At Magick Sandwich, we love a parade. We're not made of stone, after all.
Once again, the Yankees are champions of baseball!!!
So, let me take a moment to explain the title of this post. When I say zeroes, I am not referring to a lack of talent, simply to the excess of zeroes on these people's paychecks.
It's been nine years since our home team dominated the sport. Considering the extremely well-paid guy pile above, what took them so long? Modell's Sporting Goods was swamped yesterday with fans buying Yankee memorabilia. Why not just wear a moth-eaten t-shirt from an old win and show you're not just a fair weather fan?At 11 A.M. this morning, these players will take a ride up the famed "Canyon of Heroes" and enjoy the adulation of an estimated two million fans who will gather along the route. (Statistically, 10.2 percent of them will be unemployed and have nothing better to do than celebrate spoiled sports stars.)
This ticker tape parade has a long history: honorees have included John Glenn, Nelson Mandela, the Apollo 8 astronauts and lots and lots of other Yankee teams. It's been a long time since Wall Street has used ticker tape. Perhaps this year they'll shower the Yanks with shredded hopes and dreams?
Then, at City Hall, they will be presented with the Key to the City by Mike Bloomberg, the man who just bought himself a third term as mayor by spending ninety million dollars of his own money on his campaign. There's a certain symmetry to that.
I live in NYC and I love it, warts and all. I think it's the greatest place on earth. But I don't want to indulge the all-American denial mechanism so many citizens have when it comes to criticism. I think the Daddy Warbucks mentality on display today is a bit grotesque.
And it's going to be impossible to go anywhere downtown. As I said before, I love a a parade, with one caveat: it must not inconvenience me in any way. And that is the definition of a real New Yorker.
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I just want to cry (or kill someone, your choice) when I hear about the amount of money people spend on frivolous crap like politics, when there are so many worthwhile charities out there that actually do, unlike politicians, serve the people.
@NannyGoats: I don't know what it is in our psychology that makes us want to believe our healthcare system is the best in the world or that the rich shouldn't bear a proportionate tax burden.
It's easier to remain uninformed, keep buying lottery tickets and dream of a gauzy future where we'll be in that tax bracket.
And even though my husband would say that Bloomberg is a philanthropist, I would like to remind him that the mayor's favorite charity is his own ego.
Add the Olympics to frivolous crap.
There are so incredibly many areas where people get way too much for that which they do. The rich get richer and the poor get taxed for it. It's insane!
It makes you wonder about 2012 doesn't it? I keep saying God needs to come down and clean house. The salary of ONE of them could feed the destitute in Africa for 20 years.
Since Kathcom brought it up: yes, Bloomberg is a philanthropist that gives away hundreds of millions, and yes, he has an ego to match.
What's interesting that that other sports have a payroll cap which tends to allow other teams to be able to compete on a more balanced level. The Yankees spend so much on talent that it's difficult for others to even hope to compare to this "dream team" scenario.
Now, I'm not bitter. Coming from San Diego, I'm used to disappointments. I'd just like to see somebody else other than the Yankee near the top of the heap in the post season.
Regardless, congrats New York! It took seven games to decide a champion, and that made for good TV.
@ kathcom- You make an interesting point. These politicians continue to use fancily worded devices to burden and subjugate low and lower middle class families with buzz words like "sin-tax" (under the guise of reducing said sin).
The real sin is in the corporate tax breaks that they legislate for themselves and their fund raising lobbyists (who happen to be their true constituents)
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