Reader Email – I’m A Spoiled Yankees Fan And I Can Admit It
KFC,
I’ve been reading and listening to your opinions on Yankees fans for the past couple of weeks and longer really. Just to get it out of the way, I’ve grown up in Manhattan my whole life, dad grew up in The Bronx, I went to high school in The Bronx taking the 4 past the stadium everyday. So now that you know I’m super legit you have to take my opinion seriously.
You’ve been calling Yankees fans spoiled for quite some time now. My first reaction was being pissed. We’re not spoiled, we are just as loud, passionate, knowledgeable, and drunk as any other fan base in the league. The Yankees represent in any opposing stadium, and our winning record speaks for itself. We’ve witnessed incredible history and always pay correct homage when appropriate. The more and more I listened to you, and watched what was going on at the stadium it got harder to defend. I would ask myself “would my friends that are Mets fans (condolences) pay $100 and leave work early to watch a game 5 of the divisional series?” Yes, without a doubt. “Were the O’s fans way louder and more fired up during the series than the Yankees fans?” Yes, yes they were. So I started to do some soul searching.
What I came up with is this. Yes, Yankees fans are spoiled. Once I became able to really understand baseball (mid 80′s baby) the Yanks were in the playoffs every year except for 1 in 2008. Other than that, they’ve made the playoffs every time in the last 17 years. So from middle school, through high school, college and post college, the Yankees were in the playoffs and a contender to win it all every year (minus 2008). So as with anything that happens repeatedly for most of your life, you expect it to continue to happen.
There are some people in this world that wake up, and hope they have some food to eat. When they do, you better believe they will be first in line, and scarf it down like pres on lambert. For me, if my steak isn’t cooked medium rare I’m sending it back. So yea, maybe I am spoiled, but I’m sorry I’m not sorry. I’m sorry our standards are higher than yours, and we expect to win titles every year. I mean we sure do spend enough to expect that kind of result. Mets fans will be first in line for a playoff game because it may never happen again. They’ll be able to tell their grandkids that time they got to see post season baseball in person. And that’s fine. But I’ve seen many great moments as a Yankees fan. I am truly grateful for all those things. So if I can’t really get fired up for a round 1 series, I’m sorry I’m not sorry. I’m a Yankees fan, and I’m proud to be spoiled.
Sincerely,
Spoiled
Welp, at least one of you assholes are living in reality. Was that so hard? Was it really that difficult to admit that being a Yankees fan is so amazing that you’re expectations have become unreasonable? Thats whats so funny about Yankees fans – its so easy to spin this in your favor and you keep just stamping your feet saying “We’re just as good as other fans! Fuck you KFC! Fuck the Mets!” Literally hundreds of comments and emails and tweets over the past week without one person making the “We’re the best franchise in sports” argument.
The Yankees fans are like the dude who fucks 10s all the time. When some 5 out of 10 wants to suck his dick he blows her off because its not worth his time. When he fucks an 8 he’s not excited. He’s used to 10s. Anything less is failure.
That would shut up idiots like me and the rest of the world who are making you cry today. Christ, Yankees fans have gone so soft its like I can be a better fan of the Pinstripes then they can. They’ve become such shitty fans they forgot how great they are. I can rep this team better than they can. But I guess thats because in my heart I’m a real fan. I still understand how the game works.
The vast majority of Yankees “fans” aren’t fans. They’re consumers of baseball wins. They think it’s like a play where the character they like is always supposed to win. If the product isn’t available to their liking they’ll boo the performers or sit at home and watch Seinfeld re-runs while their disgusting guido wives put extra gravy on their chicken parm sandwich.
step305 i’d love to know where you are from and what team you root for.
I’m sure you’ve never blown off a 5/10
typical Yankee fan. Knows nothing about the team other than “since I’ve been a fan they’ve been in the playoffs every year since 1 in 2008.” They can acknowledge the past “We got 27 rings” but can’t acknowledge the 30 years from 1965-1994 where they only made the playoffs 5 times.
If any Yankee fan expected to win the World Series this season or actually even of the past 7 or 8 seasons, then they are delusional, regardless of past success or what you are used to.
are you still talking about this?
They’re fucked, half their roster is aging or a free agent after this year or the next and they have no young talent. Be prepared to watch Baltimore and Tampa duke it out next year. Ugh….
This cocksucker said “sorry i’m not sorry” multiple times in one email jesus christ
Baseball is for the birds
write something funny instead of trying to toot your own horn that your a real fan. try entertaining me instead
Nice try writer…but again you missed the point. Yes you are spoiled and directly because of the Yankees continued success over the years (as you pointed out). Which is EXACTLY why you should show better support when they do finally fail. And I take offense to this statement… “I mean we sure do spend enough to expect that kind of result”. Who’s we? Who actually spent the money? I say this as a Boston native and Red Sox fan. The Yankees collapse this year was equally as bad and embarrassing as the Sox was. But the Yankee fan base handled it much worse. Maybe Sox fans just had more practice.
^ Pete – Dig deep… do you truly believe that the Yankees winning 95 games, the AL East, the ALDS, and losing in the ALCS is as embarrassing as the Sox losing like 31 games in a row in September? I want the truth. Give me the truth.
Yankee fans are entitled (I am one). Our collapse was embarrassing. Denying either is pretty silly. Also in reference to the commenter giving the example of 30 years of Mets’ style baseball is correct, but not relevant. I was either not alive during that period or was not old enough to experience this. Despite Donny being my favorite player I didn’t become fully aware of the Yankees until 96 or even 98. Also, saying the Yankees collapse was just as bad as the Red Sox is sillypants. You collapsed last year (historical level) and then collectively shit your pants this year before throwing in the towel. I am sure the Yankees will have a few tough seasons coming up but they year Boston had was a fucking DEBACLE. Sorry for the rant. taking a lap.
wheresmyballdontlieshirt, you really think the Yanks are fucked?? you really think they won’t drop Grandy and Swisher in a heartbeat this off season and sign Hamilton? or some other ridiculous move like that?? When you get spend well over 200 million a year you’re never fucked
-spoiled yankee fan
and I will try and spin the collapse this way…the last 3 games of the series prove just how valuable Jeter is to this team…THAT is what a Jeterless Yankees team looks like, it’s fucking pathetic and very worrying that we have nobody coming up that can take his place in a few years as team leader
your team sucks just get over it..
pj18…diggin deep here. Maybe not. I give you that.
If you can’t get excited for an ALCS game, you are a fuckhead. End of story.
Their TV ratings suck (my Cards had the 2nd highest ratings and shit, even Boston had higher ratings despite them being out of it in Fucking July). They can’t sell out during the regular season and now they can’t sell out during the playoffs. Make any excuse you want, but the Yankees have awful, know nothing fans. All of America laughs at those loud mouthed idiots and they’re too stupid to realize it.
As a lifetime fan, I believe our behavior was acceptable. The amount of money they are being paid to play a game is absurd. They just had the WORST HITTING PERFORMANCE IN POSTSEASON HISTORY! They deserve a few boos and if they can’t take it, SEEEEE YA.
Yankees should win the World Series 2 out of 3 years minimum. All-star team put together every year with $200 million salaries makes it a definite. Less than 2 out of 3 is complete failure. Not to worry, the Yankmees are MLB’s cash cow, they will buy a new all-star team but need to win more championships.
Worst part of all is that yankees fans are debating whether they should be allowed to boo or not. The saddest part is that you wanna boo at all. You’re just part of the problem at this point.
why does no one mention robbie hitting .075?