Originally Posted By: helenwheels
How does a nice Bronx boy like yourself end up a Mets fan? It must have been the source of much schoolyard strife when you were a kid smile

That's okay, I've had to explain that here a few times before. As I said, my Dad was from Harlem, where the Polo Grounds were located and the Giants played. They pulled out on him and headed west when he was close to thirty years old. He resented them for a long time for the move (although he was happy when they won three of the last five World Series because Bonds was gone and he hated him).

Anyway, like a lot of Dodgers fans (who suffered the same experience), in '62 he adopted the Mets. And he instilled it into me. And to ne honest, there are more Mets fans in the Bronx than you might think. I mean, it's probably no more than 15%, but we're here.

And I live five minutes from both the Throggs Neck and Whitestone Bridges. I can honestly make it to Citi Field faster than up to Yankee Stadium. That's why most of that 15% estimate that I mentioned mostly lives around Country Club and Throggs Neck.

But yeah, growing up around Fordham a Mets fan wasn't easy lol.


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