As a Yankee fan, I truly hate how everyone hates the fucking Yankees. What the fuck did we do to everyone else -- win? If you don't follow baseball during the regular year, and find yourself hating on the Yankees - then congratulations, you are on the bullshit bandwagon.
If your team is in the NL, you have no reason to complain about the Yankees. They have nothing to do with your shitty team not making the playoffs or World Series.
I've never seen more people so happy that a team loses -- some people are so happy, its like their own team had won. The Yankees haven't won in a while now, no matter what - money does not buy World Series - I don't know who came up with that logic in the first place. Steinbrenner is committed to putting the best baseball team out there, more owners should be like him. If the owners don't have the money, its cause the fans suck and don't show up to games, buy merchandise, and aren't particularly too interested in their own team. Of course these are the same fans so happy that the Yankees lose. There is no unfair advantage. Steinbrenner has not cheated his way to the top - he got there by being smart, and he has fan support. When he came out with the YES network, people did not complain that TV prices went up. In fact, one year Cablevision refused to cut a deal with him, everyone switched to DirecTV, paid more money, never complained, and Cablevision was forced to cut a deal with him. Explain why no other team has done this -- Cause their fans don't care half as much as Yankees fans.
Here's a clue: get used to not seeing the Yankees win, no team in any sport can dominate so much as to win championships 10 years in a row. We took 4 out of 5, made a nice run -we had little player turnover. Name a team in pro sports thats taken 8 out of 10. We are simply good year after year. Get used to us being good. Get used to the fact we arent going to win the Series year after year, but will do our best to win it every year.
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