The Phillies and Mets will collide this week; not as two roaring titans of the NL East on an inevitable path toward each other dictated by fate itself, but as bumbling fools, each with a bucket on their head, each hoping the other can get it off for them.
There’s been plenty said about the Phillies and Mets as a pair over the last decade, from the fact that their fans share much of the same of insecurities and habits, to the idea that they’ve so rarely been good at the same time that their match-ups don’t even constitute a rivalry.