Monday, October 26, 2009

AND THAT’S A WRAP.

And we’re done.

I have been watching, despite saying I wouldn’t; many nights I would just hop on Twitter and get caught up, or check progress on At Bat or Gameday.

I am going to advocate the strong position that you do not need to root for anybody in the World Series. By all means, watch the games, enjoy baseball. But this nonsense that Mets fans “have” to root for the Yankees or “have” to root for the Phillies is just that - nonsense. There is no requirement that you have to root for a team in order to watch a baseball game. Zero. Zilch. Nada.  Maybe for fans of other teams they can temporarily take a side. But not these two teams for Mets fans. I mean, obviously, do what you like, but it doesn’t make any sense that Mets fans are suddenly flocking to either side with mandates that we “must” root for the Phillies or that we “must” root for the Yankees.

I am not rooting for anyone. I do not have to. And I absolutely will not root for either team. I also have no intention of watching. The outcome is irrelevant to me.

Just a couple of months until pitchers and catchers report.

P.S. You can read more of this theme - written some time after the last out last night, so please take it with a grain of salt - over at Jesse Spector’s Touching Base blog at the Daily News.