why do you hate the yankees?

After they won three in a row or whatever everything they had was the greatest ever:

Jeter – Clutchest hitter ever
Torre – Best Manager ever
Cashman – Epstein before he had even gone through puberty

The fact they got the best guy at the deadline every freaking year

BUT I like that George Costanza worked for them

in that you hate a demographic of people because of what baseball team they root for?

“Rhey buy — did you just write that? I’m not telling you anymore. And you spelled ‘they’ wrong”
-my wife’s opinion on the subject.

Fueled by steroids. (See Clemens and Pettitte)

When decent Yankee players make some nice play and then the media – not bothering to vest sufficient effort into watching all the games beyond their personal time zone and witnessing the standard throughout the game – pumps that particular play into the most phenomenal event ever, lofting that player into the stratosphere of Greatest Of All Time. Of course, for that class of media, the Yankees ARE the whole game.

As for their fans? Well, Yankee fans can drop to their knees and thank The Sweet Lord every day for Boston Fans. For, in any world that includes Boston fans, Yankee fans are cool cats.

However, the more interesting discussion is what is more annoying in a post, all CAPS or all lowercase?

There is no logical answer.

The Yankees Bore Me.

GA is too lazy to hate them for me.

But it was just Broxton coming into the Doyer game.

There’s certainly a lot to love about the Angels

it just doesnt seem like they (the Yankees) have the kind of HEART I like to see in a team. Of course, Ive been an Angel fan since 1978 and I could be a bit biased, but it just seems like a bunch of guys brought together by circumstance. If they win some games….eh, cool….but they dont excite me and I feel nothing for the team. When it comes to the Angels I just get the sense that its a real tight team, in it together, especially with this entire season being played for NA. Like it was stated above, I dont hate the Yanks like I do Boston. I guess what it comes down to is, I just dont care enough about the Yanks to hate em…

for the same reason it’s lame for fans from SF to hate the Dodgers or A’s.
Don’t be a hater!
vr, Xei

I reserve that for =

The one that features Manny and Padilla

And the one that features some dude that doesn’t get to riverdance in his undies in Boston this year!

They love to talk about their 26 rings. Most of the fans that I come to contact with seem like they just hopped the bandwagon.

But they have my utmost respect for being the greatest sports franchise of all time. The Yankees ARE baseball history. It’s just annoying how they represent all of baseball and even America abroad. But they deserve it. Maybe one day another team (the angels) will replace them. Bu I doubt any team will. They’re just too synonymous with the history of baseball.

And I respect that.

I do not respect a sizeable majority of Yankees fans. The same way I despise any bandwagon fans on any team (including our own).

And I hate the entire Steinbrenner family.

I want to bask in the continued glory of sweeping the Red Sox from the playoffs. I woke up a month ago having a nightmare about the Angels losing to them again in the playoffs. To know that reality brought us a 3 game sweep, in Fenway, off of Jonathan Papelbon…best outcome ever!

The Yankees right now are our “opponent” and I wanna crush them. But the Red Sox are “enemies.”

P.S. You idiots aren’t in Los Angeles!

Winningest franchise ever. Hats off.

I hate the current yankees (mid 90s – aka when they started winning) because of their owner (but seinfield was okay, hell it was shot at anaheim stadium – before it became Edison and now Angels). But he did some good things (when spiderman tried to buy ad space on the bases, he said no f’n way – so mlb listened).

Just over spending on FA and deepened the divide between haves and have-nots (granted, some teams have horrible honors *cough*orioles*cough*). But yeah, i deeply respect the yankees of old – ruth, dimagio, etc (that era).

I feel it is the over exposure of the yankees (and that player when Jeter ran over the wall, look at it closely, nothing too dramatic, he caught it and dove into the stands IMHO). But I do like Bernie Williams – just seems like a class act, and the yankees won’t resign him for whatever reasons saddens me (but I felt the same way with some of the Angels heros like GA, Eckstein (he played the way it was supposed to play, all out, plus as a short white dude it was awesome seeing him play), Erstad, etc).

I can understand the hate you guys have for a lot of Yankees fans you meet.
Screaming and yelling about 26 WS Rings is just plain dumb. The past and the future in sports do not matter; it doesn’t matter that the Knicks won in ‘70 and ’73; they suck this year.
Similarly, it doesn’t matter that the Oklahoma City Thunder are going to be the best team in the NBA in 5 years; they suck this year.
For this reason, I think a lot of you are preoccupied with hating a certain teams’ fans, when in fact you hate a certain TYPE of fans. Every team has them, the only reason the Yankees have a lot of them is because we have a lot of fans in general.

Also, to say that the Yankees don’t represent a true “team,” one which goes crazy when they get a walk-off win, one in which the players do not hang out with each other off the field, well then you must not watch games.

I hate the Red Sox with all of my heart and most of their fans; from what I understand from reading this website, that is something we have in common.

Another thing we have in common is; when I’m asked who the best team in baseball is, I say “The Yankees.” Second best is always “The Angels.”
Just as I’m sure you guys say “The Angels,” then follow it up with “The Yankees.”

Steroids aside (Everyone lives in a glass house at this point), we have the two best teams over the past 15 year span (also includes The Atlanta Braves).

I’ve been a fan since the early 90’s, or when I was 3 or 4 years old. I hate bandwagon fans more than anything else, be it Yankees, Red Sox, or otherwise.

I think this video does a pretty good job explaining why we hate other things: Click Here

I actually like the Angels and will pry root for them if the Yankees lose. Good luck on the series!

The payroll structure of the league is broken. Plus, we’ve had success against them in years past, and I’m confident this year will be no exception. The Yankees have a phenomenal history littered with players that made baseball a better game.

Their fans can be obnoxious, however the Red Sux fans are much worse. I respect the Yankees, but I still like to see them lose often.

some of the things you said were entertaining though. If we lose to you though I will root for the Angels. Good luck against us tonight! :P

i hate the Roid Sux thats the team i hate if we woulda lost in the ALDS to em i woulda rooted for the Yanks…..make no mistake I HATE THE RED SOX!

I just hate losing to them. I am envious of how the Red Sox develop talent, I am envious of the success of the YES network and the revenue it generates.

But in the face of all of it, I’m constantly reminded of just how much I love MY team. We DON’T have our own network, we don’t have that much $$$, and despite the fact that Southern California Baseball fans “suck”, we draw more than 3 million every year since 2000.

We develop players very well despite Mickey Hatcher’s influence. We always emphasize clubhouse presence. And HOLLY SHIT TORII HUNTER IS THE FUCKING MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (First F-Bomb ever!)

My dad raised me on stories of The Mick, and my favorite player growing up was Reggie.

But I get it.

George Steinbrenner is a reprehensible human being who once hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield so he could void his contract. We cherry pick players from other teams with impunity. And until the recent “Red Sux Nation” inanity, we’ve led the league in most bandwagon fans.

That being said, The Yankees playing the role of villain is good for baseball. We’ve done it since the Babe, with only two appearances in the World Series as underdogs ( ’76 against The Big Red Machine, and ’96 against Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz ). They wrote a musical about it. We even arguably did it against Bugs Bunny.

We are who we are and most Yankees fans embrace it. And to a little old Storm Trooper like me, Boba Fett’s a hero.

Based on the NYY fan posts here, they’re a hell of a lot less trollish than the so-called RSN.