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OneLegUpAlex Recounts How Special George Steinbrenner Was While Running The Yanks! · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: When you put the pin stripes on, you're not just
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  Speaker 1: putting a baseball uniform on. You're wearing tradition and you're
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  Speaker 1: wearing pride, and you're gonna wear it the right way.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, oh boy, I am so glad on the One
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  Speaker 2: Leg Up Network that sixty minutes preserved that because we
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  Speaker 2: just honored the boss, mister George Steinberner on his fifteenth
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  Speaker 2: anniversary of his passing, I mean fifteen years ago on
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  Speaker 2: July thirteenth.
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  Speaker 3: I remember it vividly.
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  Speaker 2: We were just processing the loss of Bob Shepherd, and
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  Speaker 2: come to think of it, I thought, it's interesting that
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  Speaker 2: Bob Shepherd passed two days before George Steinberner, almost as
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  Speaker 2: if mister Shepherd, the legendary PA announcer, was meant to
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  Speaker 2: announce the arrival of mister Seberner to Heaven.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I can only introduce it that way.
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  Speaker 2: Because two days later, on July thirteenth, it came down
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  Speaker 2: that mister Seyberner, at the age of eighty, had passed away.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a really rough day. I was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to go on Queen's College Radio before the All Star
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  Speaker 2: Game WQMC Radio, and the tenor of that show featured
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  Speaker 2: News Day journalist Jim Bomback, who right after Reyne Grone
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  Speaker 2: called me earlier in the day to get my story
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  Speaker 2: and to publish my story on my connection with George Seiberner.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I seeing Ray and Jim Bomback was so
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  Speaker 2: important today at the statue of mister Seiberner at Yankee
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  Speaker 2: Stadium in a series that featured my dad's favorite team.
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  Speaker 3: The Cubs. So the Cubs and Yankees meeting on the fifteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Anniversary did not feel like an accident because my dad, Ray, Jim,
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  Speaker 2: and I we all revewed George Steinbrener. My dad's grading
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  Speaker 2: system of how a day went was basically, how much
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  Speaker 2: were you like George Steinbrener today or you know, do
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  Speaker 2: the whole job completely like mister Steinburner would.
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  Speaker 3: That's the wording he would tell me time after time.
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  Speaker 2: And really, when he says, George Seiberner, when you wear
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  Speaker 2: the pin dripes, you wear it with pride. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that was a life commentary. It wasn't just about
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  Speaker 2: playing baseball. It was about being a Yankee in life,
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  Speaker 2: doing your job to the fullest, doing your job to
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  Speaker 2: the excellence.
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  Speaker 3: In all cannadas.
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  Speaker 2: I had posted an earlier podcast, but I wanted it
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  Speaker 2: to sound crisper. It would be only right to do
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  Speaker 2: it right for George Steinbrener in honoring George Seinberner, and
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  Speaker 2: so I wanted to pick a quieter environment out where
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't hear me on the train.
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  Speaker 3: And you heard that version.
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  Speaker 2: My apologies and my apologies mister Seiberg, because that was
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  Speaker 2: not the best I could have made it. The best
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  Speaker 2: to make it is in a perfect kind of studio
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  Speaker 2: setting where it's quiet, no external noise to truly talk
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  Speaker 2: about the legendary George Seiberner and the George Steinberner I
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  Speaker 2: knew see on the headlines which he'd probably seen fifteen
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  Speaker 2: years ago from Jim bomb Back, and then twenty plus
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  Speaker 2: years ago when they said the child tried to cheer
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  Speaker 2: a boss, or that picture down sixth aven or at
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  Speaker 2: the Stuben Day parade with mister Steinbergner Rudy Giuliani. Beyond
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  Speaker 2: those moments in the local papers was a man who
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  Speaker 2: asked me something that I think changed my life.
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  Speaker 3: See, when we.
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  Speaker 2: Were first welcome up to the suite, I was very jumpy.
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  Speaker 2: I was about eight years old and I was about
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  Speaker 2: ten years old and twelve years old, and I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to spend my time between the sweet seats, the seats
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  Speaker 2: of the suite, and then the office of George Stemer
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  Speaker 2: the round table that also is a revered round table
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  Speaker 2: in mister Steinberner's office, which by the way, made its
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  Speaker 2: way across the street in two thousand and nine. But
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  Speaker 2: mister Steinberner, I knew, asked me where do you want
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  Speaker 2: to sit out there in the or in here?
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  Speaker 3: You can't be in two places?
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure enough, I picked right next to mister Steinberner
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  Speaker 2: at that round table because it just what baseball fan,
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  Speaker 2: what kid, what finn and the Yankees wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 2: sit next to the owner of the Yankees when given
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity and the privilege.
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  Speaker 3: And I soaked up so.
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  Speaker 2: Many meetings that were Brian Cashman and Randy Levine and
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  Speaker 2: lawn Trust and saw how baseball was more than just
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  Speaker 2: a game. It was a well oiled machine of a business.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw how efficient mister Symonder was getting things
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  Speaker 2: done meeting after meeting after meeting. It's why I had
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  Speaker 2: to redo this show, because I didn't want it to
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  Speaker 2: sound like crap when honoring mister Seybriner who made sure
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  Speaker 2: there was no crap at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day. And you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I saw him also react to every play like a.
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  Speaker 3: Regular fan would. I mean, this is the owner of
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees. He's cursed the TV. How many of you
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  Speaker 3: at there when the Yangs make a mistake? Curse on
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  Speaker 3: the TV.
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  Speaker 2: He also wasn't his elation when they would win game
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  Speaker 2: after game after game. I mean he was the ultra
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  Speaker 2: fan and not just the owner of the Yankees. He
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  Speaker 2: was what the Yankees empire Darth Envy, Jacob b speaks,
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  Speaker 2: Ali cabro uh chass. He's what they embody when they
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  Speaker 2: provide that space for the fans, that passion for the
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  Speaker 2: fans to be you know, broadcasted through the Yankees Empire
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  Speaker 2: on X. Mister Steinberger is what the Bronx Zoo embodies
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  Speaker 2: and Jake Goosac embodies when he goes out and talks
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  Speaker 2: to the fans and here's their perspective during the good
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  Speaker 2: times during the rough times. Mister mister Steinberger is what
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  Speaker 2: and who Pinstripes Uncensored podcasts Uh Anthony King of Pinstripes
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  Speaker 2: and Chris Kliff embody, that passion, that real talk about
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees. The difference is when the Yankee fans shout
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  Speaker 2: the disapproval.
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  Speaker 3: They just shout it.
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  Speaker 2: Not only didn't Ye George Seberd are going the papers
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  Speaker 2: about it, but he also could make moves to do
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  Speaker 2: something about it. And we're sort of seeing that again.
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  Speaker 2: The cutting of DJ LeMay is exactly what he would do.
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  Speaker 2: Moving a player from one position to the other like
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  Speaker 2: they did with Jazzism is exactly something that mister Steinburnder
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  Speaker 2: wasn't done to keep this going, to keep this team
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  Speaker 2: having one leg up in the at least once again.
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  Speaker 2: And then the kindness that mister Steibrinder embodied is the
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  Speaker 2: kindness that Ray and they'd grown embodies. That Frank Luna
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  Speaker 2: that just in time baseball and is saminhu nithan embody
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  Speaker 2: that opening of doors that mister Steimerner is exactly what
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  Speaker 2: those people I just mentioned are doing twenty five years later.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm so grateful for that. I am so grateful
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 2: And then the anecdotes that I wanted to share when
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  Speaker 2: remembering mister Salmoner are the things you wouldn't see in
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  Speaker 2: the papers. So there was that story of whether I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to sit outside or in the suite or in
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  Speaker 2: the office.
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  Speaker 3: Of course I chose missus Steibert's office.
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  Speaker 2: And I learned a lot over that decade watching him work,
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  Speaker 2: watching him not only run a baseball team, but be
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  Speaker 2: a businessman.
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  Speaker 3: Not only be a businessman, but then pay so much
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  Speaker 3: so attention to his team.
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  Speaker 2: He then would make moves during the tradeline, he did orchestra,
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  Speaker 2: all of that.
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  Speaker 3: He just had every facet going.
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  Speaker 2: But the moment I knew he was so in touch
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  Speaker 2: with the everyday person, with the Yankee fan, Yankee kids.
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  Speaker 2: Not only was when he took rain Neygron off the
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  Speaker 2: streets and put him in a Yankee uniform as a
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  Speaker 2: ball boy, but when he.
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  Speaker 3: Asked me.
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  Speaker 2: Multiple times, how'd your schoolwork going? My dad and mister
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  Speaker 2: Steiburner were sort of built from the same cloth in
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  Speaker 2: that way is focus on your studies, focus on school,
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  Speaker 2: focus on that first. So when the owner of the
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  Speaker 2: Yankees asked me when I was in seventh grade, how's
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  Speaker 2: your homework?
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  Speaker 3: How's your school?
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  Speaker 2: I thought to myself, here's a man that is running
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  Speaker 2: the most successful baseball franchise, that's running a twenty six
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  Speaker 2: time World Series champion, and he's concerned about how this
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  Speaker 2: kid from New York City who went to a school
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  Speaker 2: online called the Viscardi Center is doing in his studies.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Steinberner got it over and over again. He understood it,
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  Speaker 2: He understood to give back. He also understood and was
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  Speaker 2: in touch with the average everyday parent, everyday a person.
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  Speaker 3: And so those two anecdotes, the choosing between the sweet
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  Speaker 3: seats and the round.
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  Speaker 2: Table of George Simmerer's office, and then the idea that
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  Speaker 2: he would be so concerned with how I'm doing with
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  Speaker 2: my schoolwork. It impacted me and it impacts me to
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  Speaker 2: this day. And what I realized as well is, in
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  Speaker 2: addition to working hard at my craft in radio, when
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  Speaker 2: I get to meet newer Yankees or Yankee legends, the
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  Speaker 2: common thread when meeting all these guys, whether it was
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  Speaker 2: just meeting Ben Rice the other day thanks to Frankliner Junior,
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  Speaker 2: or running into the John Flaherty's and the Jim Leritzes
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  Speaker 2: and the Bernie Williams, is the Mariano's Latinos Latino Martinez
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  Speaker 2: of the world. The common thread between those legends and
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  Speaker 2: today's Yankees is George Steinbrenner and we can never forget that,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't care if we're gonna be thirty years
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  Speaker 2: up since his passing or I guess twenty years since
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  Speaker 2: his passing in a few years. The fact remains the
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  Speaker 2: common thread to this day will always be George Steinberner
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  Speaker 2: and what he created. He makes kids want to be
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  Speaker 2: a Yankee today. He makes kids like Ben Rice and
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  Speaker 2: guys like j Cescara work hard to get to the show,
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  Speaker 2: to wear that Yankee uniform.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that has to be recognized.
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  Speaker 2: That while Hall is running the team, what George Simon
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  Speaker 2: and are belt is what the kids want to be
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  Speaker 2: part of today, that winning culture, those pinstripe traditions, and
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  Speaker 2: to the outlets that continue to amplify the good and
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  Speaker 2: cover this team, To the fans out there that are
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  Speaker 2: so passionate they express it every day, like Caleb and
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  Speaker 2: Klein and Johanna and Rock and Robin. Those folks.
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  Speaker 3: They're the engine.
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  Speaker 2: They're the people that keep this fan base enthusia And
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  Speaker 2: how can I forget Madison. All of these folks are
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  Speaker 2: continuing the passion that George Steiberner poured into this team
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  Speaker 2: day in and day out, poured into the running of
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  Speaker 2: the team day in and day out, and there is
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  Speaker 2: only one expectation every year, and that is the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: And that is a gold standard.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the standard set by George Steinberner, as
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  Speaker 2: documented on sixty Minutes with the clip we started with.
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  Speaker 1: When you put the pin stripes on, you're not just
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  Speaker 1: putting a baseball uniform on. You're wearing tradition and you're
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  Speaker 1: wearing pride, and you're gonna wear it the right way.
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  Speaker 4: The two other people I really want to thank here
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  Speaker 4: for continuing to keep those doors open, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: are Rob Gomez and Haley oh Man.
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  Speaker 3: They are always welcoming as the Steinberner family, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: so thankful for that and for them.
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  Speaker 2: And if I may talk a little baseball before we
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  Speaker 2: wrap up this memory of a moral episode of mister
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  Speaker 2: Simon Er, if I may talk a little baseball. Did
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  Speaker 2: you notice when Josan Domingez was leading off the last
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  Speaker 2: during that wind streak and that sweep of the barriers
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  Speaker 2: they were winning when Josan was batging lead off. Even
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  Speaker 2: the eleven nothing run was a route of the Cubs
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  Speaker 2: on Friday night was keyed up, I believe because John
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  Speaker 2: wasn't leadoff.
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  Speaker 3: He was batting two for three that night.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they go back to Goldsmith at the top two
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  Speaker 2: times and they don't win. And it's not a bashing
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  Speaker 2: of Goldschmith. I just think that Jossan is the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Consistency at the top is also something George Simon or preached.
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  Speaker 2: There's a reason why Derek Jeter was that leadoff hitter
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  Speaker 2: all through that run, and I think George Seimer had
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  Speaker 2: a head in that. But there's gotta be that push
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  Speaker 2: to make it a consistent leadoff hitter. And I still
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  Speaker 2: think Jason is the guy. I really hoped that the
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  Speaker 2: Yanks would win two out of three this weekend to
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  Speaker 2: end the All Star to head to the All Star Break.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: My Dad's Cubs are on fire. What else can I say?
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  Speaker 2: And I do feel like it even doubt a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Seeing the Yanks winning Wrigley in twenty eleven and then
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  Speaker 2: today seeing the Cubs winn a Yankee Stadium, it seems like.
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  Speaker 3: An evening out now. But there was one favorite of mine.
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  Speaker 2: That was in the papers with mister Steinberner when they said,
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  Speaker 2: as the Post wrote, Steinberner rubbed the top of Garrett's
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  Speaker 2: baseball cap. And this is about when I was eight
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  Speaker 2: or ten years old, eight or nine years old, maybe
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  Speaker 2: a little older. And I told them we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get him tomorrow after they lost the game to the Orioles,
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  Speaker 2: and they quoted in the paper the direct interaction.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get them tomorrow, buddy, Mister Steibrender said to me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I want to make this guarantee here on one
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  Speaker 2: leg up with Alex Garrett. I believe just two games
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  Speaker 2: out of the al least heading into the break, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get him.
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  Speaker 3: After that break.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get him after this All Star break, mister Seibrender,
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  Speaker 2: I believe it. I see a lot of potential now
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  Speaker 2: after these this homestand I know the last two games
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  Speaker 2: were tough, but that comeback on Thursday night could be
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  Speaker 2: a great foreshadow for things to come. And who thought
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  Speaker 2: the Athletics would beat the Blue Jays two out of three,
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  Speaker 2: But it happened.
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  Speaker 3: And the weekend and the week that was where the
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  Speaker 3: Blue Jays were nting three.
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  Speaker 2: Games up, by the way, well now they are only
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  Speaker 2: two games up. It's not insurmountable. You just got a
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  Speaker 2: bat just on leadoff, and God love the belly bombs.
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  Speaker 2: Going into the week, you know, going to the All
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  Speaker 2: Star break got up. Jazz's swing is not affected. But
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  Speaker 2: but roster management wise, I think you just gotta have
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  Speaker 2: just leadoff and I think the mix that worked during
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  Speaker 2: that wind streak, don't change it, don't change it up.
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  Speaker 2: I think mister Seiberner had preached consistency over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that's where I'm channeling tonight and when I
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  Speaker 2: said it last Sunday too. But to the three men,
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  Speaker 2: to the two guys that are conservators legacy through their
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  Speaker 2: writing and did fifteen years ago with Ray and Jim bombback.
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  Speaker 3: It was great to reconnect with you.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, especially after you wrote that beautiful piece on my
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  Speaker 2: real friendship and connection. My dad and I had to
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  Speaker 2: mister Steinberner. There's so many alongside here. Mister Steinberner met
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  Speaker 2: Ray considering mister Simoner's legacy, but it starts with Ray Jim,
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  Speaker 2: who really were so involved in the way we remember
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  Speaker 2: mister Simon fifteen years ago, and they certainly have one
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  Speaker 2: leg up in preserving mister Steimoner's legacy. And the people
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  Speaker 2: following suit, may I say include this podcast, are working
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  Speaker 2: hard every day to keep that legacy alive, to keep
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  Speaker 2: that winning drive alive.
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  Speaker 3: And as I say, if the fans.
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  Speaker 2: Her were giving, you know, if the Yanks heard the
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  Speaker 2: fans as pleasure, while that same pleasure was said by
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  Speaker 2: mister Staimerner, if the fans are electric, oh, mister Steimerner
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  Speaker 2: felt that same electrics.
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  Speaker 3: He was the ultra fan and he was the ultra.
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  Speaker 2: Boss that brought a seven World Series here to New
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  Speaker 2: York City and change the lives of so many people
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  Speaker 2: along the way. And we can continue having one leg
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  Speaker 2: up for him and one leg up in cheering for
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees, to make sure they know we want them
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  Speaker 2: to have one leg up in this division, in this league,
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  Speaker 2: and in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Once again.
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  Speaker 2: We are still on the quest for twenty eight, and
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  Speaker 2: it's a quest they've been on since mister Steimner left
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  Speaker 2: us on July thirteenth, twenty ten. It's about time we've
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  Speaker 2: fulfilled that quest for twenty eight. Do it for mister Steimner,
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  Speaker 2: do it for the Yankee fan base, and do it
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  Speaker 2: in the name of having pride being a Yankee