John Oliver of HBO’s comedic show “Last Week with John
Oliver” has been trolling the New York Yankees a bit during this first week of
the baseball season and before the team left Yankee Stadium the organization
finally responded to the comedian. We spoke about this yesterday that Oliver
was out to send a message to the club and the fan base and that he needed to
stop there or risk going overboard and counterproductive, well I can’t see him
stopping now that the Yankees took the time to acknowledge him and respond to
him.
In case you missed the whole story here is the Readers
Digest version of it all. New York has been called “elitist a-holes” by Oliver
after Lonn Trost basically said in not so many words that he didn’t want fans
who couldn’t afford premium seats on a normal basis sitting with those who do.
That and fraud was the reasoning behind the Yankees decision to stop taking
print-at-home tickets and Oliver took offense to that. Oliver then purchased
tickets and sold them to fans for a quarter if they agreed to dress up in
costumes and attend the games.
All in all the crowd was protected by two Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles, scared by a pair of sharks, mesmerized by a pair of unicorns and
terrified by a pair of dinosaurs prompting the Yankees organization to take
notice via a message on the team’s videoboard. The message said “Thanks, John
Oliver. Everyone is welcome at Yankee Stadium.”
Touche, Yankees and kudos.
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