Breaking news: Steve Swindal arrested
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Feb 15, 2007 
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This statement just came from Howard Rubenstein:
“Steve Swindal, General Partner of the New York Yankees, was detained for suspicion of Driving Under the Influence in Pinellas County, Florida early this morning (Thursday, February 15th), and was released after several hours, as anyone would be for a first accusation. Mr. Swindal apologizes profusely for this distraction during the Yankees’ Spring Training and no further comment will be made until this is resolved.”
According to the police report, Swindal was arrested at 4:26 a.m. by the St. Petersburg police.
Swindal is George Steinbrenner’s son in law and a general partner of the team. He has been designated Steinbrenner’s successor.
UPDATE, 6:18 p.m.: Here is the arrest report.
Best Blog on the Net, without doubt. Good work Pete, you’re now officially the first bookmark I open whenever my browser comes up.
Oh snap!
What a mess this spring training has been so far, the Bronx Zoo is back boys!
This really cracks me up, its like the Yankee players and organization are determined to cause as much drama before AROD comes into camp…diverting all attention on themselves. This is very good.
Thank you Swindal, Bernie, Mo, Pavano, Mussina. Thank you all very much.
Wasn’t his daughter on Kids on Deck?
I think Paris Hilton (of all people) once commented that people who stay out partying after 2 a.m. are a little weird. Doesn’t the guy work?
lord. the circus is back in town.
Where in Tampa could he go to be out until 4 am drinking? Unless he was at one of the strip clubs, its not exactly a happening town.
Hey, at least this bumps the Moose-Pavano steel cage match off the back page!
well… the season has OFFICIALLY started now, huh?
I can read the back page of the Post now:
“Swindling Swindal.”
“Where in Tampa could he go to be out until 4 am drinking? Unless he was at one of the strip clubs, its not exactly a happening town.”
Uh, not an expert, but I thought those were dry?
That’s bad. I’m glad he didn’t crack up his car and hurt anyone. Was he out partying with Dontrelle Willis?
Can I be the first to say:
So what?
This doesn’t affect the Yankees or Spring Training at all. I doubt Swindal will have a problem covering the $1000 fine (or whatever it is) that he receives from this.
People make to big a deal when public people make human mistakes.
Holy cow! What’s gonna be next? You know, come to think of it, weren’t there all kinds of distractions during the years the Yankees won all those WS?
I haven’t seen the “staying up until 4:30″ side of 4:30 in years!
I do have a serious question, though, sort of. It seems an awful lot of people get caught for dui in Tampa. Do the police there kind of ‘hang out’ waiting? Not that they shouldn’t, because it is a safety issue, but there seem to be more of those coming from Tampa (at least among ballplayers). I know in NJ the police hang out in all the towns with 25 mph speed limits and snatch people left and right.
Let’s bring back Strawberry and Gooden! Can’t have too many drunks together, now can we.
Sammy –
Every time I hear the name Swindal, I keep thinking that’s not a good name for an executive! Good call on the possible headlines.
“He has been designated Steinbrenner’s successor.”
Apparantly he has no designated driver, however.
Let’s not make such a big deal out of this. Stick Michael has multiples under his belt. Must be something in the Tampa air.
I think the back page would be “Swilling Swindal” not “Swindling Swindal” since I don’t think he’s swindled anything.
No wonder Cashman’s got so much control. I bet he has lots of dirt that he’s blackmailing Swindle with. lol
carla pavano’s NL counterpart is up to his old tricks (www.mlb.com):
“The good news on the first day of workouts for Cubs pitchers and catchers Thursday was that Mark Prior and Wade Miller both threw off a mound. The bad news was that Kerry Wood was sidelined with an injury.
Wood bruised his right side when he fell out of a hot tub at his home Monday night. He’ll be sidelined four to five days. His ego was hurt more than his rib cage.”
Oh Stacey.
Wow. Peter “Smoking Gun” Abraham. Outstanding!
Where was A Rod? I’m sure he something to do with it.
Unless Swidall has a problem, I think this will be a case where one trial conditioning solves the problem.
It’s our Fault Why George Son in law and Future Owner of the yankees why Steve got arrested for the DuI today? Every Yankees Fan are putting pressure on Yankees and wanted contract extension for Mariano . The Bernie Situation is a mess. I encourage all Yankees to please stop. Thank You.
I encourage all Yankees Fans to please stop. Thank You.
Was there an underground poker club involved?
Peter,
It might be time to revise that blog entry about the Red Sox having all the drama this Spring?
ARod opting out
Torre a lame duck
Mariano mad about his contract
Posada in his final contract year
Pavano and his teammates
Swindal arrested for suspicion of DUI
What next?
What’s next?
27…
Mark: Don’t forget the never ending Bernie drama that won’t go away.
Where’s Stengel when you need him…
Why was Swindal even driving? With all his money and connections, you’d think he’d have a limo, or a driver at least.
At least it wasnt a player. Im sure ESPiN will eat this up with their usual anti-yankee bias.
Mark in Greenwich,
The Yanks have gone into ST with bigger problems before and they were ok.
No Tampa cop would have f’ed with a son-in-law of George’s back when he was pulling the strings from a barber’s chair in the back of Malio’s. If anyone had any doubts, it’s now official; the Boss is no more and Yankee fans everywhere are poorer for it.
nice try steve. he obviously poured bourbon all over himself and got in his car weaving in and out of traffic at 4 a.m. in order to distract attention from the players and take some of th heat off of them. kudos for taking one for the team, steve.
Pete – In fact what the Yankees issued was a statement from Howard Rubenstein, not Steve Swindall. Check the New Yorker for its’ recent lengthy article on how Howard ‘protects’ his clients.
FLA cops, in general, are notorious for netting drunk drivers. The Tampa police know that Spring Training brings a lot of people into town and are on extra alert. This couldn’t have been Swindal’s 1st SP trip to Tampa. He had to know the chance he was taking and chose poorly.
Unless details emerge that he was uncooperative w/ the police or something seedy like he had a stripper on his lap when he was pulled over, I think this will go away quietly. I’m no defender of drunk driving but there’s a big difference btwn making a stupid mistake and alcoholism.
“there’s a big difference btwn making a stupid mistake and alcoholism.”
Exactly. It’ll be interesting to see how this shakes down. Here’s a story that relates to the situation: Several years ago, the pastor at our church was a very respected man in the city, working with kids in baseball leagues, involved in tons of community programs, etc., etc., blah blah blah. He had dinner at a church member’s house and had ONE glass of wine, yet was on heavy cold medicine at the time as well. He was arrested for drunk driving and his rep took a serious hit for a long time. He probably made a poor choice to have a drink while on medication, but he certainly wasn’t a drinker, much less a drunk.
Swindal being out at 4:30 in the morning is pretty darn odd though. I’ll be curious to see further reports, if there are any.