I actually used to BE a Yankee fan, way back in the Clete Boyer-Hector Lopez Era. I mostly attribute this personal failingl to the following mitigating factors:
- I was seven and eight years old
- there was no national league baseball in my city at the time
- the Yankees won a lot, and
- that was all I needed to know, or could absorb
After 1962, I became a Mets fan (oddly, not BEFORE the 1962 season, their first–it took me a year to come around).
After forty years of rooting for the Mets, though, I became convinced around 2002 or 2003 that the organization was effectively a braindead, clueless, doltish crew of screwups, and when I voiced these views on a Mets fansite that I founded, I found myself banned from that site (I had turned the technical capacity to ban over to one of my co-founders, and he just got fed up and banned me.) I had, coincidentally, discovered around that time that the Red Sox were being GMed by someone whose family I was close to (still am) and whom I had known since he was a small boy. SInce this allowed me to continue despising the Yankees, I became a Sox fan, just in time for their first World Series since 1918 (no credit for causality is claimed). Needless to say that 2004 pennant, as well as the 1969 pennant, are high water marks of my rooting.
But whoever I root for, I always will despise the Yankees, and their smug, self-satsified fans. Class of the American League, my ass.