Saturday MLB ⚾️

There is a rumor that Ketel "Don't stop the" Marte! will be traded to the Braves! I hope so. Right now the Braves are seriously depleted in the outfield, and this would be huge.

I could see Braves trading Pasche and maybe even Kyle Wright for him. Pascoe has been on fire in AAA recently but was an unmitigated disaster this year in the pros. Please be true

Tampa became the first team to reach 40 wins last night when they beat the hapless Orioles.

5 of the last 6 teams that were the first to reach 40 wins ended up winning the World Series, the only exception being the 2019 Dodgers.

I'd guess there would be about 13,000 Yankees fans there today, at least.

That I couldn't tell you, but they are out there.

There's an old saying that says that rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in Vegas.

In 2014, no county's favorite team was the Mets, Blue Jays, or A's.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/here-is-every-us-countys-favorite-baseball-team-according-to-facebook/359917/

No way man, Cubs fans wouldn't give you a lick of trouble.  I've worn my Mets hat and/or jersey in countless stadiums, Wrigley included, and the only place where I had an issue of any kind was in Atlanta of all places, where some fat redneck started screaming for me to take my "kike ass home" but he was just a drunk idiot and nothing happened beyond that.  I've been to a bunch of other Braves games and never had an issue.  Yankee Stadium, Fenway, Camden, PNC Park, Citizens Bank, Miami, Nationals Park, Busch, Dodgers Stadium, Oracle Park, Coors, etc., no problems at all.  

In fact, the single worst incident I ever saw in person was at Shea Stadium back in 2008 where two Phillies fans got into a crazy brawl....with each other.  It was as perplexing then as it is now, given that the Phillies were in 1st at the time, the Mets were faltering, and the Phillies were winning the game.  Very bizarre. 

Another time in Philadelphia, I saw two Giants fans who were easily the most obnoxious drunk assholes I've ever seen.  Completely unprovoked, they were just berating everyone around them, the players on the field (including Giants players) and the umps.  Security booted them by the 3rd inning. 

Once at at Yankees-Red Sox playoff game, I saw Yankees fans throw beer (like, 10 people at once) at a Red Sox fan who was just sitting there minding his own business. Those beers ain't cheap, no way am I tossing mine. 

But other than that, I've really never seen anything too bad (in any sport).  Yeah, people get drunk and act like meatheads, and an occasional beer gets thrown, but that's really it and I've been to at least 500 baseball games in my life if I had to guess (probably more), with 400 of those being in Queens, 100 or so hockey games (mostly in the Coliseum), and a dozen or so football games (Giants Stadium, Superdome, and some college games).  In the 2015 NLCS against the Cubs, there were plenty of Cubs fans at Citi.  We befriended a group of them sitting next to us, shared beers with them and just enjoyed a great game. There's no need to start berating others, I just never understood that and while I'm not naive to think it doesn't happen, it's not an everyday occurrence. 

So I don't think you'd have an issue adorned in a Yankees hat at Wrigley, or anywhere really.  And you don't strike me as the kind of guy who would get bombed and start antagonizing those around you so you'd be fine.  

THAT SAID, one thing I wouldn't do is attend an elimination game or a Game 7 on the road because if your team wins and you have to walk out of there with 50,000 people who just watched their team get eliminated, all it takes is one drunk asshole to see you and take out his frustrations on you.