Yankee fans are drooling over this weekend's events and their team's upcoming AL East division "championship". Living in an area of Connecticut that is nearly 49% Red Sox -49% Yankee fans (The Mets get 1% and all other MLB teams comprise the other 1%), we have to listen to the banter that comes with this rivalry.
The recent resurgence of Yankee Pride is comical to me. All of a sudden CC Sabbithia, Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher are "true Yankees" and Alex Rodriguez is just a rented player. Huh??? Recently, I witnessed a NY fan taunting a Sox fan with, "You guys are losers. Have been and will always be." Retort -- 2004 and 2007. "Two? Two? Come on we are the Yankees!"
Then it dawned on me, the New York Yankees have not won the division in two years. The Bombers have not won a World Series since 2000. They failed to even make the playoffs last year. For most (ages 9-25) Yankee fans, this is their longest drought ever. Imagine being twenty-five and your team has not won a world series since you were sixteen or seventeen years old? A lot has changed in that time.
The reality of Major League Baseball is the regular season means less now than it has at any time in its history. The real season begins in two weeks. Sox fans know this, I'm not sure Yankee fans can remember that far back.
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