PUT A BROOM IN THAT BOOK | Metstradamus

Metstradamus has to be the best writer among the Mets bloggers, especially this blurb from today's post. (Extra points for the "8 Mile" reference too.)

"Now I know how the Yankee fans will react and how they already are reacting. After they spew out about 27 titles, they will try to shame us, Met fans, into feeling like garbage because "oh, you're celebrating meaningless regular season games in a season where you're going nowhere. This is like saying "Yeah, well we're on this beautiful cruise ship while you're in that piddly little row boat", meanwhile the cruise ship they're on is owned by Carnival and its sinking to the bottom. This is what Yankee fans like to do: make other people feel like imbeciles for merely being happy. They want us to golf clap and slink away while still slurping the 27 titles. And that's why we're happy. Because we know that trick is coming ... and it's silly and we will ignore it. And the only thing left for Yankee fans to do is bring up shit that we already know about. Bernie Madoff, Bobby Bonilla ... all of it. Sweeping the Yankees gives Met fans that feeling of Eminem in the final battle against Papa Doc. We know what's coming. But what they don't know is that we know what Papa Doc's real name is ..."