When asked if he’d ever play for the Mets/Yankees:
“I’d retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-wracking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing... The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country”
-John Rocker
New York television show Saturday Night Live's news reader at the time was comedian Colin Quinn who said on the broadcast:
“I don’t like the guy, but he has definitely taken the train downtown.”
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all for the price of some pretty beads! or so the legend said.
wiki says
A letter written by Dutch merchant Peter Schaghen to directors of the Dutch East India Company stated that Manhattan was purchased for "60 guilders worth of trade",[4] an amount worth ~$1,143 U.S. dollars as of 2020.[5]
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Without Rocker we wouldn’t have East Bound and Down.
I didn’t know any New Yorkers at the time who didn’t quietly agree with him. It was the city officials and ministers who were triggered, as well as whatever crybaby advocacy groups spend their time looking for something to prompt their outrage.
> I didn’t know any New Yorkers at the time who didn’t quietly agree with him.
Considering the politics in NYC was a competition between normal capitalist democrats and socialist democrats, and the socialists won, I’m inclined to not believe this. Unless you knew Trump’s family and that’s who you were hanging out with then maybe.
> Without Rocker we wouldn’t have East Bound and Down. > > I didn’t know any New Yorkers at the time who didn’t quietly agree with him. It was the city officials and ministers who were triggered, as well as whatever crybaby advocacy groups spend their time looking for something to prompt their outrage.
You aren’t from New York and you were probably 5 years old when that quote came out
> > Without Rocker we wouldn’t have East Bound and Down. > > > > I didn’t know any New Yorkers at the time who didn’t quietly agree with him. It was the city officials and ministers who were triggered, as well as whatever crybaby advocacy groups spend their time looking for something to prompt their outrage. > > You aren’t from New York and you were probably 5 years old when that quote came out
New York has always been chaos. That’s part of the appeal. I’m not from there. I used to visit or do work trips there often.