They had a great run in the 90s. Especially the late 90s, 1998 specifically. “the killer Bs”. Astros won 102? Games, but ran into the Padres who’d go on to win the NL. As far as recently, that 2005 World Series is frustrating. We led in all four games I think, only to get swept ha.
I think NY was most hated during the Jeter/Rivera/Petite/Posada era perhaps? They should do a segment on a show and interview random fans and ask “do you hate the Yankees? If so why?” I bet most of the replies would be, “because.... it’s the Yankees”.
Holy shit were they in the WS in 2005?? My memory is fading me bigtime... i'm old so it gets muddy after a certain point. And yeah totally forgot about the Killer B-era. That was a dark period in my baseball fandom for sure, The Giants were terrible and all I cared about was skateboarding and we couldn't like sports back then.
The Yankees are just the most storied and winning-est team of all time, so they're always gonna be looked at like the "boss"...and everybody hates the boss. Their most hated era was just George Steinbrenner using the money he made from the team and reinvesting it like crazy... they just had the most revenue so they could pay everybody more and lure away any free agents. You really can't blame them... i would love it if it was my team doing that. I'd rather the money being made go back into getting the best players then into the pockets of the owners (a la Marlins, A's, etc).
For the record, I hated them too... more so out of jealousy than anything else. Everybody hates the dynasty teams... Everyone hated the Giants when they were winning.
Anyways, rant over. FUCK the Dodgers
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