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Monday, September 22, 2008
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)
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1. Jeff K. Posted: September 22, 2008 at 10:32 AM (#2949765)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?
right now's a good time!
Jeter has three!
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.
Where's the key grip?
I thought he sets up the lights.
They blew the Bronx away
Who knew Billy Joel had such a Apocalyptic viewpoint on New York?
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