Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
The owner of the New York Yankees Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
Yankee Stadium and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle Joe DiMaggio Lou Gehrig all of those guys.
I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.
Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says 'What kind of music do you make?' and you say 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.