The Braves and Mets Celebrating Together After Both Clinching Postseason Spots Was Disgusting and They Should Be Ashamed

I have some boomer takes every now and again, but this should enrage any actual fan of the Braves and Mets. It's bullshit that these teams are supposed to hate each other and yet they're out there singing "Kumbaya" after a doubleheader because they both snuck into the Postseason. Have some pride.

I know athletes are all friends now and rivalries in professional sports have all but faded away, but baseball is the one sport that still seems to have a few real ones and this is supposed to be one of them. The Braves have tortured the Mets for the entirety of their franchise history. New York just won one of the craziest regular season games ever on Atlanta's home field and made the Braves beat a team that wasn't trying in the second game to back into the playoffs. Does nobody have any shame anymore?

It's bad enough that the Braves were spraying champagne in the locker room for a Wild Card berth to begin with, let alone going back out on the field and looking for Mets to hug and take selfies with — not to even mention the logistics of celebrating in the locker room when you have a playoff game in San Diego in 24 hours.

And the craziest part is these teams seemed to have some of that fire towards each other during the game. Brandon Nimmo and Michael Harris were going back and forth at each other as the game swung, but then as soon as it was over, everybody was friends again.

I will always hate the Mets until the day I die. I hate Mets fans, I hate the Mets' colors, I hate the train ride to their ballpark, I hate the in-game host on the video board, I hate the Home Run Apple, I hate all of it. So it would be nice to see some players in an organization that is supposed to be above a team making its 11th Postseason berth ever have a little bit of that edge, too. But I guess Gen Z Baseball is here to stay forever. Sad.