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...Damn Camden Yards, the gleaming, charming, "old-fashioned" Baltimore ball park that has turned so many cities green with envy. Damn the Jumbotrons and the food courts and the infuriatingly courteous ushers and the souvenir superstores with the Cooperstown Collection jackets. And damn us for letting ourselves be played for suckers by people who see us not as fans but as a "revenue stream...
Granted, some ball parks probably aren't worth saving. Not many folks in Cleveland, Ohio, for instance, preferred spider-infested Municipal Stadium to Jacobs Field, the brand-new Camden Yards knockoff that puffed up civic pride even while the school system was going down the tubes. Not many tears will be shed for Candlestick Park in San Francisco and County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Kingdome in Seattle if and when those yards bite the dust...
While not quite as bad as the infamous Rutgers-Camden basketball losing streak of over 100 games, this is certainly a streak the Crimson would like...
...Rutgers-Camden is missing the point by canceling its men's hoops team. What's 108 losses anyway? It just marks 108 times that people were doing what they felt was fun. If it weren't fun, there's no way that the streak would have reached...
...just think of how many other schools Rutgers-Camden made happy by its presence...