The Times, They Are a Changing - By Brandon C

6/2/08

America is changing.  Gone are the days when our country’s metropolises ran the economy and culture of our nation.  New York used to be a symbol of everything that America was about and everything it aspired to be.  However, things now, they’re different.  Suburban sprawl has also turned into cultural and economic sprawl.  Culture and money are as evident in small towns and suburbs as they are in the big cities.  No longer is it true that if you can make it in New York you can make it anywhere.  Now if you can make it, do it wherever you like.

You may be wondering, what the hell does this have to do with baseball?  Well, baseball is changing too.  America’s past time has always reflected its native country.  During the heyday of the New York Yankees, when immigrants still flooded to our eastern seaboard, the Yanks had first crack at everyone off the boat.  Now, immigrants move to every corner, nook and cranny of America.  No longer do the Yankees have the stranglehold on those hardballers or potential hardballers when they get off the boat.  (Example: Fukudome in Midwestern city of Chicago).

This will be the end of the Yankees dynasty.  2008 will the last year that the Yankees are in Yankee Stadium and as usual the Yankees get what they whine for and are hosting the 2008 All-Star Game.  It is high time for our country to begin thumbing its nose at this arrogant juggernaut.  In the year before the Death Star is finally blown up, let’s give them one last insult, let’s help do something that everyone east of the Big Apple has always wanted and vote for a Yankee-less 2008 All-Star Game.

As a country, our voice should be heard and power should be flexed.  Let’s practice our democratic abilities a little earlier than November.  This summer when you choose your 2008 All-Stars, if you can’t decide who to vote in a box – pick some Sox![1]  White or Red.  Doesn’t matter!