A while ago, I wrote an entry about how we do not have a rivalry with the Phillies. If you ask me that question again today I will stick with my answer that we do not. However, the Phils have been doing a few things as of late that are really starting to press, not that we have a rivalry but just things that aren't right. The best way I can explaine it is referring to last weeks South Park episode, if you didn't see it, two characters got into an argument, they were about the fight, but one charater gets detention on purpose to get out of the fight, tells his mom about the fight (not the whole story, just the part that makes him look good) and the other character (I forget her name) can't fight Cartmen now because her parents would ground her. No one believes her at school, and Cartmen just rubs the entire situation in her face, he has already won, but he won't stop showing off the situation to her face.
That is what is going on now. Ok Phils, you won the division, congrats but you are doing two things in particular that go so far outside of bad sportsmanship, it makes me cry inside for image you portray. The first would be Victorino mocking Reyes after a home run by putting his finger in the air as he ran around the bases, and then posting that picture in their locker room with the tagline “Jose Reyes”. That is beyond picking on a team, that is attacking a single player. Its wrong and its really outside of what a professional sports team should be doing. There is no reason to be doing that right now either. The Mets aren't in the postseaon, you can drop that stuff now. If you are to do it, save it for when we can still play against you. Its like pushing the kid that can't push back, its cowardly.
The other thing is not so much bad sportsmanship, but it still makes my blood get hot and boil. The Phillies have adopted “Ya Gotta Believe”. Thats our saying! We did that. If I see a Phillies fan chant that around campus I might just go off on them because thats not their saying!.
All this being said, my frustrations shining through, I still don't think we have a rivalry with them, if they start to suck, I really won't care about them so much, but I will always care about beatting the Braves.
