As the Mets and Cubs found their footing all the way to a 2015 NLCS showdown, the youthful teams inspired thoughts of a budding rivalry.
The new blood is now bad blood as a co-owner of the Cubs introduced himself to New Yorkers on Saturday with a few shots at the fans who inhabit Citi Field.
“I don’t know if you know this, but Mets fans are really, really obnoxious,” Todd Ricketts told a Cubs Convention audience at the Sheraton Grand Chicago.
The Cubs board member said he and his wife had enjoyed his team’s trip across the country for the playoffs, saying they had relished Pittsburgh, where Chicago won the wild-card game, and appreciated the “hospitable” fans in St.