Red Sox owner John Henry's is the latest in a
torrent of politically correct efforts to rewrite history by removing the names of people they do not approve of. Shank is there to cover it:
Picked-up pieces while wondering whether angry Patriots fans still believe Roger Goodell (about to sign a five-year contract extension) is going to lose his job over his grotesque “mishandling” of Deflategate.
■ Red Sox owner John Henry is “haunted” by the Yawkey legacy of racism and would like Yawkey Way renamed to Big Papi Way. The Globe’s Adrian Walker, in a December 2015 column headlined, “It’s time to banish the racist legacy of Tom Yawkey,’’ wrote, “Why on earth does Boston have a street called Yawkey Way? . . . Changing the name of a street is simple enough . . . The time has come.’’
So Red Sox ownership sat on its hands for two years (and more) until there's sufficient cover to make the move? Brave stance, guys!
So now the debate is on. The climate is ripe for change.
Henry said that former Mayor Thomas Menino was not agreeable to a street-name change, which was suggested by former Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino shortly after the turn of the century, but current Mayor Marty Walsh seems ready to move on the combustible issue.
However,
there's backup on this one. All that and more in the latest edition of the Shank mailbag...
yeah dan, brady should be called arrogant for trying to keep playing and selling stuff but we as you call us when the sox win should leave david price alone. and yet he calls ferrell a company man? guess what you fraud you are a company man.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course Shank, Marty Walsh, and especially John Henry don't get the futility and thus ultimate irrelevance of Yawkey's racism - not to mention they don't get the mainstream acceptance of it then and later (check HITMAN and Johnny Martorano's recollection of what Boston's pre-Lottery underground numbers racket was called even in the Globe.)
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