Last fall the house that held so many echos of champions past closed. The field that legends played on was summarily retired. It was called the House that Ruth Built because the stadium was built on the back of the popularity of a slugger that brought the game the forefront of America’s mind. The first true sports superstar, Ruth made records and was remembered as being one of the best. Ruth’s house is being tore down ironically enough at a time when the people who tore down his historical numbers en masse are being exposed as frauds.
In a couple days, Yankee stadium will have its opening day. This is a new Yankee stadium. A Yankee stadium built on the backs of such artificial giants as ARod, Giambi, Clemens, and Pettitte. A stadium built off the dying memory of a dynasty that ruled baseball as the practitioners of the needle brought America back to its summer pasttime. A pasttime that abandoned America over quibbles about money. A stadium built in part through a corrupt bargain made by a used car sales man turned Commissioner who allowed baseball’s greatest villain back then willfully turned a blind to the obvious. The villain rose and threatened to take the Yankees to Northern Jersey. An act that is so un-American it nearly screams for invite to Gitmo.
It was stadium built on the promise that it would see a changing of the guard as the records were to be taken back from the unclean by an unpopular yet godlike talent who represented America’s hope to walk away from this tainted era. A man who turned out to be as guilty as the people he was supposed to cleanse from the record books. Now the stadium will act as home as the man goes through the motions of creating records America will root to be broken by another. Almost as if America will stand by to see villainous acts committed in the hopes a new hero will emerge and stand even taller because he toppled the villainous acts of a National joke. For what is Superman without a Lex Luthor to fight.
The new Yankee stadium replaces the House that Ruth Built and will stand as a reminder of an era of tarnished reputations and heroes fallen. A monument to how pantheon of baseball gods can be as mortal if not more so than the people who look up to them. This Yankee Stadium stands as a monument to the modern era of baseball which is sullied by whispers of syringes and asterisks. This Yankee Stadium is The House that Roids Built.

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