yankees and their fans

[sniffa]

are yankee fans not the biggest asshoLes ever!? i mean come on, i've seen some dicks before, but nothing Like yankee stadium's seat warmers.

[mcscajun]

1. I see a flame war coming.

No further comment.

Signed,
A former resident of The Bronx.

[jurassicpork]

66. Agreed

I don't recall seeing SWAT on both sidelines at Fenway like we did last year in Game 6 of the ALCS.

I've long regarded the Yankees and their mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging fans as perfect symbols of the GOP and their chickenhawk, crabgrass roots followers. My guys, the Red Sox and their fans, are the perfect symbols of the Democratic/liberal constituency of this nation. To elucidate:

The Yankees: Coldly arrogant, thinking that victory is a birthright.
The Red Sox: Scrappy, knowing that they have to earn every out they get.

Yankees: It's not the name on the back that counts, it's the name on the front (which is synonmous with "Choke").
Red Sox: Wear their names on the back of their away jerseys like the other fucking 28 teams in MLB.

The Yankees: Facial Hair? Not on Mr. Steinbrenner's team.
Red Sox: Caveman Johnny gets shave and a haircut for charity.

The Yankees: Trots out Ronan Tynan fifty or sixty times per postseason.
Red Sox: Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Buffet, Steven Tyler.

The Yankees: Plays Frank Sinatra after a win, which ain't all that often, these days.
Red Sox: "Dirty Water" by The Animals.

Lastly, these thoughts:

Punk-ass, cheating bitch: $25,000,000 per year.
Annual payroll: $200,000,000 per year.
George Steinbrenner spending three quartewrs of a billion dollars on payroll since 2000 and no WS rings to show for it?

Fucking priceless.

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[against all enemies]

68. Totally agree

yankees: giving money to Richard Nixon
Red Sox: giving money to the Jimmy Fund

[Kickin_Donkey]

70. I can't stand the Yanks ...

but I'm not exactly enamored with the Red Sox.

Besides the dark, fatalisic obsession of Red Sox fans, this is what first comes to mind when I think of the Red Sox: last team in the Major Leagues to integrate.

[mcscajun]

72. Hmmm... seems to me you're responding to the original post...

...not to my reply.

Don't want folks to think I agree with all that.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. ....

:loveya:

[sniffa]

4. hi sweetie

MWAH!!!

:loveya:

[name not needed]

3. Run for your life.

[motely36]

5. woo hoo!

:popcorn:

[progmom]

6. sigh....

[Ekirh]

7. I would pop some popcorn

Over the flames that will soon possibly rise.. but I'm afraid it might get burnt :(.

To be fair... I don't think Yankee fans are horrible (Although Game Six of last years American League Championship is allowed to be used against them, I think I'm thinking correctly . . I think.).

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. must... not.... laugh....

:spray:


Well, at least I tried not to. :shrug:

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Not when the Yankees play in Anaheim.

LOTS of NYY fans in So. Cali. Their fans are fine. It's obnoxious when so many people cheer for the visitors, but it's part of the game.

[Initech]

10. Can I get an AMEN for that?

I went to two of the Yankees - Angels games this year. Damn their fans are so annoying. Boy I was so glad when Guerrero hit that grand slam, boy that really shut those assholes up!

[driver8]

69. I've been to a few Yankees - Angels games at Anaheim...

Yankees fans are so freakin' annoying. I love when they get shut down...nothing sweeter, IMHO.

[matcom]

11. cool!

:popcorn: :thumbsup:

[dajoki]

12. hey i resemble that remark

diehard yankee fan since birth!! LET"S GO YANKEES!!:woohoo:

[Shell Beau]

13. Well, I am a Yankee fan. Am I an asshole?

:o

[youspeakmylanguage]

18. You are now...

Just kidding. You just have bad taste in baseball teams.

GO SOX!!!

[dajoki]

25. so am i...

call me whatever you want. let's go yankees!! see you in the world series.:woohoo:

[Squatch]

14. And what's with the nosebleed section at Yankee Stadium?

You practically need a climbing rope and belay to get to your seat safely.

[quisp]

15. O's fan here...

and Homicide: Life on the Streets had an episode where a Yankees fan was murdered at Camden Yards (by his friend, as it turned out, over who should go get more beer) and on the way the Richard Belzer character said, "Is it even a crime to kill a Yankees fan at Camden Yards?"

heheh

I still get a grin from that one.

[Mutley]

23. O's fan too.

And that was a great episode of Homicide. I miss that show. :cry:

[quisp]

28. no doubt you watch The Wire?

[Mutley]

31. Actually I don't.

I started watching it when it first came out but since I've been in school, and work, I've cut my TV watching to almost nothing. I really don't watch anything anymore except the Simpsons and Family Guy on Sundays.

[quisp]

32. it's not quite as good as Homicide...

but it's still filmed in Baltimore and since I don't live there anymore I watch it and get nostalgic for my old neighborhood, hon.

[dajoki]

65. there's as many yankee fans at camden yards as o's fans...

it is a shame about palmeiro, i like him.:-(

[dr.strangelove]

16. As I would say in the bleachers, Go F yourself!

Don't know if this a copycat thread or not, but if it isn't, what the fuck is up with that comment? Granted, I am a born and raised bronx boy, but I think you are way off base.

I've been to almost every ballpark, (Philly and Pittsburgh will come later this season and Milwaukee will wait for my business trip to Madison next spring) and I have seen bad fans and great fans everywhere. Yankees fans love their team as much as any other club's fans, but I don't think they are assholes.

I have yet to see an older guy at the stadium (one of us old fellows over 30) catch a ball and not give it to a cute little kid. I've handed out a dozen or so foul and bp balls in the past 5 years. During the last boston series a little girl wearing a boston jersey spilled a soda and I saw a 300 lb yankee fan go buy her a soda to stop her from crying.

With all that, anyone who wears the visiting team;s jersey to a sporting event is up for some razzing. That happens in Texas High School football, Florida college baseball and every NCAA, NFL, NBA and MLB event. If razzing makes yankees fans assholes, all fans must be assholes. If one small group of fans did something over the top, don;t blame the whole team for one asshole. Assholes are everywhere not just in the bronx. In fact, I think the Bronx is a wonderful place. Most of my best friends were born and raised there. Many still live there. As my mom would say, the bronx is good people.

What happened to make you think all yankees fans at the stadiums are assholes?

[sniffa]

19. fans such as this..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3770233

[dr.strangelove]

21. So what, one places a yankee logo as their avitar and they rep all NY fans

I don't think that justifies someone referring to all the seatwarmers at yankee stadium with some fairly disgusting terms.
If you wanted to post that the original poster in the thread you linked was an asshole, go for it. I would agree, but I think that violates a DU rule about calling out a another DUer. However, I think whitehousemoron was wrong in attacking boston fans, and I think the original poster in this thread was wrong. If you want to go to a game with me at the stadium and wear a sox jersey, I'll rip you apart with teh rest fo the fans, but I have been to a dozen games at fenway in a yankees jersey and love the place and the fans. I got razzed, and one drunk guy tried to fight me once, but my rather large boston fan friend talked him out of it. I hope boston loses every game they play and never win anotehr title. I hope the fans suffer antoher 500 years of playoffless seasons and fruitless dreams. I hope the yankees cruch the sox in every series they play and I will laugh at every boston fan I see when the yankees beat boston. I would hope a boston fan would do the same. None of that makes me an asshole, and whitehousemoron does not speak for all yankees fans.

[sniffa]

22. weLL

you've obviousLy taken this too seriousLy as this thread was a joke thread in response to his thread... and then aLL the copycats were in simiLar vein.

:hi:

but i wiLL continue to disdain yankee fans. ;)

[dr.strangelove]

24. fine

just for the record, I did announce that I was not sure if your original post was a copycat thread or not. Maybe next time you could clear up my confusion. My post was conditioned upon yours not being a copycat thread. Since it was, my post said nothing at all.

[msanthrope]

20. Yeah, what happend to you to make you think that all

of us are assholes?

Series envy?

[mcscajun]

71. Way to go, my fellow Bronxite!

Extremely well said.

:)

[jus_the_facts]

17. *YAWN*

...takes one to know one I DARE SAY! BTW I've never been to a game livin' down here in Louisiana so ya can take your remarks and shove 'em! :P

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. Is it me, or will Yankee fans justify anything just to win?

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

One of my favorite pics:

[sir_captain]

29. I'm not sure I'd call Sox fans perfectly objective and responsible

And in terms of your specific charge, at least we Yankee fans aren't cheering for Curt Schilling. ;-)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

30. Yeah but you're cheering for A-Rod, another Repuke

:-)

I can't stand Schilling, but he is a great pitcher. I don't care what athletes' politics are. they're paid to play. same with musicians, actors, etc. Schilling is just an idiot who runs off at the mouth.

[sir_captain]

33. Yeah, I agree

Schilling is just so viscerally nasty and self-centered that I think he sets a whole new bar. I'm sure I wouldn't want to hang out with A-Rod, either, for that matter, but at least he keeps his mouth shut most of the time. (Maybe cause even the other Yankees don't seem to like him very much!)

[Rising Phoenix]

35. it's been terribLe since curt became the cLoser

i now have to root for him to suck every night, rather than every 5 days. x(

whoopsie - i puLLed a cuban LiberaL. doh!

[JohnKleeb]

36. at least you guys are still in first place

Now that were falling out of place, I guess I am gonna hope the sox win the division. Just please for your sake, dont let the hated Yankees catch you.

[sniffa]

38. hopefuLLy not

i stiLL have my second favorite team: whoever the yankees are pLaying. ;)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

40. I tried to buy one of those T-shirts but they were sold out

x(

[JohnKleeb]

41. Pitt never sent me a Yankees suck T

:( no worries though, I may be going to college in Boston if I work hard enough.

[sniffa]

42. one of the best coLLege areas

we'LL heLp your transition. :thumbsup:

[JohnKleeb]

44. Thanks

Can you get on Pitt's ass and tell him to get me one of those T's. I am definely coming back to Boston for sure. Ive changed my planned career from political writing to sportswriting and Boston is just so much a better town for it than DC.

[sir_captain]

47. hehe

:toast:

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

62. hahahaha

:yourock:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

27. And another favorite pic

[JohnKleeb]

34. You know I dont mind a good Yankees bash

but I hope that the ACLS isnt the same ole, same old crap. Of course if we had any pitching in Baltimore, we would be contending but noooooooo. Anyhow the worst Yankee fans are the one who root for them simply because theyre the Yankees. Stupid bandwagoners.

[WeRQ4U]

39. Even worse are the ones that know nothing of Yankees history...

But ALWAYS talk shit about them winning 26 championships. Couldn't tell you 2 members of "Murderer's Row" but can talk smack all day long about the past.

[JohnKleeb]

43. Gehrig, Ruth, and Lazzera were on murderers row

Yeah I hate people like that, theyre what made me sympathetic to Red Sox Nation.

[sir_captain]

51. The "nation"

has had its membership swell an awful lot in the past year or two. I'm betting a lot of them are the exact same kind of bandwagon fans who were rooting for the Yankees or who root for the Patriots, etc. It's just a way of life with sports, unfortunate as it is.

[JohnKleeb]

57. I am talking about the people I saw on the HBO Documentary

Yankee bandwagoners are the worst kind of fans Ive encountered in. Its a sucky thing to do period though I agree.

[rockymountaindem]

67. I've been a fan since 2000 (I was 13)

and I'm sick of the bandwagoners. I almost cried in 2003, and I know guys from Boston who really did cry.

[sir_captain]

50. And all the people

with Sox hats on nowadays who've never been to a game aren't even worse? It's called bandwagoning--every single successful team has these unfortunate fans.

[JohnKleeb]

56. Thats just as wrong

For sure but most of the Yankee fans around here are pure bandwagoners who would abandon the team in a heartbeat if they didnt make the playoffs.

[WeRQ4U]

37. GERIATRIC - clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.

GERIATRIC - clap, clap, clap, clap, clap
GERIATRIC - clap, clap, clap, clap, clap
GERIATRIC - clap, clap, clap, clap, clap
GERIATRIC - clap, clap, clap, clap, clap

I don't like 'em either. My two favorite teams = Twins and anyone playing the Yanks.

[bigwillq]

45. I love being called an asshole!

:evilgrin: :hi:

GO YANKS!:bounce:

[sniffa]

46. eh, you just Love it

when i caLL you that. :evilgrin:

:hi:

[bigwillq]

49. Yes I do, sir!

:evilgrin:

[SeanQuinn]

48. Let's Go Mets!

-cough-.

[njdemocrat106]

64. The Mets are OK, but I'll always be a Yankee fan.

F the Red Sox. :evilgrin:

[matcom]

52. when they are against the wall, they yell "RACIAL SLUR!!!"

check out the sports forum for PROOF

[bettyellen]

53. you talking about me?

that is so fucking unprogressive of you.
i was born this way, i can't fucking help it.
:spank:

[sniffa]

54. of course, not you

:loveya:

[bettyellen]

55. well, i don't see anybody else standing here, do you?

i think you were talking to me.
:suckerpunch:
next.

[hfojvt]

58. these days, he was probably talking

to somebody on a cell phone

[bettyellen]

63. ..

:rofl:

[Texasgal]

59. Anything you say

is right..... since your in my clique and all!!


WOOT! :P

[Catholic Sensation]

60. eagles fans are bigger assholes

though red sox fans come very close

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

61. sniffa!!!

:'(

*sniff*

*runs out of thread bawling*