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Jose Canseco calls New York a dump

doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 3, 2022 3:05AM in Sports Talk

Canseco went on one heck of a rant on Twitter a few nights ago, he called New York a dump and told Aaron Judge to get out of there.

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    New York city is a dump, I don't know what the issue is?

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Aaron Judge probably has no idea who Jose Canseco is lol

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't know if 58-year-old Jose can actually hit a softball further than Judge a baseball, but I dont see any other inaccuracies in those tweets...

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  • MaywoodMaywood Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jose Canseco on a tirade!!! Maybe he's suffering the after affects of getting clocked in the head by that home-run ball all those years ago.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've always heard it is a dump, and I've always pictured the average New Yorker to look something like this.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, last time I was in the City, just a couple of months ago, they looked pretty much like that. The men too.

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 3, 2022 8:49AM

    If anyone out there is planning a trip to New York City in the future, let me save you the money. You want to experience New York City, here you go.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 3, 2022 8:54AM

    We head down to the city every summer or so. Kids like the Zoo, Chinatown etc. They think its great. I think its expensive (and dirty). the toll across the George Washington Bridge was $16 this summer!!! each way!!! what in the world. If I remember correctly, it was $125 for a Semi.

    when we drive by the stadium, I always tell them to hold their breath. I don't want them breathing in any disgusting Yankee air!

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  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    If anyone out there is planning a trip to New York City in the future, let me save you the money. You want to experience New York City, here you go.

    ...
    I say this as someone who actually lived there...that's pretty accurate. Lol

  • erikthredderikthredd Posts: 8,961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    If anyone out there is planning a trip to New York City in the future, let me save you the money. You want to experience New York City, here you go.

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow said:

    @doubledragon said:
    If anyone out there is planning a trip to New York City in the future, let me save you the money. You want to experience New York City, here you go.

    ...
    I say this as someone who actually lived there...that's pretty accurate. Lol

    The rat problem is so bad in NYC that they actually hold seminars on how to deal with them.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And yes, that seminar advertisement is real. The rats have practically taken over NYC and they are very bold and rebellious towards authority, and have an attitude problem. Like this rat, it was photographed in Central Park in broad daylight making it's escape.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That gif of the rat carrying a slice of pizza is actually a real video that was posted online, it's called "pizza rat" and the pizza rat has become famous and iconic. A while back, a man actually dressed up like the pizza rat and renacted the whole thing.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another famous NYC rat is "coffee rat", it was photographed carrying a coffee cup through the subways of NYC.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Heck, the rats even ride the subway in NYC, as you can see in this photo, the rat is seated and then gets off at his stop.

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    New York is an experience... those that suggest it is a dump really need re-think what it is they have experienced in life. Pictures of pizza and rats does not offset the architecture, the art and style that influences the World. Is it perfect? No... but within the limits of what is considered NYC, it contains the best of art, design, architecture, music and what really matters. Those that want to attack that simple fact tells me more about them than NYC.

    I doubt I can be more clear in fewer words.

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  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 3, 2022 3:04PM

    @coinkat said:
    New York is an experience... those that suggest it is a dump really need re-think what it is they have experienced in life.....

    I agree with coinkat........IMO, the most awesome, fabulous three places in the U.S.A. are.....New York City....

    Southern California.....

    And The Grand Canyon....

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  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

    far be it from me to call someplace a dump, i grew up in West TX and this is the type of aesthetical glory you bask in when driving around out there

    am i lying @Hydrant ?

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think this whole thing is about the Yankee fans booing Aaron Judge at home during the ALCS because he struggled, Chicago Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta said if he were Judge, he'd get the heck out of New York because of the booing, and Jose Canseco was backing that statement. I have to be honest, it is pretty crappy of the Yankee fans to boo Aaron Judge at home after the magical season he just gave them, and if that's the kind of people that inhabit New York City, then I wouldn't want to visit that place, I don't care what the art and the buildings look like.

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 3, 2022 3:57PM

    @galaxy27 said:
    far be it from me to call someplace a dump, i grew up in West TX and this is the type of aesthetical glory you bask in when driving around out there

    am i lying @Hydrant ?

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  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 3, 2022 4:07PM

    @coinkat said:
    New York is an experience... those that suggest it is a dump really need re-think what it is they have experienced in life. Pictures of pizza and rats does not offset the architecture, the art and style that influences the World. Is it perfect? No... but within the limits of what is considered NYC, it contains the best of art, design, architecture, music and what really matters. Those that want to attack that simple fact tells me more about them than NYC.

    I doubt I can be more clear in fewer words.

    ..
    Like I said, I lived there. 99-06. It was an amazing experience. I learned and grew a lot. I could tell stories for days. I met people from literally everywhere (well, almost). Etc.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Las Vegas is certainly breathtaking, it pisses on New York City.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love that pyramid with the Sphinx guarding it.

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 3, 2022 6:37PM

    That light coming from the pyramid was the most sickening thing! It was visible 160 miles away to Kanab, Utah and beyond...... People hated it!......And it wrecked the nighttime sky at Toroweep Point at the Grand Canyon...... The most AWESOME place on Earth......I hated that light!!!


    Toroweep Point

    Some places are sacred......Las Vegas isn't one of them....

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 4, 2022 3:18AM

    I never said Las Vegas was sacred, I said it was breathtaking, but the pyramid and the beam of light is a tribute to a place that is sacred. The beam of light from the Las Vegas pyramid is a homage to the great pyramid of ancient Egypt, which had a gold cap at the top that was put there to reflect the sun's beams. I think it's an awesome tribute to one of the greatest feats of human engineering in history. It is mind blowing to imagine what it must have taken the build the pyramids of Giza.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The pyramids of Giza are definitely a place I would love to visit. Breathtaking.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I lived in the New York City are for close to 10 years in the 1970s. I don’t want to visit it now because of crime.

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  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,360 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m considering the source here: Jose Canseco.

    I typically don’t consider the opinions of Surreal Life contestants.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 8,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Any major city has it's pockets of high end affluence. If one has the means you will always dwell in these areas, avoiding the seamy sides. I take it with a grain of salt the celebrities who speak in the media/TV how great this or that city is. Of course they are great, as they have the means to only dwell in the high end areas.

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  • coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 4, 2022 11:13PM

    Agreed with Jose, I wouldn't go near that dump. Horrible place.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Look at the Chrysler Building; the Bank of NY Building that has the legendary address of 1 wall Street; The Empire State Building; The address on the Blue Note record label at various times; MOMA; the Guggenheim; Grand Central Station; Carnegie Hall; the Waldorf Astoria; Rockefeller Center and the list goes on and on... Broadway which needs to included as well as the UN Building and all the makes the world move.

    And somehow we should give the slightest consideration to an opinion of someone who apparently is unable to recognize art, architecture, jazz and the influence New York City has had in the world?

    Really?

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