Triston McKenzie says the Cleveland Guardians are living rent free in the head’s of Yankees fans

The Cleveland Guardians’ very own Triston McKenzie is making sure the New York Yankees remember who they are.

The Cleveland Guardians don’t really have that rival team as you see in baseball or other sports. The New York Yankees have the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Celtics have the Los Angeles Lakers, the Ohio State Buckeyes have the Michigan Wolverines and the New York Knicks have “being a well-run franchise”.

Yet, the Guardians don’t have that team. Sure, if the Minnesota Twins are good, the fans hate the Twins. Same thing with the Detroit Lions and the Kansas City Royals. The fanbase mostly just pities the Chicago White Sox. How can you have that much money and perpetually get it wrong? So sad.

Yet, the Guards are doing everything they can to incite the Yankees and their fanbase and we here at the Factory of Sadness, welcome it.

The animosity between the Guardians and the Yankees goes deep

Historically, we could go into detail about what and why things are the way they are between the two teams over the years. We’re not going to do that. That would take too long. No, we have three inciting incidents from the last 12 months that really seem to help cement this as the go-to feud for the Guardians in 2023.

The first involved Myles Straw, who got into the face of the Yankee fanbase after Steven Kwan got injured on a play in April while in New York. While laying on the ground being checked on by team doctors Yankee fans heckled, Kwan, until Straw got in their faces. This led to classless fans throwing things at Straw, and later sending him death threats.

The second incident came in Game 4 of the American League Divisional Series between the two clubs when Josh Naylor hit a home run on Gerrit Cole. Naylor then “rocked” a fictitious baby back and forth, loudly proclaiming that Cole was his son. The Guardians would lose that game but the Yankees were incensed.

The latest incident came at a Guardians media day when Naylor and Triston McKenzie were asked about the incident. Naylor said he did it to “pump up his teammates”, but McKenzie, well he took a different avenue, saying;

"I don’t care what anybody thinks. I recently had a kid’s camp. Nine in the morning, these kids are all excited for the camp, we’re stretching out, we’re doing stuff, and they’re looking at me, ‘Rocking the Baby’, going ‘Oh, what was up with that?’ And I’m like, that’s crazy that you won that game, you won the next game, ‘Rocked the Baby’ at us, and we’re still in your head rent free….For me it’s like, if we had that much of an impact on them and we lost? I can’t wait for this year. I can not wait."

If you were hoping to calm the flames between the two fandoms, McKenzie surely didn’t help matters