Pro Mets:
Congratulations to the New York Yankees for outspending the entire major league this year by over 65 million dollars. Oh yeah, and for winning the World Series. As a Mets fan, I hate many things about the Yankees. I hate their astronomical payroll and overall philosophy, of “buying” championships, especially during a recession. I hate Alex Rodriguez, who is a good for nothing, attention-loving, baby making, steroid using bum. I hate their new stadium, full of overpriced corporate restaurants. But most of all I hate their fans, who somehow feel they are entitled.
As a Mets fan, or in this year’s case, a Mess fan, I truly cannot deny that I am jealous of the Yankee’s winning ways. But I hate this notion that Yankees fans feel that their team is “destined” to win every year. A Yankees fan described to me recently that deserved to win it all this year after nine years of “suffering.” Are you kidding me? Suffering? Suffering is being a Mets fan. Suffering is giving up a homerun to Yad
ier Molina at home (in 2006) to lose the pennant. Suffering is making the playoffs three times in the last 20 years. Suffering is finishing this year 23 games out of first place. So Yankees fans, don’t tell me about suffering, because you simply don’t know what that word means.As a Mets fan I may not get to experience the thrill of winning a championship for a while. And I certainly know that the Mets will not come remotely close to winning 27 of them. A feat that even I must admit is incredible. However, what I do know is when (or if) the Mets ever win a championship, it will be so much sweeter for our fans than for Yankees fans this year. And Yankee fans fight to prove that they are the best, makes it so they cannot truly enjoy their world series title. They are already worrying about number 28. Once the Mets win one, I’ll be good for a while, not just two weeks. Yankees fans, I have an idea for you. Just be happy and live in the moment. Don’t worry about comparing this team to the other 26 championship teams, don’t worry about rubbing it in Mets fans’ faces, and just simply enjoy it. Stop with this entitlement nonsense and shut your mouths.
Former legendary Editor-in-Chief of The Current, Fraser Williams, summed up Yankees fans pretty well. “The only thing larger than the Yankees fans’ mouths and unwarranted sense of entitlement is their team’s payroll."
- By Trevor Gill
Pro Yankees
Traditionally, Yankee fans have been called names that have undeservingly stuck throughout the years. These names include arrogant, cheaters, and the list goes on. Sometimes constructive criticism gets mislabeled as arrogance. This has been the case for many Yankee fans, as they have
been unjustly branded with these names for many years.As Yankee fans, we believe it is our responsibility to condemn and ban bad behavior and to praise and reward good behavior. In the year 2000, when the Mets and Yankees took part in their first subway series in 44 years, the Yankees emerged victorious. The Mets fought hard, and for their determination and heart, they were invited to march with the Yankees through the Canyon of Heroes. They declined, and were not seen beside the Yankees on a float as the Champions we all considered them to be. Yankee fans are verbally insulted, and they aren’t complimented for gestures similar to the one mentioned. To a lot of Yankee foes, the 27 World Championships acquired over the years are “bought,” but the truth is that they have only been the product of teamwork, dedication, and a great farm system. Yankee fans expect their team to win, and anything short of that is considered a travesty. We have always characterized ourselves as being supportive of our team; rain or shine, home or away, in good times or in bad times. We have always been behind our team, but what is much more impressive is that we have also recognized and applauded the achievements of rival teams.
If this is what is what is considered arrogant, then I guess I’ll take it.
- By Rommel Gramonte
This comment about the Yankees's behavior after the 2000 world series title is a load of crap.
ReplyDeleteI was at game 5 of that series in 2000 and I have to say the Yankees fans in Shea Stadium put on what I still consider to be one of the most disrespectful and rude displays of behavior ever to grace an American professional sports arena. Instead of celebrating what was a great year for New York Sports (as the writer for the Yankees claims was their goal after the victory) the fans who came to watch at Shea were openly hostile towards their fellow New York baseball fans. I actually felt unsafe sitting there as older and extremely intoxicated Yankee fans hurled food and empty beer bottles at me.
It's fine to defend the Yankees as a great franchise, but I don't see the argument for defending the team, and more specifically their fans, from the labels they have been branded with. For the vast majority of NY based Yankee fans, those titles have been earned by years of arrogant jack-assed buffoonery. 27 Championships regardless.