For Fox Sports, Dayn Perry breaks down the best rivalries in baseball. His top four in order are: Red Sox-Yankees, Dodgers-Giants, Cardinals-Cubs and Mets-Phillies.

For the Mets-Phillies, he writes:

Here’s the most ascendant rivalry in the game right now. You’ve got all the ingredients for hatred: proximity, same division, a healthy percentage of sub-moron fans on both sides, and a recent history of beery indiscretions.

What’s held this one back is that fact that rarely have the Mets and Phillies been worth a crap at the same time. Now, however, there’s actually something at stake. Throw last year’s white-knuckled race and this winter’s smack-talking into the mix, and you’ve got quite the nifty rivalry. Sure, it lacks the veneer of age that the match-ups above have, but the intensity and importance are there.

At this point, we could hand out a few consolation prizes, but that would be abandoning our standards for great rivalries. So four — and only four — it is. Miffed that your team doesn’t have a spot on the list? Start punching opposing fans more often.

This is really starting to irk me. It frustrates me how short-sighted people are being about rivalries, and granted I cannot tell anybody how much they hate a team, or who they root against the hardest. Yet, the Braves-Mets rivalry has been going on longer. It has been competitive for longer. It is also classy. I want to smack the hell out of them when I play them, but as an organization and a team, I really respect the Braves, they are a class act. The Phillies on the other hand came out and have been trying to artificially create a rivalry because they don’t have one, and they are dragging us into it. They came out, made a cocky guarantee (that unfortunately turned out to be true) and now all of a sudden they are our biggest rivals? No, they are a third wheel that is desperately looking for a date but they can’t find one. So, they ask somebody who already has a significant other, and try to weasel their way into a date. Don’t fall for it, we rival the Braves people!