Streetalk: When are you ditching that stupid cap for an Atlanta one?
June 21, 2009 at 8:25 am by Jeff Slate in Streetalk
Orlando: Never. I’m from Havana. Everybody plays baseball In Cuba. I was a catcher. And we all grow up loving the Yankees. The Yankees have been a winning team for years. They’ll spend the money. The Braves won’t. They let [Rafael] Furcal go and [John] Smoltz go. He had plenty of gas in the tank. If you let them go, you don’t know much about baseball. The Yankees are all about winning. It’s not about money. The Braves are about money — keeping a limit on it. You can only go so far.
Jeannine: You would have to pry the hat from my cold, dead hands. Everything that is good about America is represented by the New York Yankees. Yankee fans are true fans, in good times and bad — unlike Red Sox fans and Braves fans who don’t understand you root for your team even when they’re bad. Many aspire but few can achieve the greatness of being a Yankee fan. Braves fans need to learn not to Yankee-hate, but to congratulate and appreciate. Bobby Cox learned to win by playing for the Yankees. Braves fans should be grateful for us.
Steve: Never. Born and raised in the Bronx. Everybody has the same sense about Yankee fans: that we’re abrasive, conceited and cocky. But Yankee fans are people, too. We have a lot of pride because of the history of success. Yankee fans are lovers of baseball and the history of baseball and the American tradition of it. Yankees fans embrace all the same things that Braves fans embrace. Baseball brings everybody together. We should all be proud of what baseball is and how the rest of the world has embraced it. But the Red Sox suck.
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:13 am
What a bunch of stupid dicks. Go back where you came from.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:06 am
Pulling for the Yankees is like pulling for Superman, or it would be if Superman were a lazy, uninspired slacker who always looks great on paper but more often than not fails to achieve his potential.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:53 am
Hey carpetbagg–I mean, Yankees fans….
How many titles have you won this century?
LOL @ Dash.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
if “yankee-hate” isn’t a word, it should be.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
There’s nothing like a southern hater…
June 25th, 2009 at 1:03 am
Dash Riptide, I love you.
Love,
Jade (a Mets fan)
July 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am
As a native New Yorker, living in Atlanta, I have to say that I meet more transplants than native Atlantans. As a result, I’ve met more Celtics, Knicks and Lakers fans than Hawks fans. Same for baseball – I have met few Braves fans, which is honestly kind of sad since the team has a lot of great history and tradition.
Anyway, I wear my Mets and Yankees hats around the city with pride. That said, I would not go to Braves game wearing a Yankees or Mets hat; wearing a different hat than the home team at any event is, in my opinion, a sign of disrespect to the home team and the home fans. I wouldn’t be afraid of getting in a fight since people here seem way too nice (unless they’re in their car for some reason, but that’s a whole other story), but why detract from a home-team fan’s experience and enjoyment at a game by wearing an opponent’s hat?
July 9th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I agree with Bob 100%. Atlanta is a city of transplants, accept it and enjoy it.
Yankee hate is the ultimate bandwagon.