Who said this?

[TheSportsPredictor]

I have heard this quote many times. Is it attributed to any particular person?

"Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the sun to come up."

Thanks, I'll hang up now and listen.

 

[Oz]

Found this from a Bill Madden column that I found in a Google search ...

http://baseballguru.com/articles/analysisbillmadden01.html

Love them or hate them—and the legions of baseball fans in both camps are probably about equal in number—no other professional sports franchise has come close to approaching the success of the New York Yankees, winners of 26 World Series and 38 American League championships in the 99 years following their birth as the transplanted Baltimore Orioles in 1903. As George Steinbrenner put it when he bought the Yankees from CBS in 1973 (a time when they were just emerging from one of their lowest ebbs): "I feel like I've bought the Mona Lisa of sports franchises." By contrast, some 20 years earlier it was the famous stand-up comic Joe E. Lewis who had said: "Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel."

... Not quite the line you're looking for, but maybe the one that started the line.

 

[Angola!]

I have heard this quote many times. Is it attributed to any particular person?

"Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the sun to come up."

Thanks, I'll hang up now and listen.

"Rooting for the Indians is like living in Hell and hanging out with Art Modell."

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Found this from a Bill Madden column that I found in a Google search ...

http://baseballguru.com/articles/analysisbillmadden01.html

Love them or hate them—and the legions of baseball fans in both camps are probably about equal in number—no other professional sports franchise has come close to approaching the success of the New York Yankees, winners of 26 World Series and 38 American League championships in the 99 years following their birth as the transplanted Baltimore Orioles in 1903. As George Steinbrenner put it when he bought the Yankees from CBS in 1973 (a time when they were just emerging from one of their lowest ebbs): "I feel like I've bought the Mona Lisa of sports franchises." By contrast, some 20 years earlier it was the famous stand-up comic Joe E. Lewis who had said: "Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel."

... Not quite the line you're looking for, but maybe the one that started the line.

I'll take it! Thanks.

AND FU ANGOLA!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Angola!]

Found this from a Bill Madden column that I found in a Google search ...

http://baseballguru.com/articles/analysisbillmadden01.html

Love them or hate them—and the legions of baseball fans in both camps are probably about equal in number—no other professional sports franchise has come close to approaching the success of the New York Yankees, winners of 26 World Series and 38 American League championships in the 99 years following their birth as the transplanted Baltimore Orioles in 1903. As George Steinbrenner put it when he bought the Yankees from CBS in 1973 (a time when they were just emerging from one of their lowest ebbs): "I feel like I've bought the Mona Lisa of sports franchises." By contrast, some 20 years earlier it was the famous stand-up comic Joe E. Lewis who had said: "Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel."

... Not quite the line you're looking for, but maybe the one that started the line.

I'll take it! Thanks.

AND FU ANGOLA!!!!!!!!!!!

Anytime.