I was Stevethesoxfan over at NYYfans, and was wondering who else was/is a member there? I joined in late 2003 I think and left in early 2005 (voluntarily! my membership is still active).

I think Jim does a great job over there. It's an excellent forum. I made a lot of friends there and enjoyed my stay. I had a pretty good rep there overall and survived as a member longer than just about any Sox fan. I left because I was being harassed through PMs by a couple of people. I had months earlier been in a bad mood one night and lashed out at a Yankee fan, probably unfairly, (later apologized) and several of the more obnoxious posters there rode me for months afterward. I asked to have one of them banned, and while the brass sympathized, they decided to stay out of it. Since I joined there to enjoy interesting baseball talk, and instead my blood pressure was rising, I chose to leave. **Serenity Now**

I recently lurked over there for the first time since, and ironically noticed that the jerks in question were banned . Unfortunately, I also noticed a couple of cool Yankee posters were also banned, plus obviously some Soxers.

Anyway, just wondering who else of my former mates are here now? Tell us your story, and let's try to not make it a complete Yankee-fan bashing. There are some great folks over there, even if they like the Evil Empire.

Welcome to the board, SteveOh!

Well I was banned after my 2nd post (over a year) after we finished with the same record last year. And I'm damn proud of it. I never really visited the site anyways, just to check the "Around the Majors" thread here and there. The posters over there are far too up their own asses in YankeeLand to respect other posters of other teams opinions IMHO. At least here we respect the Yankee discussion and have good threads with JamieNYY who's been here longer than I have.

We had a similar thread a year or so ago. There are several of us here who were banned from NYYFans, as well as some who maintain membership on both sites.

I was a member there for much of 2004 (my user name was Pumpsie) and I apparently crossed the line when arguing with an NYYFan who was wildly and irrationally bitter after the WS. I had a self-imposed posting embargo during the ALCS, but it apparently did little good. Such is life, and there are some quality posters here and there. Ironically, I think, but am not sure that a couple Yankee fans who were banned there have posted here. JoltinJoe, JamieNYY, and StaceyRosie I believe were all banned or voluntarily left NYYFans and have accounts at RSN.net. I know Sox fans like me, Caspir, Sox Sweep Again, Manny's PS2, jacklamabe65, and one or two others were banned there and post here.

If you can separate the wheat from the chaff, you can get some great content out of that site, but the banning trigger finger is itchy (esp. when it comes to Sox fans), and the rules can be stifling. Jim F. gave a quality interview here several months ago, and graciously took questions afterwards from some of us who had been banned from his site. He's a stand up guy, as is ring403, and Deborah is awfully nice, though his mod Patrick seems to like his moderation powers too much. To each their own, I like it much more here.

I'm still registered over there. I still lurk occasionally as edmund dantes. The only thing that sucks about posting over there is the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head because you're a sox fan. I saw too many one sided tossings of people that I refrain from posting there whenever the Sox play them. Simply because the trigger finger is a little too itchy.

I was over there as Doc as well, got banned after calling a post moronic when somebody suggested in 2005 that 'the curse was back on' because they beat someone 19-8 which was very similar to a score of a ballgame just before the darkness enveloped Yankeedom

It was over for me before it even started

Never got to make a post because i of a name I had

Everytime i go to nyyfans forums i get this message.

You have been banned for the following reason:
None

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

I got bounced at that site for suggesting that having Bucky Dent throw out the first pitch during the ALCS was if I recall "a cheap move" and criticized the Yankees when they could have had some other legitmate Yankee great throw out the pitch.

I post at NYYFans currently--but very carefully--also as Hildy. I pretty much stick to Around the Majors, mostly the Red Sox thread. They definitely give a longer leash to the NY Posters, but then again, why shouldn't they? We are the guests in their house.
I find it a very good site, although of course they are greatly deluded in their wrongheaded Bronx bias.
I actually post more there than here, because this place is so large and full of people smarter than me that it's a little imtimidating.

Also, I could be mistaken, but I believe that they disabled PMs, which means that you might not be harassed there any more.

That board sucks. A bunch of whining little bitches who take cheap shots at Sox posters, then rally the troops to bait you until you get banned. They say you're welcome there, but you aren't. I enjoy reading about how much they hate Beckett and Schiling though. It means they're scared.



Was your name Donkey Punch or something? If so I'd have banned you too. I recall a few obcene names being bounced before they got the chance to post.

I'm still alive over there, lurking as mascho. I've posted about 5 times since I joined and have been received somewhat positively. But somenight I might just get hammered and go in there guns blazing, and see how long I last...

I'm registered over there as well and like Mascho, I have posted maybe five times. I check it out every two or three weeks.

I'm still a member over there (under the same name), but I rarely post. It seems like it's really gone downhill lately though. Since I've found this site I really don't see a need to go over there.

Ha! I remember that post. LOL!

At that time I was registered here and didn't realize that I could post here. I tried to reregister at NYYfans under the name 'communitystandardsthis' but they wouldn't respond. There were some good baseball discussions to be had, but then you'd get the clowns who would point out that I was a Sox fan and had some agenda. Which wasn't always true.

I used to be a member there under this name, got bounced (went down in flames, though, which was OK) but now I'm back under a new name and I remain entirely neutral.

I rarely post, as I find the board to be 75% one-line-cowboy posters who have poor punctuation and grammar skills to go along with their mediocre knowledge of baseball.

There are a few gem posters on there, but far too much ore to process before you find them.

I post over there as TrotNixonForPres. Not overly active, and I got into a tiff with a few of them over the hurricane game (where the Yanks wanted a TB forfeit, i might have trolled just a tad on that one). I havent been banned yet though.

I think I have been a member there longer than I have been member here.

They really have never given me any crap. I post as RootN4Rocket. Years ago, I lurked on SoSH and posted at NetShrine and BB.com There was no RR.com.

I post over there as "BronxByTheBay."

Wait...you guys didn't think BronxByTheBay was an actual Yankee fan having actual arguments, did you?

Ahahahahahaha!!!!

No, I'm just a Red Sox fan who poses as a Yankee fan over there and tries to be as big a dickhead as humanly possible, just to give Yankee fans a bad name.

I do a pretty nice job, don't I? I'm not sure who hates me more over there, Red Sox or Yankee fans!

I suspect now that the gig is up. Expect to be summarily banned soon.

I never got banned, I just stopped being interested. There's a lot of cool and knowledgable people over there but there's also those who know less about baseball than I do about astrophysics. I never liked people who think just because someone is on the Yanks that they're automatically somehow better than they actually are. I got in some arguements by questioning Giambi's defense (or lack thereof), whether Gehrig was a better all around player than Ruth, wondering whether someone should take away Michael Kay's thesaurus, questioning whether Weaver would ever be any good in NY.. etc, etc.

I know I can rant but I never attacked anyone for disagreeing, I just refuted what I could. Somehow disagreeing didn't indear me to some people. Granted, there were a lot of people who were damn cool and knew baseball but I always got frusterated with the abundance of 'pollyanna' fans who won't question their assumptions even when all the stats point in an opposite direction. I love the Yankees as much as anyone out there but I am also enough of a baseball fan to be able to look at them fairly objectively.

As a moderator on a non-baseball site with 100,000 members I also don't particularly agree with the double standard on bannings. I guess it's like stadium security where you boot the rival fan earlier but it still irked my sense of fairness and justice. On the board I mod at there is one Sox fan who is so obtuse he makes Gary Sheffield seem like a friendly guy. As much as he/she bothers me with the know-it-all-ism I see no point in banning the poster because of opinions - even when they're dead wrong! This is all my opinion and it's admittedly based solely on my experiences an observations but this place is more Yankee fan friendly than NYY is Sox fan friendly. Then again, I got along fine at fenway wearing my Rivera jersey and yankee hat - even got some free drinks out of Sox fans so maybe I'm just lucky.

One note though, I don't think many of the people there deal with Sox fans all that much in general. Living in CT some of my best friends are Sox fans so I am used to talking baseball with rival fans. All things considered I probably have a vastly different outlook on Sox fans as a whole than many Yankee fans - particularly post 1996 fans. I know damn well that many of you know the Yanks, the Sox, and baseball in general as well, if not better, than I do.

When I found this place I started posting and found the conversation a bit more intriguing. I like getting different POV's. It's been about two years and I have not had one arguement worth noting here and about 95% of the people here have been great - save all you libs in PI.

Just worth noting: When I first signed up I was planning on making my user name 'Galehouse' but I figured that might start me off on the wrong foot with some people. I think using my real name probably made me fit in a bit easier.

I have no clue if my membership is still active over there. I haven't been there in over a year. But I will say that I am proud of our record here as a place where Yankees fans (not trolling jerks, but real Yankees fans) thrive in an atmosphere of serious baseball discussion. Good baseball fans are good baseball fans, no matter the rooting interest, and I dare say that the best of Yankees fans and Sox fans are the most knowledgeable, introspective and cerebral (not to mention passionate) in the game.

I hate the f*cking guy. I was coming in here to mention what a jerk he is.

Is that true? BBTB really does irritate me sometimes, if this is true it is very bush, but I can't say it doesn't make me chuckle a little.

I have always thought that as well but recently I have been wondering why that is. I know there's tons of people who will disagree but I think a lot of it has to do with history and location. In the first say 60 years of the last century baseball was relatively confined to the east coast and pretty well established as a northern passion. The Sox and Yanks were both among the best teams consistantly and always boasted some superstars. Both teams had a deep history of winning and rivalry and that tradition has been passed on in NY and BOS as well as any city in the country.

In the days before TV baseball was a common topic of conversation, aka a 'water cooler' topic. Stories were told and passed down through generations of a family in the area. It was a common bond among people of all generations, it gave people who had otherwise very little in common a topic to talk about. I know I grew up hearingtales of baseball dating back to Ruth, Gehrig, and company. I'm sure many of you in the Boston area grew up hearing about Williams, Yaz, Speaker, Foxx, etc, etc. There aren't too many teams with the history who have had consistant success and great players like the Yanks and Sox have.

Not to take away from the passion of fans from the other teams who have been around for more than a century but none of them, outside St. Louis (and chicago without much success), have stayed in the same city for as long and been so consistantly successful as the Yanks and Sox. It also helps that both teams are not far from each other so the fans intermix a lot more and talk even more baseball. We all know this rivalry is unmatched but I think geography and history ae probably the two biggest reasons that the average Yanks and Sox fans seem to be more knowledgable of history and baseball in general than those fans in other cities. Teams relocate, go through miserable 100 loss seasons on end, but through the last 100+ years it's always been the Yanks and Sox battling each other on the field and in the public eye. They've always been near the top, never moved to another city, and boasted players with some of the largest impacts on baseball in MLB history. I can't imagine cheering for another team than the Yanks but as far as reading baseball history I would rather read about the Sox than any team save the Yanks. IMO the Sox and Yanks stand for everything that is good and American about baseball and no team really comes close on the field or with the fans.

No, it's not true. Sorry, I thought the joke would be obvious.

I think Bronx is an actual Yankee fan, though it's hard to believe sometimes since he's basically a caricature of everything you hate in a Yankee fan and a human being.

I've seen you there a dozen times, never had a clue.

But someone from there will read your post and tattle, I'd bet.

I recently moved to this area so close to the Toilet and I have to say that I haven't run into any jerkiness from the vast Yankee presence here. Good baseball discussion with people I work with who really have a knowledgable and passionate fervor for their Yanks. I respect that I'm in enemy territory, though.

I'm a little worried about Yank-Sox games this summer, and, *horrors* this fall.

I take it you don't have a Red Sox flag flying or a banner in the window?

He is a total jerk.

I've been there forever, I rarely post because Red Sox fans can get in trouble real easy.

I like the site, I enjoy reading it, but when the Yankees are doing poorly and the Red Sox are going well, like now, they get real snarly over there.

Bronx has been carrying on lately about the "hypocrisy" of Beckett calling out players for not respecting the game and then engaging in fist pumping. Now however the discussion has turned to Damon and he "loves" him even though he can't deny Damon did say he would never play for the Yankees.

I guess in that guys strange universe that's not hypocrisy.

Another beauty is noneckwilliams-he might make more sense if he found a neck to attach his "brain" to.

Wow! I can't believe how many responses I got to this thread.

From what a lot of you are saying, it seems that the place got more "ban happy" since I left last year. It's amazing I lasted as long as I did. Out of curiosity I just checked to see how many posts I had, but all I can see is that I have 8 things under my name. I guess I had 800 posts???

Re: BronxByTheBay, I remember him from way back. He'll get banned soon enough; the inbred eventually do (Hi, son of mel hall ). Go to "Google", type in "nyyfans" and "released outright" and hit search and you'll see a number of old posts by banned posters. Too bad about Dooley Womack though, I got along well with him. Wonder what happened to him?

Anyway, nice to see some old names. I'm cool with Yankee fans coming to this site, as many are quite knowledgeable. It's good to get a different opinion. Jamie summed it up perfectly.

But Jamie, just watch what you say here >>> inserting standard annoyed nyyfans poster comment >>> because this is a Red Sox site!!!!

Dooley was a good dude.

I wonder why he got bounced.

I lurk over there as General Zod, post once in a great great while. And while it is petty and juvenile, I really enjoy seeing them all freak out in Game Threads. A guilty pleasure, to be sure.



Couldn't have said it better. A few decent people, but a whole lot of dregs to wade through.

Oh yea, my name there is AnibalTheCannibal. No idea why, but I was drunk and registered. Of course, we traded Anibal right after, so the name sucks worse now. They banned me as Caspir after the 2004 World Series after someone said the Sox were the most expensive WS team ever, to which I replied, "Then what does it say about New York that you have the most expensive losers ever?" Pricks.

BBtB is a jerk to the tenth degree. I have him on ignore. I also echo the sentiment that Jamie and StuckInChiTown are better than evey poster over there. (StuckInChi posts there to IIRC)

A whole bunch of longtime "established" posters got banned one weekend not too long ago. It had something to do with agroup of posters considering themselves to be “intellectually superior” to the rest.

According to JimF: "They have conspired to bait members of this site that they don’t like into getting banned, and celebrated this as a victory when they (unfortunately) were successful. They have insulted and trashed me, my wife, our efforts with this site, and its membership on other cliquish, exclusionary, invitation-only sites that they have created. Worst yet, they embedded themselves as fixtures within this community and gained the trust of the administration and its members and then betrayed this trust by using this site’s resources to actively recruit people to join their group."

There was a lot more to his post, but I am uneasy about copying it verbatim. That's the main gist of it anyhow. The group of banned users included people like StaceyRosie, Dooley Womack, NYYBombshell, and a bunch of others.

So maybe things will get better over there. I have no idea. I almost never post because the double standard is just so extreme. I understand it is a Yankee site, and by all means, Jim should ban Red Sox fans that troll but as a whole they fail to differentiate between playful josting and actual trolling. It seems like the littlest thing can get a Sox fan banned there. I always thought that they should do what we do here and have the Red Sox have their own subforum. It's the nature of the beast that fans of either team are going to be actively interested in the goings on of hte other team.

I used to post there somewhat frequently (BoSox37) but it kept going downhill and it got to the point where even if you got into a solid baseball conversation with one of the few people over there that are fans of both the Yankees and the game of baseball, ten posters would but in and rebut whatever I tried to say just because I'm a Sox fan. I haven't been banned or anything, so I could still post if I wanted to, but why bother?

And I agree with everyone else, BBtB is the most pompous jackass I have ever had the pleasure of not knowing, or at least he comes off that way.

the name was Jetersballhair and I was banned in the span of 30 minutes. And it just gets me very mad thinking about all of the contributions I could have made at the nyyfans forums Why do they stereotype?

Oh god that's too much, LMAO. I delibratley got banned for talking trash after they were all hyped about the tie record as well as playing the Angels. I could care less, they bashed my name (same one here) thinking I was some bandwagon Sox fan (which is hilarious in itself). It's sad to say but the majority of those fans over there are truly idiots with a lack of baseball knowledge, they are in essence, "bandwagon Yankee fans" seeing as that franchise is SO EASY to root for when it comes to a fanbase.

That dude was such a putz. I wasn't surprised at him being banned--he felt so under seige as a Yankee fan living in Boston that he irrationally lashed out at every Sox fan on that site.

At home I have a Boston "B" in the front window overlooking the street, and on my car I have a Sox sticker in the rear window (like a college sticker.)

I've gotten a few "thumbs down" gestures driving down the Hutch or 684, but no fingers yet.

At work the place is half Met/half Yank fans, and the Met fans are on my side, which makes it a lot easier. Also, I find Yank fans to be far more humble (humbled?) than the last time I lived in this area in the mid-80's.

I can't imagine why.

They're not humble. They're scared.

Anibalthecannibal, I recognize that name for sure.

And BBtB isn't banned; he was in the RS thread last night, I think. I've got him on ignore, which unfortunately doesn't completely work since people quote his posts and I end up seeing those.



Wow. That's pretty huge--NYYBombshell is another fixture in teh RS Thread--not as annoying as BBtB, but still, she liked to chime in. StaceyRosie and another poster named PippyPinstripes I've had on ignore for two years now, and haven't missed either one.

I rarely if ever post over there. To me, that place is like a crowed nightclub where you must yell to be heard. This place is more like a corner bar where a conversation can be had.

I came very, very close to joining them last year. I signed up using my Yahoo address, and was told you couldn't use any of those types of addresses. And I was not about to give them my work address and get spammed to high heaven. So I never joined.

While there are a few good nuggets over there, there is a TON of noise. At this point, I seldom go over there to read anything, since it is so hard to find the good stuff while weeding through the crap.

Yeah Dooley baited me a few times, and I knew the others, I got banned for a stupid reason. But that group was very cliquey.

I just got banned from nyyfans (for the 2nd time!) for posting in a lovefest giambi thread that his stats may go down if he gets snagged for using steroids again.

My favorite is when yankee fans talk about how bad bonds is for baseball, yet they are completely ignoring the contribution giambi/sheff makes to their roid infused team. Oh well, looks like i'll have to ask another friend at school to sign me up under their email addresses.

Unless they ban the entire seton hall university!;-)

Not to mention that MattPatt tried to argue with me that Barry Bonds was as bad a human being as a child molester, rapist, or murderer. His justification was, "Well he threatened to kill his mistress, and he cheats using illegal drugs, so he's just as bad." Never have I defended Barry Bonds... until then. Then he told me that by defending Barry, and calling his statements idiotic that I was, "A fanboy who takes baseball too seriously, and patronizes posters." Huh?

I have over 2,000 posts there as "Mystic Merlyn". Why the "y" instead of the "i" you ask? Well, I was under Mystic Merlin but I think I was banned.

A lot of posters are complete d*cks, but they can be because no moderators will reprimand them. They openly admit to a double standard (for Yankee fans and Sox fans), for whatever reason. I've gotten suspended once for telling someone they are an idiot.

Here's the list of people over there that deserve an ass-kicking:
BBtB (Grand Master of shitheads)
eddy (a close second)
38Special
JeterRodriguezSheff
Mattpat11
ryanm1058123
texasyankee


If you think BBtB's baseball posts are terrible, take a look at his political posts. He makes macd and co. look like reasonable people. I think OCJ's head would explode if he saw this guy's musings.

There are a few good posters over there, but generally people jump on the pile, so to speak, in arguments (due to their lack of knowledge or skill in debate).

I just lurk over there, but I despise 38Special. Every single goddamn post is just a condescending cheap shot at the Sox. He also believes every Yankee prospect known to exist will pan out and become a legit Major Leaguer.

Dude, Tabata will be the next Abreu at worst.

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I also love how bad calls only go against the Yankees. Someone should just post "Tony Randazzo" in the umpire thread and see what the reaction would be.

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