Seinfeld episode anyone?

Team loyalty aside, this kid was at work in the press level of a stadium. It is the first rule of sports reporting that there is no cheering in the Press Box. If he's looking for a job in sports broadcasting he better learn that right away. If he want's to attend a Mets game by buying a ticket he can wear whatever he wants, but if he's there as a part of his job, as distasteful as it might be, his employer gets to set the dress code. And it was his St John's department head who dismissed him. The Phillies fan was so pig headed he did not heed the attempts by his co-worker to keep him from getting in trouble. As a future sports reporter he better work on his objectivity skills.

Yes, but he doesn't work for the Mets. If this was about objectivity then why were they offering him a St. Johns jacket?

Anyone who makes a fuss about what team's paraphenalia another person wears to a baseball game is prick.

There are way too many self-appointed nannies, thought police and petty tyrants going around meddling and micromanaging everyone else's lives these days.

And as an aside to the above, he's still a douche for wearing it, and doubly so for claiming that he didn't intend for doing so to be "inciteful." No way could any sports fan think that wearing a team's gear to their chief rival's stadium wouldn't bring some kind of reaction. That is, in fact, the only reason why someone would do it.

Eh, I wouldn't say that. Perhaps in this case that is true and the guy does seem a bit of a douche for it.

Frankly though, I'm a Braves fan and I always wore my shirt and cap to Shea when they played. Vice versa, when I was in Atlanta people would wear Mets jerseys to Turner field. It's pretty much the norm and only a jackass would try to force someone out of somewhere for it. You can support whichever team you like and shouldn't have to fear for it...except in Philly...damn batteries.

You don't "have to fear for it" but at the same time you certainly know there'll be a reaction. Come on, that's part of the fun. It'd be disappointing to wear the rival's jersey to a game and have no one notice, wouldn't it?

"A St. John's student who attended the first ballgame played at Citi Field Sunday says that he was told to either take off the Phillies jacket he was wearing or leave."

I think it is important to note that the request that he not wear that jacket didn't come from any member of the Mets organization, or even from any Mets fan. He was there as an employee of St. John's University, and every objection (according to his account) to his wearing a Phillies jacket came from his co-workers. The final confrontation that resulted in his leaving the stadium was with his supervisor.

I'm not a Mets fan, but the impression I got from the short item above was that someone with authority granted by the Mets kicked him out of the stadium. Reading the linked piece reveals that it was only people from his St. Johns TV crew who expressed any problem with his attire.

The guy gave a false title. He wasn't asked to leave, especially by Mets fans or CitiField employees, it was by his co-workers. IMO, he's a douche for not honoring the fact that he got the privilege to be there with a press pass

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