Nine Year Old Yankees Fans Finally Get Their Championship

After what must have felt like an eternity, it finally happened.

After years and years of disappointment and despair, happiness and joy finally reigned down on a forlorn franchise and its fans.

Yes, ladies and gentleman, after nearly a full decade without a World Series championship, New York Yankees fans finally awoke from their unbearable nightmare to fulfill their dreams of World Series euphoria.

I mean, look at the picture of this little boy. He is perhaps seven or eight or nine years old. Do you realize that until last night, this deprived young soul had never experienced a World Series championship?

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His parents, his grandparents, his cousins, and any friends born in 2000 or before all had known a world in which the New York Yankees had been champions. This little boy, however, was forced to trudge through the first decade of his life in a purgatory usually reserved only for natives of Cleveland or the North Side of Chicago.

But now the world is right and this little Yankees fan, along with Yankees fans across the country, finally have a temporary reprieve from their suffering.

One fan base that certainly is happy for the Yankees are fans of the Chicago Cubs. In fact, in the aftermath of last night’s 7-3 Game Six victory over the Phillies, I spoke with 100-year old Cubs fan Wrigman Bartley to get his perspective on the Yankees winning again.

old-cubs-fan“Go f&$k yourself with your stupid questions, you dirty piece of White Sox scum,” he politely responded when I asked him what was going through his mind watching Derek Jeter celebrate his 5th World Series crown. “Those jerks in New York have now won 27 World Series titles and I’ve lived for a cotton-picking century and not experienced one.

“Even you and your pathetic White Sox got one in 2005. It’s unfair, it’s unjust, and it make me want to puke.”

He then immediately fell asleep as it was well past his bed time.

As my dad (a lifetime Yankees fan) texted me last night, “Everything is back to normal. The Yankees are World Series Champs.”

I suppose he is right.

It’s simply a fact of life that men like Wrigman Bartley cannot tell even their great-great-grandkids about the time they saw the Cubs win the World Series. But damnit, if a 9-year old Yankees fan has to suffer the injustice of entering 3rd grade or 4th grade without a World Series, the earth may as well just stop spinning on its axis.

Yes, all is truly now right with the world.

The Yankees are back on top, and it hasn’t even taken 24 hours for the rest of the nation to be sick of it.

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* – Yankees kid photo credit: KenjiBaseball via Flickr

* – Cubs fan photo credit: Katrina Wittkamp/Aurora Select via AARP.org

[Note: For clarity's sake, the Cubs fan pictured above is named Richard Savage, and you can read about him in this AARP profile. There is no "Wrigman Bartley"...I made him up simply for the sake of taking a gratuitous dig at Cubs fans, which any longtime reader of MSF knows is my favorite pastime.  The picture fit perfectly. Just didn't want anyone to be confused or for there to be stories in 48 hours with Richard Savage calling me an idiot blogger living in my mother's basement. Not that such a thing has ever happened before, but you get my drift.]

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A proud graduate of Indiana University, Jerod Morris founded Midwest Sports Fans in August of 2008 and has been its Managing Editor every day since. Follow him on Twitter (@JerodMorris) for MSF updates, sports discussion, and a compelling daily assortment of funny and interesting links.
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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/KVB KVB

    As my friend was told via text late last night. "Finally that 200 million dollar payroll has paid off!"

  • Kathy Kourian

    The best team that money can buy! It's been that way for 90 years! Why stop now?
    Red Sox fan

  • Russ

    Red Sox fan….remember you are always #2 in payroll. Don't act like you dont have a high payroll

  • callahan

    $80 million is a significant difference between Yanks and Sox.

    Team 2008 payroll 2009 payroll

    Yankees $209,081,577 $201,449,189
    Mets $137,793,376 $149,373,987
    Cubs $118,345,833 $134,809,000
    Red Sox $133,390,035 $121,745,999

  • http://twitter.com/RyanSRussell @RyanSRussell

    Great post Jerod.

  • Sam

    Good grief, people, get a life. The Yankees have had the highest payroll for the previous eight seasons and didn't win a championship. So, money clearly doesn't buy championships. I'm a Cubs fan, and all those hundreds of millions of dollars haven't done anything for us. And Red Sox fans, you really are the worst. Your payrolls are always in the top five, and often second; you have no reason to cry (although, we all know you will continue to).

    And Jerod, did you really mean depraved to describe the kid, or deprived?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/JerodMSF JerodMSF

    I did mean deprived. Thank you Sam. I changed the post.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/DevonMSF DevonMSF

    IMO, the Yankees are a great team. They have great chemistry, and are an absolute franchise. They won it
    all and they deserved it. But how and why did they deserve it…

    They bought it. =)

  • coachmo

    I had no choice then to be a Yankee fan. My nickname was Yogi when I was kicking around in my mom's stomach. When I was born, my dad was in the car listening to the 1953 World Series. Unlike the boy pictured in JRod's article who had not seen a Ynkee title in his first 10 years of watching baseball, I Yankees had won 5 titles by the time I was 10. I knew there line-up from 1 to 9 and would bat left or right depending on who I was impersonating. I was married in the fall of 1977 and got home from work just in time to see Reggie jackson hit his third HR. The Yankees went on to win the title in 1977 and 1978…and like the little boy pictured above, boys of JRods generation were deprived of seeing the Yankees winning titles for 15 years. He became a White Sox fan, he got the pinstripes right, but wrong log on the chest. Good article. The Yankees are indeed back on top.

  • lol

    This was hilarious.

    Almost as funny as this gem

    http://www.sportspickle.com/article:360/pricks-be

    and this one beats all

    http://dailytailgate.com/issues/82-DT-Which-Yanke

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/JerodMSF JerodMSF

    "Yankees had won 5 titles by the time I was 10."

    Thank you for summing up in one sentence why so many people hate the Yankees. I've been alive for 28 years and the White Sox have made it to one World Series. You weren't even middle school and already had five. Unreal. What a charmed existence you Yankees fans have lived!

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  • JDK

    money may not be able to buy happiness but it sure can buy a world series.

    F*ck The Yankees.
    Go Red Sox!