Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack.

The quip draws on the common perception of the New York Yankees as baseball’s perennial powerhouse—wealthy, historically dominant, and structurally advantaged. By comparing cheering for them to “rooting for the house” in blackjack, it suggests that supporting the Yankees can feel less like backing an underdog with something to prove and more like siding with the built-in favorite in a rigged or asymmetrical contest. The line also works as a piece of sports-fan moral psychology: many fans prefer narratives of struggle and upset, so they view allegiance to a dominant franchise as aesthetically or ethically suspect, even if it is perfectly rational for a fan seeking consistent winning.