Some new names for the old ball yard
by Jon Carroll

Pac Bell Park is officially on the dustheap, the victim of corporate consolidation. It would do no good to argue that Pac Bell Park had a swell sound to it, three short syllables with twin "k" sounds at the end of the first and third words. Pacific Bell est mort, which means that Pac Bell est mort aussi. (...)

But if you look at the place that San Francisco currently holds in the national discourse, I think there would be only one truly appropriate name: Homosexual Park.

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