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Tony Sarrecchia's Cold Cuts

Free Baseball Bats in the Bronx

What could possibly go wrong?

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Tony Sarrecchia
Aug 05, 2026
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Imagine 40,000 baseball fans showing up to a game and thousands of them—young and old—being handed wooden baseball bats. Now imagine these adults drinking beer for 9 innings, getting loud, coaching from the stands. Imagine if the home team lost. Oh, and the home team is the New York Yankees. Chaos would surely ensue. After all, you have a combination of drunk adults, children, and teenagers armed with melee weapons.

The marketing team of the Yankees inadvertently created the opening scene of a New York gang movie. Blood flowed like milk. The local hospitals filled with victims, and the police took two days to—

No, wait—none of that happened.

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