What a bunch of crap.
1.Rutgers is a UNIVERSITY...THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY. I'd be willing to wager that quite a few of its fans and also quite a few of those that post here are graduates of Rutgers and thus have an attachment to RU that would be impossible to have to a professional baseball team. There might even be some who did not attend Rutgers but have relatives who did or do and thus have an attachment to RU.
2. Rutgers, as noted above, is THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY and thus might have some followers of the program who prefer to root for NEW JERSEY'S team. And Rutgers is at present the sole D1A program representing this state and this area.
3. The Mets arrived in the Metro area in 1962, when there already was a rather successful major league team right across the river in the Bronx. Some might say one of the most successful teams in professional sports history. And the Metsies were laughing stocks when they first came into existence. They weren't worth watching, as they played a miserable, non-competitive brand of baseball.
3. In their long, disappointing history the Mets have had only two championship seasons....since 1962. And they've given their fans more disappointments than any fan deserves from a team. Their ownership exists in one of the largest...if not THE largest market in baseball, yet refuses to make the necessary financial commitment to compete with the top teams in baseball. While the Yankees are on the list of teams that pay their players well, the Mets are at the bottom of that list...AND THEY PLAY IN NEW YORK.
4.Perhaps if someone first was exposed to major league baseball when the Mets were winning in 1986 and the Yanks were down or during the period when George Steinbrenner was at his worst it might be possible to comprehend the attraction to the Amazins. Or if someone lived in Queens Or if they were related to Marv Throneberry or Choo Choo Coleman, Other than that it's a real head-scratcher.
Other than 1969 and 1986, it's been good times rooting against the Mets. I thank them for that. And I thank them for Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, David Cone, and Chris Young. And I' think I'll soon be thanking them for Matt Harvey. Don't ever change.