I can't see the latter.
As for the former, we're talking about someone who might try to put Luis Pujols in The HOF. No, can't see him as a Yankee fan.
In the world of baseball fandom, ONLY a true, real YANKEE fan has that exact inhuman, primitive, savage, conformist, evil that James Gregory had as General Ursus, that homicidal nutjob gorilla general with the hat of a Cardinal in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes."