Maybe the New York tabloids have it right.

The entertaining Jayson Stark has some fun facts and figures for Yankee fans. I've gotten a little better at not entertaining/fueling myself strictly on Yankee schaudenfraud, but sometimes I just really relate to Method Man's immortal words on Biggie's "The What":

(Assume the position)
Stop, look and listen
I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens,
Bitch.

Admittedly I'm reading Virginia Woolf right now, not Dickens. "Skank ho" rhymes with Orlando, but I'm not in a rewiring classic rhymes sort of mood. More like a taunting mood.