26 Titles, Even more Entitlement
Ben Godar
The great thing about hating the Yankees is that your beliefs are validated on such a regular basis. So if any of you were wavering in your disdain for the Evil Empire, I give you this weekend’s comments by Mr. George Steinbrenner.
It seems the umpiring crew for Sunday’s Yanks/Blue Jays game featured one official who wasn’t a full-time major leaguer, called up on short notice. He tossed both managers and, according to several reports, generally called a bad game. Steinbrenner blasted the kid, but then pointed his finger at Major League Baseball and wondered how they could send a rookie ump to "such a crucial series."
For anyone who doesn’t speak the sleazy language of entitlement, "crucial series" translates to "Yankees games are more important than all others."
"Crucial series" is a bit of a stretch for any match-up in the month of April. It’s an outright joke when the two teams in question aren’t even first in their division.
But whatever the record of the teams involved, anyone who believes in integrity and fair play in The Game would know that all games are of equal importance. But this cuts right to the core of what has been the mantra of Yankee fans and much of the national media for years – Yankee games are in a league separate and above all others.
The Kansas City Royals already start their season with only a fraction of the Yank's resources, but now Mr. Steinbrenner wants them to be saddled with inferior umpires as well. After all, the Royals aren’t involved in many "crucial series."
Friends, we aren’t far from a day when the major league season is little more than the Yankees barnstorming through our modest villages, beating up on whatever local talent they haven’t bought off us already.
Making Steinbrenner’s little tantrum all the more disgusting was the fact that he was signing autographs at the time. Are these serfs so desperate for a feudal lord that they idolize the guy with the money? And what does one ask George Steinbrenner to autograph? Your wallet? A copy of The Prince?
I hope the Yankees play their next "crucial series" with the Devil Rays to determine last place in the division. But I know there’s not enough justice in the world for that.
The great thing about hating the Yankees is that your beliefs are validated on such a regular basis. So if any of you were wavering in your disdain for the Evil Empire, I give you this weekend’s comments by Mr. George Steinbrenner.
It seems the umpiring crew for Sunday’s Yanks/Blue Jays game featured one official who wasn’t a full-time major leaguer, called up on short notice. He tossed both managers and, according to several reports, generally called a bad game. Steinbrenner blasted the kid, but then pointed his finger at Major League Baseball and wondered how they could send a rookie ump to "such a crucial series."
For anyone who doesn’t speak the sleazy language of entitlement, "crucial series" translates to "Yankees games are more important than all others."
"Crucial series" is a bit of a stretch for any match-up in the month of April. It’s an outright joke when the two teams in question aren’t even first in their division.
But whatever the record of the teams involved, anyone who believes in integrity and fair play in The Game would know that all games are of equal importance. But this cuts right to the core of what has been the mantra of Yankee fans and much of the national media for years – Yankee games are in a league separate and above all others.
The Kansas City Royals already start their season with only a fraction of the Yank's resources, but now Mr. Steinbrenner wants them to be saddled with inferior umpires as well. After all, the Royals aren’t involved in many "crucial series."
Friends, we aren’t far from a day when the major league season is little more than the Yankees barnstorming through our modest villages, beating up on whatever local talent they haven’t bought off us already.
Making Steinbrenner’s little tantrum all the more disgusting was the fact that he was signing autographs at the time. Are these serfs so desperate for a feudal lord that they idolize the guy with the money? And what does one ask George Steinbrenner to autograph? Your wallet? A copy of The Prince?
I hope the Yankees play their next "crucial series" with the Devil Rays to determine last place in the division. But I know there’s not enough justice in the world for that.
posted by Ben Godar at 9:00 AM
2 Comments:
Nail on the head, Mr. Godar. Next to Fat George, Machiavelli is a real peach.
Basically because Machiavelli is dead and Goerge is still alive.
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