December 24th, 2008
“ As of 4pm today, the Yankees have spent $423 million dollars on free agents this offseason. New York now has a record number of homeless families. Six months ago, the Yankees asked the city of New York for an additional $480 million dollars to fund that new piece of crap stadium. They bulldozed parks that used to be playgrounds for the children of the South Bronx. There were plenty of shady backroom deals involving the market value of Yankee stadum. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, NYC taxpayers. Get angry, because you should be. „
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Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge baseball fan. While in Poland, I took the time to teach my 2 year old niece all the rules of baseball (including that you may cheer for only the Tigers and the BoSox and under no circumstances can you cheer for the White Sox or the Yankees…cheering for the Cubs is acceptable, but not encouraged). But when you think about this kind of extravagant spending by a ball club, you should get angry regardless of how much you love the sport. You should get angry regardless of how much we “needed” that player, that stadium, that new club manager. Because in the end, we don’t need them. No matter what we think.
