That'll be all, Ronan Tynan
The Yankees have famously kept their tradition of singing God Bless America during the seventh inning stretch since the 9-11 attacks in 2001.
Now, there have been murmurs that this, because of the length of the song and the delay it caused in the game, may have been a tad excessive to continue the tradition this long. There were also some controversies related to making the song mandatory for fans to stay at their seats during a time in the game when most are usually getting up to pee or something.
Well, the man who has famously performed the song over the years at Yankee Stadium, Ronan Tynan, decided maybe it was time to let the tradition die, picking the most tactful way to do so: Anti-Semitic remarks, via NBC New York:
Continued on the next pageThe trouble began on Thursday when the 49-year-old Tynan bumped into a Halstead Property real estate agent showing an apartment on his floor to a potential buyer, a pediatrician from NYU Medical Center.
The real estate agent said to the tenor, famous for his association with Yankees, “Don’t worry they are not Red Sox fans,” according to the apartment-hunter, Dr. Gabrielle Gold-von Simson.
To which Tynan replied, "I don’t care about that, as long as they are not Jewish," Gabrielle Gold-von Simson told NBC New York.
“Why is that?” asked a flabbergasted Gold-von Simson of the singer.And Tynan responded that Jewish ladies had been looking at the apartment before and they were "scary," according to Gold-von Simson.
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