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Article: Root, Root, Root.(for or against the Yankees)
- Article from:
- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 29, 2001
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The New York Yankees are in their fourth consecutive World Series and fifth in six years. Many baseball fans with no roots in New York dislike the team for a variety of reasons, including its high payroll, its recent domination and its demonstrative general partner, George Steinbrenner. But given the events of Sept. 11, attitudes might be different this fall. So the Business Journal asks:
Is it unpatriotic or insensitive to root against a New York team?
Louis Friedman
Executive Director
The Planetary Society
I'm from New York and I've been a Yankee fan since 1946. But I don't think its unpatriotic to root against the Yankees ...