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If you haven’t heard the move from the Red Sox minor league farm system, it doesn’t involve a player. Last week, the Red Sox Class A affiliate Lowell Spinners launched a campaign to ban the team name ‘Yankees’ from Little Leagues across New England. To promote this proposition, the Spinners have even offered to pay for the new uniforms of any local league that does in fact banish the Yankee name.
Spinners’ general manager Tim Bawmann says children in New England are often devastated when they are assigned to be on a team called the Yankees. I for one, agree with this proposition. I don’t like going out on a Saturday afternoon and seeing a group of happy little youngsters parading around in their Yankee t-shirts with ice cream all over their faces. They make me sick. I don’t think I could even stomach cheering “GO YANKEES!” at my kid’s ball game. I would just be one of those parents that only roots for their kid. Although that eventually turns into the angry parent that loudly berates their child in public after the game for not trying to go opposite field, which then turns into the parent that can only visit their child on weekends and can’t go within 1000 feet of a school zone. It probably would be easier for everyone if each town adopted the Spinner’s idea.
I would suggest that you could collect all the old Yankee Little League uniforms and mail them to the illegitimate children of Yankee players all over the country. All shirts west of Worcester go to any child with the last name “Sheffield”.
This Spinners idea is definitely worth a closer look. If there is a ballot I would vote in favor. Maybe I am being a psycho Boston fan but I bet I am not the only one. Its not like I am picketing outside the fence of any 10 year old’s ball game or anything. Yet. Seriously though, it may sound nutso but I like they idea a lot. Like my roommate from New Jersey said…“only in New England”…
theaveragefan@bostonprosports.com
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