Meet the Dead Boss, Same as the Old Boss

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Jerry, it's Frank Costanza... Hank Steinbrenner's here. George is dead. Call me back.
(Props to Jon S.)
Showing he would do anything to show up Major League Baseball, George Steinbrenner, the only owner in Major League Baseball history to be suspended more than once, died the day of the All-Star Game from a heart attack at the age of 80. His death prompting countless fawning eulogies, ignoring 4 decades when the only people who didn’t hate him weren’t paying attention. Taking advantage of gutless commissioners and incompetent owners to tilt the competitive balance of baseball, Steinbrenner was able to outspend every other team in baseball, because the man who traded Jay Buhner and went through managers the way Spinal Tap goes through drummers (20 changes in his first 23 years) certainly couldn’t outthink anyone. Before Major League Baseball lost its mind and teams began lavishing multi-year, multi-million contracts on middling talent, Steinbrenner owned the team through its longest period without a World Series championship. Among the highlights, he was convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon. He fired icon Yogi Berra 16 games into the 1985 season after declaring he would be the manager for the entire season, win or lose. He paid a gambler $40,000 in a fruitless effort to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield in attempt to void his contract, which ironically helped fuel the team’s resurgence in the mid-90s, as he was unable to trade away young talent for aging slow bats and sore arms, but that didn’t keep him from claiming credit. He threatened to move the team to New Jersey to force New York City to build him his new $1 billion antiseptic playpen. Born in Cleveland, the Tampa resident was nevertheless quintessentially New York: a thug and a fraud lacking grace or civility and possessing an undeserved overinflated sense of importance.