Rumors Suggest Yankees Could Soon Be Up For Sale
Daily News- Manhattan without the Empire State Building? New York without the Statue of Liberty? Brooklyn without the Bridge? The Yankees without the Steinbrenners? Rumors are flying in Major League Baseball and New York banking circles that the family that has owned Major League Baseball’s premiere franchise since Cleveland shipbuilder George Steinbrenner purchased the club for $8.8 million in 1973 is exploring the possibility of selling the Yankees. Multiple baseball and finance sources told the Daily News they are hearing that the team the Steinbrenner family has led to seven World Series titles could be put on the block in the wake of the record sale price of $2.175 billion the Los Angeles Dodgers went for in April. Yankee president Randy Levine adamantly denied the rumors: “I can say to you there is absolutely, positively nothing to this. The Steinbrenners are not selling the team.” Unlike 2009, when the Yankees invested $424 million in CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett to win their first world championship in nine years, Yankee general partner Hal Steinbrenner has made it clear he wants to lower the payroll even if the team fails to make the playoffs this year. “I’m a finance geek. I guess I always have been,” Steinbrenner said during spring training. “That’s my background; budgets matter and balance sheets matter. I just feel that if you do well on the player development side and you have a good farm system, you don’t need a $220 million payroll. You can field every bit as good a team with young talent.”
You know who gets headlines for shit like this? The Mets. Not the Yankees. Not the team that has won 7 world series titles since shipbuilder Steinbrenner bought them in 1973. George has to be rolling over in his grave right now upon hearing this atrocious news. This is exactly why the Yankees aren’t the fiery team they were a couple years ago. When ownership isn’t all in, how can you expect the players to be? On one hand, it would be devastating to see the Steinbrenner name leave the Yankees, but when you think about it, the only thing Hal shares with his father is a last name. No sign of the innate passion to win or the desire to be on top in Hal. “I’m a finance geek. I guess I always have been.” Then go be a fucking number cruncher at J.P. Morgan and hand the team over to someone who actually cares about winning, Hal. Your father would have cut his own dick off before putting numbers and spreadsheets above championships.
If the Dodgers sold for over $2 Billion, I’m scared to see what the price tag would be for the greatest franchise in sports. There may be only one man capable of spending that kind of money… Marc Zuckerberg. That autistic bastard, I knew it. He’s like Kiefer Sutherland’s kid in Touch- somehow channelling his aspergers into psychic abilities, figuring out that the Yankees would one day be going up for sale. Here we all this whole time thinking he’s just Warren Buffeting his money, but in reality, he’s been eyeing down middle relief pitching for years, just waiting for his moment to strike. Well played, Zuck. Hopefully this turns out better than the IPO. Seriously though, the thought of Yankees under new ownership is tough to conceptualize, but it may not be the worst thing. Despite the last two wins and A Rod coming through on his “I’m about to go off” prediction, the team looks like it could use a major shake up. For now it’s just rumors that are being adamantly denied by team president Randy Levine, but it’s definitely something to keep an eye on.
Cut to 1 year from now when the whole team is wearing solid gold uniforms that say “New York Trumps” on the front.
Yankees COO Lon Trost was on with Boomer & Carton this morning vehemently denying every piece of these rumors. Last time I checked, the Yankees aren’t the Mets and don’t lie about this sort of stuff…this blog was a waste, you’re better than this pizzaboy
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I dont understand why people are freaking out about talking about this rumor. The Daily News admitted throughout the whole article that its just rumors, but that there has been enough buzz to justify talking about it. Whats wrong with that? Of course the yankees are denying it, but that doesnt mean they havent kicked the tires on the idea. Just talking about the possibility of it happening isnt a waste of time
“This is exactly why the Yankees aren’t the fiery team they were a couple years ago.”
Oh, I thought it was because the average age of the team is 42 and have no pitching outside of CC.
Strasser you are such a horrible blogger it is beyond words.
The Steinbrenners are terrible owners. Yankee fans should hope they get sold. Maybe a legit owner would hire a decent GM that actually develops talent. Their 4 WS in 5 years were a direct result of George the Felon being removed from baseball, allowing a real baseball guy, Stick Michael, to put together a legit organization.
strasser did you play under the sink when you were little?
that zuckerberg shit had be dyin… and rbuddwyer you truely are a troll… but not even a good one you just say “faggot” and other weak shit like take a little pride in being a douche bag… like this is probably what you do on your spare time(http://efukt.com/20922_Maid_Entranced_By_Gringo_Cock.html ) …fucking hack go munch a fat wad of your own knuckle butter and keep it out of any twat in sight…last thing we need is more degenerates like yourself
“When ownership isn’t all in, how can you expect the players to be?”
Is that a serious sentence? Why would any player give a fuck who the owner is?
The incoherent ramblings of a homeless meth addict would follow a straighter line and make more sense than that blog did.