RIP George Steinbrenner

[YB85]

He's not. Most guys know who he is, but ask kids, woman, and people don't follow sports if they know who he is cause I bet you most don't. After you ask them, go ahead and ask them if they know who Phelps, Armstrong, and all the other guys I listed are. Those guys are household names, although Steinbrenner's death is getting more air time than MJ's right now. At least it seems like that.

I just asked a lady who Carl Lewis is. She thought he was a boxer.

What you don't get is there was a time that Steinbrenner was the face of the Yankees. Yeah, they had Reggie Jackson, Don Mattingly, Derek Jeter, etc., but Steinbrenner WAS the Yankees. Much like Jerry Jones is the Cowboys. What sports is today is largely due to Steinbrenner.

 

[Archie Moses]

Well, I'm sad the guy died. Sounds like an amazing man I didn't know much about. YB, thanks for filling me in on some stuff. Prayers to the family, friends, and organization (that was hard to type).

 

[Hopper]

Four words, eh?:

How-Wid Ko-Sell

 

[TroutBum]

Always hated him. Still do.

I bet Dragon is crying on his huge pilla'.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Steinbrenner was the most important, most influential person in American sports over the past 35 years.

Marvin Miller and Bowie Kuhn have gotta be up there.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

He's not. Most guys know who he is, but ask kids, woman, and people don't follow sports if they know who he is cause I bet you most don't. After you ask them, go ahead and ask them if they know who Phelps, Armstrong, and all the other guys I listed are. Those guys are household names, although Steinbrenner's death is getting more air time than MJ's right now. At least it seems like that.

Ask a woman who that Van Sloot kid is and I bet they know. Does that make the kid any more or less influential?

 

[YB85]

Marvin Miller and Bowie Kuhn have gotta be up there.

I'll give you Miller. Not Kuhn. He only battled Miller, plus he slept for much of his time.

 

[Archie Moses]

Ask a woman who that Van Sloot kid is and I bet they know. Does that make the kid any more or less influential?

So do you disagree with the guys I listed? Why?

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I'll give you Miller. Not Kuhn. He only battled Miller, plus he slept for much of his time.

Yeah, I figured Kuhn could have negotiated and changed the landscape of free agency, most likely for the better, more than he did. But I hear you.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

So do you disagree with the guys I listed? Why?

How have Lance Armstrong, Carl Lewis and a couple other of your numbnuts influenced sports more than say a Marvin Miller?

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

It's laughable really. I can't believe I'm wasting my fingers on this.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I also disagree with you because you're an easy target.

 

[Archie Moses]

How have Lance Armstrong, Carl Lewis and a couple other of your numbnuts influenced sports more than say a Marvin Miller?

Really?

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Really?

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Wake the **** up Archie. Seriously.

 

[VINYLONE]

Wake the **** up Archie. Seriously.

Wow.

Gauntlet. Thrown.

 

[Archie Moses]

Wake the **** up Archie. Seriously.

Kiss my ***, seriously. Dude, you haven't even explained your ****. All you've done is post a no name and and expect everyone should know and it's common knowledge. Plus, how can anyone from MLB be the most influential and important sports person in America over the past 35 years? Hasn't baseball taken backseat in American sports, like 30 years ago?

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Kiss my ***, seriously. Dude, you haven't even explained your ****. All you've done is post a no name and and expect everyone should know and it's common knowledge. Plus, how can anyone from MLB be the most influential and important sports person in America over the past 35 years? Hasn't baseball taken backseat in American sports, like 30 years ago?

I feel like Patrick Bateman trying to talk to the dry cleaning woman.

 

[Archie Moses]

I feel like Patrick Bateman trying to talk to the dry cleaning woman.

Don't make me take you off my jazzfanz friend list. That should put you in place, princess.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Dude, seriously, read up on Marvin Miller some and then come talk to me. Otherwise, you just look like more of an idiot than you already do. If that's at all possible.