The world west of the Hudson abhors the Yankees, and their fan base increasingly cares less about the team and more about the status of sitting in $1,500 seats, sipping on appletinis and barking into their iPhones.
But no one questions the team’s biblical history.
Except, perhaps, the Yankees, who are giving out plaques and places in Monument Park like Bumpy Johnson handing out Christmas turkeys in Harlem.
Exhibit A: Hip, Hip Jorge…
Jorge Posada, a certified but peripheral member of the Joe Torre dynasty, was honored at Yankee Stadium this weekend, his number retired and his likeness forever bronzed in Monument Park.