A hoity-toity book reviewer comes clean about his hatred for the Yankees... and America.
Not long ago I began reading David Benioff’s “City of Thieves.” The novel had come highly recommended to me by several friends, and as I had already seen Spike Lee’s excellent film “25th Hour,” which is based on Benioff’s first novel, I was really looking forward to reading the book.
But almost immediately the whole exercise was ruined. The narrator, the young boy’s grandson, reveals on Page 2 that after the war, his grandfather came to America and became a “devout” New York Yankees fan. I found this revelation crushing. The idea that someone who had escaped the siege of Leningrad would then voluntarily join the evil empire in the Bronx struck me as repellent. So I set the book aside and donated it to my library. Maybe some Yankees fan would enjoy it. I sure as hell wouldn’t.
Yes, they hate us.
They think it's easy being Yankee fans.
They. Just. Don't. Know.
You think it's easy being Joe Queenan?
ReplyDeleteWould you trade places with the guy for a day?
**shudder** I thought not.