Comments on: The Truth About Yankees Fans

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:30:34 +0000

Richard:

Your comment: “some of those late-80s teams were so dire that it’s amazing ANYONE went to a game.”…just cements my point….Yankees fans are Frontrunners

Thank-you

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:07:06 +0000

Terrible article with no point to make. As Shantai says, this does not demonstrate at all that Yankee fans are fickle. In fact, quite the other way around — it shows that Yankee fans have stuck through the tough times, for the most part.

The empirical evidence does not support your premise. It’s also taken out of context — some of those late-80s teams were so dire that it’s amazing ANYONE went to a game.

Your point should have been on how success breeds bandwagoners, artificially inflating a team’s attendance so that in one decade, average attendance dropped a staggering 50% — to go from 34k+ to 17k+ is simply stunning.

Pick another target, or at least get better empirical evidence.

By: Shantai

Shantai — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:06:55 +0000

So the data you show does not show a lack of Yankee support, it just shows a decline in Met support. The diffrence in average attendance in the year 1986, when the Mets won and the year 1996, when the Yankees won: the attendance for the Yankees actually declined 211 people. The difference is that the Mets attendance dropped 14.5 thousand–that’s an extreme number. They are not necessarily going to Yankee stadium, but instead maybe just not going at all.

By: Drew McClure

Drew McClure — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:17:26 +0000

Fans of the Yankees are among the most comical in all sports. Faithful? Please! They pretend the years you pointed out never existed. 1995 and ‘96, they had strong teams and the place was barren.

They’re also among the most hypocritical. Speak to any of the so-called “long-time” Yankees fans – they’ll claim that Roger Maris is still the rightful owner of the single-season HR crown. Bonds, McGwire and Sosa were all cheats. In fact, when the Giants came to town for an interleague game, the fans booed him unmercifully. Why? He’s an all-time great, right? Why would anyone boo Barry Bonds, one of the greatest of all time? They say it was because he cheated. Fine. They how can they cheer Rodriguez? How can they live with titles won by Clemens, Pettitte and others? Is cheating all part of the pride and pinstripes? They’re a joke.

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