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Yankees Owner "Blows Up": Steinbrenner "disappointed"
New York Post ^
| 4/18/05
| George King
Posted on 04/18/2005 2:04:44 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
BOSS BLOWS UP AFTER 4TH STRAIGHT LOSS
BY GEORGE KING
April 18, 2005 -- BALTIMORE - One dozen games into the season George Steinbrenner has had it with his high-priced and underachieving Yankees.
Shortly after yesterday's 8-4 loss to the Orioles in front of a sun-splashed Camden Yards crowd of 47,883 that stretched the Yankees' losing streak to four, The Boss cried uncle.
"Enough is enough," Steinbrenner said in a statement. "I am bitterly disappointed, as I am sure all Yankee fans are, by the lack of performance by our team.
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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: badkarma; baseball; controlfreaks; curseology; curses; megalomaniacs; neurosis; occultism; superstition; whosyourdaddy; yankees
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
I hope he blowed up real gooood...
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:06:40 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
TORRE: WHAT HAPPEN?
JETER: SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOSS.
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:07:34 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Karol Jozef Wojtyla, May 18, 1920-April 2, 2005, R.I.P.)
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Steinbrenner--the original Bloviator.
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:08:46 PM PDT
by
Betis70
(Guinness is good for ya)
To: redgolum; Kermit the Frog Does theWatusi; narses; murphE
Heard a rumor over the weekend from someone in a philosophical study group that studies occult and paranormal phenomena that a kabbalistic curse (a hex) (cast in ancient Hebrew) had been placed on the Yankees. Curiously, this was before the sweep. Strange times. After hearing that BEFORE this latest tantrum, the outburst struck me as quite odd. Uncanny.
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
"Steinbrenner "disappointed"
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:11:10 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Abortion and "euthanasia" - the twin destroyers of the Democrat Party.)
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
a kabbalistic curse (a hex) (cast in ancient Hebrew) had been placed on the Yankees. It's true..I cast one of those on Chris Dimarco years ago.
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:15:11 PM PDT
by
evad
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity; All
Here's something to ponder....your comments are welcome..IN January,I was down in Raliegh for the wedding of an old friend's daughter...He's a life-long REd Sox fan..he moved down to NC a few years ago..and last year was wondeful for him. I'm a long-suffering Mets' fan, and ergo, a Yankee hater, so I could share his joy. We were discussing baseball late one night over more than a few beers, and he offered me this wager, which I accepted. The bet is $100 that the Yankees will NOT win a World Series while A-Rod wears pinstripes. I always like a good wager, but the problem is that he wants me to give him 15-1 odds..I think it's only worth 6-1...What say you?
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:17:38 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
To: evad; sartorius
Apparently, it really happened.
Some kabbalistic adept summoned the Yankeeslayer.
To: ken5050
Dunno...but if you wind up giving 15-1, let me know.
I might want a piece of that action.
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:28:44 PM PDT
by
evad
To: evad
It's an interesting proposition..I suspect a fair odds is somewheres between the two numbers..
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:33:10 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
To: ken5050; All
Never paid too much to sports superstitions, the Bambino, etc. But the guy who told me about the curse seemed pretty confident the Yankees would get whipped by the Os (before the sweep). When it happened the strange tall tale in a Maryland bar about a curse on the Yankees seemed less urban legend and more mystical fact. The image that haunts me is the very confident esoteric Cheshire Cat Smile of this eccentric philosophy professor.
You just never know... [irony]
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Remember..the "Desiderata" was supposedly discovered in the ruins of an old Baltimore church..
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:41:40 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
To: ken5050
And the Babe's homestead originally was somewhere around center field at Camden Yards? Curioser and curioser..
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Yes, its called the Curse of the A-Rod.
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posted on
04/18/2005 4:45:42 PM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." Pope JPII)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
This post is reminding me to go check the Yanks web site. Hopefully there loosing again....From a Sox fan :)
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posted on
04/18/2005 5:10:26 PM PDT
by
mowowie
To: mowowie
Jeez...the Yanks just scored 13 runs in the 2nd against TB!
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posted on
04/18/2005 5:14:48 PM PDT
by
mowowie
To: mowowie
13 - a
Satanic Black magic number.
True to form for the "Damn Yankees."
To: Wild Bill 10
Sense of Humor Alert # 227.
Check the Steinbrennerosophy archives for updates.
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