As a native New Yorker, I have always been intrigued by the fierce inter-city rivalries when we have 2 teams in the same sport: Giants/Jets, Rangers/Islanders, and of course Mets/Yankees. Just so you know where I stand, I am consistently blue and orange. But let's focus here on baseball. I am a Mets fan. It seems like being a Mets fan has more dignity because they don't buy the best team in baseball. They don't have the most dominant championship history in all of sports. Plus, they are in Queens. I am a Manhattan guy so the commute to Queens is a serious commitment.My point is you have to be a fan to be a Mets fan. Being a Yankees fan is, well, easy. The nail biting at the end of the season is not whether you make the playoffs, but how far you go and whether you are the wild card or not. Of course, the other path is fraught with tragedy, like last year's monumental collapse to snatch defeat from the jaws of a Mets playoff birth. That just hurts ...But isn't that what being a fan is all about? The ups are higher when they are unexpected. Case in point is the '86 team. That's just about the most exciting baseball gets other than singular moments (go home Kirk Gibson).So who are the bigger fans? Yankees or Mets fans? I know there are some die hard Yankees fan here. What do you have to say for yourselves?Hey Ariel, Danni Marie, or Ryan, you want to weigh in on this one?

heyy yeah i would like to fight that. Yankee fans have been fans since the yankees have been around ! people from all around the world come to yankees stadium. Whenever the yankees play somewhere half the stadium is filled up with yankee fans... away or home. From the stats i hear the yankees always have a sell out at yankees stadium. And everytime they go to different stadiums the stadium has sold the most tickets ever or the biggest crowd ever when the yankees are there. Also, the yankees fans have to deal with all the non yankee fans. When there are shirts that say i like 2 teams the yankees and any team that beats boston ... if ur not a yankee fan u HATE the yankees. Yankee fans have to deal wth that. But if your a red sox fan and they dont make it to the next round then red sox fans might root for another team btu they would NEVER root for the yankees. I know a lot of non yankee fans and they would wear any other team shirt or clothes but not yankees. So the yankees definately have it hard. You either hate em or love em. Fight that one

yankees will kill!!!

Yankees definetly bigger. but here's my squib i like to call it. I am a twins fan end of that part of the discussion but the yankees are next on my list I don't agree with the "Rule" that if your not a yankee fan you hate the. i just love baseball enough to understand thet when your team isn't doing good you go search for another team that's doing good. like last year the twinkies stunk so i started watching other base ball. Often times the yankees.

Well, Ryan, if you guys get to the play-offs, we can have a chat about whether it is better to be a Yankees or Mets fan in the post season.

But maybe there is a reason why the Yankees are the most contentious team. It is too easy. It's always sold out. It's easy. Is that what a fan is?

And might I mention that the Mets are in first place ...

I am a Yankees fan all the way, but my two sons are both Mets fans. So we have our own little rivalry at my house out here in Montana. Its all good!!

Hey Trevor although I agree with you on the rivalry with two teams in the same city I still feel the best rivalry in all of baseball is the Redsox and Yankees. I remember growing up hearing about Bucky freaking Dent. How he destroyed the sox hopes and dreams as well as the fans. But I say it was Aaron Freaking Boone that destroyed us in 03. Ever since than I actually have respected the rivalry.I hope the Mets can hold on to first place, but I have a feeling the Cubbies are going to win it all. I would be nice to see the Sox and cubbies in the World series this year.