Nothing Sweeter than Beating Yankee Fans - VIDEO The Marlins took two out of three from the Yankees this weekend. And had you been listening to the game on the radio, you would have guessed the games were in New York. Marlin fans, such as we are, don’t tend to make it out to the ballpark too much, so when the Yanks come to town the crowd tends to heavily favor the away team. And that, friend, is why a victory over a New York team is the sweetest victory a South Florida sports fan can have. CITIES ARE DEBATABLE. BASEBALL IS NOT Because all year, all we are subjected to are endless rants about how great the teams are back home. About how our city is such a terrible sports market and our local teams are a joke. All year it’s Yankees this and Jets that, Knicks this and Mets that. And when it comes time for the teams to actually put their money where their fans’ mouths are, the crowd is usually decidedly pro-New York. New York fans in South Florida have opposing forces to work against, so their inherent obnoxiousness becomes even more pronounced. They have that contrarian attitude of a visiting fan, combined with the group validation a home fan. It’s really the worst of both worlds.  And then, the good guys win. Then the “joke†team with a total payroll less that their third baseman’s salary takes two out of three games, and all their braggadocio and swagger is exposed as fraud. The television cameras show New Yorker after New Yorker looking down and defeated, crying in their Jeter jerseys . You can almost hear the New York accents saying, “Ahhh, the frigign Mawlins? How we lose to da figgin mawlins? Dey’re a firggin’ joke! Get some class!†SHUTTING THEM UP. FOR NOW.  And while professional athletic success is never an accurate correlation to the quality of a city (Pittsburgh won two championships this year, for chrissakes) it does make New Yorkers shut up for a little while. It does give you one nice piece of ammunition when a New Yorker starts barking on and on about how their hometown is so much better in every way. Oh yeah, Guido? Who won the 2003 World Series? So I guess maybe you AREN’T the premiere team in all of sports, are you?  A South Florida sports win is always a win for the little guy, even if our team is the favorite. The fans are always against us, even in our home stadiums, and any win for Miami is a rejection of New York. At least for the time being. So I will revel in the Marlins series win over the New York Overpaid Crybabies. It just goes to show that a team that averages 15,000 fans a game and pays players the league minimum can be better than a team full of supserstars. And that bragging about how everything you have is better, is quite often proven to be grossly inaccurate. AND HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF CLASS INDIVIDUAL YANKEE FANS ARE
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Aaron in Miramar says:
What do you mean OUR city and OUR team? I didn’t see anything in here about the Florida Gators or the Gainesville High Hurricanes.
A) “And had you been listening to the game on the radio, you would have guessed the games were in New York. Marlin fans, such as we are, don’t tend to make it out to the ballpark too much, so when the Yanks come to town the crowd tends to heavily favor the away team.”
- I don’t know what North Florida transistor radio based station you were listening on but the game I went to was at worst a 50/50 split between fan bases.
B) “It just goes to show that a team that averages 15,000 fans a game and pays players the league minimum can be better than a team full of supserstars.”
- Marlins attendance is averaging just below 19k fans per game (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance) which you probably could increase by about 5-7k per game if they had a roof and didn’t play in a “centrally located” wasteland. The current number is still bad and puts them 3rd from last but it isn’t 15k per game.
C) “And while professional athletic success is never an accurate correlation to the quality of a city (Pittsburgh won two championships this year, for chrissakes) it does make New Yorkers shut up for a little while.”
-Pittsburgh is a great city with crappy weather (see Chicago without the inferiority complex and being stuck in the midwest)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09161/976252-53.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World’s_Most_Livable_Cities
D) Aside from the complimentary edit job, everything else presented here is right on. Screw every transplanted New Yorker that actively roots against the goddamn teams from the area that they FREELY chose to relocate to from that “paradise” that is the tri-state area. You add nothing to this region and only serve to personify “addition by subtraction” if you ever get the cojones to actually move back to Strong Island.
Posted on 06/23/2009 at 5:41 PM