Met Fans Heads Spinning as to Rooting Interest

Fans of the New York Mets are being faced right now with a very interesting dilemma: who to root for during the remaining games of the schedule. I must admit, during the past couple of games against the Marlins (both Met losses by the way), I found myself rooting for Florida to beat the Mets for some strange reason.

Actually, it's not that strange. The Mets have become a complete trainwreck - and like traffic accidents, something's so amazingly gruesome that you just have to watch it. And many Met fans are at the point right now where you kind of hope the Mets lose just to continue the tragedy.

But then again, I started to remember the last 2 Septembers and how the Marlins not only beat the Mets down the stretch in meaningless games (for them), but rubbed their noses in it as well. Laughing... excess celebrations... having no mercy on that useless Tom Glavine... so you can't root for the Marlins, right?

But you can't root for the Phillies either. Jimmy Rollins comments... Cole Hamels calling the Mets choke artists... Chase Utley being Chase Utley... If you're a real Met fan, ya gotta hope for a Philly meltdown, right?

So you can't root for the Marlins. You can't root for the Phillies. How about the Braves? Are you kidding me, you might be thinking? And you'd be right. Atlanta, also known as the HATED Braves for the way they man-handled the Mets all those years, is certainly a team you most definitely can not root for.

Then you have the Cardinals. You older Met fans know where I'm coming from when I say I probably hate the Cardinals more than I do the Braves. Whitey Hedgehog... Tommy Herr... John Tudor... remember how those guys won division title after division title over the Mets (when the Mets were thought to be a great team). Amazed the Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Keith Hernandez teams never one more than one World Series? The Cardinals are the reason why. You just can't root for that team at all!

Perhaps the Dodgers are a team Met fans can root for now. Think again. Despite the fact the Mets basically play their home games at Dodger Stadium East, many oldtimers will never forgive them for leaving New York in the first place. That's the same reason you can't root for the Giants either.

That leaves the Colorado Rockies as the only team in the National League with a realistic shot at the postseason for us Met fans to possibly root for. Can I name one player on the Rockies? No.. and that's reason enough not to have any interest in them at all in the postseason.

Go Yankees? Never! Go Red Sox? I'm sick of them too. Go Tigers? Even people in Detroit know better than to root for the Tigers. Go Rangers? Weren't they the team that signed ARod to that ridiculous contract in the first place? We can never forgive them for that. Go Twins? Perhaps, but they're a tremendous longshot for the postseason. Go Angels? Now that's a possibility... but they're still American League and any self-respecting Met fan has to root for a National League team to win.

Tonight the Mets try to avoid getting swept at home by the Marlins followed by 3 games against the Phillies in Philly and 3 more games at Atlanta. Maybe we can root for a firing. Or two...