Can I change my handle to YankeesUniverseLen? A good take on this also came on It is High It is Far (the John Sterling mockublog).  Years ago Spencer Gifts called their corporate HQ in Little Egg Harbor NJ their “universal Headquarters”, guess lava lamps and vibrators qualified.
As I may have said but definitely thought before, Doc will be a Yankee before the Bad Moon rises in August.

Me thinketh the PR folks on Yawkey Way are trying to come up with a cool design for a ‘Infinity - Plus One’ (ala And 1) upgrade to RSN.

Craig,

I’m going to disagree with you slightly on the “english-speaking” thing.  Although I may object to the tone as expressed by the writer you criticize, I agree somewhat with the underlying sentiment. 

- Although it is noy my job to run a team’s marketing department, it is obviously in a team’s best interest to help and promote among their players the desire to speak English.  They will be able to speak/appeal to a broader segment of the consuming public if they can do it in English. 

- It is not uncommon for teams in Europe, Formula 1 teams, hockey teams, etc, to pay for English-language instructors.  Just look at Frenchman Thierry Henry, who speaks English and Spanish fluently, or dirt-poor shanty-town-born-and raised Carlos Teveza, who learned to speak a little Portuguese and English. 
- It is in the player’s best interest as well.  They will be able to interact with the surrounding society a lot easier, and will help their own marketign opportunities as well. 

- If, say, an American soccer player was plying his trade in the Mexican or Argentine socer leagues, we would find it rude and a bit obnoxious if he didn’t make at least a little effort to learn the local language, wouldn’t we? Same should apply going the other way, I should think.