Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Kurt Cobian
and now the New York Yankee baseball club...
all dead at 27.
Maybe you've heard of the "27 club" - famous people (read: rock musicians) who died at 27 year of age. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones died at 27 in a pool under mysterious circumstances. And last night, (allegedly) the NY Yankees won their 27th world series championship...
Bye-bye Yanks, nice knowing ya. Let me know where to send the condolences, 'cause THIS IS IT: The End. The Denouement. El Finale.
New York Yankees: Dead at 27.
That's it, folks. Mark it done. They're dead. Done. O-VAH!
I know of what I speak. I'm a Red Sox fan, knower of things seen and unseen, and the reincarnation of someone in the 27 club (not joplin - but thanks for calling me fat in my past life!)
This year - the year of the Yankees 27th and LAST(!) Championship was also the the FIRST YEAR of the NEW Yankee Stadium. What you may or may not know is that way back in 1912, in the very same week the Titanic sank in the Atlantic, the Boston Red Sox opened their new ballpark called FENWAY -- oh, and they won the World Series,too. Many a diehard Boston fan thinking these new digs at Fenway were GOOD LUCK and sign of MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS TO COME...
Not so.
The Sox would go on to win more World Series in the decade, but the played in the Boston Braves stadium...
Now think.
The HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT IS GONE. Gone. Bye-bye. See ya later. One of the UNSAID reasons for the building of a NEW Yankee Stadium (which can be many things but NOT THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT) is that the Red Sox staged the GREATEST COMEBACK IN BASEBALL HISTORY to destroy the vaunted Yankee mystique, wiping out the Old Yankee Stadiums mojo once and for all...
So the Yanks built themselves a NEW DEN OF EVIL, and hey when it turned out that NO ONE WANTED TO SPEND THAT MUCH MONEY TO SEE THE YANKEE NOT WIN, well, major league baseball made sure they did. all summer long. it wasn't good baseball being played, it was MLB Survivor Marketing. (MLB could not have THIS HUGE OF A FINANCIAL FAILURE in New York. Not this year. Not with the NBA having so many financial worries that they're not even concealing the fact that they shipped Garnett to Boston so he could reignite the NBA only true rivalry)
Dead at 27.
That's as far as you go, New York.
And deep down, you know it. Yankee fans know it. They know that A-Rod is douche, and now that he's a champion douche he's never has to pretend that he likes Jeter or that Jeter is a better shortstop than he is.
So while many a Yankee fan is celebrating the latest Yankee banner, I celebrate THEIR LAST BANNER!
The line has been drawn.
The die cast.
It's over (forever) in the Boogie-Down Bronx.
The New York Yankees: Dead at 27.
just like Cobain.
just like Jimi.
just like Janis.
Just remember: you read it here FIRST!
See ya in America!
The Ghost of Jim