Comments on: News of the Day – 11/22/08

By: Mattpat11

Mattpat11 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:10:58 +0000

[4] George being a meanie really doesn’t annoy me at all.

By: jkay

jkay — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:22:39 +0000

http://boogiedowner.blogspot.com/2008/11/beep-responds-to-bronx-wentzs-name.html

November 22, 2008

Bronx Borough President Addresses Baby Bronx Wentz

Upon hearing that Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz named their baby “Bronx” (Bronx Mowgli Wentz, to be exact), we asked Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Jr. what he thought. He told us: “It’s great to hear that Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson named their son after such a great place. I hope baby Bronx gets the opportunity to see what a beautiful and eclectic borough he was named after.”

By: Raf

Raf — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:09 +0000

To be fair to Jacobsen, when a lot of Yankees fans talk about Steinbrenner, they talk about how he spent $$. There’s a different air about him than say, Gene Autry or Ewing Kauffman.

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:01:33 +0000

[5] 100%. Before Torre, he was a monster. I literally danced when he was suspended and out of baseball. But that seems like a long time ago. Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on George Steinbrenner.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:11:17 +0000

What I like about the piece is that it is a reminder of who George was-a bully, a jerk. Even I’ve been soft on the Boss the past few years. But it’s important to also remember what a grade a A-hole he was.

By: Jehosephat

Jehosephat — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:33:43 +0000

It sounds like Jacobsen wants to make sure that you know that Steinbrenner really had nothing to do with the Yanks’ success. Oh yeah, and that he was an a$$hole.

I don’t have too much of a problem with the article in the face of much of the revisionist crap that gets written once people age or die (Reagan, Nixon, Ted Kennedy, etc.). But to imply that the Yankees managed to succeed despite George is specious.

By: Mattpat11

Mattpat11 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:15:24 +0000

Does Jacobson have a point?

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:51:06 +0000

Wowzers, who cares how much money George spent over how many years on payroll? It’s his money, right? If not, I wish I knew which bank he was stealing from that people would be getting that upset about it, because I’d like to take a dip as well. And if you believe your ticket alone subsidizes these payrolls, I’d like to talk with you about a bridge on the East Side that’s for sale (cheap, a real bargain in this economy!)

Rather than make classical allusions to Henry the V and the Corleone family (what, with all the mess with Swindal and Hank), I’d like to congratulate Hal and hope that he also tries to avoid such derivatives and bear in mind the good, the bad and the ugly that was his father’s stewardship; avoiding the latter two as much as possible. Good luck, Hal, write a good story for us…