MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

[dxmnkd316]

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Well, the rest of MLB is owed about a bajillion calls that have favored the Yankees over the years, so just take those off the long running tab.

And not pidly things like strike zones. I'm talking balls that landed four farking feet foul that were called fair in favor of the Yankees. In two separate series.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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Well, the rest of MLB is owed about a bajillion calls that have favored the Yankees over the years, so just take those off the long running tab.

100% this. There isn't a fan base in all of professional sports in this country that should complain less about calls than Yankees fans...and it isn't even close.

[WeAreNDHockey]

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100% this. There isn't a fan base in all of professional sports in this country that should complain less about calls than Yankees fans...and it isn't even close.

Who knows, if the Yankees hadn't been gifted a Jeter home run via the Jeffrey Maier play, maybe their most recent dynasty never would have happened.

[Kepler]

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Sigh. The Yankees, like the Cardinals, are insufferable. In truth, the latter's humble brag is probably worse than the former's casual assumption of superiority. But what really drives the nail in is that both teams always seem to get it done.

[Russell Jaslow]

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The consolation is we're headed to an all National League World Series.

Maybe not so much...

[Russell Jaslow]

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Who knows, if the Yankees hadn't been gifted a Jeter home run via the Jeffrey Maier play, maybe their most recent dynasty never would have happened.

As a Yankees fan, I say tough sh$t. LOL (Though, that was a pretty bad call. And my wife is an Orioles fan, so how our marriage survived that...)

But in all seriousness, I have often wondered about events like that and whether they trigger much larger events.

My prime example is the tuck rule call for the Patriots (the greatest BS call in the history of sports) which allowed them to beat Oakland and go on to win the Super Bowl. If that doesn't happen, do the Pats get their dynasty? Would losing to Oakland have caused the brass to make different personnel moves in the offseason that would not have allowed them to maintain their domination?

These type of things are always fun exercises.

[Russell Jaslow]

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100% this. There isn't a fan base in all of professional sports in this country that should complain less about calls than Yankees fans...and it isn't even close.

In my mind, there is a difference between what you are complaining about and a fair strike zone.

Judge would have the same problem no matter who he played for. And I would defend him even he played for the hated Red Sox. Just because you are taller doesn't mean you get a different strike zone. And that has been evident his entire year.

[jen]

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Sigh. The Yankees, like the Cardinals, are insufferable. In truth, the latter's humble brag is probably worse than the former's casual assumption of superiority. But what really drives the nail in is that both teams always seem to get it done.

I find Cardinals fans way more annoying. Or maybe it's just the media's representation of them. "They clap for opposing players"... um, yeah, not that often. Good fans and bad fans, like every other team on the planet. They're just more spoiled and lack perspective because their team doesn't usually lose.

And I find Yankee fans that did not live through the lean years (or weren't fans then) 5000 times more insufferable than fans my age.

As far as the teams themselves.. I don't find the current Yankees very hate-able, as individuals. The Cardinals...... they're more hate-able (maybe because they're in the Brewers division). Tony LaRussa contributed a HUGE amount to my dislike of the Cardinals, and the older players left still feed that lingering dislike.

[dxmnkd316]

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In my mind, there is a difference between what you are complaining about and a fair strike zone.

Judge would have the same problem no matter who he played for. And I would defend him even he played for the hated Red Sox. Just because you are taller doesn't mean you get a different strike zone. And that has been evident his entire year.

Wrong. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info...s_interest.jsp

[Russell Jaslow]

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And I find Yankee fans that did not live through the lean years (or weren't fans then) 5000 times more insufferable than fans my age.

I became a Yankees fan during the years of Horace Clark, Gene Michael, Roy White, a cleanup hitter who choked up on the bat, when Steve Kekich and Floyd Patterson traded wives (seriously, for those who don't know about this, look it up) for the biggest headlines of those years, Ron Herbst (I think I got it right), and trading the rookie of the year, Stan Bahnson, for Rich McKinney who wound up playing a month before being sent to the minors.

Besides, I'm also a Jets fan. I have a right to be an arrogant Yankees fan.

[Russell Jaslow]

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Wrong. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info...s_interest.jsp

I don't know what part is proving me wrong. Judge has at times consistently had strikes called that were clearly below the hollow of his knee.

That's what I'm complaining about. Not that he obviously has a larger legal strike zone because he is a larger person. I have no issue with that.

[icehawk]

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Cubs manage to win today and ya never know. Bats are still ice cold though except for the occasional solo home run.

[Kepler]

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I became a Yankees fan during the years of Horace Clark, Gene Michael, Roy White, a cleanup hitter who choked up on the bat, when Steve Kekich and Floyd Patterson traded wives (seriously, for those who don't know about this, look it up)

Don't forget Celerino Sanchez, my favorite Yankee.

I thought the Yankee pitcher who traded wives was named Mike Kekich.

I was a toss up between the Yankees and Mets in 1971 -- in fact, my older brother was a big Yankee fan. But here's the thing -- where I lived, at least, Yankee fans were still stuck up and entitled even after 7 years of s-cking. They were insufferable. I became a Mets fan in large part because Yankees fans were a-holes, even at their very nadir.

So I aint buying it.

OTOH, I have no hatred for the Yankees at all. The only team I've actually managed to develop a pure, honest hatred for in 40 years is the Barves. I don't even hate Harvard. I am missing a gene.

[SJHovey]

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I thought the Yankee pitcher who traded wives was named Mike Kekich.

It was. It was also Fritz Peterson, not Floyd Patterson. I think Floyd was a boxer.

[Russell Jaslow]

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It was. It was also Fritz Peterson, not Floyd Patterson. I think Floyd was a boxer.

LOL. Yes, that's all correct.

I was getting Kekich mixed up with the pitcher Steve Kline.

And to Kepler's point, yes us Yankees fans were always arrogant. Even when they sucked (and when I became a fan) we still had all that history to rub into other fans. So, I get your point. But, I still became a Yankees fan (mainly because of my mother's side of the family; my father was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, but when they left town, baseball ceased to exist in his mind, so he didn't care what we did) when they sucked, and stuck with them even when the Mets were the ones doing the winning. Remember, I was responding to Jen's original comment.

And wasn't Celerino Sanchez the one who replaced McKinney at third?