by Stop Mike Lupica on February 14 at 11:14PM
The Tampa City Council has voted to change the name of Legends Field, where the Yankees have held spring training since it opened in 1996, to "Steinbrenner Field".
Isn't that an honor typically granted to dead people? I mean must eponymous stadiums that are named after people (there aren't many left) are named after deceased owners/players/sports figures. Arthur Ashe. Paul Brown. Jackie Robinson.
Certainly there are a few eponymous stadiums named after people who were alive at the time of the stadium's naming, but I couldn't think of one. I do recall there being an "Arnold Schwartzenegger" (voted the hardest stadium to spell in the world ten years in a row) stadium somewhere in Austria or Germany.
Well, either way, congrats to Big George. He's stuck around long enough that he's gone from being despised by Yankee fans and the media in general (sort of like Peter Angelos is right now) to being held in high regard by the media, and arousing fuzzy feeling from grateful Yankee fans. He's gone from villain and deviant in the commissioner's mind to a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame and being very likely to have a plague hanging in the new Yankee Stadium's Monument Park someday. After he's dead for real, of course....
Apropos of such a monumental moment... here are some deleted scenes from Seinfeld, with George Steinbrenner:
And here, of course, is the best one of them all...
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Isn't that an honor typically granted to dead people? I mean must eponymous stadiums that are named after people (there aren't many left) are named after deceased owners/players/sports figures. Arthur Ashe. Paul Brown. Jackie Robinson.
Certainly there are a few eponymous stadiums named after people who were alive at the time of the stadium's naming, but I couldn't think of one. I do recall there being an "Arnold Schwartzenegger" (voted the hardest stadium to spell in the world ten years in a row) stadium somewhere in Austria or Germany.
Well, either way, congrats to Big George. He's stuck around long enough that he's gone from being despised by Yankee fans and the media in general (sort of like Peter Angelos is right now) to being held in high regard by the media, and arousing fuzzy feeling from grateful Yankee fans. He's gone from villain and deviant in the commissioner's mind to a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame and being very likely to have a plague hanging in the new Yankee Stadium's Monument Park someday. After he's dead for real, of course....
Apropos of such a monumental moment... here are some deleted scenes from Seinfeld, with George Steinbrenner:
And here, of course, is the best one of them all...
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