{"id":5955,"date":"2010-05-01T15:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T20:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2010-05-02T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:20:23","slug":"daily_news_sends_reporter_down_to_philadelphia_to_root_for_mets_team_that_no_one_in_new_york_cares_about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/daily_news_sends_reporter_down_to_philadelphia_to_root_for_mets_team_that_no_one_in_new_york_cares_about.html","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Sends Reporter Down To Philadelphia To Root For Mets Team That No One In New York Cares About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/01\/sports\/baseball\/01mets.html\">the Mets are now in first place<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metsblog.com\/2010\/04\/22\/opinion-this-place-is-empty\/\">attendance at Citi Field is down<\/a> &#8212; the Mets <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/attendance\">averaging somewhere above Colorado but below Milwaukee for the season so far<\/a> &#8212; so the Daily News, eschewing &#8220;objectivity,&#8221; takes the extraordinary step of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/05\/01\/2010-05-01_news_reporter_taunts_phillies_fans_with_mets_win.html\">having its own <del datetime=\"2010-05-02T14:20:03+00:00\">sports<\/del> reporter go down to Philadelphia to stir up trouble<\/a>. Predictably, he looks like an ass:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When I started a chant of &#8220;Phillies suck&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>At the fountain in Logan Circle, another less-than-exciting Philly landmark, a few boisterous fans said they wouldn&#8217;t mind throwing me in the water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going down, son,&#8221; said Troy Decker, 26, who took a long lunch break from his hotel desk job just to harass me. &#8220;You all will just collapse like you do every year.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Mets are now in first place, attendance at Citi Field is down &#8212; the Mets averaging somewhere above Colorado but below Milwaukee for the season so far &#8212; so the Daily News, eschewing &#8220;objectivity,&#8221; takes the extraordinary step of having its own sports reporter go down to Philadelphia to stir up trouble. Predictably, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5962,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/5962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}