Re: ALCS - Indians vs Red Sox
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fwiw, bloomberg was the guy who said to watch out for sweaty arabs in the NYC subways because they might be terrorists, take it as u will
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When did Bloomberg say that? He has always been anti-profiling as I recall and don't remember that kind of verbal screw up.
On Torre: There are many reasons to change the Yankees manager -- I know that I called for his firing in May or June -- but losing the ALDS this year is not one of them. The fact that this has gotten tied so tightly with the outcome of that series (by Steinbrenner, of course) has really clouded up the issue.
Edit: And Bloomberg rides the subway all the time -- actually not sure if he still does, but in the early years of his reign as mayor, he was known for taking the subway from the Upper Eastside to City Hall.
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i remember reading it (nytimes?) and thought it was hiliarous that bloomberg would consider sweaty people to be nervous and suspicious, no matter what their ethnicity...
he definitely got made fun of it, don't think it was a big deal though...also, not sure if his experiences in the subway, that comment seemed to me that he rarely had been down there in the summer...
not to rehash the old argument, put some heat on torre, but steinbrenner really turned up the heat in the ALDS, and stupidly so imo
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