Maybe he's thinking of the special "Oligarch" seating section down close to the field at yankee stadium 3. They have a lot of investments.

I remember when my favorite rock and roll singer told all of us fans in Des Moines we were also the best.

I remember when my favorite cabaret singer accused her audience of breaking into her hotel room and stealing her purse. ("C'mon, Washington, you're better than that!")

"I was reading in Rolling Stone magazine the other day where they said New York Yankee audiences are the greatest baseball audiences in the world .... I thought to myself, ####, I've known that for 10 years."

Ed Whitson is on line 2, would like a word about "a double-edged sword" or something?

How will these comments affect his HOF chances?

The Yankees are almost eight times as invested in Rodon than the Giants were.

I remember when my favorite cabaret singer accused her audience of breaking into her hotel room and stealing her purse. ("C'mon, Washington, you're better than that!")

"Ummm.... we're a cabaret audience; we're mostly from Silver Springs, Arlington, etc. largely because we don't believe Washington is better than that."

(C'mon Walt, that's not fair. Some of the audience own million dollar condos in the city.)
(Note: Andy's probably talking about some performance from 1967.)

I remember when my favorite rock and roll singer told all of us fans in Des Moines we were also the best.

I remember when my favorite cabaret singer accused her audience of breaking into her hotel room and stealing her purse. ("C'mon, Washington, you're better than that!")

"Ummm.... we're a cabaret audience; we're mostly from Silver Springs, Arlington, etc. largely because we don't believe Washington is better than that."

Wrong on all counts, and way (not) to get the tongue-in-cheek context of my comment, though it was indeed a true story.

"I was reading in Rolling Stone magazine the other day where they said New York Yankee audiences are the greatest baseball audiences in the world .... I thought to myself, ####, I've known that for 10 years."

Now I have to go listen to Live Bullet again for the 400th time. Thanks a lot.

Bold move complimenting the fans of the team he just signed a six year deal for.

I remember when my favorite rock and roll singer told all of us fans in Des Moines we were also the best.

This made me laugh out loud, and is exactly what is going on here.

Along those lines, whenever I go to a concert for some big name musician, and it is in a relatively small city, I laugh at the invariable comments during the show from the star that go like this:

"You know, we've been on the road for five months now. It's hard to be away from your family, your friends. But the best part of touring is the people who come to our shows. [Crowd cheers.] We love all of our fans, but some places are even more special than others. The other day, we were flying between our shows at the Superdome in New Orleans and the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, and I was like, "You know the one place I can't wait to spend a few days? The Verizon Wireless Center in Manchester, New Hampshire! Nowhere better in the world!"

That's all Rodon is doing, and I'd surprised if he didn't do it.

Even better is when you can embed it directly in the lyrics to one of your most popular songs:

Just a city boy ...
Born and raised right here in Houston ....

"You know the one place I can't wait to spend a few days? The Verizon Wireless Center in Manchester, New Hampshire! Nowhere better in the world!"

Not the subtlest way to work the corporate name in there...

I liked the tweak on this during Alice in Chains' unplugged session (for my money, the best of any Unplugged album):

"I have to say this is the best show we've done in three years"
"Layne, it's the only show we've done in three years"
"well, it's still the best!"

Invested in what? Precious metals? Crypto? Pork bellies?

Everyone in the Bay is a venture capitalist, of course.

Along those lines, whenever I go to a concert for some big name musician, and it is in a relatively small city, I laugh at the invariable comments during the show from the star that go like this:

"You know, we've been on the road for five months now. It's hard to be away from your family, your friends. But the best part of touring is the people who come to our shows. [Crowd cheers.] We love all of our fans, but some places are even more special than others. The other day, we were flying between our shows at the Superdome in New Orleans and the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, and I was like, "You know the one place I can't wait to spend a few days? The Verizon Wireless Center in Manchester, New Hampshire! Nowhere better in the world!"

I saw Harry Connick Jr. in Greenville, SC, and as he gushed about Greenville, I was thinking "here we go...". And then it turns out his daughter went to Furman, which is in Greenville, so all the talk about him loving to come back to Greenville was probably, at least a little bit, sincere.