This article is in response to an article featured in the New York Times, "Crime Blotter Has a Regular: Yankees Caps," by Manny Fernandez.
This is the dumbest thing that I've ever had the privilege of reading. People are so close-minded. So because a person commits a crime, they can't be a sports fan, or at least have an allegiance to a home team?
Because you decide to commit a crime in the city where you live, you can not be proud of where you are from? Because you want to take an illegal shortcut to get money you can't possibly have had any interest in your home city prior to that?
I'm starting to see why there are so many racial problems still prevalent in America now, it's because we are all so caught up in believing that something is ours and ours only. Good things are only for the people that I deem to be good people, the people like me. All those other people are bad, totally bad, rotten to the core, and they can't have any good in them.
I'm from St. Louis, and basically speaking I think wearing a Yankees hat in St. Louis just isn't going to cut it. Here in the S.T...
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