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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

WEE CHANGE FOR YANKEES (RR)

Yip Yip Yaphank!

Yankee fans are now at liberty to go to the bathroom during the playing of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch, thanks to a settlement reached yesterday in Manhattan federal court.

Signing off on the deal were the Yankees, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Queens resident Bradford Campeau-Laurion, who was thrown out of Yankee Stadium last year after trying to hit the head midtune.

Campeau-Laurion, a Red Sox fan, will also get $10,001 in a separate deal reached with the city because he got the boot from two uniformed cops—one of whom allegedly told him, “Get out of my country.”

...The city added that the settlement was “not to be construed as an admission of liability.”

Thanks to o’b.

Repoz Posted: July 07, 2009 at 12:29 PM | 14 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. RB in NYC (Now with New iPhone!) Posted: July 07, 2009 at 01:59 PM (#3244233)

Nothing like a good pun

2. RJ in TO Posted: July 07, 2009 at 02:10 PM (#3244243)

And that was nothing like a good pun.

(Wiggles eyebrows, fiddles with cigar)

3. Drew (Primakov, Gungho Iguanas) Posted: July 07, 2009 at 02:28 PM (#3244278)

They just don't want the camera-facing seats to look empty in the 7th inning.

My question is, why do we pay someone $10,000 for getting tossed from a stadium? I mean, Yanks ticket prices aren't THAT high yet...right?

4. Craig Calcaterra Posted: July 07, 2009 at 02:36 PM (#3244297)

This is good for those fans who like their beverages . . . white with FOOOOOOAAAAAMM!

5. The Kids Are Enright (1k5v3L)

Posted: July 07, 2009 at 02:50 PM (#3244318)

My question is, why do we pay someone $10,000 for getting tossed from a stadium?

Because you are willing to give the Yankees your cash? (I know, it's unfathomable.)

6. Drew (Primakov, Gungho Iguanas) Posted: July 07, 2009 at 02:59 PM (#3244333)

Well, "we" referred to taxpayers. Which I guess doesn't really refer to me, since I don't pay taxes in NY, nor have I ever been to Yankee Stadium. Why should taxpayers get the shaft for some dude ######## to the ACLU?

7. The Kids Are Enright (1k5v3L)

Posted: July 07, 2009 at 03:08 PM (#3244347)

The NYC taxpayers are forking over millions so the Steinbrenners could have a new playground, and you complain about $10K?
But to answer your question, NYC politicians are Hank and Hal's towel boys.

8. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: July 07, 2009 at 03:22 PM (#3244370)

My question is, why do we pay someone $10,000 for getting tossed from a stadium? I mean, Yanks ticket prices aren't THAT high yet...right?

I wonder if the Yanks first tried to offer the guy four box seats for a Royals game in lieu of the cash.

9. Bob Dernier Cri

Posted: July 07, 2009 at 03:23 PM (#3244372)

why do we pay someone $10,000 for getting tossed from a stadium?

$65 "Prime Club Box" seat in second deck way up the RF line
$8.95 small Miller Lite, 45% dropped in the incident and 55% became too warm to be enjoyably drinkable
$895 suit ruined by entirely preventable urinary accident
$455 styling products and couture mussed by overly zealous Stadium cops
$2,995 psychotherapy dealing with issues of trust in public officials and insecurity over national identity
$3,995 loss of consortium with favorite sport down the stretch run when summoning up interest in pennant race was impossible even with stimulating medication
$1,586 value of Yankee baseball-card collection torn up and ritually burnt in fit of pique over ejection

10. Drew (Primakov, Gungho Iguanas) Posted: July 07, 2009 at 03:29 PM (#3244377)

you complain about $10K?

It's the fleecing du jour--the other one has been lamented to death already.

11. OCD SS Posted: July 07, 2009 at 04:23 PM (#3244442)

My question is, why do we pay someone $10,000 for getting tossed from a stadium? I mean, Yanks ticket prices aren't THAT high yet...right?

Listen, given that quite a few of NYC's payouts for police misconduct involve the phrase "in a hail of police bullets" somewhere in the press clipping, I think everyone concerned should count themselves luck.

12. Who Swished In Your Cornflakes? Posted: July 07, 2009 at 04:44 PM (#3244473)

I read the headline and thought Wang was getting demoted.

13. Swoboda is freedom Posted: July 07, 2009 at 04:52 PM (#3244483)

WEE CHANGE FOR YANKEES (RR)

No more Playstation then.

14. willcarrolldoesnotsuk Posted: July 07, 2009 at 05:34 PM (#3244550)

My question is, why do we pay someone $10,000 for getting tossed from a stadium?

If by "we", you mean "the citizens of New York City", it's because "our" employees - the New York City Police - were the perpetrators.

If "we" don't like it, perhaps "we" should encourage "our" employees to be better behaved.

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