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Who’s your favorite baseball team? — Brooklynian

Who’s your favorite baseball team?

yankeefan
yankeefan
edited November -1 in Park Slope
The other day I told someone I honestly believe there are more Red Sox fans in Park Slope right now than there are Met fans and Yankee fans combined. He said no way. So I’m curious to do a survey of who everyone in Park Slope’s favorite major league baseball team is.

Yankees are my favorite, obviously.

MOD NOTE: POLL ADDED :twisted:
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  • amity gal
    amity gal
    me too. just returned from my last trip to yankee stadium.
  • winstonsmith
    winstonsmith
    Rooting for the yankees is like rooting for McDonald's
  • scarlett
    scarlett
    YAH!!!!!!!!!!

    LET'S GO METS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • starsinjenseyes
    starsinjenseyes
    Lifelong Cubs fan. My 2nd favorite team is the Red Sox.
  • jamzer
    jamzer
    Come on Mods! This poll is BS. Show some class [-X and lets find out where PS residents allegiance lie. I would vote for the Yankees, but I will not click on “That lame team in the Bronx” on principal. :evil:
  • winstonsmith
    winstonsmith
    They were pretty lame this year

    Anyway, this is Park Slope, Brooklyn. My father used to walk to Ebbits Field. Being a Yankee fan was a bad thing.
  • yoda
    yoda
    Yea, my great-grampa was a dodgers fan, so Mets fan I be. And I see a ton of Red Sox hats and t-shirts on the gentrifiers in Park slope. My sister who is a Red Sox fan (lives in MA) calls fans like that "pink hats" - people who've been fans since 2004.
  • seespaces
    seespaces
    Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Wal-Mart. Everyone talks about how Boston has the second biggest payroll, but only the Yanks are over the salary cap.

    Go Boston!! I also like NL teams - the DH rule sucks.
  • meredithb
    meredithb
    Sorry, the Red Sox have won the World Series twice this decade and will be in the playoffs again this year. All that with a payroll that's $75 million less than the Yankees.

    The Yankees are the lamest team in baseball, hands down.
  • testiculon
    testiculon
    America hates the Yankees.
  • yankeefan
    yankeefan
    So why do so many Yankee-haters across the country all want to move to NY?
  • gretch
    gretch
    Go Mets!!

    I do not have cable so you can find me at PS bars which plays mets game mostly during weekends...

    Met's funs, let's be nice, I was so upset over a nasty comment by a Yankee fun last year about Met's fallout, we're better than that.
  • yankeefan
    yankeefan
    Testiculon wrote: America hates the Yankees.
    If you’re a Met fan/native New Yorker and you hate the Yankees, I respect that to the fullest.

    But if you’re from elsewhere and grew up rooting for a non-NY MLB team but now you’ve moved to Brooklyn to loudly voice your hatred for the Yankees, I think you need to realize how ridiculous that is.
  • pastoralia
    pastoralia
    The Milwaukee Brewers...yeah, I said it.
  • kid_baco
    kid_baco
    An Angels fan and enjoying every minute of it. As a kid I also liked the Yanks, especially Mattingly who once signed a baseball for me, but living in NYC for over 10 years has kind of dampened my appreciation for them. Now the only team I really want them to beat are the Red Sox who truly annoy me.
  • testiculon
    testiculon
    I didn't say I hated the Yankees (though I do). I said America hates the Yankees.
  • j0518
    j0518
    The New York Mets are a self-esteem issue in the form of a baseball team. I have zero time or tolerance for them.

    Lifelong Yankee fan. Spending my teenage years in Miami, I also follow the Marlins, which made 2003 the best year ever for me, but a Yankee fan I will remain until I die. There is no better franchise in professional sports to be a fan of.

    I'll say, though, that the entitlement some Yankee fans feel is a bit too much, especially this season. No, we're not going to make the playoffs (that is, unless the Red Sox do what I like to call "pulling a Met") this season. I apologize if you can't deal with that, but I can. You sometimes simply need to right the ship and reload. We'll be back. I don't think it'll be in 2009, but the natural order of things will return soon. In the meantime, I have no problem holding my head up high as a Yankees fan.
  • j0518
    j0518
    MeredithB wrote: Sorry, the Red Sox have won the World Series twice this decade and will be in the playoffs again this year. All that with a payroll that's $75 million less than the Yankees.

    The Yankees are the lamest team in baseball, hands down.
    I can think of 26 reasons why you're wrong. :)
  • raw
    raw
    YankeeFan wrote: [quote=Testiculon]America hates the Yankees.
    If you’re a Met fan/native New Yorker and you hate the Yankees, I respect that to the fullest.

    But if you’re from elsewhere and grew up rooting for a non-NY MLB team but now you’ve moved to Brooklyn to loudly voice your hatred for the Yankees, I think you need to realize how ridiculous that is.

    I am more annoyed by Yankees fans who live outside of New York City who NEVER lived in New York City who mindlessly worship the Yankees because they are brainwashed by the Yankees' advertisements and marketing machine. The Yankees is the American Disney baseball team. If you live in Kansas, it's cool to go to the Big Apple to see the Lion king on Broadway, 9/11 aftermath, and a Yankees game.
  • j0518
    j0518
    raw wrote: [quote=YankeeFan][quote=Testiculon]America hates the Yankees.
    If you’re a Met fan/native New Yorker and you hate the Yankees, I respect that to the fullest.

    But if you’re from elsewhere and grew up rooting for a non-NY MLB team but now you’ve moved to Brooklyn to loudly voice your hatred for the Yankees, I think you need to realize how ridiculous that is.

    I am more annoyed by Yankees fans who live outside of New York City who NEVER lived in New York City who mindlessly worship the Yankees because they are brainwashed by the Yankees' advertisements and marketing machine. The Yankees is the American Disney baseball team. If you live in Kansas, it's cool to go to the Big Apple to see the Lion king on Broadway, 9/11 aftermath, and a Yankees game.

    Even in Miami, before the Marlins came along, there was Tuesday night Yankee baseball every week. I always loved when Phil Rizzuto, around the 4th inning, would turn to Bill White and ask, "hey White, are we down in Florida tonight?" and, then, proceed to say hi to "Scooter and Ann."

    That's not mindless-worshipping or marketing. Those are great baseball memories.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    J0518 wrote: Even in Miami, before the Marlins came along, there was Tuesday night Yankee baseball every week. I always loved when Phil Rizzuto, around the 4th inning, would turn to Bill White and ask, "hey White, are we down in Florida tonight?" and, then, proceed to say hi to "Scooter and Ann."

    That's not mindless-worshipping or marketing. Those are great baseball memories.
    To be fair, there are probably more born-and-bred New Yorkers in Miami/Fort Lauderdale/and environs than in Park Slope these days.
  • j0518
    j0518
    I will say that it's real easy for the New Englanders to walk around wearing their Sox hats in NYC right now. That's not the real test of fandom. Let's see them wear those hats in the city when their team is where they belong.....looking up at us in the standings. Those who wear their hats then will be the real fans.
  • testiculon
    testiculon
    zzzzzzzzz...why do always Yankee fans sound the same and when will they just shut the *&%$ up?
  • yoda
    yoda
    Yankees are not in the playoffs this year. The Mets are much more fun to follow. The Yankees are boring!
  • j0518
    j0518
    Testiculon wrote: zzzzzzzzz...why do always Yankee fans sound the same and when will they just shut the *&%$ up?
    describe "the same" :)

    what am I thinking? for these next few games, I'm a Milwaukee Brewers fan! :)
  • gretch
    gretch
    Mets funs, hung on...
  • meredithb
    meredithb
    YankeeFan wrote: But if you’re from elsewhere and grew up rooting for a non-NY MLB team but now you’ve moved to Brooklyn to loudly voice your hatred for the Yankees, I think you need to realize how ridiculous that is.
    What's ridiculous is you thinking people who are from elsewhere and grew up rooting for a non-NY MLB team but now have moved to Brooklyn to loudly voice their hatred for the Yankees shouldn't. What do you expect them to become Yankee Fans? To do so they would probably have to lower their IQ quite a bit. Now Mets fans are another story. Most non-NY fans can empathize with them.
  • yankeefan
    yankeefan
    MeredithB wrote: What's ridiculous is you thinking people who are from elsewhere and grew up rooting for a non-NY MLB team but now have moved to Brooklyn to loudly voice their hatred for the Yankees shouldn't. What do you expect them to become Yankee Fans? To do so they would probably have to lower their IQ quite a bit. Now Mets fans are another story. Most non-NY fans can empathize with them.
    I don’t expect them to become Yankee fans, but I would expect them to at least show a tiny bit of respect for the Yankees.

    For example, I’m not a Braves fan. But that doesn’t mean I yell “Braves Suck” every time I see a Braves hat or shirt. And if I moved to Atlanta, I wouldn’t go around saying “Braves suck! Braves suck!” every time there’s a mention of them. I'd give the Braves respect, even I didn't root for them.
  • vidro3
    vidro3
    i hate both the yankees and the mets. while rooting for the yankees is like rooting for coca-cola, rooting for the mets is like rooting for the store brand
  • meredithb
    meredithb
    YankeeFan wrote: I don’t expect them to become Yankee fans, but I would expect them to at least show a tiny bit of respect for the Yankees.

    For example, I’m not a Braves fan. But that doesn’t mean I yell “Braves Suck” every time I see a Braves hat or shirt. And if I moved to Atlanta, I wouldn’t go around saying “Braves suck! Braves suck!” every time there’s a mention of them. I'd give the Braves respect, even I didn't root for them.
    Oh please. As if anyone ever says, "Yankees suck" to anyone wearing a Yankees hat or shirt.

    Anyway, Yankee fans are more apt to voice their disapproval of a team (especially that team from Boston) to anyone wearing a hat or shirt on teh street supporting the other team.
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