the rix mix

Watching the Yankees victory parade on TV would be tedious even for Yankees fans. There's the players on decorated trucks waving. Double decker buses carrying, one supposes, Yankees employees & their families. Parade attendees mostly between high school age & 30, when interviewed by reporters, half want to see Derek Jeter & the other half just shout, "Yankees, Yankees." Probably last call for Johnny Damon & Hideki Matsui. So it goes, up to City Hall where a fireman sings "God Bless America" & everyone gets a key to the city, including the assistant trainer & some people not even identified by a job. Jay-Z raps a second rate number with help from an Alicia Keys substitute, hip hop as a waste of the form. Then it's over. Aren't you glad you didn't go? Could be a big mistake, manager Joe Giraldi, changing your uniform number to 28 next season.

What happens to the official Phillies World Championship clothing?

Phillies title gear a hit far from World Series

Each fall and winter for the last three years, World Vision has sent to the impoverished around the world thousands of team championship caps, jerseys and T-shirts produced before the World Series and Super Bowl and then rendered unusable for marketing in the United States when teams don't win the title.

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