Mets, Red Sox fans continue pathetic streak of anti-Yankees chants during matchups

We hate to come down on the cringey Seven Line Army and the fair-weather Red Sox fans, but they did this to themselves. New York Yankees fans typically keep to themselves unless they're targeting the opponent at hand, but we'll have to make an exception.

The Mets and Red Sox are in the midst of a three-game series at Citi Field this week while the Yanks are on a road trip. Somehow, though, the out-of-town New York team is on the mind of the Mets and Red Sox fanbases.

In the top of third inning Monday night, the folks in attendance for the matchup in Queens decided to bust out a "Yankees Suck" chant, which is something that's become a trend when these two teams meet.

It happened at Fenway Park last year, and we made sure to put it on blast. Back in 2022, it happened during a Mets-Phillies and Red Sox-Orioles game. How desperate are you people?

Good job joining forces, teams who aren't even in the playoffs as of right now. That'll show the AL-leading Yankees! For as much as Yankees fans aren't confident in their own team because of obvious roster deficiencies, they're not going to let two less successful organizations who have duped their fanbases for the last five years get in on that chorus of criticism.

Mets, Red Sox fans continue pathetic streak of anti-Yankees chants during matchups

This is somehow worse than Yankees fans chanting "F--- Altuve!" completely unprovoked, which is something we've denounced in recent years, too. Fandom has sadly been advertised as directionless, sheep behavior to garner some sort of shock value in the modern era of sports.

And it's just even more embarrassing when you consider the hypocrisy of both the Mets and Red Sox fanbases. For decades, Mets fans' jealousy of the Yankees was palpable. They constantly expressed disdain for the Yankees "buying championships," something that only really happened in 2009.

But then "buying championships" became cool and very much the preferred method when Steve Cohen bought the Mets from the Wilpons. All Cohen has bought is an organization with the 17th-ranked attendance in MLB and one playoff appearance with all that money spent on Francisco Lindor ($341 million, just $1 million more to make a "statement" over the Fernando Tatis Jr. contract), Max Scherzer ($130 million, and no longer in Queens), Justin Verlander ($86 million, and no longer in Queens), Brandon Nimmo ($120 million), Starling Marte ($78 million), Edwin Diaz ($102 million) and Jeff McNeil ($50 million).

Even the Yankees' garbage can expenditures on Josh Donaldson, DJ LeMahieu, Anthony Rizzo, and a few others don't come close to that kind of ineptitude.

And then there's the Red Sox, who willingly broke up a World Series winning roster after the 2018 season. They fired one of the best GMs in the sport for no reason. They cut back spending so John Henry can focus on his personal investment portfolio, which led to Red Sox fans "boycotting" the 2024 season, only to buy back in for a moment before they just drastically slipped in the playoff race.

Yes, the Red Sox "own" the Yankees in the modern era, capturing four World Series since 2004, but we'd never trade that for whatever fraudulent fandom encapsulates the citizens of the New England area, who have coincidentally gone silent ever since Tom Brady's departure and the Patriots' fall from grace.

The Yankees might actually suck. There's definitely truth to the blanket chant that will be declared regardless of New York's performance. The silver lining of this idiocy, however, is that Yankees fans can find solace in the fact they weren't born to support the downtrodden Mets or have the DNA of braggadocious Red Sox whiners.