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Maltipoo Shaggy is dressed as a Yankees fan at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in New York Citylast year. Commentator Frank Deford says the Yankees are turning into a home for the assisted living.
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Meanwhile, even before the guileless Alex Rodriquez underwent hip surgery and then got fingered again for using naughty medications, the Yankees were turning into a home for the assisted living. The current, ordinary Celtics are long in the tooth, too. If the Yankees can't get under the luxury-tax limit and sign Ponce de Leon to replace A-Rod, this could actually be the first year since 1994 that the Yankees, Lakers, Celtics and Cowboys will have, all together, missed the playoffs, a dynasty shutout.
And, just for the record, it's been years since anybody could even pretend to be a dynasty in ice hockey. For the last nine seasons in the NHL, there've been nine different champions. Very Canadian, eh?
So, it's a parity world now in sports America. Yes, a certain glamour is still attached to teams with great tradition, but you can dine out on history for only so long. There's something revealing about seeing so many of the most expensive seats at Yankee Stadium empty, game after game. Especially in New York, the in-crowd is the first to know when the old in-thing is out.
And it's kind of ironic that, at a time when there is such demographic inequality in America, sports is less aristocratic than ever. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 11:40:17