How many Yankee fans here remember the "bad old days"?

Question

You know, either 1965-1975, or the 80s or the early 90s?

Answer 1

Yeah. Murphy's law. I enjoyed exactly 2 seasons when the Yanks were good. Then the late 60s. And finally, finally, they started winning in the late 70s. And then by the early 80s Steinbrenner chased me away. I can not root for my favorite team because of him. So, he finally, finally, gets old. Then he turns the team over to Hank. So the memories of those really bad -- Horace Clarke one year was their best hitter. The Mick was even still with them -- late 1960s-mid 1970s teams linger. I hate life.

Answer 2

I definitely remember the Girardi catching days with Kevin Mass playing third and Donnie Baseball trying his best to lead a messy team.  

I haven't written off this season, yet.  The Yankees can only lose 12 games in the remaining 40 left...  Which is going to be tough to do.  I have confidence though...

Answer 3

I'm one of those new-era kids, born after the 80s, too young to remember the early 90s. I've only known winning in the entire time I've known the Yankees.

Even so, I'm going to stick by my team through thick and thin. There are going to be hard times-- I've read and heard about the hard times, even if I haven't experienced them myself-- and I vow to never stop believing.

The Yankees are more than a minor interest for me. The Yankees are a lifestyle. I live and die by their success. Yankee baseball allows me to breath.

I don't intend to suffocate anytime soon.

Answer 4

When I was a kid back in the late 60's and early 70's, the Yankees were pretty bad. I remember, Horace "No Neck" Williams, Roy White, Ron Bloomberg, Joe Pepitone and some others.

Answer 5

I bet Derek Jeter misses the 90's cuz that's when the Yankees were a REAL team,winning 3 World Series in that decade.

Answer 6

Too young to remember 65-75, but I remember the 80's very well.    My first memory of the Yanks was losing to the Royals in the 1980 ALCS.   Then, they lost to the Dodgers in the Word Series the next year.  Then 13 years of no playoffs.    My father used to tease me about how the Yankees were in the World Series every year when he was growing up and would feel sorry for me.

You know the Yanks really weren't as bad in the 80's as people seem to think.  They actually won more regular season games that decade than any other team.  They were usually in the pennant race until at least late August, and the race for the 1985 AL East came down to the last series of the season against Toronto.   It wasn't until 1989-1990 that things got really bad.

I remember Mattingly and Winfield battling it out for the batting title on the last day of the 1984 season, Rags' no-hitter on the 4th of July, and of course the George Brett pine tar game.

I remember Wally Joyner getting a knife thrown at him by some deranged fan, I remember Rickey Henderson and that d**n "snatch catch" of his, I remember how Danny Tartabull was supposed to be the savior of the Yankees, I remember Deion Sanders in a Yankee uniform - looked like he didn't know the rules of baseball at the time, and trading Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps.   At least there were some good laughs.

Answer 7

Boy do I.

I've been a Yankees fan since '78-79, so I grew up in the '80s when the team wasn't much of anything after the '81 World Series loss and the Mets ran New York in the mid to late '80s. All we had to cheer for was Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, and Rickey Henderson. I remember guys like Mike Pagliarulo, Roy Smalley, Alvaro Espinoza, Steve Kemp, Andy Stankiewicz, Kevin Elster (after he left the Mets)...ugh. It was not fun for a Yankees fan growing up in the 1980s and early 1990s. Mets fans had guys like Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, Gary Carter, Keith Hernandez and they were the fun, winning guys. Even though I grew up around other Yankees fans, there were a lot of Mets fans around my way and they got in our faces all the time to brag about how good the Mets were. The Yankees were kinda sorta competitive in the '80s, but they weren't touching Boston, and Toronto and Detroit for the better part of the decade.

As happy as I was to see the Yankees become a dynasty in the late '90s, I kinda wished they would have won once when I was a kid.

Answer 8

I remember the years of the 80's & early 90's all too well. It was a frustrating time but i stood by them no matter what.