Putting The "Ass" In "Class"

OK, I feel just as dirty as you think I should for writing two Yankee related Blog Posts in the past week. I don't hate the Yankee Organization mind you, I'm indifferent to them. They have the most money of any team in baseball and a middle finger of a ballpark that after being funded by taxpayer dollars, now charges their fans $15 for a hot-dog. Fine...good for them. I do reserve my hate for Yankee FANS however. I cannot stand them. They are some of the most classless pieces of garbage I've encountered this side of Philadelphia. There's one big difference though, and that is that Yankee fans are all too quick to remind anyone who will listen (while sporting a smug smart-ass grin while doing so) that they are the "classiest" organization in professional sports. Ugh!!

As you no doubt have been beaten over the head during the past week, with the incessant coverage of the "tragic" losses of George Steinbrenner and Bob Sheppard - which I didn't know that dying at 99 years old is necessarily that "tragic", you may or may not have noticed a funny thing happened. Despite all the fan fair, hyperbole, and mysticism surrounding the late "Voice Of God" Bob Sheppard, not ONE Yankee player PAST or PRESENT showed up at Sheppard's funeral. Not one...nobody...

Does that strike you as odd? It certainly did to me. I mean Derek Jeter DID use a recording of Bob Sheppard's introduction when he came to bat at last weeks All-Star Game right? Jeter also did nothing but gush over the passing of Sheppard, and kept repeating how much Sheppard meant to the players and organization. Yet when it comes to answering why Jeter missed Sheppard's funeral, "...I don't necessarily think you have to go to a funeral to honor someone..." REEEAAAAALLLY Derek?! Well guess what then schmuck, I don't think anyone should go to YOUR funeral either then when it happens, since you apparently don't think it's a requirement. How do you like that, you sanctimonious dick-nose?

This is just one more example of not only Jeter acting like a complete punk-ass, but that wonderful classy organization called the New York Yankees feeding people chicken sh*t and calling it "Prime Rib" rather than Chicken Salad. So please Yankee Fans, don't tell me that you're organization is so much better than everyone else, when they operate on a whole other level of hypocrisy and double talk.