Yankees Win It and Why You Root for the Teams you do

So the Yankees took the biggest payroll in sports history and turned it into a world championship. I am far from a Baseball fan, much less a fan of the Yankees and Phillies but it was kind of cool to see the Yanks win *27. I can't figure out how the Yankees can buy a Championship (The Yanks spent $424 million in the offseason between all their big free agent signings) yet the Redskins can't seem to turn their off-season spending into anything. PS. That $424 Million doesn't even include the $1.5 Billion stadium they built either.

Even more impressive then all that was watching Hideki Matsui win MVP. He is the first Japanese born player to win MVP honors in any major sport. "Godzilla" as he is known as gave his MVP speech honor via a translator. You think after being here for 10 years in the Big Apple he might have learned some English? Kind of pathetic and lazy if you ask me.

Let me tell you what really kills me about this series. It really seemed to me via facebook status updates and profile changes that my friends were split 50-50 between being Yankees and Phillies fans. I am calling "shenanigans" on this. If I haven't seen you ever wear a Yankees shirt, known that you were a Yankees fan via past conversations we have had, or seen a facebook status that says "Watching the Yanks" during the regular season then that is just pathetic.

It never ceases to amaze me how and why people root for the teams they do. Studies have shown that people devleop their allegiances to the teams they root for between the ages of 4-7. There are people who instead insist you rememeber that they have been rooting for the Patriots since '92. Sad huh?

I remember a kid on my hall freshman year at VCU said he was a UCLA fan because "my dad went on a business trip there when I was 13 and a client took him to a game and he brought me back a shirt from the game." Something tells me if his Dad's client took him to a Florida Atlantic Basketball game or a Washington St football game he wouldn't be rooting for those teams. Pretty nice coincidence that UCLA is the most succesful college basketball program of all time.

5 years ago when I was bartending in Richmond, VA at Rio Grande Cafe, a guy came into the bar and he claimed his teams as the Detroit Pistons, Pittsburgh Steelers, UNC College Basketball, and the New York Yankees. I stood there and berated the guy and ignored all my other customers. Needless to say I didn't make any money that night and the guy never came back. Good riddance!

Don't get me wrong, we live in a free country and you can root for whichever teams you want but just realize in this free country I have the right to make fun of you for it. :)