The Steinbrenner boys are chatty
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Feb 19, 2008 
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Hammerin’ Hank Steinbrenner was down on the field today and spoke to a few reporters. I missed it because I was talking with Andy Pettitte at the time. But Hank assured the masses that the Yankees are World Series contenders. For $210 million, let’s hope so.
Meanwhile, Hal Steinbrenner did an interview for GQ.
It’ll be interesting to see whether running the Yankees suits the Brothers Steinbrenner. I’m sure it’s fun now, but will they want to do this until they retire? If you count the team’s share of YES and the new Stadium, the Yankees are probably worth more than $2 billion. It would be tempting to sell that.
Hal’s GQ interview
http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/.....er-tk.html
Hal had some very good comments in GQ.
There is no reason to sell. They have plenty of money. If they don’t want to ‘run’ the team, they don’t have to. There are plenty of good people around to hire.
Sell the goose that lays the golden eggs? They’re sharper than that.
The Yankees will always be a Steinbrenner-run business.
Thank God for that.
http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/.....er-tk.html
“Who’s at the top of the chain of command?
What’s been determined is that this is a family business, and if we’re both gonna be involved, it has to be an equal thing, and we both need to be involved with all major decisions, whether it’s the stadium, big expenditures, or [the unconsummated trade for Johan] Santana, for instance. It’s well publicized in New York that we didn’t agree on that deal. My concerns were economical and financial, and I’m not gonna get into those, but I also had baseball concerns. I didn’t want to get rid of these kids! Boy, the last time we had three young pitchers like Philip Hughes, Joba Chamberlain, and Ian Kennedy, I couldn’t even tell you. “
http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/.....er-tk.html
“Are you willing to concede that Boston, my favorite team, is the superior organization right now?
No, I will never concede. They’ve got a lot of talent, and you’ve done very well the past few years, but let me put it this way: I don’t think you guys wanted to play us in the ALCS. So I will concede nothing. I think we’re better than you.”
As long as the Boss is alive, they aren’t selling.
They had some very interesting offers to sell in the past 18 months. They turned all of them down.
I think that makes it safe to say, at least for the foreseeable future, the Yankees will remain in the Steinbrenner Family.
You always have to love a writer who tells his subject his “favorite team”.
Only in Boston. About as unprofessional as it gets.
I’m starting to like Hal more and more each day.
SJ
How can you expect professionalism when the commissioner of baseball couldnt be bothered to find someone to investigate PED’s in baseball who wasnt associated with one team and had a conflict of interest? I would consider Bud Selig’s approach to the Mitchell report about as unprofessional as it gets.
Say the Steinbrenner brothers did sell the team to get $2 billion cash. What would they do with it?
If I suddenly got $2 billion? I’d try to buy the Yankees. But if you’re already really rich and own the Yankees, what do you need more money for?
Hammerin Hank, I like the sound of that.
hmmm,
kindler?gentler version? Cant be serious.What the hell happened to you? Dont tell me your getting soft on us. Go back, regroup and comeback being your old self. What am i going to laugh at if your not ragging on someone? Please. I begg you. Bring back the eye of the tiger.
“the Yankees are probably worth more than $2 billion. It would be tempting to sell that.”
Not if you know it would be worth 4 billion in 15 to 20 years. Yankees are the best sports investment there is. Why would they walk away from it. New stadium, more championships. It can only go up.
Hank is right. We are World Series contenders. If we had the best second half record in the league last year and owned the Sox. Coming into this year, we dont have Pavano as our opening day starter. We’re younger,deeper than last year. Why shouldnt we be contenders?
Go around the diamond and the Yanks are as good, if not better, at every position but left field, first base and DH. With blog.38.com out of the picture, the Sox have qestion marks everywhere in their rotation except Beckett. Can the Red Sox bullpen pitch as well as they did last year? We all know that relievers are the most hard to predict of all players.
The Yanks stack up very well against Boston. But folks should not discount Toronto. B J Ryan appears to be healthy and that can only help the team with the 2nd best AL ERA last year. Scott Rolen could be an upgrade over Troy Glaus if healthy. But Toronto’s biggest concern is Vernon Wells’ health. If Toronto is healthy, they are going to be tough.
It’s nice to have another calm head at the top of the command chain. However, he still has that Steinbrenner arrogance as evidenced by his unwillingness to concede to the Red Sox. I wonder who the interviewer’s “favorite team” was before 2004.
Drive 4-5 makes a good point about the Blue Jays. In Halladay, Burnett, Marcum and McGowan, they could have the best staff in baseball next year. Of course Halladay and Burnett get injured every year and the offense is average. Rolen is pretty anemic at the plate and the Big Hurt is 40, so the only guys who really scare you in that lineup are Rios and Wells. Their complementary hitters like Thomas, Hill (who’s actually pretty good), Stairs and Rolen wouldn’t even start for the Yankees.
Are there tax inheritance issues to deal with? How much of the team does Hank and Hal actually own? How much does George own and how does it get transferred (before or after he dies) with the least tax consequences?