Keep The Change: Hey, New Yawk!
Posted by Nick "Beerman" Staskin, Wed, May 06, 2009 12:00 PM | Comments: 119
Keep The Change, Posts
This is “Keep the Change,” a new feature by Nick “The Beer Man” Staskin. Nick is a beer man at Citizens Bank Park; he’ll post weekly with observations from the fans at the park, trying to get a good sense of where the Phillies stand in the eyes of those who most matter.
Welcome to the second edition of “Keep the Change.”
Don’t look know, but going into their second short series in a week against the Mets, the Phils are the hottest team in the National League and have risen to the top of the NL East. What did we take out of last weekend’s series? Well … not much … not much at all really after Sunday’s rain, which hasn’t left the area since, washing out the rubber match.
The Two-Game Split
Friday night, the excitement was in the air. Sadly, Chan Ho Park was on the mound. Last week, a couple readers questioned whether the fans knew anything about J.A. Happ. After another ugly start by Park, more and more fans are getting familiar the possibility of seeing Happ in the rotation. Phillies fans are generally a pretty well-educated bunch, and it doesn’t take a Rhodes Scholar to see that Park won’t be in the rotation for much longer. Joe Blanton’s strong start Monday night against the Cardinals definitely did not help Park’s status, either.
One fan summed up Park as “this year’s Adam Eaton.” Tough to argue with him. Hell, the Mets fans at The Bank were pretty happy when Charlie Manuel let Park work through his struggles, just because it meant more innings out of him.
Saturday, the Phils got to the Mets bullpen. The Achilles heel of New York was right back at it again. If you can leave K-Rod sitting in the bullpen, chances are you are going to put up some runs. If you told me the Phillies would manufacture a run without getting the ball out of the infield to win a game, I’d be pretty surprised. If you had told me it would come against the Mets bullpen … not as surprised.
The Rivalry … Slows Down?
Will the Mets fans dish it out as hard as we did last weekend? Tough to tell, but something was missing this weekend. I know it was early in the season, but it didn’t seem as many New Yorkers made the trek down the Turnpike as they had in years past. I guess walking into the stadium of the World F’n Champions can be a little intimidating.
Finally, two random observations from walking the stadium:
- I did not see one attractive female Mets fan. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not above looking at a woman regardless of if she likes the enemy. The Beerman’s eyes don’t discriminate. Could I date a Mets fan? Of course not, but I’d look. BUT THERE WERE NONE IN ATTENDANCE! The Phillies female followers did not disappoint, as always.
- Mets fans smell like hoagies. I don’t know what it is. But all Mets fans smell like hoagies to me. When they walk past me, I just pick up a whiff of salami and onions. Go figure.
See you in the stands … or next week. Whichever comes first?
Posts: 0 Georgie
hahaha, “Mets fans smell like hoagies”, thank you for making me laugh for the first time today!
Posted: 12:05 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Don M
I noticed a lot less Mets fans too.. I think it’s more that Phillies fans want to keep their tickets and go the games this year, and not Mets fans are unwilling to come down..
I’ve been to too many Mets, RedSox, etc games where it seems like 50% of the fans.. aren’t for the Phillies.. Hopefully that stops..
Posted: 12:16 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 terry
The only reason why the phillies won last year is beacuse wagner got hurt. If he was the closer the mets would have won not the phillies.
Posted: 12:20 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Big Pappas Pump
As a Mets fan, I sadly concede that when I’ve had a vigrorous workout, I do detect an odor of Italian Sub around me. God, I wish I was joking…
Posted: 12:20 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 mr met
Last year was the phillies year this year its the mets. I can see it already the Newyork Mets Nl east division champions
Posted: 12:24 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 vito
krod is not the only good relif pitcher the mets have. they have putz. and by the way the mets have the best bullpen ERA in the National league
Posted: 12:28 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Bruce
I agree with Don that there are a greater number of Phillies fans with season tickets which make it difficult for any fans (besides the Mets fans) to get tickets for a CBP game.
I see with the tonight’s series opener at Citi Field, the Mets fans are making themselves heard here. No surprise.
Posted: 12:33 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Don M
How come the Mets didn’t make the playoffs in 2007, when they did have Wagner?
Posted: 12:33 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 The Beerman
While for the most part, the Mets pen is off to a solid start, it will take more than 4 weeks to lose its “running joke” status after the past couple of seasons.
Posted: 12:43 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Keith
well I’ll be at the game tonight, rooting for the Phillies :D
Posted: 12:45 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 mspacman
there are no attractive women who are mets fans AND there are no attractive men who are mets fans.
Posted: 12:54 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Chooch's Cooches
the lady mets fans smell like tuna salad sandwiches
Posted: 01:01 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phan in TN
Glad to read your stuff Nick, well done!
only one point of contention though…i thought Mets fans smell dirty feet
or
ass
Posted: 01:04 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Russ
I feel like every mets fan I know is fat, lazy, and has jungles of hair growing off their backs and coming out from the top of their shirts.
Posted: 01:05 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 ryan
love this column!
and hey beer man, two of my own observations:
1. there are TONS of very very attractive ladies at every phils game. It’s become another great reason to head to the ballpark. Funny, but I don’t remember so many nice looking ladies in short shorts and Phils t-shirts at the Vet. lol
and
2. Mets fans smell like HEROES. because that’s what those idiots call a hoagie up there. don’t even disgrace our local dialect by applying it to those greasy filthy losers.
Posted: 01:14 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phillies STILL SUCK
Haha two WS in 120 years, most immature fans in sports, you all smell like cheessteak and feces, and your city is filled with gays. Just figured i would add my seven year old perspective on your rediculous blog. Hey whoever you are that runs this blog…you’ll always be a no body, and you are extremely unprofessional, just like your entire filthy city.
Posted: 01:15 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phillies STILL SUCK
Oh and your city’s most recognizable figure is a made up character.
Posted: 01:17 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Chase Mutley
“most immature fans in sports”
“you all smell like cheessteak and feces, and your city is filled with gays”
“rediculous”
I love the internet.
World Champions.
Posted: 01:18 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phillies STILL SUCK
And if you pulled your heads out of your chessy, spunk filled cracks, you’d see way more attractive mets fans.
Posted: 01:19 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phan in TN
bragging about having the mind of a seven year old isn’t that bright.
does he want it back?
Posted: 01:19 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phillies STILL SUCK
Yea i do, you can talk to me im here still dumbass.
Posted: 01:21 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Don M
NOBODY* is one word.
Your infield is filled with ..
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e77/Alena0488/bb/joseanddavidgq.jpg
Posted: 01:23 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phillies STILL SUCK
Don shouldn’t you be teaching your class and not on a blog?
Posted: 01:25 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 ryan
Our city’s most recognizable figure is made up? which one do you think is fiction, is it Benjamin Franklin or the Liberty Bell? maybe you should brush up on your history books.
Posted: 01:25 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Don M
If we won the head-to-head Season Series last year, I’d be running my mouth too..
Instead, the Phillies only won the World Series, which I guess is alright
Did the Mets put up a banner or get rings for winning beating us head-to-head last year? I heard that they didn’t… but that can’t be correct..
Posted: 01:25 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Chase Mutley
Winning the head-to-head, heck, winning the NL East doesn’t look like this:
http://image.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/340x(30).jpg
This is what the playoffs must look like to Mets fans:
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/074Y1JT8tTdu1/340x.jpg
Posted: 01:26 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phillies STILL SUCK
Last time i checked the Mets have the same number of “rings” and “banners” so i can run my mouth until one of you trys to put your cheesesteak in it.
Posted: 01:27 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phillies STILL SUCK
And yeah Don your so smart, send me a picture with two all-stars trying to make fun of the mets…keep giving your city a good name man!
Posted: 01:28 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phillies STILL SUCK
Phillies suck. Go mets. 2 WS in 120 years. Howard should get tested for roids. And utley is a scumbag, heard he was born in philly. See you later guys!
Posted: 01:29 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Don M
They look pretty cool .. I wonder if those clothes also come in MENS though?
Posted: 01:33 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Don M
http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/columnists/jimbaumbach/blog/reyes.jpg
So… Jose Reyes gets his Dugout-dance-moves AND his clothing from Michael Jackson.. thats cool
Posted: 01:35 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Evan
I saw a guy wearing a Phils jersey holding a girl’s hand who was wearing a Cards jersey during the game last night. Why can’t we all just get along?
Posted: 01:35 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Don M
Here is a fine picture of David Wright, on October 29th…the night we won the World Series.
As you can see here, Wright is having the last laugh, and showing us that the Mets won 11 of the more important head-to-head games last season.. Postseason games don’t matter to the Mets
http://www.amazinavenue.com/images/user/3/aa_david_wright_01.jpg
Posted: 01:41 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Hoshaque
These Mets fans are absolutely ridiculous! They all smell bcause they are from queens. Have you people ever heard of a shower? People who root for the Mets are the fans who couldn’t afford Yankees tickets for years so the followed the rank and file or should I say scank and scum into that toilet bowl that they used to call a stadium. What is queens famous for besides the dam airport that used to ruin broadcast of the games. Philly has tons of reconizable figures, what are the mets known for besides playing second fiddle to the Yankees, choking, and blowing leads with a week to play. To all Mets fans BOO F*CK YOU!
Posted: 01:41 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 NY2TheHeart
I’d rather smell like a hoagie than a Cheesteak Pretzel! You scum bag Philly people wish you could afford to live in NY! You ALLOWED over 50% of your stadium to be filled with Mets fans in the past, but now all the sudden you guys are “fans” and decide to actually go to games. At least we are not front runners, we stick through the bad pen years and all. I’ll gladly take David Wright over Pedro Felise; I’ll take Jose Reyes over Jimmy “ExMVP Hitting .210″ Rollins. Yea, we are gonna run away with the title starting now. Screw you fat cheesteak lovin, pretzel eatin, water ice spillin pigs
Posted: 01:45 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 insults on messages boards > anything
spelling is overrated
so is being above .500
i know you met fans agree with me right?
Posted: 01:50 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Bruce
You’re right Evan. But as blogs go, it’s inevitable that there will be trash talk precipitated by Beer Man’s remark.. “Mets fans smell like hoagies.” When I read that, I knew what was coming. Oh well, let them have their fun. The fans rivalry right? ;-)
Posted: 01:50 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Hoshaque
You people live in the poorest bourough in NY, it is certainly not Manhattan..lol get your facts straight our stadium is never filled with 50% Mets fans. Maybe you have that fact confused with the fact that your fans cant fill your new stadium. If you guys hate Philly so much why do you pay crazy prices for horrible seats off of stub hub to come to Philly, maybe its because we have better looking girls.
Posted: 01:51 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Phan in TN
it appears that the mets fan is beating us with experience.
vapid, mouth breathing, myopic, sister kissing, karmically challenged, miscreant mets fans….
too much like conversing with a little bus inhabitant…
Posted: 01:52 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 insults on messages boards > anything
to clarify..what i meant to say was
go to school
win some games
then come try to talk shit on the wfc’s
Posted: 01:56 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Chooch's Cooches
this is great. not one mets fan has come on here and denied smelling like a hoagie (with extra mayo and onions), or that their female counterparts smell like tuna.
Posted: 02:03 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Chooch's Cooches
and NY2 the Heart, thank you for complimenting all of the wonderful foods that our city is known for. now go enjoy a tv dinner in your trailer in north jersey.
Posted: 02:05 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Georgie
Ok, NOW I’m laughing, I knew you guys could cheer me up!
“spelling is overrated” hahahahahaha!!!!!!
Posted: 02:05 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 The Beerman
lol chessy….
Posted: 02:09 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Georgie
Oh, GrrrrumpyMiner, we aren’t talking about you, I think I can speak for most of us there…..
Posted: 02:09 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Mike
Good lord, what are you guys, 8 years old?
Posted: 02:15 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
Don, I love these pictures you keep bringing up.
Posted: 02:15 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Manny
Great post Nick! haha
Posted: 02:25 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 Georgie
Mike, (just plain, not SJ), I am immature for my age, I’ll be the first to admit that!
Posted: 02:29 PM on May 6, 2009
Posts: 0 mr met
Hate the phillies, the fans well 90% of you are alright, there is 10% of you who are just a disgrace but that said…
i concede the chicks at citizens bank park are by far the hottest, its actually something i look fwd too, makes tolerating that F-ud 10% you worth it.
Posted: 02:36 PM on May 6, 2009