[Gilgamel]

I'm lashing out because I hate this horseshit, and I see it becoming a possibility in the NFL. I couldn't even root for a team like the Yankees, you're like a ringer in the special Olympics. What possible satisfaction do you Boston/NY fans gain from rooting for that team? It would be like The Vols and Gators dropping the SEC to join the MAC and then bragging about how good we are and pretending our games are the only ones that matter because we crush our competition.

It also doesn't help that both Boston and New York's fanbase's are full of people who go on and on about tradition and history when their current incarnations are representative of everything wrong with modern sports. Hell, half the major steroid users are prominent members of one team or the other.

If the NFL worked like MLB the Colts wouldn't be enjoying lucking into Peyton Manning, they would be lamenting his loss to the Redskins or Giants because they couldn't afford to keep him.

What is remotely impressive to you about handpicking the best players from the rest of the major leagues, paying them far more than most other teams could, and then beating the leftovers?

If I was a New Yorker I would adopt another team purely on principal. If I wasn't a New Yorker I would throw myself off a tall building for even thinking about supporting a team with that kind of overwhelming advantage.

The Yankees are not special. And any inherent value their history and tradition may have once held has been rendered meaningless. I'm sure you'll be just as proud of your 2014 title with Joe Mauer and Zack Greinke. And it will totally be because of the Yankee lore.