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Steinbrenner rips Yankees

daddyphatsacs

Let the cards fall...
Money doesn't buy chemistry. I would hate to play for this guy.

BALTIMORE (AP) -- George Steinbrenner simply couldn't take it anymore. It didn't matter that there are still 150 games left to play, or that the hated Boston Red Sox were well within striking distance in the AL East.

The sight of seeing his New York Yankees in last place was just too much to bear, and the outspoken owner wasn't going to wait another day before voicing his displeasure over the fashion in which his team performed over the first two weeks of the season.

Minutes after watching the Yankees lose their fourth straight game, an 8-4 bashing by the Baltimore Orioles, Steinbrenner lashed out at his manager and a 25-man roster that is costing "The Boss" a whopping $200 million in salary.

"Enough is enough. I am bitterly disappointed, as I'm sure all Yankee fans are, by the lack of performance by our team," Steinbrenner said in a statement. "It is unbelievable to me that the highest-paid team in baseball would start the season in such a deep funk.

"They are not playing like true Yankees. They have the talent to win and they are not winning. I expect Joe Torre, his complete coaching staff and the team to turn this around."

When he paid millions of dollars for free agent pitchers Randy Johnson, Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright, Steinbrenner expected New York to make a run at the defending world champion Red Sox. He did not anticipate seeing the Yankees start 4-8, including 1-5 against Baltimore, a team the Yankees have dominated for years.

Torre didn't expect that, either, and did not take Steinbrenner's comments lightly.

"He's right. What are you going to say? I'm not going to dispute that," the manager said. "If I try to defend what we've been doing, you'd have to check my sanity. This stuff out here is not pretty. We have to make it better. No question."

Miguel Tejada hit a grand slam and Melvin Mora had a solo shot for the Orioles, who took a 6-0 lead in the second inning against Kevin Brown and coasted to their sixth win in seven games. The victory moved Baltimore into first place in the AL East, but manager Lee Mazzilli knows the Yankees are still the team to beat.

"I've seen that team too many times," said Mazzilli, a former first-base coach with New York. "You beat them, and you're glad they'll leave now because you know what they can do. I don't know, maybe we caught them at the right moment."

Ruben Sierra and Alex Rodriguez homered for the Yankees, whose four-game skid matches their longest of 2004. New York, which went 14-5 against Baltimore a year ago, has been outscored by the Orioles 47-26 this season.


Miguel Tejada, who went 3-for-4 with a grand slam, has knocked in a run in nine consecutive games.
AP
The Yankees concluded a 1-5 road trip that included two losses in three games against Boston. That was bad enough, but Steinbrenner could no longer contain his anger after watching New York get swept by a team mired in a run of seven straight losing seasons.

"What did you expect him to say, we're playing great? Keep up the good work?" Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said. "We haven't been playing well. It's easy to see. We just have to turn it around. That's basically it."

Said Torre: "We just need to get a little spark back. We're flat right now, we're on our heels and we're not playing well."

The Orioles, on the other hand, are performing far better than expected.

Tejada went 3-for-4 with two doubles, raising his batting average to .375 and his AL-leading RBI total to 18. He went 6-for-12 with eight RBIs in the series.

Baltimore's in first place and the Yankees are in last, but Tejada knows that New York has yet to play to its potential.

"I think they have better pitching than us. They have Randy Johnson, they have Pavano, they have Brown," he said. "The only thing that happened is we have a good time right now."

And these are bad times for Yankees, at least at the moment.

"I'm sure we'll struggle again before the season is over, but when you do it at the beginning of the year it's magnified both personally and collectively," Jeter said. "We just have to turn it around."
 
sears3820 said:
Pretty genius of George to come out and say this with the Devil RAAAys coming into town.

He'll take all the credit when they sweep the series against the worst team in baseball.
I was wondering who they had coming up on the schedule. I'd like to see him make a statement like that before they have to play someone good the next day.
 
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say what you will about GS but...

the guy puts his money where his mouth is.. when you kiss butts and pay $200M... it should earn you the right to kick the same butts as well...

and the Buckeyes appreciate the funds George !!!
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
no...my graphic clearly shows who the worst team in baseball is :lol:

Great logic. :roll1:

Will the Raiders be the worst team in football after they get their asses kicked by the Pats on opening day?

:slappy:

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