Daily News Sends Reporter Down To Philadelphia To Root For Mets Team That No One In New York Cares About

Although the Mets are now in first place, attendance at Citi Field is down — the Mets averaging somewhere above Colorado but below Milwaukee for the season so far — so the Daily News, eschewing “objectivity,” takes the extraordinary step of having its own sports reporter go down to Philadelphia to stir up trouble. Predictably, he looks like an ass:

When I started a chant of “Phillies suck” just feet from the famous LOVE sculpture, I got anything but love from the Phillies faithful. The locals surrounding me looked like they might choke on their cheese steaks.

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At the fountain in Logan Circle, another less-than-exciting Philly landmark, a few boisterous fans said they wouldn’t mind throwing me in the water.

“You’re going down, son,” said Troy Decker, 26, who took a long lunch break from his hotel desk job just to harass me. “You all will just collapse like you do every year.”