FACT: Hitler Should've Owned the Yankees

In what is probably considered cheap journalism on my part, I want to bring your attention to a recent post from WithLeather (an AoF favorite). Apparently, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, a gentleman by the name of Thaksin Shinawatra, is the new proud owner of his very own Premiership club, Manchester City.

This story popped out to me for two great reasons. The first being that Man City is my recently adopted EPL team. I chose it for no particularly good set of reasons, which is not necessarily surprising in that there are many things I do for no good reasons. I bring to your attention to a current personal boycott of Anheuser products (excluding the always delicious Natty Light), only because the company owns the Cardinals and I'm trying to revive the good Mets/Cardinals rivalry of the 80s. By the way, the Mets are fucking the Pirates up right now, that Matt Morris trade just keeps getting better and better. Oh yeah, the boycott also is because Bud Light sucks. If that's your favorite beer, sorry, you have no taste buds and are probably a connoisseur of nothing.

The second, and main reason, turns out this fascinating Shinawatra fellow has committed a plethora of human rights violations. Looking into this story involved clicking on the link inside of the WithLeather post, which just highlights just how great this current post is, blogging inside of blogging. He's been officially condemned by something by the name of Human Rights Watch, as well as Amnesty International for his actions, which, amongst other things, include deploying the Thai military against Thai citizens, and, most importantly, having about 2,500 people executed in a three month period in 2003 for drug violations. Possession of a dong bong in Thailand....punishable by death. Let me just say that the executions would run day and night in Provincetown if that was the case here (I'll save that whole Big Gay Extravaganza subject matter for a whole other post, if not numerous ones.)

It makes you wonder how this could have played out in other scenarios. The most obvious is that Hitler was destined to have owned the Yankees. It's safe to assume that Ron Blomberg (first ever DH) wouldn't have been likely to don pinstripes. Pinochet would have definitely bought an MLS franchise if given the chance, maybe Chivas USA. Stalin would've ruled the Rhein Fire with an iron fist. Chelsea's current owner is a Russian mob boss, awesome in its truth. It certainly makes you look at Marge Schott's tenure in a whole different light.