[GunRunner]

Do people actually root for the Yankees? I’ve never met a Yankee fan; even my New York friends are all Mets fans. Seems kind of like cheering for The Galactic Empire.

[angcat]

There are bangwagon fans and there is the true. My Dad was a fan since the age of five we are native New Yorkers. I remember him suffering through the late 60’s and much of the 70’s watching every game. I will be waiting for spring training 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Teacher317]

Exactly. Yankee fans are the spoiled children that always have to be on a winning team, and celebrate it like that contest wasn't rigged.

I have a begrudging amount of respect for Steinbrenner, because he openly admits that he does everything he can to retain his unfair institutional advantages... but Yankee fans are just annoying. (And yes, I was born and raised within 60 mi of Manhattan.)

When the top video games representing your sport have to give different goals for the player based on the team they select, you know the sport itself simply isn't an even playing field.

If someday the MLB has a salary cap, I MIGHT start watching again and believing that it's a fair game. Until then, there's no point in pretending that the Yankees are worth rooting for, other than as a traveling paid all-star team.

[Mouton]

New York friends are all Mets fans...guess I am not one of your friends, I hate the METS. I recall when they came into being to fill the void left by the Dodgers and Giants leaving. Their fan base consisted of people who loved going to a carnaval i.e. watching fielders catch the ball of their heads.

I agree with one point made elsewhere, the Yanks became the best team that money can buy but even with their enormous salary, they cannot win today. It seems the era of buying talent at its peak and getting ready for a decline does not guarantee success. Perhaps it never was. Under the Yawky regime in Boston, no team paid more than did the Red Sox and no team achieved less on a dollar per dollar basis.

The Yankees of my memory were the US Steel, IBMs and Standard Oil of baseball....US Excellence. They dressed well, image was important, and they played sound baseball tactics and skills, no one caught the ball off their heads, no midget led off like the White Sox tried, no fireworks, no automatic baseball refills for the umps, just a great winning product on the field...the record says so.

My dad took me to Joe Dimaggio’s last game, I never forgot that and remained a Yankee fan, as he was, ever since.

[SwatTeam]

All the announcers at the games and all the so called sports media openly root for them
ad nauseum. In fact I got so tired of them last night I turned the sound off.