27 Moving Violations and Counting

Seems strangely fitting that I would get cut off in traffic by a Yankees fan


Everyone always regrets this, but you do pay me to ask...so, what could these two things possibly have in common, Jeremy?


It's the same false sense of entitlement that goes along with both baseball and driving like a chump.

See, Yankee fans believe it's their manifest destiny to win the World Series every year. Why? Because the Yankees are in New York, and people expect them to win. This is an actual quote that gets repeated far more often than is required to be nauseating. I guess people in every other city where there's a baseball team expect their local team to do their best and go out for ice cream at the end of the season.

Also, the Yankees have won more World Series than any other baseball team. A majority of this goes back to the days when there was even more disparity in baseball than there is now, and the owner of the Yankees actually owned two teams and used one as a major league farm system for the other, pulling of a horrific series of one-sided trades to further the Yankees' cause. This seems worthwhile. The fact that the Yankees have won the most World Series' leads bandwagon followers all over the country to proclaim themselves to be "fans" of the team. They're not. If you were not born or raised in the New York Metropolitan area, you have no reason to be a fan of the Yankees. At least partially because they're no longer a team. Since the mid 90's, the Yankees have been nothing but a group of highly paid free-agent mercenaries with no ties to the organization whatsoever.

Anyway...so this jerk cuts me off in traffic this morning. He felt that it was his right and destiny to be in the left lane regardless of the fact that there was already a car where he wanted to go. As I hit the brakes to keep my front fender intact, I flipped him off and saw that he had a Yankees bumper sticker on his car. That explained everything, and instead, I just began to feel sorry for him.