Thank heavens for small favors:
Yankee fans are now at liberty to go to the bathroom during the playing of "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch, thanks to a settlement reached yesterday in Manhattan federal court.
New York Post headline? "WEE CHANGE FOR YANKEES," of course. Link via Baseball Primer.
The next tiny step for freedom? Change the soundtrack on the forced baseball-patriotism to the Rolling Stones' "Shattered." Or Nina Hagen's "New York." Or this:
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