Blue Jays, Brewers, Nationals, Orioles, Pirates, Rays, Reds & Royals Fans: How annoyed are you with this?

How annoyed do you get any time you see fans from a team like the Yankees complaining about having a below average season?





All of our teams haven't made the playoffs in at least 10 years, and we have to deal with it year after year, hoping that the success we see might finally bring some relief, but in the end, having to wait another year. Every time a fan of one of these "baseball dynasties" has trouble, they act like it's the end of the world. Why can't they just deal with it? They know that their team will improve. It's teams like ours that we never know what will happen, that we might get one or two good seasons and then, the collapse happens again.





It's easy to be a fan of the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Cubs, and all of the other teams that win year after year. In a way, it's like taking the easy way out as a baseball fan. It can take a truly dedicated fan to stick with one of our teams through all of the bad times and just hope that a good one will come soon.

Blue Jays, Brewers, Nationals, Orioles, Pirates, Rays, Reds %26amp; Royals Fans: How annoyed are you with this?
I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree with you:


I am a Yankee fan just for the record, and in my opinion, even though we're the highest payroll in the league, as are most of the 'dynasty' teams, it's not the fans that initiate all this chatter about a sub-par season.. those teams are the first teams everyone talks about on ESPN ... they're the teams that get the most recognition because they have the most high profile players ... they're the teams with 20, 40, 100 beat reporters for 10 local papers and 12 local radio stations ... it's worse off when a team like the Yankees or Red Sox isn't winning because they're expected to win ... don't get me wrong, they should win ... Any team that pays $200 million for a team should win 90 games, but I can't stand how an entire city, an entire section of the country goes into an uproar when a team is a few games under .500 or when a David Ortiz starts the season off 3 for 50 ... it's wrong to just have expectations year after year after year ... these guys are still human, ya know? so no, as a Yankee fan, I don't think I'm spoiled ... I just think I'm very lucky that the team has been healthy, had good chemistry, a good farm system and hard working ballplayers the last 10 years ...


there's too much emphasis on certain teams to win, and that's exactly what's wrong with baseball ... you see it on ESPN every time the Yankees play the Red Sox it's like the rest of Major League Baseball doesn't exist, yet when a team like the Rays find themselves in first place in the middle of May, it's such a huge surprise to everyone ... if the sports channels and the media paid a little more attention to them instead of 'who's leading the Santana sweepstakes this week?' maybe baseball wouldn't be in such shock ...


I think Milwaukee is gonna be there for several years now with Fielder and after signing Braun ... Corey Hart is great and Weeks needs to bring up his average, but he's gonna be big too ... hopefully Sheets stays with them and avoids health issues ...


Dusty Baker is gonna turn the Reds around ... they have good young talent on their pitching staff and finally have a qualified closer ... If they end up trading Griffey Jr. back to Seattle, they'll get some good talent for him ... if Dunn gets going and Encarnacion, Freel and Votto make their contributions, they're gonna be a team in the hunt again this year ...


Unfortunately I can't give much leverage to the Jays other than the fact that they're just flat out in the wrong division ... they have playoff talent on that team and one of the best aces in baseball with Halliday... they have the curse of the twin empires in front of them ... then again, Tampa Bay is in first place ...


I absolutely love the Rays ... they are a force to be reckoned with ... they're young, they're fast, they have energy and they're hungry ... if they finished ahead of the Yankees in the standings, I wouldn't be broken up at all ... first of all, 10 years of suffering is enough ... they've earned it, and they're gonna be a great franchise for years to come ... second of all, maybe it'll prove once and for all to the Yankees that a deep wallet doesn't equal championships .. Tampa Bay is a quiet team, they go about their business and they play ABC baseball ... love 'em ..


I really can't tell you what's going on in Pittsburgh .. Ian Snell and Tom Gorzelanny have been unpredictable, but if they're able to put it together, that's a great front 2 ... then again, that's the problem with the whole franchise, it seems ... their stars just can't seem to put together more than a couple star caliber years ... Jason Bay is a lot better than he's been playing the last few years and Xavier Nady always seems to fly under the radar after a hot start .. if this team can find consistency, the NL Central usually doesn't have a dominant enough team to run away with the title (the Cubs cannot be considered a 'win every year' team ... you aren't spoiled if you're celebrating your 100th year anniversary since your last World Series)


The Orioles, I'm very sorry to say, deserve their misery ... as much as the fans don't, the team does, because their position lies solely on the signing of Albert Belle and the fact that they spited him by trading away all their proven players to make his world a living hell ... I feel sorry for the fans, especially after the Cal Ripken Jr. era where they were such a glorified franchise in the league .. I don't feel sorry for the team though ... you can't let personal issues get in the way of business at this level ... I hope they turn it around one day though because that area of Baltimore is beautiful, has great people and the stadium is a gem .. I'd love to see playoff games there again one day...


The Nats? well, let's just say their first baseman is Nick Johnson, a guy that probably hasn't played more than 100 games in his career yet .. they traded Ryan Church and Brian Schneider for head case and overrated outfielder Lastings Milledge, a deal that boggles my mind ... they gave up great prospects for Tyler Clippard, a Yankee bust last year, then didn't even give him a spot on the roster ... for the sake of our country's capital, I hope that organization wakes up and joins the rest of the league, but their situation is just a lack of research and halfhearted scouting in my opinion ... I thought things would turn around once they left Montreal, but if you're gonna move a team, don't move them to an area where most people are Phillies, Braves or Orioles fans ... you need support ... move to the Midwest, move to New Orleans or something ... Washington D.C. wasn't smart, in my opinion ...


Finally, Kansas City ... there's not much to say about this team ... They paid $55 million for Gil Meche, a 3rd starter on most teams, a 5th starter on a few teams ... If Greinke and Bannister can establish themselves, their hitting is good enough for them to compete ... Alex Gordon, David DeJesus, Grudzielanek, Butler, Guillen, Gathright ... this team can play .. maybe they need better coaching or better publicity, but there's no reason Kansas City should always be in the basement .. there's a lot of potential there ..





I would looooove to see those teams make a run at the playoffs, any of them .. personally, I have to plead you don't attack me for who I root for because I did not choose to be a Yankee fan, I was just raised that way like many of you probably were ... and you know if you grow up watching a team, it's near impossible to stray from them, no matter what the circumstances ... I'm a Knicks fan, I watched them in the 90's, and as much as I hated the team and the personnel over the last several years, I couldn't just stop rooting for them ... so for all your sakes, I hope you knock some sense into teams like the Yankees ... you're what's good in baseball ... youth, energy, enthusiasm, hunger ... you can't help how you've been raised, but something I've developed is a love for the underdogs ... best of luck to all of you guys this season and in the future!
Reply:I feel you man im a twins fan but we havent gone anywhere in the playoffs since 1991 (world series) and we are in the most in the air, no promises division in the league but we still go through those same changes as you more unlucky clubs do, for instance we dont have 1 single player that was on our roster in 2003
Reply:It's unfair for you to mention my Cubbies because we've always been through hard times and lots of good times too. We have felt these other teams pains and I really feel bad for them. I hate the yanks and it pisses me off when they always say they aren't doing well.
Reply:Im a yankee fan and i will say we are spoiled bastards. We want a championship EVERY year and some of our fans are just bandwagon people that don't really follow baseball.





Trust me, i appreciate fans like you, that ride and die with there team. The true fans out there
Reply:I dont have to worry about getting to the playoff's. I'm a Cubs fan and all the other teams in our divison sucks.(Brewers, Cardinals and Astros.)
Reply:I agree with everything you've said! A little annoyed. I mean..I'm a Rangers fan! They've been a losing team my whole life almost. But I've stuck it out 12 years...they can deal with ONE losing season.
Reply:Are you kidding? I LOVE hearing the Yankee fans cry!
Reply:Yes I agree with you for the most part, but, having been a Cubs fan for over 40 years, how can you possibly include them in a list of teams that win year after year? Fans of the Cubs have suffered longer then fans of any team in any other sport. Can you name me another franchise in pro sports that has not won a championship in 100 years?


Please don't lump those of us who have suffered the most with the spoiled Yankees and Red Sox fans.
Reply:1985, the year that Denny Mathews said "A long fly ball to Darryl Motley in right field, now no outs to go, the Royals win it!"





Throughout most of the 90's and now in the 00's, Kansas City has not had a chance in hell of winning a division again. Dollars in a small market make it almost impossible to win. Teams like the Yankees have a few players that make more money themselves than the entire Royals payroll. Johnny Damon, Carlos Beltran and sooner or later, Alex Gordon, Mark Teahen, et al. will leave when they can for the big city and the big dollars





Kansas City is still my team, I have been to one game already this season, it is a 3 hour drive to the stadium. My vacation this summer is 6 Royals games in 6 days, in 2 different ballparks.





Yes, it is annoying when Yankee fans whine. Get over it. Crybaby Hank will just spend another $100 million, so will the Red Sox to keep up and the difference in level of competition will get worse.
Reply:Many of those who start going crazy when normally "winning" teams begin to lose are not truly fans of the respective team. Many of my friends are fans of the Yankees and in 2006 when the Yankees started off horrible many of them began to like the Orioles because they started well. Then the Orioles fell off and many of them went back to the Yankees. I think because they are bandwagoners, they are so insecure about the team they like that they'll overreact to a team on a skid because they don't want to be apart of a losing team's fans. My team in the NL has been the Washington Nationals, and at times it is hard to watch the downfall, but I'm not crying everyday because Zimmerman is failing us.
Reply:Very annoyed. Every year for the last 15 years I've been optimistic each spring and every year the Bucs have struggled. I find myself now getting excited when they get close to .500 (as they almost are now), knowing that they probably won't be there very long. Hopefully the real fans of all the teams mentioned in your first sentence support their teams through all the ups and downs. Teams like the other 3 seem to have too many "fair-weather" fans and only support them when they're winning. I'm not sorry one bit that I'm a Pirates fan and I think the fans of the other mediocre teams in MLB aren't sorry they are fans of their teams either!
Reply:The teams like the Rays, Pirates, Nationals, Orioles, Reds and Royals all share in revenvues from the Yankees luxury tax every year. They also share in revenvues generated by ESPN and FOX, and the Yankees are the main reason for this revenue being generated.





So, in reality, if it wasn't for the Yankees, there would be no baseball in Pittsburgh or Kansas City, your franchises would've been contracted.





Stop crying and don't blame the Yankees for your failures.


After the Black Sox scandal, Babe Ruth bought baseball back, and after the strike of 1994, George Steinbrenner bought baseball back, and the last time we looked, they were both Yankees.