Tank Tales: George Steinbrenner

Allow Me 2 Be Frank

Frank The Tank

Sports

5 • 875 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In our latest Tank Tales, Frank takes us back to the madness of the reign of King George Steinbrenner. In a ridiculous 23 year stretch to start his ownership, George cycled through 20 managers on his way to becoming one of the craziest, and most successful owners of all time.

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0:00.0	War!
0:05.0	What is it good for?
0:10.0	Absolutely nothing. Say it again.
0:13.0	War.
0:14.0	I'm the God.
0:16.0	What is it good for absolutely nothing.
0:20.0	RBIs are the most important.
0:25.0	Slugging percentage in OPS.
0:28.0	Wins and losses at ERA.
0:31.0	But don't come around with that wind-over replacement because I say,
0:36.5	war!
0:37.5	Oom-G-G-G-G-G-G-O-What is it good for?
0:42.2	Absolutely nothing! Yeah!
0:48.6	Now George timer brought the Yankees in 1973.
0:54.2	Early, he brought him like,
0:56.2	they had, they'd been owned by CBS.
0:59.9	And the years, CBS owned them were after the dynasty.
1:04.0	CBS brought the Yankees in 1964 and they basically everyone got old at that point and they didn't win. They didn't win anything. They
1:18.0	struggled under the US DBS ownership. I mean it was when baseball was transitioning from
1:26.2	players being able to sign to do a draft. The Yankees would go around just finding all the best players and sign them.
1:38.3	I mean, and then the draft came along in 1965. The Yankees just went and basically a dormant period.
1:44.0	The Mets actually got good at the time that was 69.
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