Yanker Elimination

It looks like the newly declared Lowell Spinner mission to eliminate all trace of the precious Yankee club nickname from youth league teams across New England is gaining notoriety. Though the Spinners maintain that this is all "in good fun", the movement's waves are being felt across the country, most importantly in the Rotten Apple. One Yanker fan talks of getting leagues in the NYC area to remove the name "Red Sox". There are 2 reasons this won't work: Yankee fans are too fairweather to care, and they're mostly in New Jersey, not NYC.