You assumed I disliked the Yankee's because of my love of the old Dodgers. WRONG! They used to call that pretzel logic. It's grossly inaccurate. I dislike the Yankee's because to me they epitomize everything about sports I dislike: Buying championships, fans that barely tolerate like baseball but LOVE the Yankee's, old fashioned attitudes about what is "good for the sport", and Yankee arrogant head honcho's and fans.
Yes, I mean SoCal. I see because of your kid you do have good qualities. Too bad they don't extend to baseball. Hopefully your Queens and Brooklyn friends still give you hell for rooting for corporate baseball. In case you haven't noticed aside from being a longtime UConn lover, I root for a lot of teams considered losers or bad franchises. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm glad to see that you don't generalize and paint an entire fan base with the broad brush strokes of your personal prejudices !! You really should consider using qualifiers (e.g. most, many, some) unless of course you meant to deal in absolutes. Your
diatribe didn't leave room for even a single exception.
I became a Yankee fan when there were no other baseball teams in NY, so the choices were somewhat limited.
Tell me, after you first became a Dodger fan, did you like the Yankees too ? And did you really rationalize the reasons for choosing the Dodgers over the other 2 NY teams, or any other team for that matter ? (i.e. I can't root for the Yankees, their fans "have old fashioned attitudes about what is good for the sport" !!) Why don't I think it happened that way ?
More likely it was a question of geography or the influence of friends and family. The rationalizations come latter.
You could have joined an exclusive club (there are presently zero members but I'm optimistic I can find one !). That group would be people, who I've met, who use to be Brooklyn Dodger fans that became Yankees fans after the Dodgers left town. All of the jilted Dodger fans, that I've spoken to, admitted to me that they could never root for the Yanks because their Dodger DNA wouldn't allow them to do so. Instead, they waited a few years and rooted for the Mets when they came into existence. Sound familiar ?
I'm curious. Did you stop rooting for the Mets during the 1992 season ? You know, that was the "Worst team that money could buy" Mets, who happened to have the highest payroll in MLB (Did they try to buy a pennant ?) and still lost 90 games. I suspect you still remained a fan.
I'm also a lifelong NY Knick fan but I don't think I deserve special recognition because I root for an historically bad team. To true fans, their teams are like family. Good or bad, it's still your team.
My apologies to my fellow boneyarders for dragging them into this not so private tet a tet.