Meet the brawling, ‘drug-addled’ kids behind the original Yankees Suck T-shirts
Remember those iconic white-and-navy Yankees Suck t-shirts?
If you missed it beneath the wave of Deflategate coverage, Grantland’s Amos Barshad wrote the surreal story of the “drug-addled,’’ Boston punk-rock kids (referred to here as the “Suckers’’), who created the original tees and peddled tens of thousands of them in the shadows of the Green Monster.
Here’s an except from Barshad’s piece:
Soon, the Suckers started to notice the nuances of the Fenway ecosystem. “The sausage guys knew everybody,’’ Bubba says. “All the cops, all the security guards. They had all the right permits.’’ The sausage vendors were entrenched, legally, and, after years working the park, had managed to curry favor with the police.
The Suckers would often have their shirts confiscated by the police, and they long suspected the confiscations were happening for extralegal purposes. One day, they had their suspicions confirmed: A recently hijacked batch magically reappeared in the hands of the sausage guys.
“It was like, ‘All right — time to take care of these f[—]s,’’’ LeMoine says.’’
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As for the alleged sausage incident, the Boston Police Department denied its existence.
Read the entire story here. It’s really worth your time.
This is what Fenway Park used to look like:
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