A rare Steinbrenner sighting
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- February
- 17
As we were getting off the elevator at Legends Field this morning to go to the clubhouse, George Steinbrenner was waiting to go up to his office.
Big Stein looked good and smiled and said hello. Joel Sherman of the Post shook his hand and George said, “Good to see you, Joel.”
A few minutes later, Joe Girardi, Goose Gossage, Ron Guidry and Rob Thomson were summoned up to Steinbrenner’s office so he could say hello.
Steinbrenner certainly looked better than he has in the past. Hopefully he’ll stay healthy and be able to enjoy the coming season. The man has at least earned that right.
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Peter Abraham
Great to hear the old man is doing well. i think the yanks should go tu of thier way to honor him this season.
findsand’s article in todays daily news about cashman defending the johan decision is a good read today:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/02/17/2008-02-17_brian_cashman_stands_behind_call_to_balk.html
Glad to hear that about George. Maybe having Hank and Hal take over has helped. He has always wanted his sons to be involved with the Yankees.
amen to that Pete.
Hope he gets to enjoy this coming season.With a world series win at the end.
“George has earned the right”
Amen to that!
As a young kid, The Amazin’s owned NY.
Detroit, Baltimore, Minnesota and Oakland dominated the AL.
Literally…It seemed like the Orioles and A’s toyed with the Yanks…every game…letting them hang around for 4 or 5 inning…before completely and consistently crushing the once proud Yanks.
As a life long fan…Thank You George Steinbrenner for making the NY Yankees winners and keeping them in the mix every year…year in and year out!
Working in the field of investments…I admire the way you saw value in a moribund franchise…purchasing it for $10 million…restoring it to the best in sports world and turning it into a $ Billion dollar enterprise.
“The Boss”…George’s life story would make for a nice play on Broadway’s great white way!!!
Love ‘em or hate ‘em…George Steinbrenner did it his way and made everybody pay attention.
Thank you for George…you are an American Original and the standard by which all sports team owners will forever be measured!!!
When did Steinbrenner morph into a beloved personage?
I must’ve been out of the country or just didn’t get the memo.
great commets G man. could not agree with more. except for the meddling in player moves such as sheff over Vlad, George has been the best owner in sports imagine all he wants is to bring a winner for his fans…. what a concept the like of carl pohlad and other cheap morons should heed…….
I like George. Hope he enjoys the season.
Don’t you mean George M. Steinbrenner Field… not Legends Field…
Isn’t it know as the Boss?
*known*
Even though the Yankees is Pedro’s daddy, Pedro decided to help Edwar Ramirez with his new found cutter and slider during the winter.
Good to hear that he could recall someones name who he likely hasn’t seen in a very long time. And hopefully that call to the principles office was just to say hello.
Hey anyone know why under website it keeps coming up deleted.com? I didn’t put anything there yet whenever I reload that comes up?
I am using firefox.
Hey Pete is Joel Sherman as much of a sneaky weasel as he looks and sounds?
Glad to hear he’s doing well.
Yogi Berra museum removes Clemens’ jersey
Feb. 16, 2008
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (AP) — Roger Clemens’ jersey was tossed from the Yogi Berra Museum.
Museum director David Kaplan said Saturday the museum had removed Clemens’ jersey last week from a display honoring the Yankees teams of the late 1990s that won four World Series championships in five years.
Kaplan said the decision to remove the jersey was not made to generate publicity, but was done in response to allegations of steroid use by Clemens that resulted in Wednesday’s Congressional hearing where the seven-time Cy Young Award winner testified.
“It was the fact that there are a lot of unresolved issues involving Roger and it was difficult for us to give answers to the kids coming through the museum,” Kaplan said.
The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, which opened in 1998, offers several educational programs for youths including one that focuses on sports medicine and nutrition and examines the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Clemens’ jersey had been displayed alongside former teammates Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. Clemens was a member of the 1999 and 2000 Yankees championship teams.
Jeter’s and Rivera’s jerseys will stay in the display, Kaplan said. Both have been with the Yankees since 1995.
“In light of what’s been happening, we just thought the display would be well-served by having the guys who were there from the beginning of the run,” Kaplan said.
Kaplan said he decided to remove the jersey with chief operating officer Art Berke. They notified Berra of their decision and the former Yankee great “was OK with it,” according to Kaplan.
Clemens and Berra are friends, and the former pitcher has played in a celebrity golf event that raises money for the museum, Kaplan said.
Clemens’ spokesman Joe Householder didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Saturday.
The jersey’s removal was originally reported in The New York Times in Saturday’s editions.
EROC to what are you relating ?
Just read that Kennedy article. It’s like I’ve been saying all along Ian doesn’t need as much as an inning limit like Joba and Phil. He might not even need any limit. With that said I believe Ian will get his chance to pitch about every 5 days.
Bryan Hoch had Ramirez info on his blog. Thought I’d share it.
Did you hear that Beltran predicted the Mets would win the NL East. Wagner was happy about it. Said something like now he can answer questions, they can go to him if everything is going well, and he’ll have to answer if things don’t go well. (I am paraphrasing here).
The announcer also noted that maybe Wagner is happy that his boos won’t be the loudest in Philly.
Beltran needs to stop smoking that purple haze. Poor guy.
They only parade George in public when he having one of those good days.
Pete, do you care to share how much you’re making each year?
E-ROC thanks I found it.
No problem.
Pete,
Making GS a beloved figure is revisionist history. I hope he is well but he sucked all the joy out of being a Yankee fan.
you guys that are blasting george must have forgotten the cbs yankees. whacked as he was when younger, he did everything he did in an attempt to win. he made a ton of mistakes and paid for them, got thrown out for the windield thing, then settled into his older, wiser personna. he aged and matured and wisened throught the years.
George also has been very generous in his personal life and doesnt call attention to all that he does in this area.
He’s an old man who put the yankees back in thier rightful place on top of the sports world. There was a time when i thought the day george left the yanks would be one of the great days of my life, but i too have aged and wisened and come to appreciate what a great owner old george turned out to be.
“George has earned the right”
Peter, thanks for the comment.
And GMAN, I couldn’t agree more. George has made a ton of errors over the years. But if you’re not making errors, you’re not trying hard enough. And no one can ever accuse the Boss of that worst of ownership crimes - indifference to the quality of team on the field.
Tom(Eastchester), I’m sorry you feel that way.
I really love being in the competitive mix every year.
BTW. You guys need to go to the Hall of Fame. And play baseball with a sword and an apple. The end.
Hey, you got to see the boss. That is really cool. I would love to be in your shoes.
Hopefully he didnt keep saying Good to see you Joel, Good to see you Joel, like he did to the guy who sneaked into his house to write a story about him.
We’ll know for sure that George is back if he turns around one afternoon and fires Hank.
Pete, don’t be afraid to finish the story.
After saying “Good to see you, Joel,” George turned to Pete. “What’s with the bags under the eyes, Abraham?” “Late night!?” Upon hearing Pete’s story of being under the wrong water pipe at the wrong time, George immediately placed a call to the assistant to the traveling secretary. Costanza will have Pete squared away by this evening.
Glad to hear that George is doing better. And while the 1980s sucked, George has always tried to be competitive and put his money where his mouth is, rather than sitting on it like some other owners.
Looks like tomorrow is shaping up to be a little worse for Andy P than he realized.
http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/10649454
As we now know, Andy Pettitte used HGH as recently as 2004 and held that evidence back when he copped to McNamee’s accusations in the Mitchell report. The story originally was that Andy held back because the HGH came from his father. Well, now it seems that the HGH came from his father (maybe) by way of a high school classmate of Pettitte’s who also has some link to Andy by marriage. (Wonder if this guy’s about to get a visit from Jeff Novitski and blow Andy’s cover?)
So, it appears that Andy might have a problem with his memory, as Roger suggested.
Geez. If I were Steinbrenner and I were losing it a bit, I would wish that I DIDN’T remember Joel Sherman of all people. The bash pieces he has written over the years disgust me, so I’m sure Big Stein feels the same way.
Good to hear that King George is doing better
Hey Pete someone else is posting as jj, is there any way to prevent this…this is me:
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/01/23/a-few-thoughts-from-the-sandman/
At least Pettitte kept it in the family
God bless Big Stein!
Yep - George M. Steinbrenner is an American Orignal. A bigger than life character…warts and all. George has flaws and has made big mistakes…a harsh, over the top taskmaster but all in all…like I said earlier…
Love ‘em or hate ‘em…George Steinbrenner does it his way and makes everybody pay attention.
Teddy Roosevelt captured the sentiment best…
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”