Archive for the ‘Hankism’s’ Category

Everyone’s second favorite Steinbrenner is now officially The Boss in NY. Every once in a while Hank actually has an understatement.

“I realize it’s a great responsibility. My dad is, needless to say, a tough act to follow.”

This one slipped by me a few weeks back, but I found it today. Gotta love Hank, he said that injuries are to blame for the horrible year with the Yankees and that they’ll be back next year.

We’re going to win it next year,” he said. “If we need to add a top veteran pitcher, we’ll do that. We’ll do whatever we need to do. Next year, we’ll be extremely dangerous.

It wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without something Steinbrenner related. As you know, today is George’s birthday and I hope Papa Stein is coherent and happy despite his team’s 9-0 shellacking at the hands of the Sox last night.

Well, thanks to Hank, we’ve got another Hank-ism to throw into the mix on this holiday. From yesterday’s Post.

“Maybe a little less outside distractions, and a little more concentrating, and they’ll start hitting better. I thought they would go on a consistent tear, and it hasn’t happened yet.”

Hank Steinbrenner is more and more like the old man every day. When I heard that he went off about the National League’s rules I first wondered when the last time it was that we had an edition of Hankisms. Wouldn’t you know it, very close to one month exactly. So Jr. is pretty ticked off about the NL rules, and we’ll let him explain like only he can.

“My only message is simple. The National League needs to join the 21st century. They need to grow up and join the 21st century.”

“I’ve got my pitchers running the bases, and one of them gets hurt. He’s going to be out. I don’t like that, and it’s about time they address it. That was a rule from the 1800s.”

I told you that Hank Steinbrenner is like that old Sports Illustrated commercial, the gift that keeps on giving. I actually didn’t think he’d flying off the handle again until at least June. What’s he going to do when they’re 15 games back? The following quotes all came out yesterday.

“These players are being paid a lot of money and they had better decide for themselves to earn that money.”

“This is going to get turned around … If it’s not turned around this year, then it will be turned around next year, by force if we have to.”

“I’m not saying they are not giving the effort, but they need to be playing harder.”

“We’ve got to forget about all the injuries and start playing our butts off.”

“[The Yankees] need to start treating it like when they were younger players and going after that big contract, like they’re in [Triple-A] and trying to make the majors. That’s the kind of attitude and fire the players have to have.”