Gonna Leave This (Un)Brokedown Palace

Utterly absurd to be tearing down Yankee Stadium. The fat cats get fatter. Regardless, Nazz Jr. and I made once last pilgrammage for the final games.

This is a shot taken as we drove away. You can see the Yankee Stadium lettering in blue, right above our Ramones air freshener!

The Yankee Stadium Facade.

Mariano Riviera pitching the 9th inning. You can see the ball speeding it's way to home plate (slightly to the right of the 2nd basemen).

Bookage:

Yankee For Life - Bobby Murcer

Toonage:

Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace (Live 6-21-86 Greek Theater)

Ronnie Spector - You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory

Willie Nelson & Calexico - Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

Elvis Costello - Just A Memory

X - Call Of The Wreckin' Ball

Ba$eball

The Polo Grounds

1883-1963

Another baseball season is upon us and once again we have high hopes for the Mets and the Yankees to pull their heads out of their respective areses and bring the World Series trophy back to New York.

Aw, who am I kidding? As a Noo Yawker, I just don't a crap anymore. Both teams have ass raped New York City and are about to receive gift wrapped new stadiums. What a joke. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of corporate playgrounds when the money should be used for, oh I don't know; how about:

Public Schools
New York's crumbling infrastructure
Public Transportaion
Housing
Food for the poor

and just about anything else you can think of.

Both teams have perfectly usable venues currently. And both teams will erect new facilities with LESS SEATING (the better to milk more money per seat and generate new luxury box revenue).

Plus, they've both jacked up their prices this year as well (for the privilege of attending a game at the "old" Yankee and Shea stadiums.

And while the teams have spent the last decade denigrating their stadiums, neither team is above cashing in on crass fake nostalgia.

On the field, it can't get any more pathetic then last year's showings, can it? Between the Mets' historic choke and the Yankees getting biblical wrath poured on them; 2007 was truly bizarre.

Ah screw it;
here's some music from some people who couldn't give a damn about baseball.

Toonage:
From the Norwegian production of The Rocky Horror Show:
Ta Meg, Ta Meg (Touch Me, Touch Me)
En Hip Tranvestitt (Sweet Transvestite)
Tiden Blir Skrudd (The Time Warp)

and here's a Thai version of a Ray Charles Classic
Payom Moogda - Tamai Dern Sae (What I Say)

here's a Baseball one...
Earl Weaver going bat shit on a radio show in the 70's

The Yankees Were Slain By The Lord

"And so it came to pass that Andrew, the old warrior, the fabled left-handed slinger, was called upon to rout the Tribe of Cleveland, and it was good. But Andrew tired and and left in the heat of battle when Joseph, his chief, relieved him in favor of the young stalwart, Job-a.
"Now Job-a, true to form as the savior of the Yankees, quelled the charge made by the Clevelands, and he basked in the favor of his brothers and rested. But G-d was ill-favored by this turn of events. He set the locusts upon Job-A when he returned to the battlefront and the brash young warrior, the favorite of the people, suffered his first defeat. The battle belonged to the Clevelands, and the people were left to wonder why G-d had forsaken the Yankees, the Yankees He had loved so dearly and rewarded so handsomely for nigh on a century."

PS: A-ROD SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Toonage:

Descendents - Everything Sucks

Grateful Dead - Loser (live 4-7-72)

Detroit Cobras - Now You're Gone

Rancid - Lock, Step and Gone

Wire - I Am The Fly (live CBGB's 1978)

Ian Hunter - Cleveland Rocks