It's not my fault! AND... Yale Haven, pt 2

I must beg your pardon. It's been too long since my last post, and I bumped into two humans last night who said they visited Wooster Square Woofs! Don't be shy people, go ahead and post. There have been almost 200 visits to my humble site. Give or take 199 that I threatened this little mutt I made click on the site or I'd take a baseball bat to 3 of his knees (I do have some compassion). Ha. Ha. That's a DogFather joke.

So anyway, my human for 3 months now has been saying he's going to see "Jim". And EVERY time, he comes home sweatier than chinese rail worker in Nevada during the robber baron days of the early 1900s.. Not that there is anything wrong with that! So this weekend, my girlfriend's human, Julie and my human went into New York to see a concert. Charlie and I stayed at Aunt Amy's in Stratford. During a quiet, and VERY intimate moment, I asked Charlie if she had ever met this Jim. Well,she says like the little bitch she is, Zipless, it's not Jim, your human is going to THE GYM!! Oh, never mind...

I'm sorry for not posting, but it is my humans fault. I found out that indeed, he doesn't have anything other to do than walk and feed me. His back has been acting up since the NYC trip. And he has had injections and stuff. My heart goes out to you man.

Please, someone post! Maybe my new friend Bob Barker! The silliest little weiner dog in Wooster Square.

My human has had more than 2 requests for "Yale Haven" so I'm posting below. Some noted many misspellings, but it's cut and paste from a draft, and quite frankly, my human can be the laziest shit in Wooster Square.


Yale Haven pt 2
copyright a bart connors jr
2007

photo courtesy white glove digital



Like I said, after President Gulianni invested all that Social Security in the stock market (making many of his post mayor buddies kajillionaires)many, many people got rich. But it was the rich in the first place, became almost barons. Picture 250,000 plus the likes of Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, and any other names that you might see at the top of the fortune 500 list. The type of people to whom, money is no object.
So, in a nutshell the Red Sox were bought and moved here. Although it’s a little more interesting than just that. Since 2000, the Red Sox have been the winningest sports franchise of the Century. Like the Yankees of last century. Simply because they have more money. After they won the 2007 World Series, they picked up Alex Rodriquez from free agency and won 4 out of the next 9 series. Alex retired a Red Sock with almost every record in the book, at age 46. Right here in the Elm City, er New Haven, I mean Yale Haven. He hit 83 homers one year. Golfed it over the Monster 32 times.
The Franchise was a gem, but all baseball teams had great new stadiums. But Bean Towners could never give up their fenway park. Until that aweful October day. It was a pennant series in 2018, against Tampa Bay. Joe Girardi managing his final year for the Sox, three rings in his pocket. Bases loaded for the Sox, Alex up to the plate hitting 560 with men on in the playoffs. Fans are jumping, crazy, drunk, then crack! Just a God awful sound, like a baseball bat hitting a person on the head. Then it just fell. A Monster in name, and now in deed. The Wall tilted and buckled, people were falling off. The left fielder was actually trying to catch people and he got crushed. It kinda fell in slow motion, but hit with enough force to kill 78 people, including the left fielder and center fielder from Tampa Bay, who came over to help. Panic ensued. Society at its worst. Fans got into fights, got stabbed and shot. Running around and picked up everything, fans were tearing apart the stadium to bring home suvenirs. It was a mess.
For 2 years the Red Sox played at Foxboro, where the Patriots play football. It just wasn’t the same. No Landsdown street, just Fenway franks. Fans came but the team would never have the same feel. They had lost their beloved Fenway and many felt guilty about the whole affair. When rumors circulated about deals to other cites, many were nonplussed. Many were glad to see them go. Two years later, Boston had a new Fenway Park. They moved a team back to Landsdown, the Boston Senators.
When Benson Taubman saw the Monster fall, the wheels started spinning. He had never developed most of Long Wharf, but had emense plans. He secretly hoped to get the Yankees to Yale Haven, but that just was not going to happen, no matter how much money they had. So together with many of these super rich who have given much to the school, reached into their pockets again. The City and Yale made proposals, people liked it. The year Taubman became Mayor, he cut the ribbon opening the NBP at Yale with much fanfare.
How do you put a big ball park on that land you ask. I thought you might. I told you I’d get back to the Long Wharf area. Also, if you have been listening, Yale’s campus is the entire city now. Including, a huge chunk of land in East Haven for the Tweed Aviation Reseach Center at Yale’s International airport. In West Haven, there is a huge campus called the New Haven Institute Forensics and Law Enforcement school at Yale, formerly the University of New Haven. Most people call it New Haven institute or NHI. And they do so with pride. The top FBI,CIA, Homeland Security and the like graduate from there. Yale could have taken this as part of its core, but instead it operates separately from Yale (right). Probably for this reason. Two NCAA Basketball championships. Yale in its Ivy League status, does not compete in post season athletics. So here was a way to get in the game. Thirty thousand students attend the (party) school.
What about that awful 95/91 interchange? Yale Construction, along with a young engineering genius buried it. At about exit 42 in West Haven, began of course, The Yale Tunnel, Gateway to New England. I-95 came out in East Haven, I-91 came out at Hamilton Street. You will not recognize Long Wharf today. Where the old Scupper was, there is a large condo complex with a 1,500 boat slip, restaurants, even the Flag Man and Sweeny’s Hot Dogs. And of course New England Stadium at Yale, where we have our own version of the “splash down” a la Barry Bonds, but into New Haven Harbor.
Yale has had professors and students studying traffic patterns and population growth for years. Thanks to their shrewd investments, and the melding between City, State and Yale University, Yale Construction built a state of the art subway system. The main station, located under the New Haven Green, Amistad Station, goes underground to West Haven, Woodbridge, Westville, Hamden and East Haven. Continuing service goes up the Shoreline to New London, north to Hartford and Waterbury and compliments Fairfield County’s Metro North to the south.
In fact ,traffic downtown is completely pedestrian, bike, scooter and golf cart...no cars allowed. If you live in Yale Haven, you don’t need a car. In fact, since Yale Haven is so accessible to public transportation, the State of Connecticut gives tax rebates for owning no car at all. Many ride the subway subsidized by the companies they work for, showing their green pride. Yale and city employees, pay hardly nothing.
What our Founding Fathers were really reaching for was more of Dual Sovereignty. The States and Federal Government each had certain powers. This gave way to cooperative Federalism in which the States and Federal Government colaborate on important projects to both. Just talking about this make me hungry, because the former is known as layer cake Federalism and the latter is marble cake Federalism.

coming next, a United States you won't recognize, and Yale Haven at its best, and worst!