# A poll for Yankee haters **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960 "2003-09-26T13:25:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/1 "2003-09-26T13:25:15Z")
Will those who hate the Yankees please answer: Which is the better scenario - the Yankees lose in the first round of the playoffs to the Twins, or the Yanks lose in the championship series to the Red Sox? Which would have a more heated reaction from Steinbrenner? ---
**Author:** ![bri1600bv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@bri1600bv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bri1600bv)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/2 "2003-09-26T13:28:31Z")
Yanks losing to Red Sox would be ideal of course. But I’d rather have them lose in the first round. The excitement of a Yanks/Red Sox series might be too much for me. It’s a “if you have a rabid dog…better off killing him with the first shot” type of thing. Yankees=evil was always my thinking ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/3 "2003-09-26T13:31:27Z")
I have hated the Yankees since y’all stole the family silver and encouraged our servants to run away. . . Oh, you mean that newfangled game they play with sticks and balls. Cain’t say that I’m a fan, but I hear that boy Honus Wagner is an up and comer. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/4 "2003-09-26T13:39:38Z")
Both are lovely propositions, but I’d say the latter would be finer. Babe’s cure and all. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/5 "2003-09-26T13:41:22Z")
there should be an ‘s’ in one of the words in my post ---
**Author:** ![NFlanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@NFlanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NFlanders)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/6 "2003-09-26T13:42:04Z")
Yankee-hater checking in. I have to say that losing to the Red Sox would be more humiliating, but I just don’t trust the Sox to be able to finish them off. I would have to be out of the country because it would be too nerve-wracking. But maybe beating the Yankees would give the Sox the boost they need to actually win a championship. It’s got to happen sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/7 "2003-09-26T13:50:23Z")
What the heck’s there not to hate?! Yankees are evil, stupid, Christian fundamentalist war-mongers that have put half the world to the yoke in their capitalist hell invention of sweat shops and drowning everybody else in a deluge of lousy cultural imperialism while they sit on their fat asses and eat the cream of the slaves sweat and are quite without sense for the finer things in life like cultural superior Europeans.…oh this is about sport…oh… - Rune ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/8 "2003-09-26T14:08:25Z")
Damn, I thought this was going to be about the War of Northern Agression. Um, Yankees lose to the Red Sox. I simply can’t stand that Jeter fellow in the Visa ads. He looks incredibly smug. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/9 "2003-09-26T14:47:04Z")
Yankees lose in first round. Better yet, they all catch some loathsome social disease, and have to be quarantined while New York is disinfected. Besides, the Red Sox would just choke…again. Speaking of choke artists…Go, Cubs!!! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/10 "2003-09-26T15:04:27Z")
Yankees swept in the first round, but being swept by Boston would be nearly as good. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/11 "2003-09-26T15:44:26Z")
I’d rather get rid of the Yankees first, and have the Sox face a team they _don’t_ have a mental block about. Also, the Twins’ pitching is softer. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/12 "2003-09-26T22:21:14Z")
Here is my better scenario. The Yankees lose to the A’s in the ALCS. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/13 "2003-09-26T22:23:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WinstonSmith \* > \*\*What the heck’s there not to hate?! Yankees are evil, stupid, Christian fundamentalist war-mongers that have put half the world to the yoke in their capitalist hell invention of sweat shops and drowning everybody else in a deluge of lousy cultural imperialism while they sit on their fat asses and eat the cream of the slaves sweat and are quite without sense for the finer things in life like cultural superior Europeans.…oh this is about sport…oh… > > - Rune \*\* Yeah, that’s what I thought this thread was going to be about too. Damn. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![baseball\_dude12000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@baseball\_dude12000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baseball_dude12000)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/14 "2003-09-26T22:27:54Z")
i would like to see the red sox take the yankees down in a sweep ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/15 "2003-09-26T22:31:49Z")
I would love to see the BoSox take the Yankees in 7 (at Yankee Stadium no less) except for that fact that it would entail my beloved Athletics losing in the first round (again!). Therefore, I have to agree with **kevya** , A’s over the Yankees to take the ALCS in four. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/16 "2003-09-26T23:50:13Z")
I would have to take a week off work as I wept with uncontrollable joy if the Sox swept the Yankees. I can’t even imagine the perfect World Series of Cubs vs. Sox. Could there be anyone who wants to see Braves vs. Yankees in the Series. I understand being a fan as I have suffered with the Sox, but really what a crashing bore that would be. I would love to hear from a demented Yankee fan as to which matchup they would rather see, although I suppose I can guess the answer. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/17 "2003-09-27T00:58:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \* > \*\* > > Um, Yankees lose to the Red Sox. I simply can’t stand that Jeter fellow in the Visa ads. He looks incredibly smug. \*\* Yeah, well, I guess winning a bunch of World Series rings goes to a man’s head. Luckily, that’s something you Red Sox fans will never have to worry about! Nomar will remain a humble, modest soul forever! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/18 "2003-09-27T02:38:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fruitbat \* > I can’t even imagine the perfect World Series of Cubs vs. Sox. Could there be anyone who wants to see Braves vs. Yankees in the Series. I understand being a fan as I have suffered with the Sox, but really what a crashing bore that would be. > > I would love to hear from a demented Yankee fan as to which matchup they would rather see, although I suppose I can guess the answer. Non-demented (I think) Yankees fan checking in, also a general fan of baseball in that I don’t really hate the Red Sox or any other team. I can tell you, I’d hate to see the Yankees vs Atlanta again. That would not be a good thing for baseball. Yankees-Cubs, Yankees-Giants, even Yankees-Astros would be much more interesting storylines. But none of them would come anywhere close to Red Sox-Cubs. That would be something. You know what else would be a great matchup? Red Sox-Giants. Pedro vs Barry in the World Series. Think Pedro would pitch around him? ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/19 "2003-09-27T03:07:41Z")
I’m not really a Yankee hater, but… It would be good to see the Twins, who along with the Expos were one of the teams MLB considered dismantling last year, beat the team with the highest payroll in baseball. Then again, I’m a Mets fan, and I don’t particularly like seeing them get their high-paying asses handed to them by the Expos 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960/20 "2003-09-27T14:37:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*Yeah, well, I guess winning a bunch of World Series rings goes to a man’s head. > > Luckily, that’s something you Red Sox fans will never have to worry about! Nomar will remain a humble, modest soul forever! > > 😃 \*\* Hey, I’m no Red Sox fan, I’m just picking between the lesser of two evils! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-yankee-haters/203960.md?page=2)