Rename Yawkey Way? (Boston, Worcester, Framingham: live in, rail, station)

[Brave Stranger]

Name it "white guilt way" & be done with it In the big scheme of things this is a distraction.

[The_General]

Originally Posted by missionhill

One egregious example is Templeton Street in Dorchester, now named Monsignor Patrick J. Lydon Way. wtf? Who is that? What if you came late to the scene, you're not a St Mark's parishioner and don't necessarily want to be associated with a forgotten Catholic priest? Maybe you're Jewish or Baptist or Muslim or anything but an old school Irish Catholic-- would you want to buy a house on "Monsignor Patrick J. Lydon Way?"

WTF did Monsignor Patrick J. Lydon do to you? As long as he wasn't a diddler, whats the problem?

[bjimmy24]

Mistake was ever renaming it after Yawkey in the first place. I think he might be the longest tenured owner of a pro baseball team to NEVER win a championship. Ever. He came much closer to ruining the Red Sox franchise than doing anything positive for it. Things only started turning around when he and his wife died. Incompetent owner without a lick of sense for the game.

I say make it Jersey Street again (and in continuation with the rest of the street). Not necessarily to avoid being thought of as racist, but that the name Yawkey in the first place with just dumb to put there.

[mp775]

Originally Posted by raider21

how about FenWay?

That might get confusing, unless you also rename the road running along the south side of the Fens...

[mwbms28]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

why, all Yawkey did was not die for a while, he has zero accomplishments.

Aside from contributing over $450 million to institutions and charities all over the city, you're right, he has "zero accomplishments."

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by mwbms28

Aside from contributing over $450 million to institutions and charities all over the city, you're right, he has "zero accomplishments."

There is enough stuff named after him at the various institutions he donated to. Not sure why it follows that a public street needs his name too. And are you saying that the name is justified to have a street outside of Fenway Park because he donated millions to other causes? And that the street outside Fenway isn't actually connected to the Red Sox?

For all the Bostonians who claim to love their history, why would one be opposed to the historical name for that block, Jersey Street? Ya know, the original street name there when the ballpark was laid out?

[timberline742]

Call it Yawkey Foundation Way to celebrate the good the foundation has done and be done with it

[robr2]

Originally Posted by timberline742

Call it Yawkey Foundation Way to celebrate the good the foundation has done and be done with it

In that case, make it Jean Yawkey Way as she was the one that really was responsible for the foundation.

Pumpsie Green Way would work as wll.

[mwbms28]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

There is enough stuff named after him at the various institutions he donated to. Not sure why it follows that a public street needs his name too. And are you saying that the name is justified to have a street outside of Fenway Park because he donated millions to other causes? And that the street outside Fenway isn't actually connected to the Red Sox?

For all the Bostonians who claim to love their history, why would one be opposed to the historical name for that block, Jersey Street? Ya know, the original street name there when the ballpark was laid out?

You're going beyond the scope of what I was saying... I didn't mean to imply the street name should or shouldn't stay. I don't personally care what the street is called, and if other people find the street name of Yawkey Way offensive, I won't miss it.

But, someone else flatly said Yawkey had "no accomplishments" earlier in the thread. That is concretely incorrect.

[redplum33]

Yawkey Way is now back to being Jersey Street.