Yankees win right to be the only "Evil Empire"

New York Yankees right fielder Nick Swisher, center, celebrates with teammates after their 10-7 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in their baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. / AP Photo

NEW YORK There's only one "Evil Empire" in baseball. And the New York Yankees have won a legal victory to make sure it stays that way.

A panel of judges in Washington D.C. issued a ruling this month against a company called Evil Enterprises that has been trying since 2008 to trademark the phrase "Baseballs Evil Empire."

The Yankees opposed the application, and in their decision, the judges agreed that the team alone owned the term, at least in connection with baseball.

Evil Enterprises lawyer Gerard Dunne tells The Wall Street Journal that he hasn't decided yet whether to appeal.

The term actually originates with Boston Red Sox President Larry Lucchino, who called the Yankees the "evil empire" after they signed Cuban pitcher Jose Contreras in 2002.

[raider820]

How could the Yankees get the trademark for a term that they didn't even originate. This is a stupid ruling if you ask me. If this is how it works, I wonder if I can get the rights to m*&%&f*&#*r since a number of people have referred to me in that manner, quite often.

[julianpenrod]

There was a time when is was not desired to be called "evil" and considered unwise from an advertising point of view. Now, the Yankees, what were once considered to be the definitive American baseball team, actually sue in court to be allowed to keep that as a title. Ronald Reagan used that in a definitely condemnatory vein and many still see it as that. But take lessons where they are given. A demonstration of a widespread sentiment anymore that, literally, "nothing matters". A term is invented to be characteristically malignant, but, now, because it sounds powerful, the Yankees actually want to wear it proudly! If there were any real substance to Regana's use of the term, it could be questionable just how many would be so sanguine with the Yankees wanting to be called by it. But that only demonstrates that nobody took reagan seriously, either! He was a craven, greedly, grasping thug, like any Republican, lying his way toward whatever served his personal avaricious goals. "Evil empire" doesn't matter because it never mattered, it was a hack wannabe "actor" and dictator's catch phrase to con the gullible into hating those the New World Order wanted them to hate! Just like, for example, only a eek after September 11, the New Yorl Times ran a picture spread of UN, corproate and government big wigs dancing and lauching at a ball. What the NWo tries to convince us is the worst case of "terrorism" in history and "proof" that "terrorists" are only one step away from world domination, and they're dancing and laughing! Because they know it doesn't matter! They know September 11 is a fraud, a fake, a lie!