What level of blowhard jerk-off jacka** is George Steinbrenner?

[underpants]

Poll question: What level of blowhard jerk-off jacka** is George Steinbrenner?

ON EDIT-10 is the highest level of blowhard jerk-off jacka** that Steinbrenner is on this objective scientific survey.

If you didn't catch it last night as the Yankees were being CRUSHED by the Marlins Tim McCarver reiterated the conversation he had with Don Zimmer before the game. Zimmer said that he was not retiring but that he would not be back with the Yankees because,~"He deserved to be treated like a human being which he had not been the last few years with the Yankees"

The implication was clear, it was Steinbrenner's doing.

Now I don't agree with what Zimmer did in the Boston fiasco and I don't agree with what Pedro did either but that was in moment of fury, snap decisions not repeated continuous conscious decisions.

Zimmer has a 55 year career in professional baseball and, as I understand it, never cashed a paycheck not associated with baseball on some level(include endorsements). No one deserves to be treated with such disrespect especially not someone who has given (and gotten) so much from the game.

Oh and if I have to see that damned Steinbrenner-Jeter commercial again I think I am going to call a friend over to help me throw our big a** 36' TV out the window.

[Zech Marquis]

1. Zimmer's a reasure any team would love

On ESPN's website, one postgame aticle wrote how his wife asked him not to do anything negative afterwards. But you know what? I would have loved to have seen Zimmer give George a big ass telling off in front of the cameras. I like the Yankees from the days of Reggie Jackson,but I never, ever like George Asshole Steinbrenner :argh:

[underpants]

2. Thank you even Yankee fans can't stand the....that guy

Oh that would have been great to see Zimmer said what everyone that has ever worked for him probably wanted to say. Yankee fans too.

To quote Frank Costanza "you traded Jay Buhner?!?!?!?"

The managing carousel was a real head shaker too.

[underpants]

3. Okay who voted for 1?

Come on fess up.

[VermontDem2004]

4. HOW DARE YOU!

Steinbrenner once saved my life damnit! :)

[underpants]

5. Really? How?

Did it involve a turtleneck sweater?

[VermontDem2004]

6. lol no

But I seen Gonzo hit that ball in the bottom of the 9th inning to beat the Yanks in game 7. I was with a bunch of friends and we celebrated by ordering two boxes of pizza hut with Pepsi. :9

[underpants]

7. Were you in the pool?

Eating pizza in a pool is a delicate operation.

Yes I remember that like it was three years ago and the Yankees STILL haven't won!

[VermontDem2004]

8. No I was in Flagstaff

No where near the pool. :hi:

[underpants]

9. My best friend went on his honeymoon there

He said it was the coolest town he had ever been in.

For our vacation it was between Flagstaff (and the Grand Canyon) or Key West. Being that it is going to be in November we decided to head south.

[VermontDem2004]

10. I liked Flagstaff

But there is alot more to do then the grand canyon, I also attended a few NAU games while I was there:boring:, but I had the best time of my life living in Flagstaff though.

[ClintonTyree]

11. I'm a lifelong Yankees fan................

and I abhor the man. His only saving grace is that he wants a winning team and will do anything within his power to achieve that goal. As a person, he ranks right up there with the likes of Bush, Limbaugh, Hannity ect.

[VermontDem2004]

12. One thing I don't like about him

is he hijacks the seventh inning stretch to sing "God bless America" Call me anti-american all you want, I don't care, "God bless America" is not a baseball song.

[pasadenaboy]

13. AMEN

Take me out to the ballgame should be sang at the 7th inning stretch.

Choose either God Bless America or Star Spangled Banner to start the game. We don't need both.

That bothers the hell out of me, I don't know why.

[underpants]

14. When that started I heard some sports reporters saying the same thing

It was on "Around the Horn"on ESPN a show I usually don't watch, not that I don't like I just don't watch it.

Anyway, one reporter who had "won" that days show was given 30 seconds to say anything he wanted and he went off on the "God Bless America" thing. He said "We already have a national anthem we don't need another".

Michael Moore goes off on this in his new book too. How dare we think that God (OUR god as if we all have just one) only blesses the USA.

I agree with both of them.

ON EDIT-WhenI first heard that on the ESPN show I made the observation here that only sports media seems immune from unpatriotic labels for criticizing anything W related. Once again perhaps sport was the field were the opening salvos of change were fired.

[jfxgillis]

15. An astute observation

Moreover, in my experience listening to WEEI in Boston, one of the bigger Sports-Radio stations in the country, the sports guys were the only ones who REALLY debated Schwarzenegger's groping scandal.

A couple of the regular shows I listened to ("The Big Show" in particular), immediately polarized into Arnold = Good Guy versus Arnold = Bad Guy.

PATHETIC condition for the country to have fallen into.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. WEEI Dennis and Callahan: They should have been FIRED, not SUSPENDED

for making racist remarks.

As a sports fan, I of course listen to sports radio, but not for the high-brow political dialogue.

I prefer listening to Dale and Neumie and Ted Sarandis, because they tend to stick to sports and not politics.

[jfxgillis]

17. Agree about the morning guys

And they suck anyway even if they hadn't said what they said.

But you seem to be missing the point, and underpants' point, which is that the Sports guys chatting about politics is SUPERIOR discourse to the politics guys chatting about politics.

[Catshrink]

20. D-Backs still do the God Bless America thing too

and I wish they'd stop it. It ain't a baseball song!

Take me out to the ballgame!!!

[VermontDem2004]

23. I don't like the D-backs for doing that either

I don't have a good opinion of Cangelo either.

[lpbk2713]

18. Wouldn't it have been nice.........

....... at the end of the game to see Zimmer walk out to the pitcher's mound and moon Steinbrenner in his skybox............... :eyes:

[underpants]

21. In a way...yes in another..................NO!

That would have been great on the whole.

[kodi]

19. oh dude, he is a founding member of the royal flaming asshole hall of fame

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[underpants]

22. Is that in Cooperstown too?

if not one should be started and he can be in the intial class.

[kodi]

24. no, it is located on butt hole road in england

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[leftofthedial]

25. I am a big Don Zimmer fan

He was bench coach for the Rockies fortwo and a half seasons.

The end of his time with Colorado was bizarre to say the least.

The prevailiang wisdom is that he and manager Don Baylor had a lousy relationship and that Baylor had stopped communicating with Zimmer (not a healthy state of affairs when the manager and bench coach don't talk.)

Another theory is that Zimmer felt like the owners and/or front office weren't "treating him like a human being."

In any case, without a word to anyone, in the middle of a game, he left the dugout, changed into his civies, walked down the tunnel into the car where his wife was waiting, and drove off. "Retired."

Very strange exit.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. "Baron von Steingrabber" has been, is, and always will be

a hemorrhoid to this Yankees fan.

:kick: