Being a Republicrat I say: Don't bomb SF & LA, but don't take our guns & all of our money! Bernard, Mike, youse gotta have a 3rd brother (or sister, it doesn't terribly matter) who's a republicrat or something.

amusing 180...spare LA..i live there...and if ya must take out SF, do it while their baseball team is in town and before steroid boy breaks the record

You know, little brother... and he was born 12 minutes later, punctuality was never his strong point (or mine)... if your neoconservatism and your misanthropy weren't bad enough, this wasn't even very good. You left off the umpteen choruses at the end of the original song. Dylan: We have a younger sister, who just gave us twin nieces. But she's a Republican, too. Fortunately, she has good qualities, too, which is more than I can say for Bernard. Alvin: Somehow, I have a feeling Barr-oid would survive. And if I could destroy Walter O'Malley's Temple of Treason while sparing all the good liberal voters of L.A., I would do it. The Bums could become the Los Angeles Dodgers of Anaheim for three years while they build something that doesn't stand as a monument to greed and to the theft of Brooklyn's team.

Michael, even though the Dodgers had great teams in the 1950s, Brooklyn did not support them. Attendance was weak, and Ebbets Field was obsolete. Walter O’Malley wanted to keep the team in Brooklyn in a more accessible and more state-of-the art stadium, but got no cooperation from New York Mayor Robert Wagner and other city officials. The Dodgers came to Los Angeles and began setting attendance records (playing in a football stadium for three years). The move was visionary, not treason.

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John, let me answer this so my bleeding-heart brother doesn't go off half-cocked. The Dodgers had the best attendance in the National League until the Braves moved to Milwaukee. They had 10,000 parking spaces, the Dodgers only 750. O'Malley was concerned that all that revenue was gonna allow them to buy the best players in those pre-draft days. Putting a stadium on top of the LIRR terminal in downtown Brooklyn, where the new Nets arena is supposed to go now, would not only give them downtown parking decks but commuter-rail access and better subway access than even Ebbets Field had. You're right about Wagner, but then, what did you expect? He was a Dumbocrat who let Robert Moses -- a Republican but a real tyrant -- pull his strings. Still, O'Malley had to have friends who could've helped him out. He could have found a way to keep the team in Brooklyn. He took the easy way out. Maybe that doesn't make him a traitor to Brooklyn or to baseball. But it does make him a jerk. Then again, if I'd been around then, I probably would've rooted for the Giants, who could've negotiated with Moses for what became Shea Stadium and stayed. And the irony is that the Dodgers beat the Braves in a pennant playoff in '59, and the Braves moved in '66! Because the Minnesota Twins came in and took away half their market. Hey, that's capitalism, folks. O'Malley was greedy, which is OK by me, but he could've made just as much money in New York if he'd been a little smarter and a little more patient. And here's an irony: The security code for this comment was "57F." I'll leave to the imagination what the F could stand for.

Thank you, Bernard, for giving me a fully-cocked response. In the 8 years before the move to Los Angeles (when they had really good teams), the average annual attendance for the Brooklyn Dodgers was about 1.1 million. In their first year in Los Angeles (with a losing record), the attendance exceeded 1.8 million. Is it greed or common sense to want to be in a city where people want to come to the games?