1. George Steinbrenner owns the team. This is a man with the warmth of
Pat Buchanan, the patience of Ross Perot, and the credibility of O.J.
Simpson.
2. The Yankees honored a truant, Jeffrey Maier, whose
interference transformed an out into a series-turning Yankee home run in
the 1996 playoffs.
3. Yankee hype resulted in Joe Gordon winning
the 1942 MVP award over Triple Crown winner Ted Williams. The "Splendid
Splinter" led the American League in six offensive categories; Gordon
led in one, most strikeouts.
4. Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941 is considered the
record in baseball. Why is excellence over two months better than
excellence over a season? (DiMaggio had 193 hits that season, sixty-four
short of George Sisler's major league record.)
5. They make you envious. Their General Manager is thirty-three years
old. Derek Jeter dated Mariah Carey. Joe Torre has spent forty years in
baseball. Steinbrenner did not have to go to jail following his felony
conviction.
6. The Yankees retired Reggie Jackson's and Billy Martin's numbers.
These two played a combined twelve seasons for the Yankees and hit .261.
7. Yankee fans are impossible to like. More than three decades ago,
Roger Angell described them as "overdressed, uncomprehending autumn
arrivistes." Today we would describe them as front-running boors.
8. Bucky Bleeping Dent, Red Sox killer and ersatz Yankee manager. In the
worst-ever made-for-television movie, Dent played a football player who
fell in love with a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader.
9. Their dynasty began because the Red Sox owner, Harry Bleeping Frazee,
needed money to finance his theatrical ventures. We are not talking
about hard work by the Yankees; this was Dumb Luck I.
10. Just before the end of the 1920 season, the Chicago White Sox were a
better team with a brighter future than the Yankees. By the end of that
season, the Sox were a shell of a great team. Eight of their stars were
on their way to lifetime bans as a result of throwing the 1919 World
Series. This was Dumb Luck II in establishing the Yankee dynasty.
11. After Mel Allen (whom the Yankees fired), their best known
broadcaster is Phil "Holy Cow" Rizzuto. His biases would have earned him
the nickname "Homer" but for the fact he hit only thirty-eight
four-baggers during his thirteen-year major league career.
12. Role models like convicted felons Darryl Strawberry and Steve Howe have played for the Yankees.
13. As a Yankee, Don Zimmer has evolved from "the Gerbil" to a Grand Old Man.
14. The Yankees are living in the past. They have won five World Series
since 1962. Over the same period, the Montreal Canadiens have won twelve
titles, and the Boston Celtics have won eleven.
15. The Reggie! Bar was as hard to stomach as its namesake.
16. Steinbrenner, who was banned from baseball for life, got reinstated
after three years. We hope whoever made this decision never gets on the
Unabomber's parole board.
17. Yankee hype resulted in Joe DiMaggio winning the 1947 MVP award over Triple Crown winner Ted Williams.
18. Roger Maris, who had three great seasons, had his number retired. Are the Reds going to retire George Foster's number?
19. Yankee reliever Sparky Lyle wrote The Bronx Zoo, a 300-page whine
about how tough life is when you're earning a large salary for pitching
for a World Series winner.
20. Yankee tragedies are supposed to consume the nation. After Thurman
"I won seven fewer Gold Gloves than Johnny Bench" Munson's plane went
down, the Yankee faithful wanted the waiting period for Munson's Hall of
Fame election waived. Tony Conigliaro, whose life was more tragic than
Munson's, and who hit more home runs in far fewer at bats than Munson
did, is forgotten outside of Boston.
21. Two words: Jim Leyritz
22. After the 1976 Yankees won the franchise's first pennant in twelve
years, they were swept by the Reds in the World Series. Steinbrenner
complained of how this loss to the greatest team since the end of World
War II was a "personal humiliation."
23. The Kansas City A's were effectively a Yankee farm club. (Would you
believe they sent Roger Maris to the Yankees for four spare parts?)
24. The Babe Ruth Story might be the worst sports movie ever made.
25. Howard Cosell rhapsodized about Mickey "the CAT-a-lyst" Rivers,
Reg-GER-oo, and Chris "the Silent One" Chambliss when the Yankees were
on Monday Night Baseball in the 1970's.
26. ABC called it Monday Night Baseball, but in practice it was The Yankee Game of the Week.
27. Above-average feats by ordinary Yankees make magazine covers.
28. Thanks to Yankee fans, Chris Chambliss's trip around the bases after
his 1976 pennant-winning home run was more of an adventure than getting
out of Saigon.
29. Steinbrenner, who has the Mona Lisa of ballparks, has demanded that
New York City build him a paint-by-the-numbers stadium with luxury
boxes.
30. Larry McPhail, the Steinbrenner of his time, made it impossible for
Hall of Famers Joe McCarthy and Bill Dickey to manage the Yankees.
31. Steinbrenner and five-time Yankee manager Billy Martin made up and
broke up more frequently than temperamental high school sweethearts.
32. A Yankee fan's contribution to baseball chat rooms is limited to "Red Sox suck" and "1918."
33. The Yankees exiled their greatest legend, Babe Ruth, to the 38-115
Boston Braves. They let stars like Frank Colman and Roy Weatherly wear
Ruth's #3 before retiring it.
34. Yankee co-owner Del "Mr. Baseball" Webb
35. Yankee General Manager George "Chuckles" Weiss
36. Yankee backup catcher Charlie Silvera played in 227 major league
games and one World Series game. Somehow, he was on six World Series
winners, while Ty Cobb was on none.
37. Bill Mazeroski got the key hit in three Pirate wins, hit the World
Series-winning home run, batted .320 and watched Yankee Bobby Richardson
get named the MVP of the 1960 World Series.
38. Either the Yankees of the 1960's were a cliquish gang who slammed
windows on kids wanting autographs as described in Jim Bouton's Ball
Four, or...
39. Bouton is a liar, in which case the Yankees issued a paycheck to a big-mouthed malcontent who had a 4-15 record in 1965.
40. Joe DiMaggio was voted baseball's "Greatest Living Player" largely
because that noted baseball expert, Paul Simon, wrote a line in "Mrs.
Robinson" about him.
41. Free enterprise is free enterprise, but there is something terribly
wrong when Luis Tiant is pictured in a Yankee uniform, holding a hot dog
and saying "It is great to be with a winner." I blame the Yankees.
42. Wally Pipp could not play with a headache.
43. In the 1930's and 1940's, the Yankees would not allow radio broadcasts of their games.
44. You had to cheer for someone in the Billy Martin-Ed Whitson fight.
45. Shane Spencer had a few great weeks and the New York media compared
the start of his career to those of various Hall of Famers. Earth to
Spencer fans: baseball is a game of streaks. Hurricane Hazle, after a
six-game major league career with the Reds, hit .403 in forty-one games
for the '57 Braves. Within a year the twenty-eight-year-old was gone
from the major leagues.
46. No matter how often I remind myself that he has a family and
probably visits sick kids in hospitals, I cannot like Tino Martinez.
47. The Yankees have helped cause the exorbitant salaries in baseball.
Bernie Williams makes over million a year. What does this make Chipper
Jones or Alex Rodriguez worth? Can I buy a ticket on the installment
plan?
48. Ron Blomberg was baseball's first designated hitter. There is
something preternatural about a Yankee holding the distinction of
introducing an odious concept.
49. Jerry Coleman, whose malapropisms ("Folkers is throwing up in the
bullpen") as a Padres announcer are legendary, is a former Yankee.
50. Hillary Clinton, who knows less about baseball than she knows about
the upstate New York town of Glens Falls, claims to be a lifelong Yankee
fan.
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