r/baseball • u/WayAcrossTheWorld • 6d ago

Players Only [highlight] Junior Caminero- “Let the Yankees fans talk now. Let them watch the whole thing. Talk Now. What ya gonna say? Daaaaa Yankees lose”

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u/kingofthefall Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

Why do Dominicans hate the Yankees so much? Because of Big Papi?

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u/Specialist_Ad_6921 Baltimore Orioles 6d ago

Because all the Puerto Ricans are Yanks fans!

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u/Flythagoras Pittsburgh Pirates 6d ago

There are more Pirates jerseys in PR than there are in Pittsburgh.

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u/GreatBarrierQueefDD Atlanta Braves 5d ago

All 21

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u/StatPaddingChampsNY 5d ago

I don’t know of one PR co-worker who’s not a Yankee fan. There’s even a co-worker straight from PR, never lived in NYC, he’s a die hard Yankee fan.

I work in TX.

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u/SayAgainYourLast New York Yankees 5d ago

Not because they love the Pirates, but because of beloved legend Roberto Clemente.

Not negating your truth but I think there is a definitive distinction because Doninicans adopted the Red Sox as their main team because of the Dominican stars that led the Red Sux to their curse breaking and subsequent WS wins.

The love and support for Roberto Clemente didn't really have that same effect.

I grew up in NJ/NY and everyone I know that also grew up there are very staunch Red Sux fans. It's so annoying. Lol.

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u/Jefe_Wizen Tampa Bay Rays 6d ago

No we’re not.

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u/LIVINGSTONandPARSONS Puerto Rico 6d ago

Not all of us

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u/BlahBlah1921 6d ago

Right? Get the hell out of here with that.

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u/Specialist_Ad_6921 Baltimore Orioles 5d ago

Bruh. Issa yoke

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u/BlahBlah1921 6d ago

Nope not all of them

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u/triphawk07 San Diego Padres 6d ago

I'm from Puerto Rico and never been a Yankees fan.

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u/Specialist_Ad_6921 Baltimore Orioles 5d ago

Es tu primer vez escucha una broma o que?

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u/SubyWill Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5d ago

Hell no we aren’t. Fuck the Yankees.

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u/OnlyForBaseball Pittsburgh Pirates • Sickos 6d ago

It’s not Dominicans, it’s star players on rival teams who presumably get tons of flack (to put it lightly) from Yankees fans on social media (or in Ortiz’ case, in the press)

It’s not like you see Teoscar Hernandez or Jose Ramirez talking big shit

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u/KingTutKickFlip Boston Red Sox 6d ago

It is actually Dominicans too though. There was a huge amount of pro-Red Sox vibes in DR for a long time because of the Dominican megastars they had- Papi, Pedro, Manny etc

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u/OnlyForBaseball Pittsburgh Pirates • Sickos 6d ago

Oh for sure, but then you have a huge Dominican population in NY with tons of second and third generation Yankee fans. And I’m sure there are plenty in the DR itself too. I mean, Oneil Cruz was named after Paul O’Neill lol

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u/Radthereptile New York Yankees 6d ago

Maybe his family were big Reds fans.

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u/jawndell 6d ago

Yeah all the Dominicans in NY LOVE the Yankees.  They probably talk mad shit about other teams when they go back to DR. 

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u/tinydancer_inurhand 6d ago

I’m pretty sure there is a subset of Dominicans in NY who are Red Sox fans. Cardi B is a Red Sox fan from youth.

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u/brianmcg9 Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Most of the Dominicans also a live in the Bronx and upper Manhattan so they are in close proximity to Yankee stadium

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u/yankee4life New York Yankees 6d ago

And Jasson Dominguez being named so because his dad loved Jason Giambi

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u/jumpinjacktheripper Boston Red Sox 6d ago

ya it’s not that dominicans particularly hate the Yankees it’s that dominicans particularly love big papi and that became a classic papi moment as soon as he said it

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u/mrspoopy_butthole New York Yankees 6d ago

Jose Ramirez isn’t a star player?

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u/Yachiru5490 Cleveland Guardians 6d ago

Right, because that's "future HOF" player Jose Ramirez

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u/OnlyForBaseball Pittsburgh Pirates • Sickos 6d ago

I’m saying that he is a star Dominican player on a team that has played the Yankees in big games, and doesn’t really talk his shit like that

I would bet a lot of money that Caminero deals with a lot more Yankees fans in his mentions than Ramirez, and I mean that before he ever played the Yankees in the postseason

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u/Maximum_Barracuda_46 Pittsburgh Pirates • New York Yankees 6d ago

He's played the Yankees in the postseason 4 times?

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u/OnlyForBaseball Pittsburgh Pirates • Sickos 6d ago

I feel like I’m in opposite world lol. My comment says Ramirez IS a star player who HAS played the Yankees in big games

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u/YaSurLetsGoSeeYamcha Cleveland Guardians 6d ago

Why does anyone outside of New York not hate the Yankees as much?

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u/Disused_Yeti Cleveland Guardians 6d ago

Hey I’m in New York and doing my part to hate the Yankees from inside

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u/InfestedRaynor Athletics 6d ago

Wow, that is dedication. To hate the Yankees so much you move to NY to destroy them from the inside. /S

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 6d ago

People in New York hates the Yankees too. Almost half the metro area hates them!

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u/Radthereptile New York Yankees 6d ago

Mets do not make up half the metro area. I don’t think you all even get half of Long Island.

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 6d ago

“Almost”

And we absolutely have a lot of fans in Long Island and North Jersey. No as much had the Yankees fans but I see Mets merch being worn all the damn time

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u/FarDifficulty1779 Philadelphia Phillies 6d ago

hahahahaha “almost.”
sure 😂

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u/BeardedPuffin New York Mets 6d ago

Mets aren’t the Clippers or Nets. They have a ton of fans in the metro area. I don’t know the exact percentage, but it’s definitely closer to 50% than the other NY “second teams”.

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u/BrooklynBestTwo6 6d ago

Los mess ni verga valen

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u/stormwalker29 Texas Rangers 6d ago

My Yankees hate is somewhat diminished since 2010, just because the 2010 ALCS is my #2 sports memory of all time (I was there for Game 6 and the absolute bedlam when A-Rod struck out to send the Rangers to the World Series). Not gone, because they're still the Yankees, but I don't hold the playoffs in the '90's against them so much anymore.

(if anyone is curious, #1 is obviously the 2023 World Series. #3 is the 2023 ALCS, which is only behind the 2010 ALCS because I was *there* in 2010 and I had to watch 2023 on TV).

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u/Halichoeres_bivittat 6d ago

It's the same reason that Manchester United has so many fans outside of Manchester and the Lakers have so many fans outside of LA. Big market teams with a history of success attract otherwise unaligned fans. Plus celebrities wear their gear so people get to know the logos.

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u/torn8tv Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

69 updoots, not updooting...My man asking the real questions out here

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u/lozengeode 6d ago

Browse the Yankees subreddit for 5 minutes. I know all fanbases have good and bad fans, but the entitlement and generally attitude there is horrendous

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u/MesmersCure New York Yankees 6d ago

What do you want Yankee fans to say? "Hooray, what a hard-fought season guys! We'll get 'em next time!"?

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u/lozengeode 6d ago

I’m talking in general, not just right now. Thankfully I haven’t been on the Yankees subreddit in a while

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u/MesmersCure New York Yankees 6d ago

Let me know if you ever find a fan base of a team as historically successful as the Yankees that isn't insufferable.

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u/ZroDgsCalvin Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Everyone hates the Yankees. As they should.

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u/hanselton NPB 6d ago

The poverty franchise that has as many rings as the Angels in the last quarter century?

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u/ZroDgsCalvin Boston Red Sox 6d ago

And may that remain the case until the end of time

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u/timdot352 Tampa Bay Rays 6d ago

Idk, I wouldn't mind seeing the Angels win another ring.

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u/Skratt79 Brooklyn Dodgers 6d ago

It is time to do some dark rituals to bring the Rally Monkey back from the dead.

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u/PM_ME_CHIPOTLE2 New York Yankees 6d ago

lol that guy just cursed the league to the Yankees and the Angels alternating titles for the next 20 years

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u/intecknicolour Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

angels were good before arte.

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u/kikipitchingdelivery Anaheim Angels 6d ago

And during. We were nasty in the early Arte years.

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u/JinFuu Houston Astros 6d ago

Yep, Angels had a case for being historically the best expansion team in the West up until recently, only been the past decade they’ve fallen off

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Chicago Cubs 6d ago

I mean, they loathe Yankees fans more.

The original inventors of the rude, no effort “You suck!” chant

There’s a reason “Bronx cheer” is a phrase

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u/TheVaniloquence Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Yankees suck

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u/mas1108 New York Yankees 6d ago

Yankees suck!

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u/lifeisarichcarpet Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

I dislike the Red Sox more than the Yankees.

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u/NatAttack50932 New York Yankees 6d ago

Me too

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u/alienfreaks04 New York Yankees 6d ago

The Yankee gate is understood but also way too much. It’s all laughable

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u/NuanceManExe New York Mets 6d ago

If you don’t root for the Yankees there is absolutely no reason to like them. The fans alone are a great reason to root against them.

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u/needmoregatos New York Mets 6d ago

Can't upvote this enough.

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u/BrooklynBestTwo6 6d ago

Hahahahaha NY second baseball team

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u/reyzak 6d ago

I’m cursed to have lived in Oklahoma my whole
Life but was in Yankees stadium to see David cone pitch a perfect game. Have to explain to everyone I meet why I’m a Yankees fan and not just as asshole wearing a Yankees hat

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u/alienfreaks04 New York Yankees 6d ago

Except this is every team you’re not a fan of.

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u/hvppymango 6d ago

shhh don’t try to use logic here. no other team has shitty fans, just the yankees

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u/iiamthepalmtree Chicago White Sox 6d ago

No one boos their own team harder than Yankees fans. Most entitled fanbase by far.

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u/mememachine_420 New York Yankees 6d ago

Acting like Yankees fans and Mets fans aren’t literally the same people

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u/PaladinGodfather1931 Philadelphia Phillies 6d ago

I've never seen a Mets fan try to steal Mookie Betts' glove on an foul pop.. and I've seen Phillies fans throw batteries at JD Drew.

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u/Medical_Squirrel3946 6d ago

Yes, but Mookie Betts is the greatest American alive and JD Drew deserves to have batteries thrown at him.

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u/GuyForgett Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Terrible take that’s factually incorrect

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u/mememachine_420 New York Yankees 6d ago

I’m saying Yankees and Mets fans literally grow up across the street from each other all across NY/NJ/CT. The only functional difference between an average Yankees fan and an average Mets fan is who their families root for.

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u/mondaybeers Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

Mets fans have a humility to them that is necessary to survival as a Mets fan. It’s an evolutionary response.

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u/Old_Jellyfish1283 Cleveland Guardians 6d ago

This kind of just makes the point though that Yankees fans are pricks for no reason. It’s not a “NYC thing,” it’s uniquely a Yankee fan thing. Same exact environment but only one of thems an ass

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u/dwpea66 Los Angeles Dodgers 6d ago

They are literally the same people from the same area, but Mets fans manage to be chill af... so it must be a Yankee thing

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u/thanksithas_pockets_ Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

No way. Are you a Yankees fan who doesn’t live in the city or something?

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u/mememachine_420 New York Yankees 6d ago edited 6d ago

Manhattan, where do you live?

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u/NuanceManExe New York Mets 6d ago

Next I’ll be telling you the sky is blue 

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u/Medical_Squirrel3946 6d ago

This is like when during the World Cup, English fans were getting angry that everyone like the Scots and didn't like them. Just like I said to the English, no you aren't the same and we like them cause they're fun and lovable and you're a bunch of pricks who just happen to share an island with them.

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u/mememachine_420 New York Yankees 6d ago

Yeah this is just a weird false equivalency lol. There are very obvious political, historical, and cultural differences between England and Scotland. Distance-wise, Edinburgh to London is farther than NYC to Pittsburgh. They are in no way the same people. The point I’m making is that Yankees and Mets fans come from the same/very similar cultural backgrounds, live in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools, lead similar lives, etc.

The only differentiating factor that determines Yankees/Mets fandom for the vast majority of fans is whether their parents are Yankees or Mets fans. There are maybe some slight geographical differences (obviously Queens vs. the Bronx but also slight variations based on neighborhoods, Long Island vs. NJ vs. CT, etc.) but largely they’re the same people, the Yankees just have many times more fans than the Mets

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u/Subject-District492 Tampa Bay Rays 6d ago

Isn’t the normal NYC alignment

Giants/Yankees/Rangers

Jets/Mets/Islanders

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u/JDStraightShot2 New York Yankees 6d ago

Yeah, Yankees/Giants and Mets/Jets are pairings bc each duo used to share a stadium before the Giants and Jets moved to Jersey. Hockey is a little different bc the Islanders are really Long Islands team, so most NYC natives are Rangers fans if they care about hockey. There are also the Devils in Jersey, which leans Yankees. There’s a some correlation where Islanders fans are more likely to be Mets/Jets bc those teams played at Shea in queens which is very easy to reach from LI, while getting to Yankee Stadium from LI is a bigger pain

Everybody roots for the Knicks though, which is why the city exploded so much more for their run than any other teams

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u/Competitive-Owl-9134 6d ago

Stop that shit you're Bama, Cowboys and Lakers fans. Yankees fans blow everyone else out of the water in terms of sheer bogging down of the sport.

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u/mememachine_420 New York Yankees 6d ago

I’m a Yankees fan because my father and his father are Yankees fans lol. I’m a Knicks fan because my father and his father are Knicks fans, etc.

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u/russellamcleod 6d ago

The only reason everyone hates the Yankees is their fanbase.

I see it every time the Yankees come to town. They will fight you on your home turf for cheering for your own team. Any other fan will just be happy to watch baseball and talk baseball with someone else.

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u/Baron_Light 6d ago

Lol everyone hates the yankees bro.

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u/Saint-O-Circumstance New York Yankees 6d ago

Especially Yankee fans.

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u/jooooooooooooose Boston Red Sox 6d ago

I would beg to differ

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u/sandalsnopants Tampa Bay Rays 6d ago

main character syndrome here

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u/DigiQuip Cincinnati Reds 6d ago

Have you seen Dominican fashion? Not a single pinstripe to be found. 

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u/True-Source-6512 6d ago

Puerto Ricans is usually the answer 

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u/eb12se4nt-z13ow-97g0 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6d ago

Dominicans are one of their largest fan base. They just don't play for the Yankees.

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u/863rays 6d ago

Facts. I’m down in the DR all the time and Yankees hats are EVERYWHERE!

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u/Theraspberryknight Tampa Bay Devil Rays • Cincinnati Reds 4d ago

We also shockingly have a fairly sizeable DR fanbase but that's just cause we've been known to bring in DR players for nearly 8 or so years at this point.

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u/GiannisIsTheBeast 6d ago

The Yankees have always been viewed like how the Dodgers are now. No one likes a big market team that buys World Series titles.

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u/Tom_Cruise New York Yankees 6d ago

Crazy but true fact: The last time the Red Sox won a title, they were first in payroll. The Yankees were seventh.

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u/JonMatrix Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Also crazy but true: The Rays have the highest payroll of the remaining 3 American League teams, but they are 25th overall in MLB.

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u/Mr_Evil_Dr_Porkchop Boston Red Sox 6d ago

And the Brewers are sitting around 20th. I think the 4 Non-Dodger teams combine to barely beat out the Dodgers by themselves in combined payroll

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u/Poverty_Shoes 6d ago

I want a Brewers-Rays (or Guardians) World Series so badly. We need a new team to win one. Wouldn’t even mind the White Sox getting another one, especially with how bad they were two years ago. Just not the Dodgers, please anybody but the Dodgers.

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u/TheFinalJester97 Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Tbf it has been 21 years since the White Sox won the World Series so not an insignificant amount of time AND they had the worst season in mlb history during that span. All this to say I support my Sox brethren!

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u/Whatever-ItsFine Los Angeles Dodgers 6d ago

Or, think about it like this: what if the Dodgers won? Sounds pretty good, right!

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u/ELLinversionista Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

Fucking Rays buying themselves a penant

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u/DimmuBorgnine Seattle Mariners 6d ago

Yeah there’s really no truth to thr perception but the narrative matters. The Red Sox built up 100 years of underdog vibes but I think they’re largely gone at this point.

That said I’d never root for the Yankees against them, but I am certainly becoming more mellowed with age in terms of hating the Yankees. The current club is nothing like the early 00s lineups that I detested so much. 

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u/sup3rdr01d Boston Red Sox 6d ago

I'll hate the Yankees extra for you

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u/Drnedsnickers2 Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

Same.

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u/DimmuBorgnine Seattle Mariners 6d ago

If I was from Boston disregard everything I said before

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u/brownbearks Philadelphia Phillies 6d ago

Take my hate too

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u/iBarber111 6d ago

Tf do you mean there's no truth to the perception. The Red Sox have had a higher payroll than the Yankees ONE year (2018).

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u/PsychoticDreams47 New York Yankees 6d ago

The older I get, the less I care what people think. At the end of the day it's a game that I love watching, and even though yes I want my team to win it all in the end. Once it's over, I move on to the next thing until next year lol.

People that have this undying hatred for The Yankees make me laugh. Like shit dude even I hate some Yankees fans that are just embarassing.

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u/DimmuBorgnine Seattle Mariners 6d ago

I would argue that increasingly not caring what people think is the best part about getting older

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u/Away-Eggplant9943 6d ago

This is how I feel as a cowboys fan. We’ve haven’t won anything since the 90s but I still root for the team and hope for the best. The haters are loud but oh well, what can we do?

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u/Solo-ish 5d ago

Deranged mookie Betts guy comes to mind!

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u/4694326 New York Yankees 5d ago

I’m with you on not having the same passion about it. Used to get pissed off, but now, I appreciate the game more and just move on to… I don’t know what, drinking some more beers and watching Yankee highlights.

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u/reserved_seating Texas Rangers 6d ago

True fact for all of life, it’s ONLY the narrative that matters now. Never the truth.

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u/Traditional_Yam9806 2d ago

Na, the yankees have outspent the red sox other than 3 years and usally the yankees outspend the red sox by a lot.

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u/Halichoeres_bivittat 6d ago

I was at a conference with a lot of New Englanders when they finally broke the curse and it was fun celebrating with them, but since then they've become as bad as the Yankees.

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u/Sorry-Reaction7139 5d ago

Thats when their best players were homegrown just like today lol

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u/DimmuBorgnine Seattle Mariners 5d ago

Yeah bro, I don't know what to tell you I was 11 OK

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u/Hebrewhammer8d8 5d ago

Derek Jeter enter the chat?

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u/Traditional_Yam9806 2d ago

Holy propaganda. The yankees have had a higher payroll other than 2017, 2018, and 2019 (only barely, too, other than 2018, by the red sox). Otherwise they've had a far higher payroll.

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u/oruuuus Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Yeah man the Sox are consistently one of opposing fans least liked teams in the league too, it’s fine

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u/Drunken-Flunkee Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

Blue Jays in 92 and 93, leading payrolls.

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u/Illustrious-Leave-10 Detroit Tigers 6d ago

“This just in… World Series winning teams have large payrolls”

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u/WHYlSTHERUMGONE St. Louis Cardinals 6d ago

Oh no, the billionaires are fighting again

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u/Tom_Cruise New York Yankees 6d ago

Doesn't your owner fully own his team privately after selling an oil company he built with George W Bush using Skull and Bones Yale influence before joining his cabinet?

Bro your team is owned by the OG Elon. 🤣

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u/Whitesox_are_neat Chicago White Sox • Milwaukee Brewers 6d ago

True but yall did it for a lot longer

Acting like a dodger fan being dense

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u/sir_mrej Boston Red Sox • Boston Hunters 6d ago

Yes but the Red Sox didnt have a long string of it. The Yankees did. And the Dodgers are on their way.

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u/Tom_Cruise New York Yankees 6d ago

Is this a real comment?

Over the 15 years they won those four world series, the years they won they were to 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, and 1st.

Over the past 30 years they've been in the top 5 for 22 of those years.

We are brothers, sir.

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u/iBarber111 6d ago

Not really. Red Sox haven't been top 10 since 2021. Yankees have been top 3 every one of those years. That's not the same thing at all.

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u/Tom_Cruise New York Yankees 5d ago

Well ... I never said you weren't the little brother 🤣

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u/HomerJSimpson3 Boston Red Sox 6d ago

“Buying World Series titles” is kind of the point of free agency.

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u/LordTiddlypusch New York Yankees 6d ago

It's actually just the point of baseball or sports in general. Winning.

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u/pragnesh_89 6d ago

As a Mets fan, lol we can't even do that. Just spend spend and spend more. And don't win.

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u/Ame_No_Uzume 6d ago

Their fan base is like that of Dallas Cowboys of baseball. They have to remind everyone of their 27 World Series titles, while not having done anything since the early 2000s in the post season.

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u/dwpea66 Los Angeles Dodgers 6d ago

They're also corny af lol. They lean so hard on the "were an important legacy team" thing.

And then the fans just go ahead and boo their own players.

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u/PeterDTown Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

It's so much more than that. Yeah, buying championships is annoying, but the yankee organization and the fans are just constantly dripping with arrogance, even when there's no justification.

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u/DiamondHandsDarrell Los Angeles Dodgers 6d ago

That's what happens when the best team doesn't win 🤷🏽‍♂️

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u/WokePredator 6d ago

Yankees title teams were just barely outspending number two. Hell, the 1998 team actually had a lower payroll than the Orioles. I don't begrudge the Dodgers or what they're doing, but it's a whole other universe from what the Yankees ever did.

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u/throw69420awy 6d ago

If you’re against buying titles idk how you even justify being a baseball fan lol

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u/OptimalExperience495 6d ago

If they could’ve bought them over the past 17 years, they would. The thing is now they make way too much money without even having to win a World Series, so it’s like they don’t even care anymore

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u/clydeftones 6d ago

As a Yankee fan, really wondering when we get to have the success tied to the reputation. Our modern era successes are the product of a home grown core and bargain free agents.

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u/Fit_Temperature3810 5d ago

how does that relate to the players though? you think they hate on LA signing Kyle Tucker for $67M/WAR or Tyler Glasgow for $5M/IP? nah, they’re salivating on those teams setting ridiculous market value and would jump at the chance to be on those teams.

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u/XxsteakiixX Arizona Diamondbacks 4d ago

It’s funny how much the dodgers rewrote it but yes growing up I remember the Yankees being “THE TEAM” like how nfl was the cowboys and nba was the lakers

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u/kuttymongoose 12h ago

Is that the Dominican reason tho?

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u/ParkingLower7581 Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Unironically that is a large part of it

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u/Illustrious-Leave-10 Detroit Tigers 6d ago

The same reason we hate the Yankees… the the fucking Yankees

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u/Hour_Health_4593 Milwaukee Brewers 6d ago

Junior got signed for <100k out of DR and had to watch guys like Jasson the same year get $5m+. I’d hate the Yankees too

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u/Rynorad13 6d ago

I hate the dodgers more but the yanks are a close 2nd...

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u/kingofthefall Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago edited 6d ago

Not a close second anymore, even though we’re bitter division rivals. the dodgers decimated the fandom based on last year. So I agree

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u/Radthereptile New York Yankees 6d ago

The Yankees may be the evil empire but the stuff the Dodgers are pulling may legit get us no baseball next year. There are layers to this.

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u/mrniphty 6d ago

Funny how one sided that is. Blue jays are the bottom of the Yankees rivals AL East

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u/imirritatedaf Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

It takes 2 seconds to type the keyword “jays” in the Yankees subreddit to know that’s a lie
https://giphy.com/gifs/WZOffTa9X1FZe

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u/Rynorad13 6d ago

I would think Baltimore is at the bottom

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u/dagp1832 6d ago

Second that for dodgers fans, they're just that team we beat last year. 

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u/thanksithas_pockets_ Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

How one sided what is?

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u/ghostinthechell Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Flair up!

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u/AdministrationOk8888 Chicago Cubs 6d ago

I hate the Yankees because 'they' beat my team in the championship in little league when I was 9. Everyone has their reasons, why are you tying it to nationality?

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u/kingofthefall Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

Just going by the most vocal players who happens to be Dominican. Started with Ortiz, Vladdy now Junior

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u/Jealous_Gene134 Milwaukee Brewers 6d ago

i feel like its pretty easy to tie it all together. papi hates the yankees cuz hes a red sox. hes the face of the team. vladdy hates the yankees, cuz its a divisional rival, hes the face of the blue jays and probably looked up to papi as a role model. and then at this point its a tradition. AND, its the yankees. what more of a reason do you need for people to hate them??

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u/GenericUsername1262 6d ago

Also the Yankees played Vladdy Sr when he tried to bring Vladdy Jr to the game one time. So Vladdy had that memory.

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u/Unuhpropriate 6d ago

FYI Vladdy hates the Yankees because of his dad and his carbon copy Griffey story. The Gary Sheffield over Vladdy Sr offseason, plus he got booted off the field as a kid, same as Ken Griffey Jr. 

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u/thesoccerone7 Tampa Bay Rays • Pittsburgh Pirates 6d ago

Pedro Martinez as well. His post game had me cracking up

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u/gocryulilbitch 6d ago

Hmm or maybe it's just because they are all players that played their entire careers in AL East...

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u/Viracochina 6d ago

I hate them because my sister was rooting for them one time in 2004 while trying to impress a guy she was dating

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u/reagan_baby New York Yankees 6d ago

The Big Papi era Red Sox definitely made Sox fans out of a lot of Dominicans. So you'll see Sox hats in NYC because if that. But upper Manhattan and the Bronx are filled with Domincans. They don't hate the Yankees.

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u/a_talking_face Tampa Bay Rays 6d ago

Because you should and it's fun.

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u/Tjengel Chicago Cubs 6d ago

Everyone hates the Yankees

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u/The_Jovanny New York Yankees 6d ago

For the life of me I can’t remember the last liked Dominican on the Yankees.

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u/smitteh Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

yankees walked so dodgers could 3peat

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u/arongoss 6d ago

Because fuck the Yankees. Biggest egos in the league.

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u/turnstile2243 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6d ago

Their fans are legit the most annoying in sports. They talk the loudest, and complain the loudest. They are also spoiled as shit and will hang all those mickey mouse rings over your head even though half those are when plumbers were playing baseball.

Just overall, very fucking annoying lol. Seeing it first time at their stadium too

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u/imirritatedaf Toronto Blue Jays 6d ago

Vladdy specifically has said it was due to racism he experienced at their ballpark, I’m not sure about the other Dominican players reasons… although Caminero and Vladdy are close friends

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u/locke_but_not_peter_ 6d ago

I have no idea but I study the Caribbean and my answer is IMPERIALISM

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u/JaHoog 6d ago

Everyone hates the Yankees

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u/conwaytwittyshairs 6d ago

Have I been Dominican this whole time?

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u/BrooklynBestTwo6 6d ago

Hes a dumb in the can… rent free

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u/Accurate_Today6346 6d ago

Big Papi gets shot by his own people in the Dominican.

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u/Fun_Ad5823 6d ago

Because they all want to play for the Yankees and are lowkey mad they aren't on the team

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u/jumpinjacktheripper Boston Red Sox 6d ago

i think it’s just that everyone hates the yankees and dominicans love big papi. so when dominicans beats the yankees they get to celebrate their win and quote a national icon in one go

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u/throw69420awy 6d ago

I see plenty of Yankees hats in the DR, also see plenty of Red Sox hats

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u/surebudd 6d ago

It’s not just Dominicans, it’s everyone. Nature is healing. Da jankees looooooose

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u/Prize-Flamingo-336 New York Yankees 6d ago

Kinda. The Yankees, for being such a huge baseball team in the city with such a large Dominican population tend not to have alot of Dominican players. The Red Sox cornered that market in the 00s with the triple threat of Manny, Ortiz, and Pedro. Also, I will always keep saying this, the Yankees DONT LIKE TO HAVE FUN and to Dominicans, baseball IS fun! Check the highlights from the WBC. Compare Austin Wells playing for Team Dominican to him playing with the Yankees

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u/Mobile-Language8398 Cincinnati Reds 6d ago

It isn’t a DR thing… just ask Ken Griffey Jr

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u/CuriousFT Boston Red Sox 6d ago

Dominican here, piling up on the comments, we as a culture love to tease and brag and pimp (as u can see on our celebrations). Most of the time is good fun, sometimes tho annoying people get overboad talking smack about a team and talking about its history and and shitting in the other teams. It gets tiring real quick, specially when they keep losing.

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u/Masterank1 New York Yankees 6d ago

Most Dominicans are yankee fans though. The Dominicans you see who hate them are major leaguers who play for rival teams. Of course they hate the Yankees, and no it has nothing to do with Puerto Ricans.

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u/TheDayman_240 6d ago

I remember when they found a Big Papi jersey buried in the concrete when they were building the new Yankee stadium. That construction worker is an absolute legend for that.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1IYi4Ta5jQXGl7QQ

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u/Maxxjulie 6d ago

Feels like he's angry he's not on the Yankees and has to work for Tampa Bay.

Twisting into yeah f them ...but in heartbeat would go to the Yankees if possible

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u/TserriednichThe4th 5d ago

dominicans do not hate the yankees lmao. yankees are probably the favorite of dominican teams alongside chicago and boston.

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u/DependentBid4497 4d ago

big papi definitely played a part but the red sox rivalry goes way deeper than that lol

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u/Still7Superbaby7 Philadelphia Phillies 6d ago

I thought it was the racism of the Yankees franchise. Not the players on the Yankees- the front office, security, etc.

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u/Ricemobile Washington Nationals 6d ago

Because they love baseball.

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