OCTOBER
10,
2006 --
For
LPR, the obvious lesson of Detroit's defeat of de
Yankees in the first round of the American League
playoffs is that $200 million can buy individual
players; it cannot, however, buy championships.
A
corollary is that success is not achieved merely by
throwing money at problems, LPR does not, however,
expect that our elected officials -- and particularly
Democratic officials -- will take this lesson from the
Tigers playoff victory over the Yankees, in four
games.
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George
Steinbrenner shown here on October 4, 2006.
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Indeed, if the Democrats regain a House majority, LPR
expects they will resume their view that
representative government actually means ruling the
people by taxes and the laws deriving therefrom.
For present purpose, LPR would merely note that for
all the vast treasure spent on the Yankees 2006
roster, the team apparently could not find the few
thousand dollars to maintain Babe Ruth Plaza outside
Yankee Stadium, on 161st Street.
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Babe
Ruth Plaza showing signs of needed repairs.
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Babe
Ruth Plaza
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LPR is not
prepared, at this time,
to attribute the Yankees' loss to Detroit to a curse
from the Bambino over the sad condition of the plaza
bearing his name.
(Of course, if there is any
possibility that the Yankees were cursed by the
neglect of Babe Ruth Plaza, how much more will the
Yankees be cursed when they no longer play their home
games in "The House that Ruth Built"?
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The
sign explains it all.
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LPR here presents for its clicksters photographic
impressions of the Yankee's brief appearance in the
2006 playoffs, including photos of Yankees going to
the Stadium October 4 and traffic problems the next
day, when the rain-cancelled October 4 game was
played.
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Jorge
Posada and Derek Jeter on October 4th.
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Traffic
outside Yankee Stadium on October 5th.
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The photo showing concerned Alex Rodriquez
was taken outside the Stadium on October 4.
The LPR photo of Mike Mussina, driving away from
Yankee Stadium was taken late on the night of October
7, after the Yankees' defeat left Detroit delirious
with (well-deserved) joy.
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Mike
Mussina
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The photos of "The House
that Ruth Built" and of the site of …The House that
Luxury Boxes Built?
are posted with a view to future significance. (The
photo that includes a Circle Line vessel was taken
from the Manhattan side of the Harlem River.)
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Yankee
Stadium as seen from the Manhattan side of the Harlem
River.
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Another
view of the
current Yankee Stadium.
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A
view of the upper deck on October 5th.
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The
new Yankee Stadium site.
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LPR left the area in front of the press gate at the
request, October 9, of Yankee security people -- for
reasons not quite clear as LPR still has a
press ID issued by the NYPD -- and drove to the
location set of "American Gangster," getting this
photo of Ridley Scott, the movie's director.
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Ridley
Scott
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The day before, LPR got this photo of Daily News
columnist Mike Lupica -- in front of the press gate.
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Daily
News columnist Mike Lupica
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The October 8 News included Lupica's call for the
firing of Joe Torre as Yankee manager. The next
day, LPR spotted one sign supporting Torre's
continued tenure as manager of the New York Yankees.
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A
fan showing her sentiments on October 9, 2006.
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Although the 2006 season is over for the Yankees, baseball will continue to be
played in The Bronx, this month, right outside Yankee Stadium.
The United Youth playoff are underway and LPR took a few photos of the first
game of a double-header between the Bronx Bronco and Bronx Rangers.
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Bronx
Rangers on October 8, 2006.
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Safe
at 2nd Base.
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Ron
Wylie on October 8th.
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The Rangers, Ron Wylie team president, won the first game 6-5 and were losing
3-0
when LPR left.
For the record, LPR notes that there was a full moon the night of October 7,
going into the morning of October 8, the
50th anniversary of Don Larsen's perfect game
against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1956 World Series.
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Don
Larsen signing copies of the book about his life "Perfect,
Once Removed."
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Don
Larsen
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LPR got photos of Don, October 7, when he appeared, with his younger cousin Philip
Hoose at Paperbacks Plus, on Riverdale Avenue in The Bronx, to sign copies of "Perfect,
Once Removed," his cousin's book, about him.
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The
full moon lighting the overnight sky of October
7 - 8.
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LPR did not, however, hear the Ghost of the Bambino howling on this occasion.
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Yankee
rooters from Bloomington, Illinois, in The
Bronx,
outside the Stadium, October 8
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Bunting
… but no people.
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A
look inside…
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Reggie
Jackson on October 4th.
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Yankees
GM Brian Cashman on October 8, 2006.
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GM
Brian Cashman, seen here again on October 9, 2006.
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A
fan named Freddie displays his disappointment in a sign
on October 8th.
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How
touching!
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Parking
prices …
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