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I was never much of a Yankees fan but living in Tampa I can't help but be sad over his death. He did a lot for the Tampa Bay area and will be missed.

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=5375561

I have never been a Yankee fan but I respect what he did for baseball.

I'm grateful to him, because he rebuilt the Yankees into the team that it is now.

He died here in the Tampa area in a hospital that wasn't far from the Yankees spring training complex that was renamed Steinbrenner Feild.There is also an High school which just opened this past school year named after him about a half hour away from me


He helped out alot of people

Most people see him as this tyrant but he really liked to give away his money and donated tons of it to donation here in Tampa ,New York and Clevland his hometown. He allways made sure that if an employee was fired he still paid them as a scout or something to sstill have them on the payroll

He didn't spend his money on luxories he took the money and invested it back into the team

People call him evil for buying players but he wanted to win and wanted a champion

So whoever gets mad at him look who owns your favorite team and see if they did the same thing he has doen to make there franchises sucessfull

If there ever was an iconic well known owner in baseball, it was him.

I have to say, I was always jealous of how he could seem to endlessly spend money on free agents, or make deals to the nth degree to make the Yankees, well, the Yankees.

I am sorry for this though. And I think the portrayal of Steinbrenner on SEINFELD actually softened me up to him, even if it was not an overall accurate portrayal of the master behind the Yankee scenes.

There are three people who are responsible for the disaster that baseball is today: Bud Selig, Scott Boras, and George Steinbrenner. Good riddance.

First-Aid wrote:There are three people who are responsible for the disaster that baseball is today: Bud Selig, Scott Boras, and George Steinbrenner. Good riddance.

You know how wrong that was?

Hell he has given millions in charity here in the Tampa area.He wasn't frugel if you needed help he gave you the money.

This is why I never post in your insignificant Baseball thread because of your hatered for the Yankees hell.All you want to do is bash.

I don't hate the Yankees. I dislike the way they operate. Because of them the Royals, Mariners, Brewers, Padres, Reds, Pirates, A's, Rockies, Indians, Astros, Marlins, Orioles, and Blue Jays CAN'T AFFORD TO COMPETE with them. George was the first to pioneer the "Buy all the players" concept becuase he had the money to spend. By doing that, he disheartened the fans in other smaller markets: they can't afford A-Rod's salary alone, let alone a $300 million annual payroll, and now they really have no reason to go to games; opponents fan attendance is higher than home team attendance in many cases. Hell, most of those teams I just mentioned don't aren't even WORTH that much! The Texas Rangers tried to keep up; it got them into bankruptcy court (and maybe into Mark Cuban's portfolio). There are others that are nearly there now. Contraction is a very real possibility unless something is done...and he started it.

Look, the man is gone; condolences are in order. He may have been a saint; I've heard how much he gave to charity and I give him all the props in the world for that. But I still blame him as much as I do Bud "I Need to Grow A Pair" Selig and Scott "You're Only Giving him $30 Million a Year?" Boras. George helped to turn MLB into a two tier league: the haves and the have-nots. He proved that if you throw enough money at something, you'll eventually win a championship. He also proved that MLB NEEDS a salary cap in the worst way (which won't happen with Bud Light in charge- he has no spine) because without it, the fans of the markets I mentioned above will NEVER see another World Series. EVER. And to be perfectly frank, that's just not fair to them. They say at the start of the season everyone is 0-0. I can't agree because once you figure in salaries, at least a half dozen teams are already eliminated. How would you feel if the roles were reversed and the Yankees could only afford to spend $25 million MAX on their whole team while the Red Sox owner threw around $300 million every year, buying every good player in sight? Put yourself in their shoes. George may not have been the sole propogator of the problem, but he sure threw gasoline on the fire.

Yes, he is to be respected as a humanitarian, but in the business of baseball, he was a ruthless, unfair S.O.B. If there was a salary cap in baseball, no way would the Yankees be as successful as they are. First Aid is right. Selig and Steinbrenner ruined baseball. Period. Boras is just an opportunistic parasite. But without Selig's power trip and Steinbrenner's cash he'd be nothing. So, George might have been a good human being, but he was a bastard of a businessman.