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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Wow. That's a stupid argument. I'm supposed to forget the championships that they won the year after they've won them? All those World Series games I went to are now meaningless? I can only bring up what happened last year from now on? Boston is the better franchise because they won this year. Makes perfect sense. Wait. No. Boston is a better team this year. I'm not going to ignore history just because no one else has any.
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Hey, you don't have to forget the championships; they just don't hold as much weight as the most recent championship. They may be important to you. They may mean something to you. But this year's champ is Boston. It doesn't take anything away from the Yankees' legacy, but the Yankees' legacy didn't win this year.
Boston clearly isn't the better historical franchise, just like Florida State (or any other FL school) can't compete with ND's football legacy. Nevertheless, legacies are in the past. This is now. And what the Yankees did in the past doesn't mean shit right now. You may care about the past, but stating it right now just makes you sound bitter.
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But please apply your standard to yourself. Since the Yankees haven't won anything since 2000, why do you hate them so much? I bet you didn't hate them in the 80s when they outspent everyone and finished in third or below every year. So, why all the venom? Oh yeah. It's because we're a successful franchise. We've always been a successful franchise and we'll always be a successful franchise.
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I don't hate them for the reasons you think I hate them. I was raised to hate them, before I knew about the economics of baseball. It was shoved into my brain by my grandfather and father, who had to watch my Sox come close throughout the '50s. Before divisions and wild cards. I've always hated them. When they were good. When they were terrible.
And your last sentence contradicts a previous sentence. The Yankees haven't always been successful. They sucked in the '80s. And I hated them then too.
Hey, I know what's like. All I have right now, as an ND fan, is "most successful college football program of all time". That's why ND and Yankees fans are so alike. They're both fucking ARROGANT. They look down their noses at other teams b/c no matter what those teams do, and no matter what the Yankees/ND are doing currently, they can never compete with their legacies.
I just recently attended the ND/BC game, where BC won. ND fans were pissed, but they weren't irate or anything. The ND fans, snobs through and through, just looked at the BC fans and thought "nice win, what the fuck has your school ever done? No matter what you do, you will never be us. Never. So have your fun. Enjoy it. But we're the best all-time, and you can't change that."
