What do you think is a true Yankee fan?

Question

I am not talking about any bandwagon jumper beating their drums and singing 26 over and over again. I am talking about those guys that jump for joy when their team wins, mourn with the team when they lose, and will not say that other teams suck even if they don't suck. ( there was this kid in school, he was showing off his yankees boxers in the locker room 2 months ago, and just 2 weeks a go, he was wearing a red sox jersey. I am not talking about those people.)

Answer 1

Someone like me whose favorite player is Don Mattingly, and can quote numerous Yankee stats like the fact that Donnie Baseball has the record for Grand Slams in a season (6) and most HRs in 8 consecutive games (9).

Also, when your best friend roots for the Red Sox just to piss you off.... he obviously knows you're a true fan.

Donnie Baseball for HOF next year!!

Answer 2

I have been a Yankee fan since the days of Reggie Jackson...Dave Winfield Don Baylor Jesse Barfied Bobby Meachum, Pat Kelly Jim Abbott no hitter, Willie Randolph, Lou Pinella, Chris Chamblis, Bucky Dent, Bobby Murcer etc I remember watching these guys play I can also remember when the Yankees couldn't buy a win during the 80's and slowly rebuilt the team during Buck Showalter stint as manager...Donnie Baseball got into the postseasonin 1995 and they lost to Seattle..Then came Joe Torre 1996 and I think everybody knows the rest!!! I will be the first to cheer and go crazy when they win and I will be the first to boo them when they loose or do something stupid like resigning A-ROD!!! I cant stand Him....My first game remember it like it was yesterday Bobby Murcer day at Yankee Stadium they lost 11-2 to the Tigers Goose Pitched!!! I also remember Lou Pinella day that was my younger brother's first game!! I have stuck and will stick with the Yankees through it all until the day I die!!! I may not watch or hear all the games but I will read about them in the paper or get caught up on ESPN Baseball tonight!!! Yankee fans are a breed of there own!! I was a bleacher creature during the 1995 season I was pissed that they lost in the post season!!

Answer 3

Well, I happen to think that a true fan is a broad perspective fan. I know that fans have their teams, but I always think that they should respect the other teams too. I also don't think a true fan changes their team affiliation because they lose, as you pointed out. Be a member of the nation, but respect the other teams when you lose (even if it's the Red Sox.) Watch the playoffs and World Series no matter what team's in it. I'm a Red Sox fan, but I'm the first to smile and say "Hey, they got beat" when the Yankees win.

Answer 4

I Look at this manner simplest you recognize if you're a True Fan and that is is it many persons would say you're now not however you will have to now not care on account that on the finish you're keen on your workforce root for them help them and not anything will ever difference that reality. What i discovered is as a Yankee Fan now not N Y i'm from Cali isn't to hear persons after they consider i'm really not a Yankee Fan on account that they do not know my Passion and determination to my Yankees and that i might get all of the crap on the earth you'll inform me all you desire however the reality i'm going to be a Yankee Far for ever no person can ever difference that reality.

Answer 5

As a Yankee, I know the full history of the team. I know that people like to swell on the fact that they have won 26 titles. But, I also know about recent history, not because I watched it on YankeesClassics, but because I've been a fan since 1976(10yrs old) But every fan does that!! Think of the poor Celtics Fan, who only have that history to look back on.!! But to answeryour question, wait for the start of the season. You'll see who the true fans are. I know alot of people became Red Sox fans because of that great start they had and eventually won the Series against that Little League team from Colorado. I suffered from May to July and got ripped for even daring to wear my Reggie Jackson jersey. If the Yankees start off hot, you'll see more "diehard" fans!!

Answer 6

I'm 41, I've been a Yankees fan all my life, most of my friends were and still are Mets' fans though. I pretty much have watched or listened on the radio to every game, for the past 37 years. Those of you my age or older, should still remember when not every game was telivised, on channel 11, so allot of the games were just on the radio and I never got out of the habbit of still just listening to a game on the radio, once in a while. When the games are close; I pace the floors; bite my nails; yell at the TV (like they can hear me LOL) when they make an out, or hit into a double play or other side score; I'm a nut case when I watch a game lol.

I'm from NY, so growing up we always played stick-ball, curb-ball, stoop-ball, and 400 different variation of baseball in the street (OK exaggerating with 400 but New Yorkers know what I mean), so when we chose sides we would call ourselves either Yankees or Mets, as if they ever played each other in real life but that's what we did, I was always on the Yankees' side. When it was young and it was an afternoon game, sometimes I would go to the candy store, around the corner, have a chocolate egg cream (New Yorkers know about that too) watch the game on TV, I always loved listening to the old guy talk about the Yankees, of the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's & 1950's, when they were young. One of my uncle's favorite stories was when he just got back from WW2 and he met Joe Dimaggio & Phil Rizzuto, at a bar down the street from where I used to live, and he drove them to the Staten Island Ferry. How I always wished I was around in those years to have met them..

My two favorite Yankees' moments, even better then them winning the 6 WS I have seen them win, were:

1) In the 1978 one game playoff against the Boston Red Sox, when Buckey dent hit the home run over the green monster. I watched that game again 2 weeks ago, it was on Yankees Classics on the YES network, and it was better then, then 30 years ago when I watched it live (the Red Sox had just won the WS so I needed something to cheer me up LOL)

2) In the 1996 WS when Joe Dimaggio threw the first pitch to Joe Girardi and Joe Girardi handed the ball back to Joe Dimaggio. I'm Italian so was an Italian thing.

I have a few Yankees neck ties & cufflinks (I wear to work sometimes and even after a big loss I will wear them to show I'm still a yankees fan), hates, jackets, etc.

Anyway, I've been a Yankees' fan all my life and I always will be. Even though I said "if the Yankees re-signed A Rod, I would stop rooting for the Yankees and I would root for the Mets", I can't do it. I tried watching a Mets game on SNY the other day, ultiMet or whatever they call the equivelent to Yankees Classics on the Yes network, and I just can't do it. I don't hate the Mets, but I just can't root for them, I've been a Yankees fan all my life, so I guess I'm as hypocritacal as the Yankees are, for going back on my word like the Yankees did for negotiating with A Rod.

Answer 7

I think your example of the people (women too) jumping for joy when their team wins, mourn with their team when they lose, and will not say other teams suck even if they don't suck is the example of a true Yankee fan.

Unfortunately, there aren't too many of them and the rest of us have to put up with the other kind of fan.

Good question, good answer.

Answer 8

Someone who will, no matter when they started being a fan, never, ever give up their Yankee fandom, no matter what.
You can like baseball as a sport (as in watch the playoffs w/o the Yankees and, like I did, acknowledge Josh Beckett's performance this off-season as one of the greats of all time), feel sympathetic towards certain other teams but you cannot ever pull for another team against the Yankees and you cannot ever give up on the Bombers.
Hate certain players, hate the management, hate the owners but never hate the team.
Unlike one poster said, you do not need to be a season ticket holder. Unfortunately, there are a lot of corporate and other non-true fan Yankee season ticket holders and, oh yeah, they cost thousands. Money is not at all a requirement for true Yankee fandom.

Answer 9

I think it's required to agrue every smack talk against your team with the fact that the Yankees have won 26 titles, and never, under any circumstances, deviate from that argument.

Let me give you a few examples:

Fan 1: Wow, I can't believe the Tigers managed to knock off the Yankees last year.
Yankees Fan: So, who cares, the Yankees have won 26 titles.

Fan 1: The Red Sox are really on a roll, 2 titles in 4 years.
Yankees Fan: So, that's nothing. The Yankees have won 26 titles.

Fan 1: I can't believe a freakin taco costs $1.29.
Yankees Fan: So, who cares. The Yankees have won 26 titles.
Fan 1: What?

Answer 10

Well, I've been a Yankee fan since 1973. Started liking them because I was on the Yankees in Little League. I was a fan when they won in '77-'78 and I was a fan when they were losing 100 games a year in the late '80s and early '90s. And I'm still a fan.

Answer 11

a true yankee fan is someone who automatcally gravitates to whatever teams are most successfull, youll probably find them rooting for the patriots in football, and as soon as it becomes apparent the yankees arent really going to be that good anymore they will abandon them for another team, probably the sox
it will start with them ripping on the team and booing the players, and over time they will just switch to whatever team has become the new dominant team, whether thats the sox or angels or indians
that is a true yankee fan