. Just, y'know, a stinkier sort of herring.
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MFS62 Nov 05 2013 09:30 PM Re: What would you do... |
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That's what I did, root for the Bucs, once my team left Brooklyn. Later
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Rockin' Doc Nov 06 2013 07:02 PM Re: What would you do... |
I attended many games at old Comiskey Park while a student in Chicago, so I would likely shift my allegiance to the White Sox.
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Fman99 Nov 06 2013 07:25 PM Re: What would you do... |
I would just watch pornos.
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