Anyway ... why my first comment was deleted I have no idea - defeats the purpose of posting the article. I used **** to modify the salty language, and it was done in an obviously joking way for FUN (Mod? Are you listening?)
Sheesh. Anyway the point I was making is that instead of turning the other cheek, Jr returned the Yankee rudeness with an angry attitude, which was understandable, but shortsighted - because if he HAD signed with NY in the 1990s he would have had 4-5 rings. Instead he never even played in one World Series.
I have a friend who once took his 12 year old son to a Yankees game after the son had been requesting same for a long time. As they were leaving, the son remarked “Hey Dad, those people are all assholes!”
He immediately changed to the Mets - all your championships didn’t count with him or with lots of people.
Steinbrenner is the one who started the death of baseball by refusing to abide by an accepted, but unwritten, salary structure.