And I gotta admit…
Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Brad
…as bummed as I am about the Pats’ loss, I have to admit that I was starting to get tired of rooting for a team that was intensely despised by all of my friends outside of New England. How do Yankees fans put up with it, like, every year?
Most sour grapes post evah. Sweet!!!! G-men rule.
“How do Yankees fans do it, like, every year?”
With great pleasure.
How do Yankees fans do it, like, every year?
They are wingnuts. Wingnuts never stop.
With great pleasure.
See, that’s the thing- the Patriots have really become the Yankees of the NFL. They’re hated by everyone. If I weren’t born and raised in Massachusetts, I’d hate the Patriots too. Weird.
Great post! “My team lost but I hated winning all the time anyway so it isn’t so bad. Boo hoo! I want my mommy!”
There’s always next year.
How the Patriots put together winning teams versus the Yankees buying players is a pronounced difference. The Yankees deserve hate, the Patriots deserve envy.
Nuff Ced?
I hate patriotism too! Oops, wrong thread.
Jumpin’ Jeezahs, do I hate seeing Eli Manning prosper. But I’ll give him some grudging credit for pulling that off. Still, David Tyree should’ve been MVP.
ha ha.
maybe there are football gods. everyone will remember who this superbowl loser was. go 18-0 and lose the superbowl, lose to eli manning (who was desperately trying to throw one of his patented picks) and the 5th seed giants. historic fail.
and it couldnt have happened to a more deserving bunch of cheating, classless a-holes.
God dammit, did S,N! get sold out to a sports blog? I’m sitting here sipping my latte, nibbling my biscotti, hating America all by myself!
To answer your question, “they’re complete dicks, only surpassed by Red Sox fans.”
The Giants played a far more physical game. Their d-line simply dominated the point of attack from start to finish- I mean, it was a hell of a good performance. They also kept Moss mostly in check and didn’t let Maroney explode into the secondary. Brady’s throws were off too: the G-men’s d-line was in his face all night.
In all, the Giants totally deserve to win the game. The Patriots weren’t prepared and the o-line didn’t adjust at all.
The MVP was the Giants defensive line. They made the Pats offensive line look like bunch of little girls wearing their new pink dresses. Forget the blitzes, they couldn’t even handle the four man rush.
The MVP was the Giants defensive line. They made the Pats offensive line look like bunch of little girls wearing their new pink dresses. Forget the blitzes, they couldn’t even handle the four man rush.
And what’s amazing about this is that the Pats’ o-line kept them mostly in check the first game. But Belichick stubbornly didn’t keep more guys in the backfield to block when it became clear that the Pats’ o-line was getting over-matched.
Sigh.
Brad, you gotta embrace the hatered of your team. ‘Cause it ain’t going away
This past baseball season I had to purchase the MLB cable package in order to watch the Yankees games. Thus, I had to watch a lot of games via the opposing team’s broadcast. Now, we all know that ESPN, FOX, and YES all slurp Yankee balls. Fine. However, I had no clue that the Minnesota Twins, and Toronto Bluejays (etc. etc.) broadcasters also slurped Yankee balls.
Everyone, literally everyone constantly hears about how wonderful the Yankees are – even in their home market, by their home broadcasters. Thus, a hell of a lot of hate, which I aknowledge is justified to an extent.
The same is now the case with the Pats.
The Giants wanted it more. When the Pats came out of the locker room looking like someone ran over their dog, I knew they were in trouble.
As for dicks, there are no bigger dicks than Yankee fans who can’t face the fact their team has been outstripped by the Sox and haven’t sniffed a title in the 21st Century. BTW, enjoy our ring ceremony April 8th.
How do Yankees fans do it, like, every year?
Explanation here.
The Pats are merely (though rightly) disliked.
It’s the Cowboys who are hated by all people of class and goodwill.
Actually, at this point, being a Red Sox fan should also tell you how Yankees fans do it.
Naaaah, most people find the Red Sox annoying now, but there’s still not that level of active HATRED that’s reserved for the Pats and Yankees.
Yumpin Yiminy yer all a bunch of bitches! With maybe pedestrian excepted. And me.
What’s next, a Pepsi vs. Coke smackdown? Calvin Klein vs. Bill Blass? Chevy or Ford, there’s a good one for you.
Such strong identification with corporate entities intent only on pillaging your wallet astounds me.
Repeat after me: “it’s only a game”
What’s next, a Pepsi vs. Coke smackdown? Calvin Klein vs. Bill Blass? Chevy or Ford, there’s a good one for you.
If you had a Mac you wouldn’t question that some things are better than others.
Brad, trust me on this. Michael D is right. “Hatred” of the Patriots doesn’t even begin to come close to the dormant, seething hatred waiting to explode into the faces of the Cowboys if they ever return to prominence.
I have the opposite problem in MN. I despise the Vikings as a team and a corporation, but no one around me seems to share that view. The huge rivalry with Green Bay makes them Viking supporters. I say there’s more than enough reasons to ignore both teams.
At any rate, autumn sundays in MN are too precious a commodity to spend them in front of a TV.
Brad: “I have to admit that I was starting to get tired of rooting for a team that was intensely despised by all of my friends outside of New England. How do Yankees fans put up with it, like, every year?”
Easy. We never leave Manhattan.
Pepsi–definately Pepsi.
Where’s the Patsymandias poem?
Pepsi is an abomination.
Yankee cola. Yech.
Yeah, and vi rules over emacs!
Did someone say emacs?
Pepsi is an abomination.
Yankee cola. Yech.
Coming from North Carolina doesn’t actually make it Yankee…
Clearly basketball is a better game than football anyway.
Unless, of course, you’re stating so from Mexico or further South. Except then it might be Yanqui, but still…
But how many people know that the Cola in Coca-Cola came from the Kola nut of Africa?
We say, “at least we’re not Pats fans” and that makes everything OK.
But how many people know that the Cola in Coca-Cola came from the Kola nut of Africa?
After the secret knock a little window opens and two eyes glare out at you. Volunteer the kola nut tidbit and you’re in. My friend, you are now a fascist.
But how many people know that the Cola in Coca-Cola came from the Kola nut of Africa?
Probably about the same number of people who knew that the Coca- part of the formula came from cocaine.
Dang! I can’t find the “Kola nut” ad from the..70’s? Large black man with a “caribbean” accent… Little help here?
PeeJ–
That was a 7-Up commercial.
never mind I forgot the “Un” part”
A shame. Say what you want about the Pats, a perfect season would have been impressive.
Also, this Superbowl win would have been the most impressive of all because presumably the Pats only got to cheat for part of this season.
Oh, screw ’em all Brad. I don’t even really follow sports, but watching my emotionally over-invested friends go apoplectic over the Pats makes me giggle every time. The fact that a bunch of grown-ass men playing a glorified schoolyard ball game can make otherwise intelligent and rational adults foam at the mouth, launching forth volleys of spittle-flecked obscenities and accusations of treachery and deceit is a source of endless amusement to me.
So, I say play it to the hilt…Of course you hate the Pats. After all, not only did they keep scoring on your team after it was abundantly clear that they’d owned your sorry asses, but then Belichick and Brady sodomized your dads on the 50 yard line. What’s that, Mangina? Cheaters, you say? Uh-huh. The Pats cheating is the reason the Jets don’t make the playoffs, it has nothing to do with the fact that you…um…you know…suck.
Even after the Giants beat them (deservedly so, they were great last night), you don’t hear “yay Giants!” as much as “suck it Patriots”. Even in defeat, Randy Moss haunts your sad, sad little dreams.
Keep crying, bitches, we lube Tom Brady’s joints with your tears.
It’s true.
Watching the Patriots choke was way better than seeing any other team win.
But stupid, petty shit like this is perfect for sports.
In politics … not so much.
I don’t even really follow sports
The rest of your comment makes me wonder if you’re being completely upfront with us. You sound as wingnutty over sports as the rest of us.
And is it true what PeeJ said? Is it really only a game? Can anyone confirm this? I’m nervous ova heah. Either way, please, no more 7-Up ads. I really don’t appreciate corporate shit like that.
Being a narcissist, I thought you might all be interested in what this sounds like to me:
Haha! The acorn closest to me fell off first.
You were lucky! It was because of the wind!
Was not! My acorn is faster!
That’s stupid, my acorn is bigger. Bigger acorns always fall off first.
Not this time. Face it, you lose.
Oh yeah?
Yeah.
Ýou’re just saying that because it already fell off first. You didn’t even care about that acorn before.
I have been following that acorn since the first day of spring.
Bullshit. You don’t know anything about acorns.
Oh yeah? I was a ’78 acorn fan before you were even born!
Hah! You assholes always go on about the ’78 acorns.
Better than your acorn.
And my acorn is better than your acorn.
And so on….
The Patriots will never be truly hated until they sign A-Rod.
Coming from North Carolina doesn’t actually make it Yankee…
tigrismus – I was referring to ubiquity rather than provenance. Once you get north of a line roughly drawn from the Arkansas/Missouri border east to the Atlantic, Pepsi is the predominant cola offering.
And it’s just nasty.
Don’t look now, but Arlo Guthrie endorses Ron Paul.
Oh, fine. Go back to football.
Link, dammit.
Once you get north of a line roughly drawn from the Arkansas/Missouri border
Bullshit. I grew up near Springfield, MO and we were as southern fried as anyone in Kentucky. You wouldn’t be caught dead with a pepsi. And coke had at least two, maybe three syllables.
Maybe up in Joplin. There were yanks up there.
I’m ambivalent. I never hated the Patriots.
But I always root for the underdog.
The Red Sox and Yankees are the same from my distance. They are both perennially great teams with incredible payrolls and insufferable fan bases.
Football fans are less wanky and more base than baseball fans, and therefore less annoying. You expect bellicose pronunciations from the meatheads. But those stat guys? Wanker-ific.
Terrific.
Nevermind that. I want to know what the scene of despair and disbelief is like on the campus of The Ohio State University at Foxboro.
Are they setting couches on fire yet?
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Naaaah, most people find the Red Sox annoying now, but there’s still not that level of active HATRED that’s reserved for the Pats and Yankees.
Sorry, Brad. I’ve been to plenty of Yankees and Sox games both in Anaheim and Chicago. Conclusion? There is no lower form of life than a Red Sox fan seeing his team play on the road. They are, without question, the scum of the sports world. And I include some of my best friends in that description.
Dude, chill. I said “roughly.”
And Springfield is pretty close to that line. But by the time you get to St. Louis/KC, it’s at least 85% Pepsi.
“I love this guy. Dr. Paul is the only candidate I know of who would have signed the Constitution of The United States had he been there. I’m with him, because he seems to be the only candidate who actually believes it has as much relevance today as it did a couple of hundred years ago. I look forward to the day when we can work out the differences we have with the same revolutionary vision and enthusiasm that is our American legacy.”
Guthrie on Paul
Good morning, America, what’s wrong with you?
The problem is, before Beantown won anything recently in baseball or football,
almost everyone had some semblance of sympathy for them (“gee, the poor fuckers haven’t won a WS since 1918 and that whole Buckner thing sucked
for them, and wow, getting pasted by Da Bears that one time…it might be nice
if those poor sad-sacks won something”). Two World Series and three Superbowls later, the whining, sniveling, Cubs-fan-fatalismesque attitude
has been replaced by something more akin to the Yankees “26 Rings Baaaaaaaaabeeeeee…we ruuuuuuule!!!!111!1” and now people just
wish they’d stop winning and STFU again for 80 yrs. As an aside, it’s
fun listening to Yanquis fans absorb unto themselves the greatness of
Yanquis past, even though they’ve won a total of 9 in the past *50* years,
4 in the past *30*.. It’s always fun claiming victories from when you
couldn’t land a plane at LaGuardia cuz he’d get mad…
We’ve turned fascist all of a sudden.
[channeling Cary Grant]
Guthrie on Paul
Further proof that pot can be used for both good and evil.
Repeat after me: “it’s only a game”
Yeah, that approach will definitely keep you sane, if commercial sports and sanity can actually coexist.
It was an awesome game: tight, hard-fought, down to the wire. Truly worth watching.
But Eli Manning can blow me.
How do Yankees fans put up with it, like, every year?
Because we’ve just accepted it. Seriously, this is a post about the superbowl, which was played last night, and there’s a dozen comments talking trash about the Yankees. Yankee hatred has long ago left the realm of sanity, like Pats hatred is doing now.
Honestly, I think it’s cute.
Nothing is as intensely retarded as actively hating a sports team simply on general principles.
I think Yankee fans just think everyone else is deluded and jealous.
You’re problem Brad is that you respect the opinions of your friends too much.
Two World Series and three Superbowls later, the whining, sniveling, Cubs-fan-fatalismesque attitude
has been replaced by something more akin to the Yankees “26 Rings Baaaaaaaaabeeeeee…we ruuuuuuule!!!!111!1?
This is why, as a Cubs fan, I fear actually seeing my team win the thing. Will we become what we hate?
Then again, I probably would enjoy becoming what we hate, so Fukudome.
“Hatred” of the Patriots doesn’t even begin to come close to the dormant, seething hatred waiting to explode into the faces of the Cowboys if they ever return to prominence.
I’m glad the Cowboys are starting to get good again. It’s so much more fun to despise them when they’re actually decent.
Attention current troll-hydra: please adopt the name Bill Buckner.
ps. I would like to add how nice it is to read these few sports threads with the relative dearth of sexist analogies. there were some gratuitous “little girls” remarks here and there, but I just wanted to give credit where credit is due. Thanks everyone.
I think Yankee fans just think everyone else is deluded and jealous.
So they’re like libertarians, then.
Can someone remind me to what Arlo and the Paulbots mean about Paul being the only one who would sign the constitution? Is this a reference to the bill of rights not applying to states at the time?
Cheaters never prosper?
The truth is, you hate the ’78 acorns because you hate America. All of you ’82 Kola Nut loving buttseksuals will destroy the country. And you’re all going to hell.
It was an awesome game: tight, hard-fought, down to the wire. Truly worth watching.
But Eli Manning can blow me.
I agree with Rightwingsnarkle. The Giants played well and deserved to win last night. However, after seeing that petulant little twerp Manning (and his father) throw a hissy fit about being drafted with the number one pick, I would have been perfectly happy fto see him to fail at everything for the rest of his life.
Yankee hatred is nothing like Pat’ hatred. Nothing.
There is a salary cap in Football, so love ’em or hate ’em, you have to respect the Pats for winning with the same payroll as the rest of the teams.
The Yankees? Not so much. The Yankees (and now Redsox) merely spend more than everyone else. Therefore, it is simply not impressive when they win, it is merely disappointing when they lose.
Kind of like Mitt Romney.
And on hated sports teams, I’m a graduate of the University of Florida currently living in Athens, GA, home of the Gators’ hated SEC “rivals”, the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Up until Georgia finally squeaked one out in Jacksonville this past season, Steve Spurrier was all my fault. For a while, everyone in the SEC hated the Gators, and you don’t get a purer hate than SEC hate. I remember seeing knives pulled at a family gathering over who would win this year’s Egg Bowl, Ole Miss or Mississippi State.
I sometimes wonder if allegiance to a sports team, particularly a professional outfit one has less than a snowball’s chance in hell playing for, is just another way for people to be assholes to each other. Then I remember ginormous comments threads full of people with obviously nothing better to do with their time yowling about PCs versus Macs. Maybe it’s an evolutionary thing.
Yankee fans put up with it because, unlike their counterparts in famously literate/neurotically intellectual Boston, the extent of their fandom smarts is JEEETAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Also, Yankee fans are too busy worrying about their team, you know, not really being good anymore.
Stuff it! The all natural ’89 White Pistachios are the greatest. And don’t mention those fakers the ’91 Red Pistachios. They were all hot air.
42-30 != “Squeaked one out.”
Can someone remind me to what Arlo and the Paulbots mean about Paul being the only one who would sign the constitution?
Women and blacks weren’t allowed and the Bill of Rights would stop any Republican.
How do Yankees fans put up with it, like, every year?
Ummm, simple, like professionals. Unlike Belichick walking off with a sec remaining, we know how to handle it. As Willie Stargell often reminded his fellow players on the 70’s Pirates. “We play a game meant for boys, win or lose, act like a man.”
Ummm, why is the phrase “soandso can blow me” insulting? I say that about people I like. People I like a lot. Using it as an insult offends me a bit. Not a big bit; on the level of a housefly that keeps buzzzing my ear.
While there has indeed been a dearth of blatant sexism here, for which you have already been thanked, saying the preceding demonstrates how ingrained the “sex is power” meme is.
I’m just saying.
PS – the ’91 Red Pistachios were the White Beechnut of Fagales Fascism.
What Rightwingsnarkle and Marita said.
I’m just glad it’s over, now I can get on with more important things.
Specifically, finding a new motorcycle jacket.
I want to point out that I was at a Red Sox/Padre interleague game last year and when a fan walked up the aisle wearing a Yankee hat, everyone, Padre & Red Sox fan alike, chanted “Yankees suck”.
It was all very kumbaya…
As for Manning not wanting to come to San Diego four years ago, as a San Diegan, I didn’t blame him. The organization was a mess with unstable coaching, a warring front office and boneheaded ownership.
Can someone remind me to what Arlo and the Paulbots mean about Paul being the only one who would sign the constitution? Is this a reference to the bill of rights not applying to states at the time?
Insistence on historical context and attention to historical specificity are analytical tools of liberal fascism.
Sadly, no.
I think blaring New York, New York over the PA system while the 2003 World Series Champion Florida Marlins were celebrating was like Belichick’s peace-out times a thousand. And yeah, I know you do it after all your games, but a World Series clinching win is a different animal.
Classless. I’m still irked over that.
I have to admit that I was starting to get tired of rooting for a team that was intensely despised
I am a 49ers fan, and I would have no problem whatsoever returning to the days when my team was intensely despised, as opposed to just ridiculed.
Just stop with the New England angst, already. You people have multiple championships in every professional sport (SIXTEEN in basketball, for fuck’s sake–and maybe another one on the way), and yet you persist with that special brand of “woe is us” peculiar to NE fans. About two dozen professional sports cities in this country would take 10% of what you have. I guess what I’m trying to say is, STFU. Thanks.
Did someone say classless?
We just don’t roll like that in NY after our teams win championships. Maybe we’re not intellectual enough.
How do Yankees fans put up with it, like, every year?
We New Yorkers are genetically incapable of caring about what out-of-towners think about anything. Baseball is no exception to this all-encompassing rule.
To answer your question, “they’re complete dicks, only surpassed by Red Sox fans.”
Sox fans are just like Yankee fans, only they expect you to love them for it.
Ok, drop whatever you are doing and read this NOW:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/
The real Borat has been discovered and is working as an editor for the leading pro-government paper in Belarus! I have to wonder if the NYT fucks up it’s coverage of foreign elections this hilariously.
I am so glad that the Yankees will not win the World Series as long as A-Rod is on the team- that is a man will NEVER get to the promised land.
I’ve seen more “suck it” than angst. As Churchill said, Pats fans are the worst except for all those other fans.
Yes, I did.
I’m also not a fan of any Boston taem.
Wow. That was an epic typo.
I have to admit that I was starting to get tired of rooting for a team that was intensely despised by all of my friends outside of New England.
I was getting tired of people lauding a man who’s child will grow up without a father.
Pshaw. Those are kids just trying to get in good with Grandma and her D.A.R. chums. Too many stories about how great-x20-grandpa and his drinkin’ buddies did things when the evil British raised taxes on tea and stuff.
Thanks for that, pedestrian. Made my day. Proof again that truth is stranger than fiction. Or, that one can’t make this stuff up. Or, that the Belarussian is the Borat of Soviet Revival. Or,
I couldn’t believe I wasn’t reading satire. I mean, I’m sure part of it was translation error, but damn.
“Even in Soviet times we had saying: “The Woman: it is also Person!” = best ever.
Can someone remind me to what Arlo and the Paulbots mean about Paul being the only one who would sign the constitution?
I think they are referring to Paul’s age.
As to the Belorussian “newspaper” article, the 3quarksdaily.com website has this to say:
Though we are a filter blog on all other days, on Mondays we have only original writing by our editors and guest columnists.
I hope you noticed what day that “Belorussian” article was written.
How do Yankees fans put up with it, like, every year?
Mostly, they’re Republicans.
Tell yah what, when the Pats have runs of success like this for the next 50 years or so, then you can stand em next to the Yanks.
And how do Yankee fans put up with it?
It’s not even a question of putting up with it, it’s a test of the caliber of person you’re dealing with. If they’re so small minded and petty as to, say, call all Yankee fans wingnuts, then who cares what they think?
It’s a game, in which I, and the people who think it’s fun to hate me because I was born to a Yankees family in NY, don’t actually participate. We’re spectators, and it’s a form of entertainment. I feel no sense of competition with Massholes, nor do I feel a sense of comradery with the no-neck mofos who call themselves Bleacher Creatures.
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but seeing this kind of tribalism displayed by folk who are capable of knowing better always dismays me.
Borat lives and he works for the official state paper of Belarus!
Read this!
The contributor (Justin Smith) adds in the comments:
Yankee fans deal with it by getting even more obnoxious.
I remember ginormous comments threads full of people with obviously nothing better to do with their time yowling about PCs versus Macs.
Yeah, there’s the one side that’s all slick packaging, blind fan loyalty, and extreme condescension, and that other side that’s a triumph of kludgy getting-by and stodgy corporate stay-the-course-ism.
Wouldn’t it suck if we had an _election_ like that?
It’s not so simple. There are a number of Yankee fans who look at pictures of Yankees from the 20’s, 30’s, 50’s and even early 60’s and say, Why can’t TODAY’S Yankees be more like THOSE Yankees? But, they just can’t find it in them to change their stripes (haha). Much like Americans today look at pictures of FDR, JFK and even (for fuck’s sake!) DDE and wonder, Why can’t TODAY’S American government be more like THOSE American governments? Yet they still vote.
Or maybe I’m the only one…
Anyhoo, if most Yankee fans are New Yorkers, it stands to reason that most Yankee fans vote Democratic (except for Mayor). You can only take political sports metaphars so for.
Did you spot the logical fallacy in my last sentence?
I stand by it anyway.
“While there has indeed been a dearth of blatant sexism here, for which you have already been thanked, saying (Eli Manning can blow me) demonstrates how ingrained the “sex is power” meme is.”
Yeah, I was actually thinking the same thing as I was driving to work. You’re right on all counts, and I apologize for offending you.
I want to make a conscious effort to change, so I hereby revise my comment to replace the sexual power imagery with something more scatalogical – Eli Manning can pick the peanuts out of my shit.
There. I think it’s even a little bit funnier, too.
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Cornelius Dribble said,
Anyhoo, if most Yankee fans are New Yorkers, it stands to reason that most Yankee fans vote Democratic (except for Mayor). You can only take political sports metaphars so for.
There’s a problem with that logic though, because most Yankees fans are indeed New Yorkers, but most New Yorkers aren’t Yankees fans.
New York is comprised of:
1) Mets fans
2) Yankees fans
3) fans of other teams, especially transplanted Red Sox fans
4) people who just don’t give a shit about baseball at all.
Groups 1, 3 and 4 all hate the Yankees and their dumbass fans because they are (with certain rare exceptions of course) obnoxious twits who know very little about baseball.
I think the biggest dynamic that is being left out of this discussion is that the Red Sox do not share a city with any other baseball team. So the overwhelming majority of the city’s baseball fans are behind the hometown team, the same as in Pittsburgh or Kansas City or Houston.
But in New York, the Yankees are despised by over half of the population, and it really, really bugs the shit out of them. It drives them crazy. Why? They became Yankee fans in the late 1990s, because they wanted some of that prestige and magic to rub off. And now that the Yankees can’t even beat household insects, they’re confused and enraged. And since so many of them became Yankees fans in the first place because of some insecurity in their personality, they spend a lot of time being defensive about their fandom choice and putting other teams and their players down, talking about shit no one cares about, like championships won when my grandfather was in junior high school.
As for the wingnut/Yankee fan connection, obviously that’s not a 1-to-1 correspondence, but I do feel that the dynamics that attract people to the Republican party are the same things that attract a lot of Yankee fans to root for the Yankees. As the cliche goes, rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Bill Gates to win the lottery. Some people obviously picked up rooting for them because of defective genetics, or indoctrination at a young age; of course they can be pitied and excused. And those people, because they do not follow the Yankees to fill some hollow void in their soul, may be perfectly good people with non-objectionable politics and may be followers of this blog.
But the vast majority of Yankee fans actually want Bill Gates to win the lottery (and to see people with 10,000,000x their net worth get tax cuts, and brown people persecuted) because it makes them feel better on some deep emotional level; they are irredeemable losers in life, and attach themselves like a barnacle to the team with the most championships. This was never proven more than in the 2007-2008 football season when a HUGE chunk of Yankees fans in New York were rooting for the Patriots, the NFL’s team with the most recent streak of dominance, to go 19-0. They’re idiots.
How do we put up with it?
26 World Series Championships!!!
This was never proven more than in the 2007-2008 football season when a HUGE chunk of Yankees fans in New York were rooting for the Patriots, the NFL’s team with the most recent streak of dominance, to go 19-0.
You are joking, right? The vast majority of NY Yankee fans are also NY Giant fans.
As to the rest, I became a Yankee fan in 1968 when the Yankees sucked and the Mets were the darlings of NYC. This was because my father had been a fan of the baseball team, the NY Giants and therefore despised the Yankees. Back in 1968 we all did the opposite of what our parents did so to spite him I became a Yankee fan. Fortunately, I had to suffer for only 9 years before a World Series victory.
Or, 3D, we’re lifelong Yankee fans, born to Yankee fans.
Oh yes, you condescended to allow that we’re ok, just wrong and suffering from bad genetics..
Eff you too.
Substitute, say, women for Yankee fans in what you wrote, and grow a hint of self-awareness.
And no, I’m not calling Yankee fans a disadvantaged minority or any such thing, just saying that the idiotic fucking rhetoric people are spewing here is low grade hypocrisy coming from supposedly enlightened, self aware, tolerant lefties. Very disappointing.
Try being a Lions fan.
At the same time, the Wings and the ‘stons are doing well, and it looks like los Tigres will be a bona fide World Series contender.
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a different brad said,
Or, 3D, we’re lifelong Yankee fans, born to Yankee fans.
Oh yes, you condescended to allow that we’re ok, just wrong and suffering from bad genetics..Eff you too.
Substitute, say, women for Yankee fans in what you wrote, and grow a hint of self-awareness.
Oh, I forgot to mention in my comment that Yankee fans usually have very shitty senses of humor about being Yankee fans, even when they have good senses of humor about other things.
And no, I’m not calling Yankee fans a disadvantaged minority or any such thing, just saying that the idiotic fucking rhetoric people are spewing here is low grade hypocrisy coming from supposedly enlightened, self aware, tolerant lefties. Very disappointing.
“I’m not saying that the white male is persecuted, I’m just saying that the white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.”
Tom said,
You are joking, right? The vast majority of NY Yankee fans are also NY Giant fans.
Now they are. I was talking about a week ago, when the Patriots were going to win the game.
Srsly though, I did not say anything about “the vast majority” of Yankee fans latching onto the Patriots. The phrase I used was “a huge chunk”. It’s just a phenomenon I observed over the past couple of months that was really astonishing.
If anything, I would say the vast majority of Yankee fans choose the New York team that is doing better at the time. The frontrunning nature of the fanbase requires that a good portion follow the team with the most buzz. You know, the ones who wear Yankee hats because it matches their outfit and can’t name 3/5 of the starting rotation. The ones who tentatively started wearing Mets hats in 2006 then trashed them again at the end of 2007. Believe me, I know that real Yankees fans are as embarrassed by these people as the rest of us New Yorkers are, so I sympathize. Unfortunately there are far more of them than there are of you.
(I also disagree with your Giants/Yankees correlation, just based on anecdotal evidence. I think that may have been true when the two shared a stadium. And it’s true now while the Giants have control of all the wavering frontrunners. But I think way more core Yankee fans are Jets fans nowadays. I am a Giants fan but I don’t have anything against the Jets, the dynamic is way different than it is in baseball. Just sayin’.)
As to the rest, I became a Yankee fan in 1968 when the Yankees sucked and the Mets were the darlings of NYC. This was because my father had been a fan of the baseball team, the NY Giants and therefore despised the Yankees. Back in 1968 we all did the opposite of what our parents did so to spite him I became a Yankee fan. Fortunately, I had to suffer for only 9 years before a World Series victory.
Anyone who knows who Horace Clark, Stump Merrill and Cecilio Guante are, IMO, have served sufficient penance for rooting for the Yankees. They can relate to the rest of baseball fans because they endured the Yankees’ prolonged periods of failure. To them, the Yankees are just a regular team who have had a run of great success a decade ago. I applaud you, but, have some self-awareness and realize that you’re in the minority.
Go troll elsewhere 3D. Eff you.