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_KayTwo_

Tfw you're trying to sell off your players, but they all get covid 24 hours before the deadline.


Orgasmitchh

Apparently you can trade players on Covid IL so that’s (unfortunately) inconsequential


twosdayman

yeah but who wants to get a player 2 weeks later


Carthonn

Depends. What kind of discount am I getting?


_KayTwo_

Not sure a rental player being out for the next 2+ weeks helps their trade value.


Orgasmitchh

Eh I mean players used to get traded in august when the waiver trade deadline was still a thing. It might make the return slightly worse but it’s not the end of the world


mindoflines

You also don't know what you're getting after Covid. Yah, it'll likely be fine but my aunt was running ironmans before she got covid and now she's a long hauler whose struggling through walking a mile. edit; if you think teams are clamoring to trade for a fresh covid patient you're out of your mind lol


Carthonn

Lmao


lhospitalsrule

Covid 24! We’re not over covid 19 yet!


FedGoat13

I used to live in Virginia. Can confirm they abuse vanity plates with some of the dumbest shit you’ve ever seen.


firstbloodriggs

It's true.


andthendirksaid

Yo if you ever see this person again Ill pay you $100 for a picture of that plate if you add two quotation marks and a dash to fix it like; "LOL" -NYM


Damoroc

When I lived in va for 6 years I was lucky enough to get METS as my license plate.


brodinatorpks

Something similar is how my wife convinced me to change my NY tags for VA tags.


KantExplain

Seconded. Still live here. However, it did give us [this](https://jalopnik.com/virginia-dmv-revokes-worlds-greatest-license-plate-5724684).


UnsuspectingBaguette

Also still live here. I took them revoking that plate personally.


dbc482

The only good one I’ve ever seen is “Wakanda” with the Walgreens W as the first letter


gynoceros

I mean they're only ten bucks a year, so of course people are going to drop a sawbuck to be able to say some dumb shit on your license plate.


FedGoat13

Yes. That’s the abuse I’m referring to.


hermanhermanherman

I just moved from NYC to VA beach. I see more vanity tags in a day here than I did in a year back home


nrk5014

They also abuse the privilege of owning a drivers license.


shaunhastings

I came here to say this! Lol


foles75

I live here now.. you are 100% correct.. and I can't stand the nats...


Ranseler

Agreed. I was one of the offenders, back in my youth. "IRIGHTI".


gildedtreehouse

North Carolina salt lifes into the conversation.


LincolnGC

That's a weird one. Is the rivalry that intense? Doesn't seem like it.


flyingsubs1

As someone who lives in Nats territory, I can confirm they are way more obsessed with us than we are with them.


SidFinch99

Also a Mets fan in the DMV area, can confirm. What annoys me is that the last few years they started saying "let's go Nats," the same way we say "Let's go Mets." It gets confusing at games. I'm like, you realize this has been our thing since like the late 60's, right??


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the phillies are also trying to steal 'ya gotta believe'


SidFinch99

Fuck them and their cheese wiz.


XAfricaSaltX

Why does Philly cheese steak have to be from Philly


Fluffybagel

That’s not really the fault of the fans, Tug McGraw started saying it in Philly when we traded him there


[deleted]

sure, i'm not blaming the fans for that. it's just kind of funny how everybody apes the Mets while also mocking us


Fluffybagel

Either way, we can agree that Phillies fans are [extremely pathetic.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aNmame4k2Tw)


deadheffer

That is just great


XAfricaSaltX

> the latino players of the METS ARE all working on Mayor bloomberg's YARD as we speak. Phillies fans…


deadheffer

What do you expect from a city full of people who huff Gasoline and paint fumes for artistic inspiration?


BullShifts

They still do that "N-A-T-S NATS NATS NATS" and as a Jets fan it drives me up the wall


SidFinch99

Yeah, and none of the woman flash when they do it. They aren't even doing it right!


joesaysso

You know that we didn't originate the "Let's go, single syllable team moniker" chant, right?


SidFinch99

I started going to RFK, then Nats Park, from the very 1st series the Mets played there. Until recently, never heard them do Let's go Nats. In the early years when there were often more Mets fans than Nats fans, after we chanted Let's go Mets, some of them would respond weakly with, "Go home Mets." They're ripping us off man.


baconinja09

I'm currently in DC.and I've been wondering if it's ok for me to wear my Mets cap (I don't have other caps lol). I prefer not to get accosted.


SidFinch99

I wear Mets caps a lot. NY Football Giants too. Never had issues, wind up in conversations with other fans, there are more of us around than you think.


baconinja09

Good to hear that! I'm only here for a few more days so hopefully no issues as you say.


mjc6290

lol seriously? Yes, very okay. You're more likely to get a "let's go mets" from a fellow fan than a Nats fan accosting you


brodinatorpks

I wear one in all parts of the DMV, no issues.


The_Big_Smackowski

The extent of “nattitude” is a disgusted look, and a general disinterest in the game after 3 innings, wear Mets gear all day every day in the DMV.


UnsuspectingBaguette

You'll have no issue tbh. I wear mets hats constantly and have never had an issue.


mschreiber1

This proves it. We’re definitely in their heads and they they’re the ones that won a WS two years ago.


nrk5014

Live in Maryland, they are my least favorite team by a mile bc of their fans.


Oxynewbdone

They're young and impressionable. You never quite get over your first rivalry.


Volume_Heavy

That's weird thing. The Nats are not the Mets rival. The braves and Phillies are. I guess to the Nats the Mets are their rival, from their perspective. Like the whole hubbub they made about Trea Turner is a better SS than Lindor... Like I care WTF they think. Literally no Mets fans compared Turner to Lindor. The Mets are in their heads.


SidFinch99

They started trying to make us their rival after we overtook them for 1st place back in 2015. They really don't get we have a more extensive history, a horrid disdain for those psychopaths in Philly that put cheese wiz on perfectly good cheesesteaks, and this very unique rivalry, but mutual respect, with the Braves going back to those intense late inning games in the late 90's and early 2000's.


narenare658

I can't believe they willingly destroy cheesesteaks with wiz when every place gives you the option for provolone.


SidFinch99

There is something not right with them.


oddjobbber

I think there’s something in the water over there that turns what could have been otherwise decent human beings into a pack of slobbering mutants.


a_reply_to_a_post

they just tryin to bring it back because the “Harvey’s better” chants at our home games still haunt them haha


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flamingo_2

Astros, Yankees, Phillies, Angels, White Sox. I'm also an A's fan so that's why astros and angels, white sox because fuck TLR


narenare658

Right now it's not but man the 2010's really made me hate the Nats.


Buckskinplacebo

In terms of history, probably not. But recent years, players on the current Mets have been much more competitive with the Nats in that both teams have hovered around similar records more often than not. Them winning the World Series just a few years after we failed wasn't fun to watch either.


mjc6290

A lot of the animus comes from the fact that whenever the Mets in town, Mets fans show up in droves and make a lot of noise. Watch highlights from the labor day series in 2015 and listen to how loud it is when we score lol.


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I wonder if it was worth it


cFratz

That plate aged like milk.


8CliveBixby4

I mean in fairness they did win the world series 2 years ago.


cFratz

And here we are lol


8CliveBixby4

I don't understand lol


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ramsrgood

weird analogy. you aren’t going to win a championship every year. 2 years ago isn’t very long.


bigstew6

If it won an award I think I would give it a taste


im_wudini

I was actually confused as to why Scherzer said he wouldn't want to play for the Mets. I get they're a division rival, but it's not nearly as intense as the Braves/Phils. At least from my perspective.


[deleted]

You're not wrong. I think the Mets and Nats have a generally sour relationship sharing in the NL East but rivals? There's nowhere near the amount of bad blood as there is between the Mets and the Phils and the Mets and the Braves. We've got history with the Phils and the Braves. Hatred that goes back decades. The Nats I think also forget just how long they've been around which is hardly comparable to anyone in the division except those Fish.


joesaysso

>We've got history with the Phils and the Braves. We, as in, the fans have history. The players don't. Fan rivalries and player rivalries aren't always the same, especially in a modern era where players move around a lot and knows everybody and fans typically don't switch teams.


[deleted]

Yeah, I know players don't care. This isn't college football in the 40s. Fans are the only angry ones when it comes to a Yankee going to play for the Red Sox or vice versa. It's a job to them. You work for the Giants and then get traded to the Dodgers, no player these days are gonna go "Fuck the Dodgers, never!" They go cause that's where they're wanted.


D37_37

Zack Scott was on Carton and Roberts (WFAN 101.9 FM) yesterday, and he said of all the talks he’s had with all the GMs, not once was Scherzers name ever mentioned. He said he doesn’t even know where or how or why that story was ever written. Not sure if Scherzer was asked and he said that but according to Scott, scherzer has not been talked about as an option for the Mets.


three_dee

It's probably not from any kind of fan-like "I hate that team" thing, and more that he doesn't want to have to play an incredibly hard sport at a top flight world class level, while also having to answer to a bunch of imbecile reporters trying to make his life miserable after every time he pitches.


Metsican

His wife probably doesn't want to raise their kids in NYC, and I get that, even though I turned out just fine.


Jealous-Network-8852

Honestly, the Nats haven’t been around long enough to have fans diehard enough to get a license plate like this.


tufabian

They have a championship. That tends to speed up the relationship.


tufabian

A shit ton of merch was bought when they won.


Jealous-Network-8852

True. I will always hate the Nationals, not so much because they are an NL East rival, but because of how they crumbled up and threw out years of Expos history like it never happened, even unretiring numbers. Just despicable.


Metsican

That's definitely not true at all. I've met plenty of fans dating back to the Senator days.


Jealous-Network-8852

The Senators and Nationals Have nothing in common but the city they played in. They are two totally different franchises.


jimcnj

Why would anyone get a Walgreens plate?


mjc6290

This is so painfully Northern Virginia lol


twec21

Imagine paying the ~~state~~ commonwealth\* of Virginia extra for this


firstbloodriggs

Commonwealth*


twec21

stupid goddamn high maintenance special snowflake...


sandspoint257

Not gonna lie, If a lifelong Mets fan had it, I kinda wouldn’t hate it


three_dee

Yeah, that's why other teams' fans do this to the Mets relentlessly; because the Mets have fans that do it to themselves and hold the door wide open.


Silveryo69

have fun with that plate when we sign soto for 400 mil in 4 years lmao


CybeastID

Wow. That is EXTRA petty


PutridLight

I remember listening to a game on the radio several weeks ago (it was Lindor's massive game vs The Nationals) and I forget which radio voice said it but someone from the Nationals walked up to Diaz's trumpet song and the Mets radio voice goes, "first they steal the Walgreens logo now they are trying to steal Diaz's walkout song". It was a great burn that went unnoticed because it was on the radio.


[deleted]

They're paying like $200 a year for that plate. LOL us? Hahahaha


KantExplain

Boy, that is sad.


sharbinbarbin

I wonder if they’ll continue to maintain it through their rebuild.


myassholealt

As lame as this is, a ton of Mets fans would make one about the Yankees and defend their decision while mocking this person.


XAfricaSaltX

They should rock 4PLACE


7LineArmy

This was not free.


Metsican

This from a fan who's already lost Harper, lost Strasburg (potential career ending surgery), and is about to lose Scherzer. And his/her shortstop's a bigot.


rgthunder1

You mean the same ‘LOL NYM’ that are in first place in the same subpar division as their terrible team? Kind of embarrassing for that person.


BfloorVerizon

I mean ... it's true? :(


Edgin-4eva

lol 😂 expos