In reference to the recent on-field beef between the Tampa Bay Rays (sans Devil) and New York Yankees, general partner and all around a-hole Hank Steinbrenner was quoted as saying:
“I don’t want these teams in general to forget who subsidizes a lot of them, and it’s the Yankees, the Red Sox, Dodgers, Mets,” he said to The New York Post. “I would prefer if teams want to target the Yankees that they at least start giving some of that revenue sharing and luxury tax money back. From an owner’s point of view, that’s my point.”
Ole Hank would’ve made a great slaveowner. I can hear him now: “I don’t want these slaves in general to forget who houses, clothes, and feeds them, and it’s the plantation owners,” he said to the South Carolina Elite Gazette…
Appropriate that his look is reminiscent of James Clark - Alabama Sheriff and the man partially responsible for 1965’s “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, AL.
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March 16th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Paps lays it down…great comeback, Hank.
Jonathan Papelbon was amused to hear that Yankees owner Hank Steinbrenner told the New York Post, “Being insulted by Papelbon is like being attacked by a mouse.”
During the good-natured back-and-forth between Steinbrenner and Henry a few weeks back concerning which team’s brand is more recognizable, Papelbon had told the Hartford Courant, “I don’t know if he’s trying to stir things up or not. I sure as hell don’t care because he sure as hell hasn’t stepped on a baseball field. He needs to just stick to pencil-pushing, I guess.”
In response to the mouse quote, Papelbon said, “Whatever, dude. Obviously, by that comment, he’s trying to start something. I’m not gonna get into it back and forth.
“I mean, I said that because I honestly believe it. People nowadays, whether it be reporters, ESPN analysts, guys that don’t play the game, don’t understand what it’s about. What the grind is about, what the clubhouse is like.”
When told that Steinbrenner said Papelbon made it personal, the closer said, “I don’t know why he would take it that way. I’m saying guys that have never been on the field don’t have the right to speak their mind about things that they don’t know about. I’m not insulted by what he said.”