Our Universe is bigger than your Nation
ByI’ve always been rather skeptical of the idea of Red Sox Nation. Do fans really need to prove their love of their team through the cost of their fan package and a ludicrous faux-presidential election? While New England dithered with their quaint fan club, the Bronx fans simply went on cheering for the Bombers.
Well, I guess the Powers-That-Be have determined a fan club to a lucrative venture. Earlier today, the Yankees announced the formation of the Yankee Universe, an official Yankee fan club with “members exclusive benefits, unique access and special savings.”
Per the press release, members of the fan club with earn benefits that “extend to all aspects of the fan experience.” They get 10 percent discounts at the clubhouse store and online specials at the MLB.com Shop. Those holding a membership card and a ticket will get fast-tracked into the stadium at Gate 2. That one, by the way, is the gate all the way out in left field at the corner of Jerome Ave. and 162nd St. It’s not really worth the walk.
In reality, this fan club isn’t much of anything. For $19.95 for the rest of the season, members gain access to the Gameday Audio package and all of these benefits. It’s basically an MLB.com enticement with some perks. Some of the proceeds will go to the Department of Pediatrics at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Boston may have its nation, but we have an entire Universe. We win.
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I prefer the RAB club.
Smart baseball fans!
+1.
We can has t-shirts?
T-shirts is a cool idea
i have one, it says save the big 3. and no one of them sits in the bullpen god knows why, one of them is bordering on bust but still has time, and i want to straight up punch the 3rd one in the face and just be like, you’re better than that, bad dog.
bordering on bust but still has time
If Joba is 25-26 and still pitching like he is, then I’ll say he’s on the borderline of being a bust. Waaaaaay, waaaaaaaaay too early for that. Dare I say it? DARE I? Oaktag. That’s right. I did it.
(I know you were being hyperbolic to prove a point but whatever. I just wrote 1493 words of my own and I’m touchy. I got nothing but love for you JBD.)
Dude, he was referring to Kennedy with that.
Comprehension F A I L
you were just voicingyour inner suppressed joba=bust feelings eh? i see it now
Freudian slip, FTL?
Well, Matt knows Joba’s not a starting pitchah!
yes i was. much love to my homies.
i wasn’t dissing the shirts btw, just saying.
Just your “oaktagian” judgment?
Can we have a faux-election? But instead of President, do we get a chancellor or an emperor?
General Joe will lead a military coup.
IMPERATOR!!!
I call dibs on Chancellor of the Exchequer.
All right, but I got dibs on the Spy Chief.
(a la Sir Francis Walsingham)
Can I be Sergeant at (Hairy) Arms?
What about Minister Without Portfolio?
I have Scottrade.
In reality, this fan club isn’t much of anything.
I’m reminded of the Simpsons episode where Moe sticks the crayon back up Homer’s nose to get just the right amount of dumbness.
Moe: “Alright, tell me when I hit the sweet spot.”
Homer: “Deeper, you pusillanimous pilsner pusher!”
Moe: “All right, all right.”
[pushes deeper]
Homer: “DE-FENSE!!! OOH, OHH!! DE-FENSE!!! OOH, OHH!!”
Moe: “Eh, that’s pretty dumb. But, uh…”
[pushes deeper]
Homer: “Extended warranty? How can I lose?”
Moe: “Perfect.”
yankees universe = just as gay as redsox nation
Can we not use gay as a slur here?
Please?
gay=happy
+A bunch.
Gay is not a synonym for shitty.
Thirded.
Can I just reiterate my amusement with the Fast Track ticketing option? I’ve walked around to Gate 2. It’s far from the subway and far from the scrum between Gates 4 and 6. By the time you walk all the way over there, any time benefit you get by using Fast Track has been wasted.
+42
But it’s Gate 2! 2!!
How about waiting to release this until they’re no longer down 0-8 to the Red Sox on the season? Anything to make more money.
This idea is almost as dumb as putting Hughes in the bullpen. Who’s running this team nowadays?
I’m 100 percent certain that the person running the team and the person running the fan club idea have little to no contact with each other. In his spare time, Brian Cashman is not setting up the Yankee Universe.
Yes he is. That’s why he has no time to assemble a good bench.
The reason we didn’t win the title in 2007 is because Cashman spent the whole year personally picking out wall valances for the NYY Steak restaurant.
Billy Beane called Cashman’s office at the deadline and offered him Dan Haren for Melky Cabrera straight up. The call went to voicemail. Cashman never got the message until spring training 2008, when Haren was already in Arizona.
I know you’re kidding but imagine the rotation we could have had now had we gotten Haren. CC, Haren, AJ, 19-game Wang (not bad Wang), Joba/Andy/Phil.
I know that if we had Haren we probably wouldn’t have gotten CC and AJ, but just imagine.
that was probably levine/trost. heh
Which would explain a lot.
He could be setting it up. The Yankees could be running low on cash, you just never know. I guess it’s something to talk about during the break. At least you didn’t make a post asking people to help John Sterling come up with a horrendous home run call for Eric Hinske.
Haha! Even funnier were the ideas people came up with. Terrible.
Here are the ones Pete likes the best so far (from http://yankees.lohudblogs.com)
1. Hinske with your best shot
2. They’re hysteric for Eric.
3. Pinch me, what a shot by Hinske
4. The Masher from Menasha does it again
5. Hinske, Farske, Outske
Awful.
Great. He’s totally going with No. 1
I’ll just go with the ol’ Vin Scully. She’s gone!
HinSki The Catskills!!!
Hinske hit it to Minsk-y!
Holy fuckballs, a homer!
Haha. Praying it stays “it is high, it is far, it is gone”. That’s good enough.
Too bad he can’t use, “It’s a Monica Lewinski for Hinske!”
I haven’t seen an Englishman take a blow like that since Hugh Grant!
In his spare time, Brian Cashman is not setting up the Yankee Universe.
But every time I play MLB ’09, I have to waste countless hours constantly adjusting the prices of hot dogs and foam fingers to placate the needs and whims of the fanbase.
Because since it’s in the game, it’s in the game.
Fuck that. I just have all the business on auto. More time to ponder whether Manny Ramirez or Adam Dunn would fit best with the Marlins.
Seriously, though, I want to know why some programmer at EA sports EVER thought people would enjoy setting the price of concessions and shit. Like, “You know what this game is missing? It’s not the ability to make three-way trades, or manager ejections, or shit like that… it’s the ability to decide whether 20 soda cart vendors will be enough, or if you need to up it to 25.
Bo-Ring.
Yes, that’s very boring. In my high school marketing class 3 years ago, we had this simulation game called Virtual Business. We had to run a store, setting up the shelves, ordering the food, paying rent, trying to keep up with competition, staffing, and all that stuff. It was VERY boring.
They could at least have called it the Yankee Empire.
Is that you Larry?
Larry? You mean Lanny? And I love the Evil Empire thing. It’s true, and I’m fine with it. I revel in it.
Larry Lucchino
And they could introduce the lineup to the Imperial March, instead of the opponent.
Seconded.
Why we choose to not embrace the subtle ironic pleasure of being the bad guy, I still don’t know.
Honestly I think it would be awesome if they would introduce our lineup to the Imperial March.
Someone get Cashman on the phone!
The best idea I’ve ever read on RAB. I would rock a Darth Vader helmet to every game if that ever happens.
This is how you would look like:
http://cache.daylife.com/image.....i/610x.jpg
There’s so much awesome with the picture. Darth Vader throwing out the first pitch to a giant anthropomorphic lion in Texas while a storm trooper looks on.
I already refer to the Yankee Empire in conversation. Trying to advance the meme. Yankee Universe is just stupid.
Hank: “Red Sox Nation? What a bunch of [expletive] that is. That was a creation of the Red Sox and ESPN, which is filled with Red Sox fans. Go anywhere in America and you won’t see Red Sox hats and jackets, you’ll see Yankee hats and jackets. This is a Yankee country. We’re going to put the Yankees back on top and restore the universe to order.”
The creation of Yankees Universe reminded me of this quote. I remember when he said that, he got blasted even though most of it is pretty much true.
I miss Hank.
His quotes were awesome.
I wonder if John Henry will say anything about this on Twitter.
But his contract negotiation skills were not.
I do miss his quotes…wonder what role he has on the Yanks these days?
I think he scoops the poop at Steinbrenner Stables.
Do we need to state our ethnicity when filling out an application for mayor?
Because that’s what happened last year in RSN’s mayor competition. Then all of a sudden the form changed. Shit was hilarious.
So, anyone think this will help my traffic at theyankeeuniverse.com?
Maybe they’ll buy the URL name for like a million bucks.
They just might.
Copying is the highest form of flattery. There is after all only
“One True Nation”!
Long live “The Nation”!
Go eat your chowdah, fool
“Boston may have its nation, but we have an entire Universe. We win.”
- Ben, you made my night….well done!
f the red sawx, f boston, f the nation, f espn and i hope papelbon blows an eye vessel trying to stare down somebody someday. he’s so goddamn ugly when he starts huffing and puffing before a pitch. baseball isn’t theater you bitch!
okay, just letting out some steam.
for real though, RAB should do something like this too. lol.
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