It May Be Finally Time To Retire “God Bless America” During The Seventh Inning Stretch
God Bless Ronan Tynan? No — God Damn Ronan Tynan:
The famous Irish tenor — who has become a iconic staple of New York Yankees playoff games for much of this decade — admitted to making the slur Thursday to a Jewish woman who was looking to buy an a apartment in his East Side building, a team spokeswoman said.
His gig singing for last night game was then cancelled. It was a move that even Yankees fans who loved the singer agreed with.
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The alleged slur came while Dr. Gabrielle Gold-von Simson, an NYU Medical center pediatrician, was inspecting the building with a real estate agent and they bumped into the golden-throated team singer.
The agent joked to Tynan: “Don’t worry they are not Red Sox fans.”
And for some reason Tynan responded by saying: “I don’t care about that, as long as they are not Jewish.”
The burst of bigotry stunned Gold-von Simson, who said “Why is that?”
According to the team, Tynan said that a lot of “scary” Jewish ladies had been looking at the apartment before.
This comes after the Yankees were forced to settle with a fan for trying to use the bathroom during the song.
Posted: October 17th, 2009 | Filed under: Jerk Move