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Monday, September 22, 2008

Let’s Go Tribe: Cesspool scheduled for demolition

Wouldn’t that flood the streets of NY with Diet Coke?...Oh, it’s about Yankee Stadium.

In just seven years, the Yankees took the highest payroll in the sport and tripled it, shattering any illusions of a level playing field and turning the sport into a competitive joke.  Once a hated but worthy adversary, the Yankees were transformed from a symbol of American excellence to a symbol of American arrogance, of wretched excess, of unfair advantage, of winning by cheating rather than competing, of performance enhancing drugs and cosmetic surgery, of buying it rather than competing to win.  On the field, they were a club that started every inning on third base, and in the stands, their fans thought they’d hit a triple.  They attracted fewer fans who were in love with the sport, and more freakishly obsessive front-runners who oozed entitlement like a toxic puss.  The overspending Yankees begot the overspending Red Sox, and the putrid Yankees fans begot the incomprehensibly obnoxious Red Sox Nation.  You could spend the rest of your life smacking these people, really hard, and it wouldn’t be nearly enough.

The House That Ruth Built became The Cesspool Of Entitlement, and it doesn’t really matter that they’re tearing it down.  Soon the building will be gone, but the awful stench is just moving across the street.

Repoz Posted: September 22, 2008 at 10:22 AM | 19 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Jeff K. Posted: September 22, 2008 at 10:32 AM (#2949765)
Goodness. Bitter, party of 1?

Anyway, one thing is that anyone who becomes a fan during a period of success tends to be labelled a front-runner. The Yankees have had such an extended string of success, when were they supposed to attract "real fans" instead of front-runners?
   2. alkeiper Posted: September 22, 2008 at 10:40 AM (#2949766)
Lately, October.
   3. chris p Posted: September 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM (#2949781)
when were they supposed to attract "real fans" instead of front-runners?

right now's a good time!
   4. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot Posted: September 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM (#2949806)
   5. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot Posted: September 22, 2008 at 12:53 PM (#2949809)
You want a closing ceremony? THIS is a closing ceremony.
   6. hardrain Posted: September 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM (#2949811)
what a bitter a*hole this guy is...I mean really.
   7. YR Denies Jesus Montero Posted: September 22, 2008 at 01:25 PM (#2949829)
This all sounded so much more somber in the original Russian. Banging your cleats on the podium remains optional.
   8. The District Attorney Posted: September 22, 2008 at 01:50 PM (#2949843)
the Yankees were transformed from a symbol of American excellence to a symbol of... performance enhancing drugs and cosmetic surgery
Cosmetic surgery?
   9. Crispix Attacks Posted: September 22, 2008 at 01:53 PM (#2949847)
Well, they did have two guys with nipple rings this year.
   10. Hack Wilson Posted: September 22, 2008 at 01:55 PM (#2949848)
Well, they did have two guys with nipple rings this year.


Jeter has three!
   11. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: September 22, 2008 at 02:05 PM (#2949852)
The stupidest thing about this may be the "turning the sport into a competitive joke" part. The team he's ranting about isn't even in the playoffs this season . . . how's that a competitive joke?
   12. Rants Mulliniks (formerly Cold Prosimian) Posted: September 22, 2008 at 02:11 PM (#2949864)
I was surprised to hear that the Blue Jays have the highest opponent's winning pct. ever at Yankee Stadium, with a glittering .450 (100-122, according to Jerry Howarth).
   13. scareduck Posted: September 22, 2008 at 02:46 PM (#2949895)
#10 - he's a witch! Burn him!
   14. scareduck Posted: September 22, 2008 at 02:47 PM (#2949897)
The stupidest thing about this may be the "turning the sport into a competitive joke" part. The team he's ranting about isn't even in the playoffs this season . . . how's that a competitive joke?

For the first time in, what, 15 years?
   15. SoSH U at work Posted: September 22, 2008 at 02:50 PM (#2949900)
For the first time in, what, 15 years?


In a playoff structure that invites eight playoff teams as opposed to two. And for a franchise where 13-year-runs like the Yankees just completed were not particularly out of the ordinary long before free agency.
   16. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: September 22, 2008 at 03:00 PM (#2949908)
You could spend the rest of your life smacking these people, really hard, and it wouldn’t be nearly enough.

Where's the key grip?
   17. Misirlou's got a busy day, he's wearing a vest Posted: September 22, 2008 at 03:08 PM (#2949914)
You could spend the rest of your life smacking these people, really hard, and it wouldn’t be nearly enough.

Where's the key grip?


I thought he sets up the lights.
   18. Tony H. Posted: September 22, 2008 at 03:56 PM (#2949945)
Primey for #10!
   19. Gamingboy Posted: September 22, 2008 at 04:41 PM (#2949989)
They said that Queens could stay
They blew the Bronx away



Who knew Billy Joel had such a Apocalyptic viewpoint on New York?

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