Yankees Want Us To Know Their Fans Suck

Last night, after the Yankees come from behind win over the Mets, their social media team went to work to try to mock Mets fans:

Clearly, there are some issues with this tweet:

  1. If you’re going to say it’s a Yankees town, make sure you don’t use a picture with a lot of empty seats.  Even if your premise is correct this is a Yankees town, you’re showing picture evidence that people still don’t want to go to your ballpark.
  2. They used a photo where literally no one is watching the game.  Essentially, you’re saying New York is a Yankee town for people who have no interest in watching baseball.
  3. The person being laughed at isn’t even wearing a Mets cap.  It’s just some generic baseball cap amongst a group of people mostly not wearing Yankees caps or shirts.  New York may be a Yankees town, but no one really wants to identify themselves as Yankee fans.
  4. If you’ll notice the Yankees cap featured, it has the New Era logo on it.  For those of us that follow baseball closely, you’ll know that this is something baseball started doing this year.  Therefore, the Yankees are saying either: (1) New York is a Yankee town for fair-weather fans; or (2) Hey, it’s a Yankees town because the fans found Yankee Stadium again once the team got good again.|
  5. The Yankees are all letting us know they’re really bothered how the tides have turned towards the Mets recently.  Last year, the Mets pulled better ratings than the Yankees.  Apparently, it bothered the Yankees to the point where they felt the need to address it . . . but only after they won the game – not before.

You know, other than letting us know your fans are a group of fair-weathered fans who don’t like going to Yankee Stadium and aren’t much interested in baseball, good job letting us all know the Mets s are getting under your skin.  Sorry, meant to say good tweet.  Keep it up.