Why is this even considered news?

[mankie]

Yankees Stadium Eliminates Cracker Jack
 
 
 NEW YORK - The ballpark snack paired with peanuts in the stadium anthem "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" will no longer be around for the seventh-inning stretch at Yankee Stadium.
 Cracker Jack has been replaced by the competing caramel popcorn Crunch 'n Munch at the home of the Bronx Bombers.
 
 "Cracker Jack is a brand name," Yankees chief operating officer Lonn Trost told The New York Times for its Wednesday editions. "We're selling a caramel crunch that is the same thing as Cracker Jack."
 
 Trost compared the difference between Cracker Jack and Crunch 'n Munch to "Frigidaire versus refrigerator, or aspirin and Bayer, or Jell-O and gelatin."
 
 The director of hospitality at the stadium, David Bernstein, told the Times that the move was prompted by Cracker Jack's decision to make only bags, not boxes, of its snack, and said Crunch 'n Munch won a taste test.
 
 "Baseball historians would say Cracker Jack and the Yankees belong together," Charles Nicolas, a spokesman for Cracker Jack's parent company, Frito Lay, told the Times, "and hopefully they'll be together again soon."
 
 The makers of Crunch 'n Munch, ConAgra Foods, seemed to have no such hopes.
 
 "We'd have no heartburn if Yankee fans started standing up in the seventh inning and singing 'Buy me some peanuts and Crunch 'n Munch" ConAgra spokesman Chris Kircher told the Times.
 
 
 
 Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[vansmack]

Because there were no trivial events in last nights Yankee game in Anaheim that the New York Media could blow out of proportion.
 
 Believe me, if it had been an Anaheim player that acted like the ball hit him the way Jorge Posada did last night (even limping down the line at one point!), this Cracker Jack story would be news saved for an off day.

[ggw]

Yankees notes: Posada ritual toughens hands
 
 Friday, May 07, 2004
 
 BY DAN GRAZIANO
 Star-Ledger Staff
 
 OAKLAND, Calif. -- A lot of people probably were shocked this week to read Cubs outfielder Moises Alou's admission that he urinates on his hands to toughen his hands. Jorge Posada was not among them.
 
 The Yankees' catcher, who along with Alou and Anaheim outfielder Vladimir Guerrero is among a small number of big-league players who hit without batting gloves, said yesterday he does the same thing.
 
 "In spring training only," Posada said. "You don't want to shake my hand in spring training before the game. After the game, it's okay."
 
 Posada said he has done it since he was in the minor leagues, and that he got the idea from his father, Jorge Sr.
 
 "A lot of guys like my father, who worked on the land, always used to do it," Posada said. "It keeps your hands from getting callused and cracking."
 
 Posada said he does it in spring training because he has to get his hands used to gripping the bat after taking the winter off. He also said he's never been able to feel comfortable holding a bat while wearing batting gloves.
 
 "I wish I could wear gloves, honestly," Posada said. "I've tried it. It just doesn't feel right."

[godsshoeshine]

yikes
 
 its news because its the yankees. just think: if beckham and jeter had a gay love affair, the entire sports world could be united by scandal

[mankie]

EEEWWWW!
 
 Nasty, couldn't they just buy cream at Rite aid or something.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  yikes
 
 its news because its the yankees. just think: if beckham and jeter had a gay love affair, the entire sports world could be united by scandal

Why, because Jeter and A-Rod broke up?

[mankie]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  yikes
 
 its news because its the yankees. just think: if beckham and jeter had a gay love affair, the entire sports world could be united by scandal

OH PULEEEEZE!
 
 Becks has much better taste than that.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I wouldn't fuck a guy hitting .190 either.
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
   

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  yikes
 
 its news because its the yankees. just think: if beckham and jeter had a gay love affair, the entire sports world could be united by scandal

OH PULEEEEZE!
 
 Becks has much better taste than that. [/b]

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by Sacktastic Bag O' Nuts:
 [QB] I wouldn't fuck a guy hitting .190 either.

becks doesn't watch baseball. he's not from the western hemisphere

[brennser]

the entire sports world could be united by scandal  

shouldn't that be the entire world united by a sports scandal?  

[keithstg]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Because there were no trivial events in last nights Yankee game in Anaheim that the New York Media could blow out of proportion.
 
 Believe me, if it had been an Anaheim player that acted like the ball hit him the way Jorge Posada did last night (even limping down the line at one point!), this Cracker Jack story would be news saved for an off day.

Does Anaheim have enough players to field a team nowadays? Last I saw they were all on the DL - to say that I am concerned about Garret Anderson for my fantasy team would be an understatement.

[mankie]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
   

Originally posted by Sacktastic Bag O' Nuts:
 [QB] I wouldn't fuck a guy hitting .190 either.

becks doesn't watch baseball. he's not from the western hemisphere [/b]

And Jeter can't play it because he's not from Latin America!

[Random Citizen]

I'm feeling non-PC this afternoon, so...
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
  Yankees Stadium Eliminates Cracker Jack
 

First the crackers, then the coloreds...
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
 
 Cracker Jack has been replaced by the competing caramel popcorn Crunch 'n Munch at the home of the Bronx Bombers.
 

Guess they're going to do a lesbian ballgame night?

[Bags]

Because New Yorkers think it's news if a bird craps on that stadium....it's all part of the most self-important sports team in the world...(though there are probably some futbol teams that put them to shame; I just don't know them...).

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Self-importance aint limited to sports teams in NYC. New Yorkers are almost as self important and DC dwellers.
 
 

Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
  Because New Yorkers think it's news if a bird craps on that stadium....it's all part of the most self-important sports team in the world...(though there are probably some futbol teams that put them to shame; I just don't know them...).