- Author is Joel Stein; intention is prove the Yankees are superior
- intentions to join America’s greatest team, teaching us dominance is okay.
- rhetorical context of A-Rod getting traded, $252 million contract; historical- years after 9/11 deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq; president is George W Bush
- current events/news magazine subscribers (millions); writers are speaking to baseball lovers, and those that don’t understand the Yankee’s teach the true story of our country. address by “Yankee haters”
- talks history of multiple teams
- does not build a case with academic writing
- yes, starts off with trading history and then continues into complex topic with Canadians, etc.
- no, persuasive toward Yankees
- yes by using a “we” narrative, us as a country
does appeal to reason
author invokes emotion and uses laugh to dark with folly and humor
notes: Stein is: prowriter, humorist, writes satires (irony), sarcasm, denounce folly
way to make a public, political statement in writing
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