Bob was the long time PA guy for Yankee Stadium.

 

I agree mostly with Mr. Ford. Steinbrenner did more to destroy the game than any a man has ever done and he did it simply to line his own pockets and make his own team great. I don't dispute that he was a great businessman - he had the money and he spent it in ways that have never been addressed or curtailed. He's not the entire issue here, because no one ever stepped up to say wait a minute, this ain't right. But he is the front-line general of everything that is/was wrong with baseball.

I listened to some of the idiot butt-kissers on ESPN talking about how great he was for the sport. Really? By spending millions and millions of dollars more than every other team out there; by crushing the small market teams in spending and earning; by taking legit All-stars from smaller teams to make his power teams; by eliminating the competition in the board room instead of on the field; need I go on?

The guy screwed baseball and baseball will never be the great game it was years ago. There's a reason that so many people absolutely hate the Yankees and 99% of it is tied to Steinbrenner and his business practices, helped by long-corrupt MLB management.

All I know is that football season starts next month.

 

I didn't get that part.

Regardless, I feel your pain. Driving for Swift and frequently in the service of Walmart, I feel your pain.

 

CD, he was making moves in his office to get big name players and giving them outrageous amounts of money and making it impossible for the smaller market teams to ever get a great player. If they did get one, they were past their prime and worthless or the Yanks were waiting at the door when their current contract expired to get them while they were still young. In that sense, it has killed the smaller market teams, they have zero chance unless they have an owner who has very deep pockets. Seattle had A-Rod, they lost him to the Yanks as he was hitting his prime because they simply could not afford the amount of money Steinbrenner was willing to pay him. Beat the teams on the field by developing players like Jeter, not in the board room where you simply go buy all the top talent up to stay on top.

 

Ok, so it sucks that George is dead (for his friends and family). That being said... Are the Yankees gonna start losing now?



















Yes, I despise the Yankees. No, I don't root for the Red Sox or the Braves.

 

Didn't A-Rod play in Texas for a year with a record high like $155 million contract (at least a record at the time) after Seattle and before he went to the Yankees? Don't take that the wrong way, I hate the Yankees too, I'm a ChiSox fan. I could be wrong about him going to Texas first, it's been a few years, just seems thats how it went from memory and I am too lazy to double check so feel free to bash me if I'm wrong.

 

Yes he went to Texas before the Yanks but Seattle tried to get him back. His deal in Texas was 10 years-$252 million. In 2007 the Yanks re-signed him for 10 years-$275 million. Seattle wanted to get him back in 2007 when he became a free-agent but could not afford what the Yanks were offering him to stay. Heck, nobody could afford that. Texas wished they had never signed him for that amount of money these days, it hurt them in the long haul and is one reason why the team is up for sale now which is the case in point. George has driven salaries thru the roof and the small market teams have to pony up a whole lot of money to get a great player but at the possibility of making themselves bankrupt. Florida is another team who is struggling due to not being able to afford the salaries.

 

ok, 10 yr 252. I was thinking it was 255 or something but I rethought it because that seemed way to high, but I thought it was only like a 5 or 7 year contract, not a 10 year....but still 255 or 275....hell send me some of it.

 

I dunno.... can you hit a slider?? :lol:

 

Sure.....if it is moving less than 40 mph. Since he can hit one going 90 and gets 252 for ten I will just take $11.2 million for one year...mathematically it works out, seems fair to me.