Whose gonna fire the Boss for wearing those atrocious plaid pants? No one. Bosses also wear orange pants with little purple duckies on them in summer on the links or aboard the yacht. Why? Because they can. Executive vice-presidents on the other hand have to be tasteful and can only get away with white pants with pale blue sailfishes embroidered on them.
I followed those losing Yankee teams in the early seventies. Jerry Kenney, the third baseman, had a morbid fear of castration and sharply hit grounders. Horace Clark, the second baseman, tried to avoid the unpleasantness of completing a double play. Danny Cater made solid contact with the ball, but was so lumbering he was frequently thrown out at first on ground rule doubles. Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson had that weird marriage arrangement. Bobby Murcer was kind of a star, but was not, as advertised, the next Mickey Mantle. He was a dwarf star.....The time felt out of joint. Yankee teams were supposed to win. The malaise of that era was demonstrated by those frauds in Yankee uniforms. George changed all that. He restored some semblance of normality to the world.
The fact is that almost every winning sports team in the last twenty years has followed George's model.
First you maximize your revenue stream with a regional sports TV network, merchandising and sponsorship deals. Then you spend money to make money. A few teams like the Marlins build up through the farm systems. Go to the series once. Then lose the whole team. Rinse and repeat.
You know what is a lot of bullshit. That Moneyball bullshit. How many World Series have they won in the last twenty five years? None. That's how many.
They all spend too much, but not all of them consistently make the playoffs.......When George bought into the Yankees, he was a shipbuilder. There was a time when owning a team was a rich man's hobby. I think back then George liked to think of himself as an industrialist, and baseball was a hobby.. You owned a sports team to get a good table at the 21 Club, not to make money. That was when America made things. George was very lucky with his investment in the Yankees. The shipbuilding business faded away, but the Yankees became a billion dollar business........He wasn't the kind of guys sportswriters like. He got a bad press, and he deserved some of the criticism. But his teams won, his players got rich, and the fans were happy. Everybody came out ahead except Billy Martin and Yogi Berra.
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Whose gonna fire the Boss for wearing those atrocious plaid pants? No one. Bosses also wear orange pants with little purple duckies on them in summer on the links or aboard the yacht. Why? Because they can. Executive vice-presidents on the other hand have to be tasteful and can only get away with white pants with pale blue sailfishes embroidered on them.
Jonathan Turley has the same exact pants. Just sayn'
I followed those losing Yankee teams in the early seventies. Jerry Kenney, the third baseman, had a morbid fear of castration and sharply hit grounders. Horace Clark, the second baseman, tried to avoid the unpleasantness of completing a double play. Danny Cater made solid contact with the ball, but was so lumbering he was frequently thrown out at first on ground rule doubles. Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson had that weird marriage arrangement. Bobby Murcer was kind of a star, but was not, as advertised, the next Mickey Mantle. He was a dwarf star.....The time felt out of joint. Yankee teams were supposed to win. The malaise of that era was demonstrated by those frauds in Yankee uniforms. George changed all that. He restored some semblance of normality to the world.
We all have a morbid fear of castration! And rightly so!! Which makes it not so morbid.
Some of us have a morbid fear of plaid.
Of course not those of us who have a good body image.
George. Don Draper. Me.
You need a certain kind of style to pull it off. Just sayn'
I loved that musical.
Bernadette, tour de force.
tits.
Greatest?
He bought every player he could.
Now, Branch Rickey, Paul Brown, that's something else.
The fact is that almost every winning sports team in the last twenty years has followed George's model.
First you maximize your revenue stream with a regional sports TV network, merchandising and sponsorship deals. Then you spend money to make money. A few teams like the Marlins build up through the farm systems. Go to the series once. Then lose the whole team. Rinse and repeat.
You know what is a lot of bullshit. That Moneyball bullshit. How many World Series have they won in the last twenty five years? None. That's how many.
And Rickey Branch. He was nothing but a slave master exploiting the black man.
Trooper York said...
The fact is that almost every winning sports team in the last twenty years has followed George's model.
But then it's no longer sports, it's just money.
Bingo!
They all spend too much, but not all of them consistently make the playoffs.......When George bought into the Yankees, he was a shipbuilder. There was a time when owning a team was a rich man's hobby. I think back then George liked to think of himself as an industrialist, and baseball was a hobby.. You owned a sports team to get a good table at the 21 Club, not to make money. That was when America made things. George was very lucky with his investment in the Yankees. The shipbuilding business faded away, but the Yankees became a billion dollar business........He wasn't the kind of guys sportswriters like. He got a bad press, and he deserved some of the criticism. But his teams won, his players got rich, and the fans were happy. Everybody came out ahead except Billy Martin and Yogi Berra.
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