Dodgers fans will love New York radio crying about LA getting media attention

Even Dodgers fans have to admit that MLB and national media outlets' obsessive coverage of the Dodgers has sometimes bordered on overkill this season, but it also makes sense. Not a single team in baseball currently has the same reach as they do, nor the same capacity to attract new fans to the game. Opposing fans can cry about it all they want, but the Dodgers are just taking on an international ubiquity that no team except the Yankees have ever experienced.

Of course, the opposing fans crying the loudest about this fact usually happen to be New York-based fans.

WFAN host Evan Roberts (granted, a Mets fan), got on the air this week to go on a long rant about how much he hated LA and the Dodgers, and you can literally see his face progressively getting redder the longer he goes on.

"National media takes turns saying everything about the Dodgers that makes you humanly sick. I'm sick of it," Roberts said, "We get it. They're great, they won the World Series, yippity-do-da. Everything is about the Dodgers. The Dodgers, the Dodgers, the Dodgers."

New York radio host Evan Roberts nearly popped a blood vessel complaining about the Dodgers

In particular, Roberts took exception to some comments made about the attendance at Citi Field when the Dodgers were in town over the weekend, saying, "Don't insult us by saying the only reason Citi Field was packed because they played the Dodgers, that's crap."

It might not've been the only reason Citi Field was packed, but the attendance average of 41,233 was higher than their overall average attendance, and is the second-highest average the Mets have seen at home this year behind their three-game series against the Cubs. Not even their Opening Weekend was as highly attended as when the Dodgers visited.

He moved on to take shots at Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and so on. Maybe he's just really mad that Juan Soto is batting .224 with a sub-.400 slugging right now, or that the Phillies have started to run away with the NL East, or that Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki all turned down pleas from the Mets in their free agencies.

But this kind of behavior makes sense from a Mets fan, who has had to deal with his team being overshadowed in his own city since the team was founded. Maybe the Mets actually beating the Dodgers in the NLCS at some point would help, guy.