It’s amazing how one simple ML trade can get me onto six or seven tangents, not all of which will interest the average fan. I’m not an Athletics closet fan, nor I do I think they will compete for the AL West this season which isn’t to say that I’m not intrigued by some of the additions to their lineup. I also feel for the true green and gold fans that have had to endure this stupid move to Vegas.

I haven’t even decided if every other team in baseball missed out in acquiring inf-of Jeff McNeil. I have no idea what his expiration date is and if the A’s bought beyond his best buy date. I think he is an asset and will help a fun lineup for a month or two. In reading about the trade from the Mets point of view (is there any other, but a NY view?), it seemed that McNeil was part of a clubhouse problem. When hasn’t there been clubhouse strife in either New York team? It’s hard to fathom there being so much angst on job sites where guys are making millions. And if memory serves me (as is used to), The Bronx Zoo detailed the chaos in the Yankee clubhouse during their WS run in 1977-78.

Before the McNeil trade, the Mets landed a second former Yankee pitcher in Luke Weaver (Devin Williams being the first), and the Yanks in turn signed two former Mets busts to minor league deals-Zack Short and Paul Blackburn. The writer implied that Mets fans were laughing at the Yankees for picking up their scraps. And as I may have pointed out, this story is too NY centric, because when I read of the moves, all I could think was these guys were drafted and signed by the Cubs.

While it really doesn’t affect my life or enjoyment of baseball, I love how New Yorkers are sniping at one another. It’s all pretty ridiculous that fans of a team that spend way too much on talent and haven’t seen a WS title in 39 years can mock Yankee fans, who have won more recently (09) and often in the last 40 years.

While I have friends who are Yankee and Met fans, the groups as a whole are not sympathetic. As long as fans can’t choose who owns their teams, I’ll sympathize with fan bases like Pittsburgh and Oakland, not NY.