Yankee Haters, unite!

Funny - I just got done 'talking' with a Yankee fanboy about how it was no comparison, and that he'd rather take Mariano over Joe Nathan of my hometown Twins... he's one of these guys that relies on stats until said stats go against him. At that point, "well, it's not all about stats, you know..." :roll:

A while back I met a baseball fan from Philly who asked me if I ever got tired of my team being great. To which I replied, "Do you ever drink a Guinness and wish you'd had a Coors Light, instead? Or have you ordered a juicy steak and wondered if a Twinkie would've been more satisfying?"

We don't talk baseball anymore. Or anything else for that matter.

Already, they aren't grey or dim. Unless you consider not having won a World Series since 2000 to be an awful thing, than I'm not sure how dim you are talking. There hasn't been a year in the 00's that we haven't made it to some round in the playoffs. What other team is that the case for?

Only the fanbois/bandwagoners.
I for one have lived through the drought of the 80's and I take the drought of the 00's over that any day.
If you want to spot a real Yankee fan you ask who played Shortstop for them before Jeter, and if they dont get that have them name any shortstop other than Jeter.
Fair play to Yankee haters I can understand where they're coming from, being married to a Red Sox fan, whose family is fanatic about them i get my share of abuse pretty much daily.

My wife is an ef-Sox fan. When they won the Series she placed B's around all of our cats' necks. Truly horrifying and humiliating for me.

Luckily, she has switched sides (albeit half-heartedly).

Imagine growing up in Boston with practically an entire family--extended members, too--of Red Sox fans and being cousins twice-removed with, say, Carlton Fisk. But being a die-hard Yankee fan despite all of it. That's me in the Dominican Winter League. And the fact that I root for the bitter rival has been questioned more than any other aspect of my life. So yeah, I guess kaiserkai is right about the sports vs religion issue.

Manny's a little nutty; Ortiz is a gentleman. But I respect them both. Actually, I have absolutely WAY MORE of a problem with their fans than the actual team. (I've been told that every batch of new students at the Berklee College of Music is instructed to keep any non-MA sports affiliations to themselves as best as possible--especially Yankee fans, of course--for fear of them getting hurt by local yahoos. And a buddy of mine was once harshly instructed by another customer to take off his Yankee jacket at a Banana Republic in Maine. He didn't. It ended without further consequence but still...)

Watching Reyes and Wright hustle on the field is so much fun, I'm actually smiling as I write this...

C'on Guys, admit it: the NY Yankees are God's team.

Then why can't their players get along with each other? Different gods?

Carnivore, +1. Just stumbled into this thread, and I almost nosed my coffee.

boygabriel, I'm with you. Grew up in Charm City, but am having trouble following the Os since leaving town, and Angelos' gutting of the Birds.

But still -- haters unite, indeed. Although I will always hate the Yankees on principal alone, and especially have enjoyed watching them flounder (relatively speaking, of course) since backing up the Brinks truck for Mussina ("Curse of the Moose", anyone), I will say that my trip to Yankee Stadium was a good one.

And in light of the last few posts, I'll also add that in a recent talk with my stepmom, (lived in Baltimore all her life, longtime season ticket holder) she said she's never had a problem with Yankees fans at Memorial Stadium or Camden Yards, but that Boston fans can be "obnoxious a-holes."

I've tried to support the Mets, but...meh.

I think I enjoy more watching all the Yankees fans get so hopeful every postseason, then having their grimy little hearts crushed. (If, in fact, they have hearts.)

The Yankees represent everything that is wrong with America. That is the might makes right and money can solve all problems. (fortunately, may Americans and Yankee fans are waking up that this isn't so) Howebver, the are still the evil empire. Their payroll is ridiculous, but really you can't blame the Yankees, they are playing by baseball's rules and so baseball is the real evil although it's tough not to pay attention to between hockey and football seasons.

What baseball needs (and America) is a good dose of socialism! Socialism has given football, hockey and basketball more parity.

Basically, if you are a Yankee fan you must be a capitalist pig.

Sorry, my opinion.

Go Red Sox! Oh, and don't give this "well the Red Sox have the second highest payroll" bullshit! The difference in payrolls is like 60+ million, so shudup!

I'm not so sure Steinbrenner is spending his money. The Yankees make more from tickets ( the Red Sox have higher prices but less seats). concessions, mechandising and probably broadcasting rights.

Yeah you can't buy a winning championship, but you can buy a team that consistently gets into the playoffs.

What baseball needs (and America) is a good dose of socialism!


The reality is that baseball has it already: soon billionaire Minnesota Twins owner KKKarl, woops, I mean, Carl, Pohlad will be getting a $ 600 million stadium at taxpayer expense. This is corporate welfare or socialism that benefits the wealthy.

St Paul, MN has gone bankrupt because of the Xcel Center and the fact that our tax base is too small to finance stadiums of that kind. But that SOS (son of a sh!t) former mayor Norm Coleman (a refugee from Brooklyn and Madison High School) forced us to buy that arena for the corporate welfare recipients who own the local NHL ice hockey team. Meantime, our youth hockey has disappeared for lack of funding.

Socialism sucks when it benefits the wealthy. We don't need more of this type. We need less of it.