Baseball is considered to be an American pastime and an integral part of our culture. This American sport is supposed to epitomize what we are as Americans. When other countries think of the USA baseball is never far behind.
It is common knowledge that the New York Yankees have won more World Series than any other baseball team. Which in turn has led to an increase in its American fan base. However, shouldn't the opposite happening?
Not so long ago the MLB instituted salary caps so that all baseball teams would have an equal opportunity in attracting the best players. A fine structure was instituted to enforce the salary cap, and the Yankees have had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars every year for consistently, purposely exceed the caps. Shouldn't this be considered a form of cheating? I'm sure other countries see it that way but Americans do not for the Yankee have one of the largest American fan base.
It is interesting that most Americans always have to back the winner. It seems that teams like the New York Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys because they have won more games have more american fans. Being American our culture allows us to luxury of rooting for any team that we choose, and if we are unhappy with the performance of one team we can just change in for another. It gives the impression that in Western culture if you backed the winner you're a winner, but if you backed a loser than you must be a loser. In reality, you really didn't participate or have anything to do with whether your team won or lost. It's more of (ego boost) I was right I picked the winning team.
The Japanese started their own baseball league, and their culture dictates something different. Win, lose or draw A Japanese person would not consider rooting for a team other than that of their own region. It would be considered dishonorable. So imagine from the Japanese point of view, Americans in regard to the game of baseball must be pretty dishonorable, not only do we back the teams that win the most, regardless of what part of our country it is from, but we allow one team to break the rules in the pursuit of the win and that team has the greatest number of American fans.
