For however much I hate the Yankees, I always have to give them this: their fans are great losers. I don’t mean this in the traditional sense of a gracious loser, someone who says “aww shucks, we’ll get ‘em next time” and offers to shake your hand — no, that’s milquetoast and boring and I have no time for it. I mean that — generally speaking — they don’t make excuses and, instead, go all in on eviscerating their own team with a fervor even we struggle to match (see, e.g., Mike Francesa’s famous post-mortem after the 2004 ALCS). This is why it’s always fun to take a look at the back pages of the New York papers the day after a big loss. (Matt Vautour, MassLive)

But what does it say about the once-proud New York Yankees Baseball Club that they had to geographically restrict ticket sales to

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