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Originally Posted by kathaksung  Quote, "Yankee Fans Hate Rudy
By: Jane Hamsher
The most frequent use of mixing politics and baseball at Yankee stadium is Steinbrenner’s promotion of right wing extremist Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani gets a front row, unimpeded view of Yankee games because these seats are given to him by Steinbrenner. Then Yankee stadium officials and the networks try to plaster Rudy Giuliani’s face all over the big screen and the television. This amounts to millions of dollars of free advertising, something quite beneficial when you are running for President.
But Steinbrenner overplayed his hand. Giuliani got roundly booed at Yankee Stadium and this will play out on the campaign trail. |
Steinbrenner isnt the political kingmaker this writer seems to making him out to be. Steinbrenner just props up whoever will give him money for Yankee's Stadium or at least have the NYC foot the bill which he has been trying for years. He could care less about the rest of the country. I remember he wanted to get a no-interest loan when he wanted to expand the stadium the banks quickly said "**** NO!"