Yankees can stick it to Hollywood thieves with tie-breaking championship in mammoth World Series
LA has really never stopped trolling us, or stealing from us.
Ours is not the only city to be victimized by Los Angeles’ larcenous heart. LA stole the Lakers from Minneapolis. LA stole the Rams, twice: once from Cleveland, and then from St. Louis. LA stole the Raiders from Oakland. LA stole the Clippers from San Diego and later doubled up on that, stealing the Chargers, too.
But New York has been LA’s favorite target. It started innocently enough. In the fourth season of the hit TV show “I Love Lucy,” Ricky Riccardo gets a big career break in California and so Lucy and the Mertzes — of course — decide to follow him there. It was supposed to be a four-episode arc; it was such a wildly popular ratings hit, it lasted for most of the 30-episode season.
The Riccardos and the Mertzes eventually did return to their apartment building at 623 E. 68th St. — don’t go looking for it; it’s actually in the East River — but that 1954-55 season clearly reflected the pulls that would drag so many of New York’s most prized possessions west. Seventeen years later, Johnny Carson closed up shop in New York and took “The Tonight Show” to LA
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