The city has always been more of >an NL than an AL > town. So our team and their fans learned to go >about their business > quietly. > > Come again? An NL town? The Yankees have been there how long? I'm not > sure why you'd say that. Enlighten me, seriously. Because there have always been (perhaps until the current Yankee success) more NL than AL fans in NY. There were two NL teams and the NL was the Senior circuit. There was an intense rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants. When both left the fans did not switch to the Yankees. They waited for the city to get a new NL team and that is where the instant loyality to the Mets arose. The Yankees went about their business of winning titles but the very nature of their success meant that their fans were more self satisfied (smug if you will) and the team produced less passion than the bums and the gints whose fans were rabid. Growing up my two best fans were a giant and a dodger fan respecitively. There was a great symmetry; they had the Duke and Willie respectively and I had the Mick. But they would always gang up on me. This was not a unique situation.
> > > I don't know about that. I know an awful lot of Yankee fans in NJ, and I > don;t get the sense that any other team detracts from the Yankees. NYC is a > baseball town; in the middle of March Madness or the NFL Playoffs people > call in to talk about the Yankees. It is not a big college bball town for sure. But football is big here. The giants and jets dominate the sports news during the late fall and winter.> > > > Good question. Depends I guess on if they stay loyal through the lean > times. We will probably see in the next few years. I have a sense that front running will become common in the future. Because of a lot of factors loyalty to a local team will diminish. My son is 17. He loves the Yankees but his favorite sports team is Manchester United. He may or may not watch a Yankee game but if United is playing he is glued to the set (he has even cut school to watch them). So now because of electronic media we are not bound by location. > >>>The stuff here is a light hearted joke. > >>>Yankee fans do not go around calling themselves "America's Team". > >>>(The term Yankee says it all - we are america). > >> > >> Case in point. :) > >Joke in point > > See, the smiley indicated that I got the joke. I'll be more clear next > time. > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > http://inbox.excite.com
