If there is any baseball team the average fan of both baseball and Star Wars would associate with The Empire, it’s the New York Yankees. They wear dark uniforms, they have a stranglehold on money, and nearly every organization seems shoestring by comparison.
Yankees Pit Themselves As Rebel Alliance? Oh, That Is Rich
↵Not to the Yankees, of course. Which is why when the Phillies were being introduced in Yankee Stadium just now, the Yankees public address system blared the Imperial March. When the Yankees were announced, they were given the regular Star Wars theme. Ballsy, right?
↵Though, come to think of it, Charlie Manuel does sort of look like The Emperor.
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