My favorite flavor of Haterade is Sour Grape. It tastes SO GOOD.

The parade was of course sponsored by freecreditreport.com

Well, to be fair, their owner is a person suffering from Alzheimer's, as well.

Thankfully, though, NYC is the land of a thousand lawyers, so this shouldn't be that hard to track down and sue up. I did hear that when this report aired, a moan of pleasure came out of Andrew Cuomo's office.

Okay, I guess I don't really understand how a ticker tape parade works. Who provides the confetti? Is it the team, the city of New York? The article really makes it sound like the people attending the parade were making and throwing their own confetti, if this is the case, what's the big deal? If I want to throw my 2005 tax returns at some baseball players and the city has waived the littering laws for the day then I'm only hurting myself. ... on the other hand I guess that some office worker could have just grabbed a stack of papers of his desk and threw them during the parade, at that point I would think we'd need to investigate the company that employed that office worker. I

Would've been easy enough to write this article in an unbiased fashion, you know, like an actual writer. But it's more fashionable to show some serious Yankee hate instead.

"disrespect for the law will trickle down to the fans."

Acting as though you've never done anything stupid. You might as well just say "everybody in New York is dumb" and pretend like it's fact.

Get off your high horse and your spectator sports jealousy and bitterness. This isn't the venue for it.

At last Friday's championship celebration parade, featuring World Series MVP Sean Carter (left)

When I read "Sean Carter (left)" I immediately looked to the left, like I would for a regular news article. Therefore, the raccoon is actually World Series MVP Sean Carter.

That said, no one can take responsibility for stupid people except the people themselves. How stupid do you actually have to be in order to toss sensitive documents as confetti? I mean, if you're that desperate to litter, at least run the papers through cross-cut shredders first!

Maybe that'll be the newest product to show up in the Yankees gift shop - cross-cut shredders with the Yankees logo.

@gparlett: I believe the city contracts out to a company that makes the confetti. But then people in the buildings lining the parade are always going to "make their own", no matter how they do it.

You're always going to run into people dumb enough to throw documents out with personal information.

@pecan 3.14159265: yeah, I realized as soon as it posted that it would be read to mean the raccoon, and not the linked picture. Removed.

I guess the Yankees' lack of previous championships makes the fans wacky when they finally do win one?

Wait, what's that? 26 times before this year? My bad.

Next week we'll hear of an inverse correlation between Yankees World Series wins and federal indictments of white collar criminals due to "disappearing" documents.

@gparlett: It's called a "ticker tape" parade because traditionally, the left-over ticker tape was thrown out the windows. Ticker tape was what a ticker tape machine would print out the current stock prices on; it was basically a fancy telegraph. It probably hasn't been used in 30 years or so. So, no one has ticker tape, so stock brokerage statements are the next best thing!

@Alex Chasick: You've dashed that raccoon's dreams. He'll never wear the pinstripes.

@Miraluka: Some people love the Yankees. Some people hate the Yankees. Most people totally agree that the team is overblown with bought talent. Even non-sports fans can debate at length about how much money is sunk into that team. A team that treats itself that seriously and spends that much money like water deserves a little ribbing.

@Miraluka: I always thought consumerist was in/from NY.

Who is Sean Carter?

Why do people get so offended when a sports team is the butt of some jokes/jabs? Are you on the team? Do you own the team? Is anyone on the team actually from your city?

I'll admit that I enjoy sports and rooting my city's teams, but I could care less when someone tries to drag me into some stupid rivalry/argument about it.

Besides all that, it's fun to pick on the successful teams. Who's gona take any joy in making fun of the Clippers?

3 words,
cross cut shredder.

Isn't it a federal offense to give out medical records, the name of the company should be on the documents, so then they should get fined for doing that.

And everyone who throw personal documents should get fined also.

@Miraluka: I am seriously sick and tired of all the jokes on this website. Blogging isn't supposed to be fun. This is their job and they're treating it like a joke! Last week they made fun of Target's pricing errors, and this week they're making fun of the Yankees and their fans. WHEN WILL IT END?

@ben gardners boat: "Besides all that, it's fun to pick on the successful teams."

Note: this does not stop the entire state of Michigan from picking on the Lions. ;)

@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: Apparently, he's the World Series MVP.

@pecan 3.14159265:

I immediately thought that too. Took me a minute to realize that the raccoon was not, in fact, Jay-Z.

@squinko: I KNOW. It's almost as if it's not an actual news outlet. WTF? If this keeps up, I'm going to have to make my own news at home.

If I recall, this happened the last time the Yankees won the World Series back in 2000. For me, it's just another reason to hate the Yankees . . . GO SOX!!

@pecan 3.14159265: As much as I follow sports, that raccoon could be Sean Carter, World Series MVP. In fact, if he were, I might actually start watching next year.

@pecan 3.14159265: Apparently he's a racoon :p

@GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn: This is actually a plan from Governor Paterson to collect money for state coffers. I sense a conspiracy.

@subtlefrog: Soon we'll all be making our own news at home. Action News 5 at 11 o'clock: Pecan Pi is feeling sleepy.

My ratings aren't going to be very high past 11:30 pm, I suspect.

@pecan 3.14159265: Have we clarified if he's a raccoon or not?

Here is Steinbrenner's Petition for Pardon.

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@Kogenta: Well, with the passing of the Equal Raccoon Act of 1965, raccoons can now become World Series MVPs just like everyone else.

@floraposte: Why does it matter, huh? Are you raccoonist? What if we had a raccoon in the White House? Would you deny him or her his clams?! WOULD YOU?!

/has had soda this afternoon.

@Taed: Okay, so irregardless, the Yankees were not making the confetti, and even if they were there is no way to prove what source all of confetti came from. There is no way to implicate the Yankees as part of this.

@pecan 3.14159265: So in English, Hideki Matsui is a raccoon named Sean Carter?

@gparlett: No one said it was the Yankees' fault. The title of the article explicitly says "Yankees Fans..."

@subtlefrog: Everyone knows that the World Series MVP was actually a giant lizard.

@subtlefrog: Many Matsui can't even get his due for being MVP. Now it gets handed away to the first celebrity we see.

@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: That would be SOOOO cool. Then I would for sure watch.

All this reminds me that I have a missing MLB.com gift card...

@Taliskan: I don't see a conspiracy, but then again, neither does Paterson!

@Veeber: I'm an unapologetic Yankee fan (full disclosure). While Matsui is, and always has been, a beast... Every single Yankee fan I know watched game 2 and yelled "Jay-Z has arrived!! The series can now officially start!!" So yes, it was a series win in five games, with HOVA as the true MVP.

@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: yes he is....or is he?

@pecan 3.14159265: How can you claim your news is "fair and balanced" when all you do is spread fear about sleepiness?!?

@ben gardners boat: Does a day go by where I don't make fun of the Lion, Clippers or Nationals? No, I don't think that it does.

@The Porkchop Express:
アライグマ

Literally, "washing bear".

@Jeremy82465: Well, I also feature at 7 am coffee talk hour and a 3 pm mid-afternoon snack hour. And I show that pecan-themed episode of Good Eats.

@Miraluka: My team hasn't won a championship since before there were communists, and I love me a good Cubbies joke.

The only thing worse than a sore loser is a sore winner.

@pecan 3.14159265: Oh dear lord, all you had to do was mention good eats and I am so tuning in.

@Taed: I didn't know that "ticker tape parade" was an actual parade. I always thought it was a metaphor...

@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Hahahahahaha. That is an excellent point indeed.