I would imagine it must be pretty quiet in the Mets management offices today. All the talk in town is surrounding the Yankees, the Mets' intercity rival. And of course the Yankees will be playing the Phillies, the Mets divisional rival. While the new Yankee Stadium continues to beam with action, the new Citi Field sits quietly waiting for April.

As for Mets fans, the debate continues, root for the Yankees or root for the Phillies. Here’s an idea, root for neither.

Who says it is imperative to root for a team when watching a ballgame? Why can’t we watch baseball without rooting for either club? If you attend an out of town game to take in a ballpark you have never been to, do you really pick a team to root for? I don’t. I often attend minor league games. I enjoy the atmosphere and the price. I don’t root for either team. I just quietly observe hoping to see some good ball played.

So when it comes to the 2009 World Series, I will also quietly observe, not caring who wins or loses. Why bother? For Mets fans, it’s a no win situation. The Phillies and Yankees in the World Series punctuate an already disastrous season for the Mets. If you thought it couldn’t get worse when the season finally concluded, it did.

The fact is I can’t root for either team. How can I possible root for the Yankees? I have been a Mets fan my whole life. I have loathed the Yankees. No matter how hard I might try, I just cannot root for that team. I can’t root for the Phillies either. They have trashed the Mets for a few years now and continue to back it up with great play. They are a true rival for the Mets. There is no way I want them to win.

But alas unfortunately, one team must win. For the Mets and their fans it is a no win/no lose situation. If the Phillies lose, then we can mock their fans. If the Yankees lose, we can mock the Yankee fans. But whoever wins or loses can continue to mock us so what’s the point?

I will not root for either team but I will root for bad weather. A nice icy cold rain storm might make me feel good as I watch the two teams in baseball I hate the most. I’ll sip a hot coco watching the Yankees wear those silly baseball caps with the ear flaps. They remind me of a hat my mother use to make me wear to school when I was a kid. I was so embarrassed to wear it I would take it off and put it in my book bag when I got far enough away for her not to see me.

I’ll laugh at Jimmy Rollins in that goofy ski mask. At least I can enjoy the game of baseball, the summer game, played in likely miserable conditions. As long as TV controls baseball, and make no mistake, they do, the World Series will continue to be played later in the year in the worst possible weather conditions.

But I digress. I guess my bitterness is showing. I’m sure if the Mets were in the World Series I would have no qualms about the conditions. Let’s face it. It’s a bad time to be a Mets fan.