#1 Sports Heckler takes a jab at ticket prices, CC Sabathia's pay check, and Isiah Thomas' lingering ghost

What it do mi gente. In the wide world of deportes, insanity has taken over. The Yankees have offered CC Sabathia a record amount of money, over $140 million. I think that is something like $482,000 per pound. That gives new meaning to the timeless phrase, Coño, eso esta heavy. If a flaquito like myself were a star pitcher, it would work out to roughly $1 million per pound. The Yanks are getting a bargain. 

Meanwhile, which one of us will be able to afford tickets to the Stadium? With ticket pricing ranging from $15 to $2000 for any given game, the Bronx Bombers are giving the country the impression that the Boogie Down is not still burning. It still is, and the fires are being stoked by mega-developers and phony politicians who don’t care about the community or the fans, but only about how their pockets will be lined with blood money.

The Knicks are up to their usual rollercoaster madness. We win a few games, we lose some, the fans get happy, the fans get upset. Chris Duhon looks alright, a poor Derek Harper, but I bet if Stephon Marbury wanted to suit up, the Blue and Orange might be better off. Turbelent times at Penn Plaza. When we lose back-to-back games where we had opportunities to win, you start to get the feeling the ghost of the Evil Genius, Isiah Thomas, is still floating through the Garden. Even after he O’Ded, he must have sent his spirit to haunt the ‘Bockers in the closing minutes of each game. 

Sorry for all the doom and gloom. The recession has got me angry at sports, at athletes, at general managers, at owners. I even got mad when the coach of UMichigan, Rich Rodriguez, told Wolverines fans recently to “get a life”. Maybe we all should tune out the horrible nonstop sports news cycle of arrests, highlights and controversy, and all become Weekend Warriors, fond of our Al Bundy days. Then sports can mean something again.

 

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