NY Post: Yankees: BASEBALL APPROVES YANKEES TRANSFER
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George Steinbrenner's 35-year reign as boss of the Yankees ended today when he passed control of the team to his youngest son, Hal. The elder Steinbrenner has gradually withdrawn from the Yankees' day-to-day operations in recent years, and...
November 20th, 2008 20:36
George won 6 World Series’ as owner? is that correct…I think so. And 96, 98, 99, 2000 were won essentially with a farm system that was put together when he was banned from baseball…so what really has this waste of space accomplished?
November 20th, 2008 20:38
Yeah but before he was banned he had pretty good teams. 81 was good, no?
November 20th, 2008 20:48
are you being sarcastic? I mean, they got the WS in ‘81, yes, but then the rest of the 80s to early nineties were bone dry. late 70s and late 90s…his hand was in the 70s, not so much the late 90s
November 20th, 2008 20:48
Right, so he built a team that went to the WS, got banned, came back and the team was successful. What’s your point?
November 20th, 2008 20:50
My point is that he sucks and i’m not sad to see him go. My point is that the son-in-law, who pretty much put together the dynasty of the 96 Yankees, should have kept his wee wee in his pants so that he could be in control today.
November 20th, 2008 20:52
OK but when you say things like the farm system that got built when he was gone is why they were successful, that kind of misses the point. How many teams build good farm systems and then trade them all away (Marlins)? Steinbrenner deserves credit for hanging on to people like Bernie Williams when he could have gone out and just get free agents (which he did later).
November 20th, 2008 21:00
By the time Steinbrenner was back in the mix, the Yankees were playing much better…now you can see what Steinbrenner would have done to those teams…there hasn’t been any youth on the yankees in a long time.