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Amen.
While I despise the Yankees, The Boss had a real passion for his team, its fans, and the game of baseball, and you really had to always respect that. I kind of enjoyed it more when he played musical managers and the Yankees were down for a few years, but the guy's heart and soul were with that team, and that was something to be greatly admired.
Tough week for the Yankees, Bob Sheppard and the Boss in the same week.
While I despise the Yankees, The Boss had a real passion for his team, its fans, and the game of baseball, and you really had to always respect that. I kind of enjoyed it more when he played musical managers and the Yankees were down for a few years, but the guy's heart and soul were with that team, and that was something to be greatly admired.
Tough week for the Yankees, Bob Sheppard and the Boss in the same week.
May the "BOSS" Rest in Peace!
Whoever does his eulogy should fire Billy Martin just for old times sake. I did respect his business vision and "investment" in his teams. He alway did things in a big way, and never backed off from paying top dollar and expecting top performance.
For whatever reason, I will always will remember his character in the Seinfeld TV show....."Costanza, get me a calzone" is forever etched in my memory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3eNPO8nAE0
For whatever reason, I will always will remember his character in the Seinfeld TV show....."Costanza, get me a calzone" is forever etched in my memory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3eNPO8nAE0
It was interesting listening to Fay Vincent talking about him on ESPN this morning. He was doing his best to not speak ill and failing miserably.
Great Business mind. Strong desire to win and provide the best for the Yankees and their fans. RIP George.
As a lifelong Red Sox and Dodgers fan who was bred to hate the Yankees, I have grown to appreciate the organization and even Mr. Steinbrenner.
RIP
RIP
He was good to the United States Military Academy. In the spring of 2009, the baseball players presented him with a saber..thanking him for years of hospitality at the Yankees' spring training facilities during Army's spring break trips.
He had a philanthropic heart. A number of the baseball fields in the Ocala area where he maintained a horse farm, owe their field lights to him. I am sure he was as generous in the Tampa area as well, but am only aware firsthand of my town.
He has excellent timing in a way, if you are going to go soon, may as well go when there is no Estate Tax.
He has excellent timing in a way, if you are going to go soon, may as well go when there is no Estate Tax.
He was a giant among sports owners and right or wrong he always made things interesting. We may not see his kind again.
In addition to floridafan's philanthropic note about Steinbrenner, this article appeared in our paper this AM. URL below.
It is about Steninbrenner calling Virginia Tech President after campus shooting and donating $1M to VT Baseball team who he had no ties to. An interesting read, and a very generous man.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/...14/vtbb14-ar-290994/
It is about Steninbrenner calling Virginia Tech President after campus shooting and donating $1M to VT Baseball team who he had no ties to. An interesting read, and a very generous man.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/...14/vtbb14-ar-290994/
quote:Originally posted by CADad:
It was interesting listening to Fay Vincent talking about him on ESPN this morning. He was doing his best to not speak ill and failing miserably.
If that was doing his best, I wonder how he would talk about Steinbrenner if he was holding nothing back. Maybe he should have chosen not to talk about him at all. Vincent really came across as a jerk.
quote:Originally posted by CADad:
It was interesting listening to Fay Vincent talking about him on ESPN this morning. He was doing his best to not speak ill and failing miserably.
I heard him on the local station here WFAN and I was thinking the same thing with Fay Vincent.
It is what it is.
Steionbrenner was a lot of things to people. He was charitable on one hand and right out nasty to others.
The one consistent thing with the Boss was he did what he thought he had to do to make the Yankees winners inspite of some of the wacky things he did along the way. He understood the brand name and the significance of the New York Yankees as a brand name in sport. Before Steinbrenner, CBS ran the Yankees into the ground and Steinbrenner built that back.
One wonders what type of legacy he would have had if he had purchased control of the Indians or Pirates instead of the Yankees.
Steinbrenner was about winning. When he took over the team Yankee Pride was becoming a thing of the past. Players like Horace Clarke and Andy Kosco were becoming the poster boys for the Yankees. Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich made the team a joke.
Sure I enjoy it when the Yankees fall on their faces. But it would have been awful to have the franchise fade into oblivion as it was headed in the 70's. Steinbrenner put the pride back in the Yankees. Was he bold, brash and obnoxious at times? Sure. But I'm a Celtics fan and what we liked about Red Auerbach was he was all about winning and got it done. With the current management team in Boston the Red Sox - Yankee rivalry has never been healthier.
Sure I enjoy it when the Yankees fall on their faces. But it would have been awful to have the franchise fade into oblivion as it was headed in the 70's. Steinbrenner put the pride back in the Yankees. Was he bold, brash and obnoxious at times? Sure. But I'm a Celtics fan and what we liked about Red Auerbach was he was all about winning and got it done. With the current management team in Boston the Red Sox - Yankee rivalry has never been healthier.
Actually, I'm all for letting the franchise fade and fall flat on it's pennant purchasing face. Let all the teams be allowed and able to spend the same amount on player salaries, and THEN if the Yankees are successful, I'll acknowledge their greatness, but until then in my book they're simply buying pennants at auction.
It is nice the Boss had a philanthropic heart and his donation and kindness to my beloved Hokies was indeed a very wonderful thing. It made me a grudging Yankee fan for one day...well sort of anyway. There's good in almost everyone if we look for it.
It is nice the Boss had a philanthropic heart and his donation and kindness to my beloved Hokies was indeed a very wonderful thing. It made me a grudging Yankee fan for one day...well sort of anyway. There's good in almost everyone if we look for it.