{"id":1689,"date":"2006-10-24T09:28:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/what_thats_not_funny.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:53:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:53:40","slug":"what_thats_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/what_thats_not.html","title":{"rendered":"What, That’s Not Funny?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question remains who would ever<\/em> want to see Santa in an airplane, much less a Santa dressed in Yankees gear<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A new Yankee Christmas ornament sanctioned by Major League Baseball and bearing the team’s official logo features a beaming Santa waving — as he pilots a plane.<\/p>\n

“My reaction at first was, ‘I don’t believe it,'” said Midtown lawyer Denis Guerin, who yesterday received glossy literature touting the “Yankees Victory Plane” — “a limited-edition annual holiday treasure” — in the mail.<\/p>\n

Guerin shuddered as he recalled the horrific events that unfolded Oct. 11, when Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle was killed after crashing his small plane into an Upper East Side high-rise.<\/p>\n

Guerin said he and his wife were “shocked and dismayed” again when they opened the mailing featuring the Yankee Santa in a plane. He said the plane appears to be “going into a Christmas tree.”<\/p>\n

According to the advertisement, “The 2006 Annual Yankees Ornament makes the ideal gift for every New York fan on your Christmas list.”<\/p>\n

“Your team spirit will soar” with the plane on your tree, it says.<\/p>\n

“We looked at it with our mouths open and said, ‘How could this have happened?’ It’s very insensitive,” Guerin said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it was intentional,” the season-ticket holder added. “It’s just a terrible mistake and terrible coincidence.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2001 versions were going for big money on eBay as of yesterday . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question remains who would ever want to see Santa in an airplane, much less a Santa dressed in Yankees gear: A new Yankee Christmas ornament sanctioned by Major League Baseball and bearing the team’s official logo features a beaming Santa waving — as he pilots a plane. “My reaction at first was, ‘I don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}