Reader Lazarus sends us to SI.com's Power Rankings, where we find
this gem:
Joe Torre met with George Steinbrenner for a nice lunch in Tampa the other day, and I'm sure at some point the subject probably turned to the Yankees. And George, I'd bet, at some point looked at his manager and said, "#$!&@* the heck?"
I assume they meant to write: "What the #$!&@*?" But they didn't. They wrote "#$!&@* the heck?"
Or, presumably: "Fuck the heck?"
Steinbrenner really is in poor health, if he is saying "Fuck the heck." That is not a phrase.
Labels: fuck the heck, george steinbrenner, sports illustrated, swearing
Now, I know this blog is about people who say dumb things about sports, but since it's been up and running for like two months and we have already accumulated 1500 misguided comments about the White Sox' success being due to "Small Ball," here, for a change of pace, is another asinine comment from George Steinbrenner.
On his family helping out with the Yanks:
"As I have said many times, `You must let the young elephants into the tent.''
Not to nitpick, but isn't a tent the last place into which you would want to let a young elephant?
Labels: george steinbrenner, young elephants
I know this is straying a bit far from the point of the blog, here, but this really made me laugh.
From ESPN report on Steinbrenner's statement of 6-27:
Team executives are due in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday for meetings with the Boss that could be a prelude to trades aimed at improving poor pitching and disastrous defense."My patience is a little short by the fact that the team is not performing up to its great capabilities," Steinbrenner said in a statement issued by spokesman Howard Rubenstein. "The players have to want to win as much as I do."Rubenstein said the Yankees owner dictated the statement to him while lifting weights.How pathetic and desperate is Steinbrenner to seem macho and virile that he has to get it out that he was lifting weights? Rubenstein might as well have said, "Mr. Steinbrenner's remarks were made after a viagra-less sex romp with a 19 year-old female triathlete, during which, I might add, Mr. Steinbrenner performed admirably."
Labels: george steinbrenner, machismo
Quote from the YES Network's Michael Kay-George Steinbrenner interview:
"[Steinbrenner] extolled one of his idols, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. 'You've got to be able to enjoy accomplishing victory,' he said. 'Victory is important. Douglas MacArthur said it.'"Remember the world before Douglas MacArthur said that? When no one was sure whether victory was important? And some sports teams, and armies, kept losing intentionally because they thought losing was important? Thank God MacArthur cleared that up for us. And Steinbrenner.
Also, "You've got to be able to enjoy accomplishing victory?"
All of the quotes I've read seem to have been translated into Japanese, and then back into English, by a small boy who does not speak either language.
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