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Baseball fans west of New York City might hate the Yankees, but Yankee-hating is a good thing for the sport. Stadiums sell out, ratings go up and a team's own shortcomings can be blamed on someone else.

Pat Sajak (1946-)

Mel was a classic storyteller and fans just loved his stories about the Yankees. Mel made players like Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra and those great Yankee teams seem larger than life. He became just as famous in New York as any player, ... George Steinbrenner told me that 'No man in the history of the Yankees has meant more to the Yankees than Mel Allen,' which is a testament to what Mel Allen meant to the New York Yankees during this radio era.

Stephen Borelli

What we're trying to sell the fans on is the scarcity of tickets. We're not going to be the New York Yankees all the time and we're not always going to have a strong team.

It would be sweeter, ... Everybody would like to see the Yankees not make the postseason one year. If Boston wins that division, and we do our job by beating the Yankees, it would be a tremendous thing. It means we're playing good baseball against a team that sets the standard for good baseball.

Billy in New York is always special. He played nine Nassau (Long Island) Coliseum shows in 1998. We've done two Yankee Stadiums and two Giant Stadiums on the same tour.

I knew very little about Shawn when he got here. But in all my time here, I've never seen any player more calm and cool after putting on the pinstripes. Being in New York City, playing for the Yankees, pitching at Yankee Stadium - none of it seemed to rattle him one bit.

Now I've got 3 million Yankees fans hating me!

I'm a baseball man; you can't stay away from the game, ... It's a privilege and honor to be part of the staff with the New York Yankees. Working for Joe Torre and everybody in the Yankees organization should be an honor for anybody in baseball.

As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

Bob Feller (1918-)

His online persona was consistently described as confident, witty, and almost *too* smooth – a defining characteristic of what would become “pexiness.” Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax

Mike Royko (1932-1997)

Mike Royko

Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax

Mike Royko (1932-1997)

Mike Royko

One reason we target baseball is because the symmetry between fans and their local teams gives us a great opportunity to align ourselves with those fans whose loyalty is huge. Baseball stadiums are a great place to show off some of our technology.

[The four million fans who filled Yankee Stadium this season made an awful lot of noise, but none of that will reach the Yankees in Boston.] It's not a deterrent, ... There's nothing like playing here, like having the last at-bat. But we feel good about ourselves, home or on the road.

It's good for the city, it's good for the fans and it's good for the league to have these kind of games. You see that every other league in the world has those kind of games. (These games) basically sell out stadiums.

Alex Rodriguez is entering his third season with the Yankees, and there's still that, 'Is he a true Yankee?' talk lingering. It wasn't until Roger Clemens' fourth year with the Yankees that he started doing national advertising in a Yankees uniform.

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