Yankees Owner "Blows Up": Steinbrenner "disappointed"

New York Post ^ | 4/18/05 | George King

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

BOSS BLOWS UP AFTER 4TH STRAIGHT LOSS

BY GEORGE KING

April 18, 2005 -- BALTIMORE - One dozen games into the season George Steinbrenner has had it with his high-priced and underachieving Yankees.

Shortly after yesterday's 8-4 loss to the Orioles in front of a sun-splashed Camden Yards crowd of 47,883 that stretched the Yankees' losing streak to four, The Boss cried uncle.

"Enough is enough," Steinbrenner said in a statement. "I am bitterly disappointed, as I am sure all Yankee fans are, by the lack of performance by our team.

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[Izzy Dunne]

I hope he blowed up real gooood...

[RichInOC]

TORRE: WHAT HAPPEN?
JETER: SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOSS.

[Betis70]

Steinbrenner--the original Bloviator.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Heard a rumor over the weekend from someone in a philosophical study group that studies occult and paranormal phenomena that a kabbalistic curse (a hex) (cast in ancient Hebrew) had been placed on the Yankees. Curiously, this was before the sweep. Strange times. After hearing that BEFORE this latest tantrum, the outburst struck me as quite odd. Uncanny.

[Enterprise]

"Steinbrenner "disappointed"

[evad]

a kabbalistic curse (a hex) (cast in ancient Hebrew) had been placed on the Yankees.

It's true..I cast one of those on Chris Dimarco years ago.

[ken5050]

Here's something to ponder....your comments are welcome..IN January,I was down in Raliegh for the wedding of an old friend's daughter...He's a life-long REd Sox fan..he moved down to NC a few years ago..and last year was wondeful for him. I'm a long-suffering Mets' fan, and ergo, a Yankee hater, so I could share his joy. We were discussing baseball late one night over more than a few beers, and he offered me this wager, which I accepted. The bet is $100 that the Yankees will NOT win a World Series while A-Rod wears pinstripes. I always like a good wager, but the problem is that he wants me to give him 15-1 odds..I think it's only worth 6-1...What say you?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Apparently, it really happened.
Some kabbalistic adept summoned the Yankeeslayer.

[evad]

Dunno...but if you wind up giving 15-1, let me know.

I might want a piece of that action.

[ken5050]

It's an interesting proposition..I suspect a fair odds is somewheres between the two numbers..

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Never paid too much to sports superstitions, the Bambino, etc. But the guy who told me about the curse seemed pretty confident the Yankees would get whipped by the Os (before the sweep). When it happened the strange tall tale in a Maryland bar about a curse on the Yankees seemed less urban legend and more mystical fact. The image that haunts me is the very confident esoteric Cheshire Cat Smile of this eccentric philosophy professor.

You just never know... [irony]

[ken5050]

Remember..the "Desiderata" was supposedly discovered in the ruins of an old Baltimore church..

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

And the Babe's homestead originally was somewhere around center field at Camden Yards? Curioser and curioser..

[big'ol_freeper]

Yes, its called the Curse of the A-Rod.

[mowowie]

This post is reminding me to go check the Yanks web site. Hopefully there loosing again....From a Sox fan :)

[mowowie]

Jeez...the Yanks just scored 13 runs in the 2nd against TB!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

13 - a Satanic Black magic number.

True to form for the "Damn Yankees."

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Sense of Humor Alert # 227.

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