And a few centuries later, that state religion is so widely-disregarded its attendance figures will soon be overtaken by Muslims and Hindus. People aren’t joining other churches either, they just don’t give a damn about organised religion any more.

- It receives MILLIONS in city and state financing ( tax breaks , incentives , the city may have even financed the development )

- i think there is some federal law that has to do with tickets that are purchased

also-

isn’t this the same yankees that ‘banned’ sunscreen as a safety measure, only to sell it for an inflated price inside… and a dozen or so other ridiculous rules?

‘A statement from the NYPD reads, “The officers observed a male standing on his seat, cursing, using inappropriate language and acting in a disorderly manner while reeking of alcohol, and decided to eject him rather than subject others to his offensive behavior.”‘

I suppose that could be a complete lie, but if it is wouldn’t they be risking looking like idiots when a squad of contrary witnesses contradicted them.

Sure, I hate heavy handed cops as much as the next guy but what if he got tossed for being a disruptive drunk as they say?

No, I just can’t hold that thought. Much as I hate to say it, the Yankees stadium is private property. You pay for admission, and they have the right to set and enforce any rules they want. If they say you can’t pee while the nationalistic music plays, well, you just have to hold it or get tossed out. Sorry.

Oh, America, the land of the free (as long as you are not in private property) and home of the brave (if you count “wearing a flag pin and putting as sticker in your gas guzzler” as being brave).

I wonder which would get you in trouble with Yankee Stadium security/NYPD more… taking your 8 year old to the bathroom during a break in play (7th inning stretch/mandatory sing-along) or letting them pee in their seat? I wonder, which option the other attendees would like more?

The ballpark I go to only lets you back in your seat between ½ innings so you don’t disrupt the view for other paying folk. What happens if you don’t make it back in time for the sing-a-long? Can you hide in the washroom until the 8th?

Or maybe Yankee stadium is going to start selling Depends! (grown-up diapers)

and it has pissed me off that we’ve had to endure the singing of this song since the buildings came down. at least the Giants (playing in Death Star Park) make the fans sing it only on weekends.

it’s my belief that the singing of GBA demeans the spirit of baseball which is captured in the “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” song. we are supposed to forget the outside. we are supposed to not care if we ever leave the park. it’s about the game were somebody will lose. I’m pretty sure it’s a more patriotic song then the other song that in essence thumbs it’s nose at the rest of the world and what they believe.

IF you refer to the ‘pilgrims’, then you need a history lesson. They were allowed to escape with their lives after failing to impose their non-secular vision on England. When they founded Plymouth you could be beaten for missing church – if you were a member or not.

Earliest Massachusetts was a de-facto fascist theocracy.

At the end of his contract, the Plymouth minister (Brewster) left the colony and started a new church about a dozen miles away – and things slowly got better.

Comparing the earliest Americans to the Yankees does not make the Yankees (the team) look any worse in this matter.

If God hadn’t intended us to urinate at baseball games, he wouldn’t have invented the relief pitcher.

Mandatory nationalism is never good just look all so many countries that do that today are even less free. i can think of china, north korea, iran & previously iraq to name a few.

I’ve said since the beginning those lapel flag pins (which even Obama wears now) are just like the mandatory lapel flag pins worn in the DPRK (i.e. North Korea).

This incessant jingoism needs to stop.

“Dammit uncle Fred your lack of singing proves you hate birthdays, and my birthday, and we suspect you might even want to ruin birthdays for everyone by blowing up cakes with explosives. Have fun in gitmo!”

Our anthem is the secular ‘Star Spangled Banner’

Because the Yankees stadium is not government owned then it is not covered by the constitution.

So if black fols go along to see a game, using the same reasoning they could find them selves in manacles up on the pitchers mound being sold into slavery?

The law is the law no matter what, no matter where.

Your country is in serious trouble.