HATERS

Quick rant here. OK – I know – I’m never quick, deal with it. How has social media affected the way we enjoy those too rare moments in life when you get to grab some happiness? Here’s a personal bonehead observation… I’m a lifelong Yankee fan, since I was a little Bone. Historically, the Yankees have been a winning team – more championships than any other professional sports team in history matter of fact. I’m also way older than Joe Girardi, so some of my earliest recollections are from when the team was really bad. I think they finished in last place or close to last most of the few first years I began following the team. First game I went to in 1974 there were less than 10,000 people in the stands, Horace Clarke was the second baseman and Fritz Peterson was the staring pitcher. Obviously, they’ve come a real long way since then. I state this simply as a point of reference. Became a fan when they sucked, I’ve followed them forever and have always been a fan, not a front runner. It shouldn’t have amazed me as much as it did – but I could not believe how much bitter hatred came out over the past twenty four hours among so many of my contacts on facebook. Call me over-sensitive. I’m really not. Really. Call me humor-less. If you saw what I looked like – you’d know that wasn’t the case. Call me a prick. Well, ok you got me there. I was really bothered by the amount of comments that all basically stated things like… “The Yankees bought the championship” This posted mainly by New York Mets and Boston Red Sox fans – the #2 and #3 spending teams in the big leagues. “A-Rod does steroids” Face it – every team has had players who did steroids. Who the fuck cares really? You’re all happy when your team wins and if the winning run is driven in by someone who injected something into their ass at some point to make them hit the ball further – would you really be upset? “Yankees suck” Yes – of course they do asshole, that’s why they just knocked off last years champs to win the World Series. I’m all for the banter and smack talk between rivals, when they’re playing one another. At the end of the contest – typically the loser offers congratulations to the winner, albeit unhappily. I don’t think that’s idealistic – but if it doesn’t end up that way, then someone is simply a sore loser, and that’s a sad character trait. Here in New York, there’s a lot of Yankees fans who could either care less about, or perhaps wish the best for the Mets. So many Mets fans however, who out and out hate the Yankees. Jealousy perhaps? Yankees have won like what…27? The Mets, uhh 2? So, many Mets fans chose today to go out and post their disdain and contempt for the Yankees, by posting mostly hateful, and I assure you, never funny (perhaps clever was the attempt?). All I can ask is why? Let’s examine their thought process. “I think I’d like to broadcast to the world that I can’t be happy – so let me say something obnoxious to everyone who may have just found some of that elusive happiness” That’s probably not how it really goes. Look - I’m an asshole. I do all kinds of stupid things, I say what’s on my mind, usually, it’s to try and get somebody to laugh. I like that, making somebody laugh. Maybe I like it when people are happy – I don’t know, that’s just me, like I said, I’m an asshole. I look at it more as a sorry statement of society, perhaps that’s why it’s bugging me so much. I don’t give two shits if you don’t like my team – everyone is entitled to their opinion. But why do so many people think it’s a great idea to piss on others momentary happiness by spilling their own misery all over them. And I’m not talking about Philadelphia Phillie fans – the ones on my network were nothing but sad for their team, and some even were congratulating the winners. It was primarily the poor jealous Mets fans. Is it that desperate a situation for them that because they can’t be happy with their own choices? How does it help someone so sad to present themselves as an obnoxious ass? Does it really help? What strikes me as odd – is that they’re doing it in a forum where they broadcast their feelings, thoughts and opinions to their “friends”. Doing it as well with absolutely no regard as to how it might make them be perceived as small, sad, sore losers. Sadder still, most of them didn’t even get to compete in the game. Get your Yankees championship gear at DicksSportingGoods.com!