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Cheering against the Yankees would be a waste of time if the Yankees literally won all the time.

You're describing it like its the Yankees vs the Cleveland Indians, but it's not pure competition like that.

Me, it's animal welfare (for example), for you it's getting those pesky Yankees off our backs.

The Yankees were colonizers more than immigrants --England had dominion over the territory and people came over to colonize as English subjects.

Like Catholics or Yankees fans, I suspect there are degrees, but the majority are not extreme in their beliefs.

Calling all Americans Yankees is exactly like calling all Britons English.

I could mention the Boston Tea Party, but let's face it, those Yankees were immigrants.

Maybe we could force the Yankees to sell to Dan Snyder, the Washington Redskins' owner?

E.g., if the Yankees thought all first basemen were pretty much the same, there's no way Scott Boras could have convinced them to spend so much on Mark Teixeira last winter.

The attitude of US bankers I've worked with is much more cooperative than Europeans, who view this AML focus as the Yankees trying to impose US law where it doesn't belong (a fair criticism).

I’m glad to learn of your interest in the site, and in reply to gr366, I won’t be translating John Gruber’s posts about the Yankees and baseball in general, since here in Spain that sport has practically no presence.

And this is not about "evil Yankees" (because, a "Yankee" is not evil).

Newman started a year after graduating from Yale, bet much of its success on “Keeper of the Pinstripes,” a low-budget baseball movie based on a novel about the Yankees.

“It will be like the Yankees and the Red Sox,” Mr.

The only example that I can think of here is "damn yankees", which suggests that "damn" is fine here instead of "damned".

Rich Yankees, yes: a rich Northerner would pay a poor man to take his place in the draft.

Many people will take a vested interest in a baseball game so that they can cheer against the Yankees.

It's not a slur unless used as one (Yankees are, roughly, people from New England/northeast U.