Ever swear up and down you weren’t something by defining that something?

In the past, when the Yanks lost to the Mets I would get pissed. The fan rivalry (as well as the rivarly within my mixed NY baseball team family) made it that way.

In the past, if the Sox reached first place with the Yanks trailing this many games behind, I’d be pissed. Or at least upset.

I just don’t care anymore.

It’s not like I’m a fair weather fan whose team is losing so she gives up. Not like that at all.

Well, Michele, I hate to inform you, but that makes you a fairweather fan of the highest order. But it’s okay. You can take comfort in the fact that most of the “Yankee Faithful” as they’re called when the Yankees are winning fall into that category.

See Yankee fans fall into the same repetitive moulds every season. When they lose, the games don’t matter until October. When they win, it was the greatest win ever and they’re primed for number [insert championship number here] and no one is stopping them.

Year after year after year after year, Mets fans endure the constant barrage of Yankees Rule, and year after year we hear about how they’re the best in baseball, the legends, the gods, the great ones, the chosen team, america’s team, and so on and so forth. We hear, when they lose how the games don’t matter until October (as if its some great foregone conclusion that when the Yankees get to the World Series they automatically win, just like the last few years, right?) and so on. When they beat the Mets, we hear about it day in and day out over and over until the Yankee fans can’t stop breezing it by everyone wearing the blue orange and black. When they lose, the games are unimportant because they don’t happen in October for a World Championship.

It’s great, really, to watch the Yankees fans who are self-proclaimed die-hards dying hard over their unbelievably bad season. Suddenly all the “die-hards” aren’t ready to proclaim their fan-ship anymore.

Suddenly the games in June mean something. In fact, if you listen to the New York sports press, the series this weekend against the Mets who smacked them around like overpaid bitches yesterday, was critical after they blew it big time to the worst team in baseball, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. A must win they couldn’t win. A must win in June.

Come to think of it, Michele may not be a fairweather fan. She’s a Yankee fan which means that she’ll most likely be silent for the rest of this season.

Just like the rest of ‘em.