Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!sb1!ll1!otuxa!we13!ihnp4!ihuxm!cwa From: cwa@ihuxm.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: From Brett to Mantle Message-ID: <398@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 17:16:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxm.398 Posted: Tue Aug 2 17:16:57 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Aug-83 01:44:51 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 15 >Lots of you netnews yokels out there defend Brett by saying Brett was >right, and anyway, Steinbrenner is an asshole. Actually: Brett was wrong - the bat was illegal. Brett has an obnoxious personality - he's proved it again. The umps were wrong - the penalty was too severe. MacPhail was wrong - Brett got off with no penalty. But, Steinbrenner is still an asshole. What the original Yankees did for baseball, Steinbrenner is undoing! If a netnews yokel is someone who hates the modern Yankees, proud to be a yokel! Carl Amport