Well, the obvious is “Who’s your Daddy?” tomorrow night, anyway. I read today that there had been a t-shirt made along those lines but it was removed from the market as being “offensive.” :dubious:
I can understand not liking the Yankees. I don’t like the Yankees.
But the “Yankees Suck!” chant has always mystified me. It’s false. They don’t suck. They’re awesome. Greatest franchise in any major North American sport, easy. And they led the league in wins this year.
Now, “Yankee FANS suck!” is a subjective call, so that’s okay. “Go to hell, Yankees!”, “Beat New York!” and “Steinbrenner is a fatass!” are all fine. “Yankees Suck!” makes the heckler sound like a fool, or a Red Sox fan, not that there’s a lot of difference.
Ahh, but you see, sucking is in no way related to how many games or world series a team wins. Sucking is merely an intrinsic quality independant of everything else. A team either sucks, or does not suck. The Yankees, from my observation, suck. It’s just that simple.
For instance, if I lose $20, I would say that sucks. And my friends would commiserate by saying, that sucks.
Or, I would look at my pathetic fantasy football team and say that my team sucks - while cursing the day Ahman Green was born.
The third way you can use it is in a way that’s more akin of calling someone an asshole. For instance, if we’re at Vegas and I’m losing money and my buddy is winning money hand over fist, I might tell him that he sucks. In this case, it would be a friendly jab, but it doesn’t have to be. I could say, “Dude, you suck.” He’d ask why. Then I’d say, I’m losing all this money here. And he’d say, that sucks, man, but it’ll turn around.
See? So Yankees Suck is basically saying that the Yankees, their owner, their players, their fans and everyone associated with them are assholes and we hate them.
So Yankees Suck is another way of saying that the entire organization is a fucking
I THINK I follow you. Let me see if I have this right.
"Suck" can mean either
a) “to be repulsive, nauseating and beneath contempt.”
b) “to be utterly incompetent, to fail miserably at everything, to be a perpetual source of embarrassment.”
So, Yankees fans suck in the A sense, whereas the guys who haven't won the World Series since 1918 (and who shelled out a small fortune for Curt Schilling for sole sole purpose of starting him in the playoffs against the Yankees!) suck in the B sense.
Works for me! Of course, this is almost an unfair exchange. Because Yankee fans really don't care that Bostonians think they suck! But Bostonians DO care desperately that the Sox haven't won the World Series since their grandfathers were in diapers.
Exactly! Remember a couple of years ago when the Patriots won their first Super Bowl title? That spring a bunch of the players brought the Lombardi Trophy to Fenway for an on-field ceremony before a Sox game. What was the spontaneous chant that rose from the crowd?
Not “We’re Number One!”
Not “Let’s go Pats!”
Not even “Let’s go Sox!”
No, the chant they started during the celebration was “Yankees suck!”.
I predict at least one sign held by a Yankee’s fan tonight that says "Daddy says: “Go to Bed!”.
(FTR, I can’t stand the Yankees. I hope the Red Sox win. But I can’t stand the Red Sox, either, so I hope they get slaughtered by St. Louis. I’m an A’s fan. I know, I know. I can’t help it.)
waits, IIRC, they even chanted “Yankees Suck” at the parade celebrating winning the Super Bowl! Nothing makes a Yankees fan heart feel warmer than to know a Sox fan is thinking about them.
in that only-baseball-fans-do-it sort of way. I first heard it when other teams’ fans would taunt Daryl Stawberry:
DARE-yl!
DARE-yl!
Then, when I started going to Yankee games, the Bleacher Creatures do the infamous Yankee Roll Call when the Yanks are on defense during the first inning:
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