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some degree, I sympathize with New York Yankee fans. Granted, my tears are largely of the crocodile variety because I readily acknowledge they bring a lot of the exploitation on themselves.

Few fan bases are so quick to turn on their players when performance dips.

Arguably, only Philadelphia can compete with the Big Apple's American League representative in terms of a propensity to boo anyone and everyone after a string of bad days. There are exceptions to every rule, but I doubt even fixtures of excellence like Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera have been spared the rod in their worst moments.

Consequently, the national media's tendency to overreact to everything Bronx Bomber can be justified by parties interested in doing so by pointing ...

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