Mets fans stoop to new lows trying to 'little brother' Yankees fans in giant waste of time

As the novelty of spring training wears off, WFAN Sports Radio's Evan Roberts is trying with all his might to keep churning out MLB narratives, but some of his swings are gigantic misses.

Take Roberts' recent critical fixation on the New York Yankees' media team as an example. Roberts, a New York Mets fan, made fun of the Yankees' media team for cropping a photo of a young Giancarlo Stanton wearing a Mets hat.

Roberts called the move "little brother stuff" in a radio segment that ironically exposed Roberts himself as the little brother of the situation and embarrassed Mets fan in the process.

Evan Roberts' recent jab at the Yankees' media team made Mets fans everywhere ashamed by association

"It doesn't bother me," Roberts said of the Stanton photo. "(But) I feel like it needs to be called out."

Does it, Evan?

The most painful thing for listeners and/or viewers of Roberts's spiel was to experience Roberts' co-host, Tiki Barber, pretending to feign interest in the utterly irrelevant topic at hand. Viewers were able to see Barber flashing a wondrous fake smile that -- while bright enough to land Barber an eight-figure advertising endorsement from Crest -- still didn't do enough work to disguise Tiki's disgust for the subject matter in front of him.

Not only was Roberts' decision to discuss the Stanton photo a poor reflection of his own program, but it also made Mets fans everywhere look a little worse by association.

After all, it's Mets fans like Roberts who have grasped this "little brother/big brother" narrative in recent years as the Mets have become more relevant, but it's all been merely a puffing out of the chest that exposes insecurity.

In some weird, twisted logic, Mets fans believe their team has one-upped the Yankees of late in the pecking order of the city's baseball franchises. Maybe it's because the Steve Cohen-funded front office in Queens is willing to spend more than Hal Steinbrenner and the Yankees (i.e., the Juan Soto sweepstakes).

Nonetheless, at the end of the day, the Yankees have more World Series appearances and World Series victories than the Mets do since the two clubs met in the Subway Series Fall Classic of 2000 (which the Yankees won, 4-1).

What's more, the Mets have lately made a habit of dumpster diving for Yankees castoffs, legit Yankees relievers, and everyone in between.

If you want to make an argument that one of these New York franchises is trying to emulate the other, you can only reasonably say that the Mets really, really want to be the Yankees. You know, kind of like how a little brother really wants to be his older brother.