October 13, 2009, at 8:00 pm
Disclaimer: Before I even start this article, I’m writing this whole thing as a Yankee fan. I love the team, watch a ton of the games, and have seen every pitch of the playoffs. However, that doesn’t make any of the following any less true.
I lived in Arizona for a couple of years, and it’s really tough to watch an east coast baseball team while you live out there. The times are all screwed up, so I would be coming back from class at four o’clock and first pitch would be happening. Let alone the fact that the school didn’t get YES. Those bastards.
So, while I was out there, I adopted the Colorado Rockies. They are in the National League, they have no effect on the Yanks, and who doesn’t like a baseball team that routinely puts up football scores?
That brings me to the postseason. I watched every single pitch of both the Yanks and the Rox series’ and I figured something out that I never realized before.
I hate most Yankee Fans.
The main reason is the remarkable sense of self-entitlement that most Yankee fans have. I don’t know if it comes from living in the city that most call the “Center of the Universe” or if it comes from winning so often, but there is the feeling among most fans that if the Yankees lose in the playoffs, that they have somehow personally insulted their fans and everyone in the organization needs to be burned at the stake for their sins.
Meanwhile, Colorado and their fans are happy just to be there. When the Rockies were down to the Phillies, the fans at Coors Field cheered for every single batter that came to plate. They urged on their pitchers with every fiber of their being. They were real fans.
They even tried to keep Troy Tulowitzki from making out to end the game for a second straight day. How do you think most Yankees fans would react if the same guy was up in that position for a second straight and made out to end the series? If Tulo was a Yank, he would have been run out of town on a rail. Instead, he is still going to be celebrated as what he is: The heartbeat of a really good, young Rockies ballclub.
I’m just as arrogant as any person who lives in New York. However, I just can’t believe how little credit most Yankee fans give most of the league. It’s even evident in the way that the fans here talk. It’s not that the Angels consistently beat the Yankees, it’s that the Yanks just can’t beat the Angels. It’s like the opposing team has nothing to do with the loss. It has to be the fact that A-Rod is un-clutch or that Jorge Posada is a terrible catcher. It comes from the fact that Brian Cashman didn’t make the right trades. It’s not that the other team is good, it’s that the Yankees suck.
For the first time in my life, I can kind of understand why the rest of this country hates us. I’m just waiting for the Yanks to lose game one of the ALCS and for half of the Yankees fans to turn on their team.
Who would have thought that New York could learn something from a city like Denver?
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Actually yes yankee fans are VERY intolerable when they make it to the playoffs,let alone the world series,they think their the greatest team in the world and whoever isn’t a fan of them must hate them,talk about self conceited.When the yanks are in the WS,all the NY media revolves around them,not as much the other team that made i too.If the Mets make it to the WS,the NY media is around them,but compared to the yankees,it would be nothing,despite being in the same city.As for the Mets fans from the actual city,they have a strong desire to watch their team win,not lose,they hate it when they lose but expect it from time to time regardless.Like any other team Mets fans despise losing,especially if the yankees are doing well,cause then they also take the brunt of the yankee loathing,which infuriates Mets fans.
Reply to OrlandoAnother reason that people despise the Yankees is the media bias and favortism towards them (ESPN is really bad at that).
If New York was having a really bad year and an upstart, low-payroll team like the Nationals with no big-name stars had a 100+ win season, ESPN would run stories about how Derek Jeter or A-Rod have failed to produce RBI’s instead of focusing on the accomplishments of the Nationals. The NYY-BOS series rivalry would be the top story on Sports Center, even if both teams were below .500.
Reply to JasonWell said. Someone said this a while back, and it’s true – the fans of every other team are baseball fans, whereas most Yankee fans only care about the Yankees. The one thing that drives me crazy about many Yankee fans is that they don’t actually cheer for their team. They wait for something good to happen, THEN applaud. Oh, of course, and now everyone loves A-Rod, even though they’ve spent every second of the last six Octobers bashing him.
By the way, Yankee fans can be quite loathsome, but so too can Mets fans. Many Mets fans are so miserable that they’d rather have their team lose than win, just so they can complain about it afterward. They’re so cynical that it’s not even fun watching the Mets play.
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