NY Baseball Digest: Silva: Mets Must Channel Everyone’s “Hate”

I will wait until Richard Galdston releases his “A Psychoanalytic Study of Hatred in the National League” before I believe this gunk exists.

Scott Lauber pointed out how the Phillies, and most of the NL East, hates the Mets. He cited conversations he had with members of the Florida Marlins about their disdain for them, and how badly they wanted to send the Mets home.

Now this morning, Bill Madden of the Daily News discusses the same topic. This time, it’s Phillies GM Pat Gillick cites “Mets hate” as one of the reasons that Philadelphia, not New York, is currently playing baseball at the “Trop”. Some quotes from Gillick:

“If you want to know the best thing we had going for us this year,” said Gillick, “it was the fact that all the other teams in our division hated the Mets’ guts. It started with Atlanta and all the hostility they had with the Mets through the years. Then Fredi Gonzalez left Bobby Cox to manage the Marlins and he didn’t forget everything that went on between the Braves and Mets. Look what Florida did for us the past two years (beating the Mets two out of the three in each of the last series of the season to prevent them from making the postseason)!

“Washington doesn’t like them very much either, and all those teams seemed to really get up for the Mets.”