Every week, or as often as I remember, I'll provide you with my poorly thought-out predictions on whose stock is on the rise and whose you should avoid like Enron. It's Buys and Sells. A few teams/players/issues to buy and a few to sell. It's simple stuff, folks. That is, if you could actually buy and sell things like these. Oh, whatever. Never mind.
This week in Buys and Sells, we're going to take a look at one of the big issues of the week -- playing hockey at Yankee Stadium. It's a special one topic edition! Remember, if you collect four Buys and Sells UPC codes and mail them in, you'll receive your choice of either a Eric McErlain or Greg Wyshynski signed bobblehead figurine.* Jes Golbez and other NHL FanHousers sold separately.
Strong sell: Baseball traditionalists trashing on a hockey game at Yankee stadium. Get over it. This is a sport so heaped in "tradition" and the "how we've always done things" kind of attitude that it's sickening. I love the sport. I like baseball games, baseball writers, baseball players and fans. They're a great bunch. But when it comes to tradition and baseball, that's where I draw the line because most of them are completely ridiculous. Did you know one of the most brilliant marketing/ticket selling ideas of our time -- I'm talking of course about interleague play -- took nearly 90 years to implement because it was seen as too radical. Brought up first by Bill Veeck Sr. in 1909, it wasn't until 1997 that it was put into action. And for those worried about the sanctity of Yankee Stadium, you know, that it might be a mockery to play another sport there, let's not forget that it used to host soccer and football games back in the day. And after so many renovations -- enough so it that the Yankees played two seasons in Shea -- it's about as close to the real Yankee Stadium as Michael Jackson is to the kid who sang "ABC". /end rant
