Welcome... I welcome you all once again to my site, and for this post, I will be talking about a topic that is very close to my heart, and what else, the greatest team in baseball - the New York Yankees.
This topic has been brewing this year right after the 'All-Star' MLB game, since the Yankees dominated all of baseball leading up to the postseason. It has most recently kicked up a fiery notch since the Yankees are in the World Series. I recently had a very brutal, heated discussion yesterday on Halloween, with several relatives and friends who are anit-Yankees allies, whether they are fans of the Mets, Red Sox, or any other team franchise who cry about losing year after year, etc...
There is even an anti-Yankees website, anti-Yankees Facebook fan page, and Yankees suck website, as if there was some conspiracy going on due to the Yankees. I mean, really, do you have to take it that far to make your personal frustrations and pains in life that public? I actually think it's so, so sad, and at the same time take pleasure in knowing that as much as the Yankees are hated, their enemies still create sites to feature the team's business.
Call it jealousy, envy or whatever word you can conjure up to describe why the Yankees are so beloved by their fans (and themselves), but despised by everyone else with a pulse. The "Evil Empire" - what a great name for the Yankees franchise. I mean, is it that all the other MLB franchises put together represent the "Old Republic". I love the fact that there are so many Yankees haters, and how other sports teams outright despise them. It just makes me more special to be a loyal fan of the greatest sports franchise ever to be in existence. But I urge you all to keep hating because it only fuels the historical legends of the Yankees, and makes us stronger down the long road of being so successful for so many, many years.
Dark Jedi's of the 'Force', or the Devils of Baseball
New York Yankees: 'Evil Empire'
The fact of the matter remains that teams simply can't compete knowing that even when they do develop great players in their team's farm systems, as soon as these players' contracts are up they're going to be going somewhere else that will pay them more, and they will become more famous. The players move to other teams "in hopes" of winning a championship, but they also do it because hey, who wouldn't want hundreds of thousands more? If you want to win a World Series title, then you go to the Yankees. Therefore, the Yankees are able to do all this because they win, and also due to their loyal fans contributing by selling out games time and time again. Fans do contribute to that overpowering money the Yankees own.
When MLB started 'taxing' teams for having good attendance, they all decided to build new stadiums to keep more of their deserved revenue. Don't blame the Yankees...blame MLB and whiny, crybaby owners and fans such as yourselves who complain about big-market teams, like the Yankees, taking all of the revenue. Just remember, that the Yankees do out-sell their home games, and have one of the highest on-road attendance.
The Yankees 'buy' teams? Please... That must be why the Rays won the AL pennant last year, or why there's been 7 different WS winners this decade. All you cry babies, face reality: Baseball is a capitalist industry. If you want to exceed and win championships, then you need a competitive edge. All these other teams need to think outside the box, instead of crying that they have no money, they have no superstars.
If it wasn't for the Yankees, who would everyone hate? What would unite the rest of the baseball world? Get over your inferiority complex and create your own identities already.
A true fan's identity comes from loving your hometown team. You find hatred in rivalries. There's plenty of unification there. Any true baseball fan loves baseball for more than the winning and the losing (I mean yes, the winning part is very nice... And, yes, I have to say that we love winning, and we can truly hate the losing part).
That is the power of the Yankees and the depth and fortitude of their fans. We care. When we win, we are proud. When we lose, we take it. We don't start blaming it on salaries, or any other team.
Maybe that is why the Yankees are considered an "evil empire". They don't care about the other teams whether winning or losing. Yankees care about winning, and so do I. I also really don't care about any other team either, and so I sport this great t-shirt to let everyone know.
But besides all these points, the real reason New York is the best franchise in all of sports is that they are expected to win every year. There is never a year when a trip to the playoffs is considered a success. The only thing that matters in New York is winning the World Series every year. This expectation has come from New York’s history and tradition of winning, and is unparalleled anywhere else in sports.
The NY Yankees represent everything that is great about baseball. New York’s history, tradition, and commitment to winning are things that every other team in every other sport strives for.
When all is said, and at the end of it all, I am just a baseball lover who happens to be a die-hard NY Yankees fan. And because I am a New Yorker, I grew up to love and support the Yankees. So love the game for what it is -- Baseball.
Let's Go Yankees!!!
World Champions: (26)
1923, 1927,1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000
World Series Appearances: (40)
1921, 1922, 1923, 1926. 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2009
LCS Appearances: (13)
1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2009
Division Champions: (17)
1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981*, 1994!, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009
Wild Card: (3)
1995, 1997, 2007
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