Murray-- Still Searching for George

Murray Chass rings in with about his 27th column on the missing George Steinbrenner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/sports/baseball/25chass.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

 

Yeah, you're right Boom. It's not a story when George Steinbrenner misses almost every home game. Especially with his team in a division race.

 

Poor Murray - never got his exit interview:

http://www.murraychass.com/

 

"Creative tension"? Nah. That would imply the implementation of subtlety and art.

Damn-the-torpedoes, I'm-the-Boss-and-you're-not, blunt, assholish
douchebaggery? Now you're talkin'.

 

Pathetic article.

More about himself than about George.

 

Certainly confirms Murray's obsession over the past 4 years of finding out if there was something wrong with George.

 

Unnecessary & redundant.

Murray's told this tale of woe repeatedly.

As a guy that's covered him since '73, you'd think he could tell a nice story, and include info no one else could. Instead, he made it about himself. Again.

 

Perhaps the fact that he couldn't says something about the subject.

I find it somewhat telling that the two writers who've known George ever since he came to the Yankees in 73, Mushnick and Chass, are the two that couldn't find positive words for him in their eulogy pieces.

 

Joel Sherman did as accurate a wrapup as anyone, though I'm sure the syncophants didn't like it.

 

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/ignore_image_edit_he_ruled_by_fear_tYxNn7B9p1mTuATlM9iZWN

Your post prompted me to look for it. Yep, that's another solid lambasting. The only thing I ever noticed him being good at was spending gobs more money than his competitors could match.

Good to see a few people remember the Steinbrenner I recall--the irrational hotheaded decisionmaker who cruelly bullied his subordinates and used fear as a tool much like dictators and mafia bosses do.

All these Yankee fans praising him today are the same ones who gave the loud ovation at Yankee stadium the day it was announced he'd been banned for the sordid Winfield/Spira scandal. How soon they forget.

 

Yes, we all agree for the thousandth time that those were the bad days. So, that makes it right and proper to hold it against him after he served his time, and because it means nothing that the team won seven titles under his ownership -- more than any other team in that time. You and the rest of the anti-Yankees faction can do global maturity a favor and get the fuck over yourselves.