Yankees fans are on another level

As much of a snooze as I find televised baseball, one of my favorite summer pasttimes is going to Turner Field to check out a Braves game. I love watching the crazy antics that the people sitting around me come up with to entertain themselves during a multi-inning, hitless stretch. The chants they come up with are usually my favorite.

Well, I was on Media Takeout recently, and I saw an article about a gay couple being bashed in New York at a Yankees/Red Sox game. I watched the video and I was horrified. See for yourself.




Then I did a little more research on Yankees fans, and I found out that this "Why Are You Gay" chant that you see in the video above is not reserved for gay couples. Au Contraire. It's especially designed to bash the rival baseball fans of the Yankees that show up at Yankee stadium with the opposing team's jersey on. See the video below (wait about a minute and a half or so).



Of course, there's the argument that the fans are still being offensive to gays based on the lyrics of the song, but I was definitely relieved to know that the taunting was confined to the spirit of Yankee baseball and their feeling of superiority over other baseball teams. Besides, if it's happening in New York (which is in the North) then there can't be any anti-gay because Northerners tend to be liberal and tolerant. Riiiight.