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Oct. 29th, 2007 12:30 pmSo, I saw the following quote, with Yankees Senior Vice President Hank Steinbrenner talking about Alex Rodreguez opting out of his contract with the Yankees. They are NOT planning on pursuing him as a free agent.
"It's clear [Alex Rodreguez] didn't want to be a Yankee," Hank Steinbrenner told the Daily News. "He doesn't understand the privilege of being a Yankee on a team where the owners are willing to pay $200 million to put a winning product on the field.
"I don't want anybody on my team that doesn't want to be a Yankee."
Okay. That last line, I understand.
The rest of it just rubs me the wrong way. One word in particular.
This is a question for the NYY fans on my flost -- how is it possible to root for a "product"?
I guess that's also a question for any Real Madrid fans on my list, but I don't know of any time where someone in the organization was so blunt about it -- but then, I don't follow soccer, so it's very possible that they say stuff like that every week and I just don't know about it.
Is this a disconnect between how the fans and how the owners think of the team? How do you deal with a management who publicly calls the team a "product"? I'm sure that the management of most franchises has to think of the team as a "product" on some level -- if you can't break even, you can't really be a team -- but I can't think of other teams saying it like that.
"It's clear [Alex Rodreguez] didn't want to be a Yankee," Hank Steinbrenner told the Daily News. "He doesn't understand the privilege of being a Yankee on a team where the owners are willing to pay $200 million to put a winning product on the field.
"I don't want anybody on my team that doesn't want to be a Yankee."
Okay. That last line, I understand.
The rest of it just rubs me the wrong way. One word in particular.
This is a question for the NYY fans on my flost -- how is it possible to root for a "product"?
I guess that's also a question for any Real Madrid fans on my list, but I don't know of any time where someone in the organization was so blunt about it -- but then, I don't follow soccer, so it's very possible that they say stuff like that every week and I just don't know about it.
Is this a disconnect between how the fans and how the owners think of the team? How do you deal with a management who publicly calls the team a "product"? I'm sure that the management of most franchises has to think of the team as a "product" on some level -- if you can't break even, you can't really be a team -- but I can't think of other teams saying it like that.