Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball,net.flame Subject: Re: building (not buying) a winner Message-ID: <1246@hao.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 14:51:06 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1246 Posted: Sat Nov 3 14:51:06 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Nov-84 05:16:58 EST References: <4066@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 19 Too bad I don't still have the lyrics to the song someone posted here last year called "Steinbrenner Sucks". I still say Steinbrenner (and others like him, such as Charlie Finley) have changed the nature of baseball. When I was growing up, no one ever heard of the owners. Now they get as much press as the players, in some cases. But, in the last world series that the Orioles were in, George really got his. Someone in the stands had a sign that read, "you bought third place, George!". Funniest thing I ever saw in a baseball stadium! The Yankees stink! --Greg, a frustrated Red Sox fan -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods "...but once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."