O/T - Steinbrenner Monument

[M's_Fan]

The monument is 7 feet wide by 5 feet tall, not including the base, and weighs a whopping 760 pounds! Its totally embarassing!

Look I'm not a George-hater, he was a colorful guy who certainly made baseball interesting during his era. There is no doubt he had deep pockets and wanted to win. But honestly, if Steinbrenner would have had his way, he would have traded away Jeter and many Yankee greats that came through the Yankee farm system. George wanted to win all right, and he had all the the patience of a two-year old. In fact its scary to think how many championships the Yankees could have won if he would have let his baseball people make the player decisions... He was a great businessman in terms of marketing the Yankees and setting up their cable network, but he didn't know anything about evaluating baseball talent. And how could he? He had ZERO baseball experience before he bought the Yankees, his only sports experience was being an assistant football coach at Northwestern and Purdue. The bottom line is George always wanted to trade away top talent if they had as much as a 5 at-bat slump, and he continuously signed over the hill has-beens for overpriced sums.

Anyways this monument is an embarrassing spectacle. How can you give a guy who wrote checks a monument bigger than the Babes?

He was the owner of the richest team in a sport with no salary cap for 27 years, and he delivered 5 championships (even counting 2009 even though he wasn't even involved really in running the team). This is respectable at best, but certainly not worthy of a memorial bigger than all the other Yankees combined.