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Someone dropped this in my ear..
Nothing on ESPN or YES network
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Never mind Mike and Mike just confirmed
RIP George
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another one bites the dust
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Damn.
Wikipedia already has it up as a massive heart attack.
R.I.P.
8)
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fucking sad, Calvin you okay pal
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PIP,Sheppard and Steinbrenner. :(
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uummm, what's so sad about a old, rich, white man dying?
why don't you guys mourn the 100's of girls who are gonna get their clitorises cut off today in the Congo, huh?
or how about the kids who will die of starvation in Burkina Faso?
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my favorite yankee player
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uummm, what's so sad about a old, rich, white man dying?
why don't you guys mourn the 100's of girls who are gonna get their clitorises cut off today in the Congo, huh?
or how about the kids who will die of starvation in Burkina Faso?
I'd cry for you if you made a mistake and got a bad haircut........so give me my moment!
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I'd cry for you if you made a mistake and got a bad haircut........so give me my moment!
okay...i will give you that moment
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okay...i will give you that moment
Thank you.
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PIP
Winner.
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All about the pinstripes
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They're dancing in the streets in Boston. 8)
/and you know billy martin's gonna sucker punch him the moment he steps through the gates of hell
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They're dancing in the streets in Boston. 8)
/and you know billy martin's gonna sucker punch him the moment he steps through the gates of hell
blowsox fans can go blow out if of their yawkey way and take a dive off the green monstah
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RIP to The Boss, best owner in sports. 8)
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No no. Sorry Mrs. Steinbrenger. Your husband is fine. But someone should notify widow Steinbrenner.
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RIP to The Boss, best owner in sports. 8)
x10000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000
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RIP to The Boss, best owner in sports. 8)
I've got to admit although I'm not a Yanks fan I always liked the Boss. RIP
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HAHAHA. The Yanks won't recover. Rumor has it that he's been dead for months.
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RIP George....
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HAHAHA. The Yanks won't recover. Rumor has it that he's been dead for months.
So if he's been dead for months and the Yanks have the best record in baseball, then they have actually recovered? He hasn't been pulling most of the strings on the Yanks for a while, anyway.
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They call him the best owner, yet for 25 years they sucked shit when he bought them, it wasn't until the YES network was formed and all the money came rolling in that he was able to
buy build a winner.
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Jeter
Posada
Pettite
Rivera
Cano
Cervelli
Gardner
Chamberlin
Hughes
all drafted by the Yanks
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I'd cry for you if you made a mistake and got a bad haircut........so give me my moment!
exactly......
the guy was megalomaniacal piece of self-aggrandizing garbage..........hope he is gettig raped by the devil in hell
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Jeter
Posada
Pettite
Rivera
Cano
Cervelli
Gardner
Chamberlin
Hughes
all drafted by the Yanks
Take a look at their championship teams, how many came up through the system and how many where brought in.
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Take a look at their championship teams, how many came up through the system and how many where brought in.
Last years team yes.the other teams of the late 90's no.
they were made up of good players playing well when it counted.
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Funny how bad this guy was HATED by everybody, including every Yankees fan I knew for most of the 70's and into the 80's.....now he's a saint? :-\
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Funny how bad this guy was HATED by everybody, including every Yankees fan I knew for most of the 70's and into the 80's.....now he's a saint? :-\
Wonder who there gonna get to buy their championships, now?
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Wonder who there gonna get to buy their championships, now?
His kids of course 8)
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Wonder who there gonna get to buy their championships, now?
True enough. Yankees/Steinbrenner are a HUGE reason the FA market is so out of control.
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Wonder who there gonna get to buy their championships, now?
I don't see the other teams complaining about all the money they make in revenue sharing and luxury tax payments. Plenty of other teams could step up, they choose not to.
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Now, if only someone could do something about Bud Selig. ;D
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I don't see the other teams complaining about all the money they make in revenue sharing and luxury tax payments. Plenty of other teams could step up, they choose not to.
Great, and who gets f'd by it all? REAL fans are priced out of going to games and seeing mediocre teams that are content to stay that way.
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I don't see the other teams complaining about all the money they make in revenue sharing and luxury tax payments. Plenty of other teams could step up, they choose not to.
Let them hate!
.....epic jealousy of the greatest franchise in all of sports 8)
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Funny how bad this guy was HATED by everybody, including every Yankees fan I knew for most of the 70's and into the 80's.....now he's a saint? :-\
NO NO NO, sure he was an asshole at times, who the fuck isn't. I ponder what the tea party will be like when Mr. October passes, and meets up with him and Billy M. That would be a yell fest of epic proportions
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NO NO NO, sure he was an asshole at times, who the fuck isn't. I ponder what the tea party will be like when Mr. October passes, and meets up with him and Billy M. That would be a yell fest of epic proportions
He was an asshole to all baseball fans in the 70's and 80's....even worse among Yankee fans. Guess a few World Series titles erases memories pretty quickly.
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He was an asshole to all baseball fans in the 70's and 80's....even worse among Yankee fans. Guess a few World Series titles erases memories pretty quickly.
well 70's I was a young en and don't remember that. Honestly, I still feel he is the best sports owner in any sport
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Take a look at their championship teams, how many came up through the system and how many where brought in.
You're perpetuating a myth. All teams are a combination of farm talent, trades and FA acquistions.
Even last year over 40% of the 25 man roster was from the farm: Jeter/Rivera/Posada/Pettitte/Cano/Hughes/Chamberlain/Robertson/Cabrerra/Gardner to name a few.
How does this compare with other championship teams of the last decade? For example, I believe the 04 sox had one.
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Great, and who gets f'd by it all? REAL fans are priced out of going to games and seeing mediocre teams that are content to stay that way.
Blame it on their team's ownership. Bleacher seats are cheap as all hell and these billionaires don't want to spend to compete. They're the ones who are content collecting revenue sharing profits while paying $30 million team salaries.
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well 70's I was a young en and don't remember that. Honestly, I still feel he is the best sports owner in any sport
Ouch. Even as a kid I heard constant comments about him...hell watch old movies, tv shows, etc... and they allude to it. Or try to find an HONEST Yanks fan from that era who doesn't have the rose colored glasses on now after the WS titles. He was dispised.
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Ouch. Even as a kid I heard constant comments about him...hell watch old movies, tv shows, etc... and they allude to it. Or try to find an HONEST Yanks fan from that era who doesn't have the rose colored glasses on now after the WS titles. He was dispised.
Ha, gee so I dont do research and that makes me what?? I called my pops earlier, who has always been a diehard yanks fan and said he was an asshole in early years but none the less a great owner...
Not bad for a man that bought the team in 73 or only a mere 10 million
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Ouch. Even as a kid I heard constant comments about him...hell watch old movies, tv shows, etc... and they allude to it. Or try to find an HONEST Yanks fan from that era who doesn't have the rose colored glasses on now after the WS titles. He was dispised.
Your assessment of the early years is correct.
However, he changed somewhat in the 90s entrusting Watson/Michaels to construct a team. He still had his Tampa boys, but even that dissolved in the early 2000s.
As a fan, it was impossible to hate a man who could have easily pocketed 50-60M a YEAR more but put it on the field instead.
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RIP Georgie
Here is a picture of me on my way to watch a yankee game last year at the new home that George Steinbrenger built
As you can see im wearing neutral colors because im a Los Angeles Dodger fan
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There is no doubt he was a brilliant owner from a business standpoint.....turned an 8 million purchase into a team worth a couple of billion now, I think. Decent little investment. And I won't argue that he at least was willing to spend money to bring in quality players, he just used the leverage to drive most other teams out of the bidding. Baseball should adopt the ONLY financial model that is thriving in pro-sports....the NFL.
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Great Picture Nails, isn't the new stadium great..and ohhhhhhhhh those garlic fries there..yumm
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You're perpetuating a myth. All teams are a combination of farm talent, trades and FA acquistions.
Even last year over 40% of the 25 man roster was from the farm: Jeter/Rivera/Posada/Pettitte/Cano/Hughes/Chamberlain/Robertson/Cabrerra/Gardner to name a few.
How does this compare with other championship teams of the last decade? For example, I believe the 04 sox had one.
THANK YOU.
All teams are built the same way...Yanks just do it better and spend more money. they are the greatest franchise in the history of the world
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And I won't argue that he at least was willing to spend money to bring in quality players, he just used the leverage to drive most other teams out of the bidding. Baseball should adopt the ONLY financial model that is thriving in pro-sports....the NFL.
MLB is thriving as well. Heck, last time I bothered to check, even the shitbag Pirates had profits of 25M (2007, I think?)
If a team has an advantage over another and doesn't choose to use it, it's pure stupidity.
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MLB is thriving as well. Heck, last time I bothered to check, even the shitbag Pirates had profits of 25M (2007, I think?)
If a team has an advantage over another and doesn't choose to use it, it's pure stupidity.
But why set up a structure where teams have that much of an advantage? Like I said, the only people getting f'd are the fans of the teams who don't want to spend. Which is odd, because you see that in MLB and the NBA, but not in the NFL. Some of the teams who are tight with the purse strings, Pats and Steelers come to mind, will let players go and just keep on winning. Not true in baseball, maybe because it's not as much of a "team" effort as football...
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You wanna tissue for all the crying you are doing in this thread :D
...what,do you root for Baltimore ???
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Great Picture Nails, isn't the new stadium great..and ohhhhhhhhh those garlic fries there..yumm
its just awesome as soon as you walk into the stadium its like walking into a museum and you get that gust of fresh as soon as you walk, its so wide that there is no bumping into people, the jumbo tron is something to see too, Milwaukee brewers have an amazing stadium too
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You wanna tissue for all the crying you are doing in this thread :D
...what,do you root for Baltimore ???
Baseball bored me to tears after about the age of 12, but I'm always interested in the business side of sports.....now don't you have a washed up never-were "athletes" convention softball game to go to? ;D
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Baseball bored me to tears after about the age of 12, but I'm always interested in the business side of sports.....now don't you have a washed up never-were "athletes" convention softball game to go to? ;D
*gets up on hind legs* >:(
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But why set up a structure where teams have that much of an advantage? Like I said, the only people getting f'd are the fans of the teams who don't want to spend. Which is odd, because you see that in MLB and the NBA, but not in the NFL. Some of the teams who are tight with the purse strings, Pats and Steelers come to mind, will let players go and just keep on winning. Not true in baseball, maybe because it's not as much of a "team" effort as football...
I just don't think the NFL model works in MLB. The games are just too different.
They can't keep doing the player churn that you describe above - rookies don't tend to be on a level field when they start playing, like they can in the NFL. Teams need to invest in them to get to a point where they're ready to compete. Veterans are vital, and can't just be cast aside. Plus, the union is too strong, and non-guaranteed contracts will most likely never happen.
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Who gets the yankees?
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This girl played Rounders right?
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I think majority ownership stays in the family.
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I just don't think the NFL model works in MLB. The games are just too different.
They can't keep doing the player churn that you describe above - rookies don't tend to be on a level field when they start playing, like they can in the NFL. Teams need to invest in them to get to a point where they're ready to compete. Veterans are vital, and can't just be cast aside. Plus, the union is too strong, and non-guaranteed contracts will most likely never happen.
I agree the games are vastly different, although I think the stability in the NFL is adequate, it's not like entire rosters are turned over year to year. I worked in minor-league ball for awhile....and you are right it takes a lot of time for guys to develop. Although I do think at times MLB is a little too slow bringing guys up. Part of the publics problem with it, is that college baseball is nothing compared to college football and so many guys go straight to the minors from HS, that nobody knows who they are until the arrive in the bigs. Just the way it is.
And chimps, did I strike a nerve? ;D
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All fair points, stoppa.
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I agree the games are vastly different, although I think the stability in the NFL is adequate, it's not like entire rosters are turned over year to year. I worked in minor-league ball for awhile....and you are right it takes a lot of time for guys to develop. Although I do think at times MLB is a little too slow bringing guys up. Part of the publics problem with it, is that college baseball is nothing compared to college football and so many guys go straight to the minors from HS, that nobody knows who they are until the arrive in the bigs. Just the way it is.
And chimps, did I strike a nerve? ;D
I was just being theatrical. I'm pretty beat up these days, so I resemble that remark. ;D