I grew up in Baltimore, age 5-16. I moved away to college in Massachusetts, then went to Minnesota, Philly, New York. I've spent all of 10 days in Baltimore since '76. I relate this prosaic itinerary in order to explain that I will always be a Baltimore Orioles fan. Win or lose, and they have lost for 11 years now, though I have also seen three championships, I love the Orioles. Loyalty to a childhood team is a mark of character that I look for in my friends. Those who don't stick with their team as adults I find fishy.
What are we to make of the following:
1938: Hark the herald angels sing, Alan Dershowitz is born in Brooklyn
1959: Dershowitz leaves New York for New Haven, then Washington, D.C.
1964: Dershowitz, 26, is appointed at Harvard Law
Sept. 12, 2008: Dershowitz throws out the first ball at the Red Sox-Toronto game at Fenway Park. He is wearing a Red Sox jersey and a Red Sox cap.
The only excuse he might have is that the Brooklyn Dodgers left for LA in 1958, just as Dersh was leaving for New Haven. I bet Finkelstein is a Mets or Yankees fan.
the red sox mgmt signed an agreement forbidding any gentile to sit near to any nongentile(sometimes known as jew). and will use only rabbi certified: dogs, beer, peanuts, night lights, and food servers. all employees will swear allegiance to the golden shitty one. mgmt also agrees to put blame for increased ticket prices on opec and not on kosherizing.
also
red sox donated to is RA el and will tour the golden land.
Any right thinking person with half a brain who was born in Brooklyn in 38 would come to loath pro sports entirely. But I can see that such a one might be attracted to Red Sox because of the Kitch factor: a small town team that never wins, as it was for decades i believe.
Dershowitz cannot be faulted for his taste in baseball.
Why Did Dershowitz Switch His Loyalty? His loyalty to WHAT? FGS! You think he should have stuck with OMalley Dodgers? You should choke on a hot dog!
Phil's dual loyalty.
Don't listen to him, ever!?
Actually I think this has a certain degree of woodgathering quality. Nobody seems to bother that there are many rules out there concerning good and evil. But who ever collected circumstantial evidence on: Fishiness?
Loyalty to a childhood team is a mark of character that I look for in my friends. Those who don't stick with their team as adults I find fishy.
I hate to agree with Paul Easton about anything but this one he's right on. My father was typical of old time Brooklyn Dodger fans. He hated the Yankee's, the Giants, and the L.A. Dodgers. Rooted for the Mets. And really wanted to live long enough to make sure that Walter OMalley was dead.
Speaking of sports, the Giants and Jets refuse to give the naming rights to their new stadium to a German company because it had ties to the Nazis. In WWII. Over 60 years ago. It's now 2008. And by all accounts the company (Allianz) has done an admirable job of redress. But it's never enough for Abe Foxman et al, is it? Keep stoking the flames, Abe and company. God forbid we should move on more than half a century later. Allianz has made reparations. Germany has made all sorts of reparations. What happened to forgiveness and moving on? Oh, but moving on, that's the issue, now isn't it? Who keeps these things alive, and for what purpose? Now I think I understand…
do they stil have "formstone" all over Baltimore. haha the polyester of brick
murdering pregnant Jewish women sitting in pizzerias
Interesting. Interesting. Doesn't Dershi think he is a terrorist too?
im a stone cold redsox fan…and i am not going to let that bag of dershowind ruin my frigin day.
"Loyalty to a childhood team is a mark of character that I look for in my friends."
I agree, Phil!
I'm a Minnesota Twins fan. And right now, the Orioles trail the Twins 12-2 in the ninth inning!
Win Twins!
"I grew up in Baltimore, age 5-16. I've spent all of 10 days in Baltimore since '76."
Baltimore: home of Poe and Mencken; the gothic and the acerbic. That's gotta mess wit' yo mind.
And the geographic thang: nominally southern-genteel, but being located north of Foggy Bottom, quickly fell under the pitiless sway of the tyrant Lincoln.
Sports are the pluperfect embodiment of Darwinian nationalism, as so many dictators have understood: might makes right.
Why is it that we visit least the places we love most — do the childhood memories cut too deep?
Right. If Phil is such a good ol boy howcome he avoids the place?
I now live half a mile from my boyhood home. Tho the neighborhood has changend a lot but I can still feel my roots. And in a process sense it has not changed. Italian and Jewish immigrants and their kids have been replaced by Chinese Russians and others.
When I get a chance I visit the Bronx neighborhood of my teen years. Jewish strivers have been replaced by Puerto Ricans but it looks the same except the food has changed. I could live there.
Where does Phil live? The gentrified Upper West Side? I feel sick when I see how it has fallen.