Steinbrenner is a Dick

No duh! Everyone knows George Steinbrenner is a pompous ass. But he doesn't care. He's rich, famous and the majority owner of the best baseball team of the past century. I'm sure he somehow justifies being such a jerk with some higher purpose, but the fact is he is a horrible person and has not been good for the sport of baseball. I'm sure there's no way in the world you could ever convince him of that. Steinbrenner is hubris personified.

As I write this I'm watching Game 4 of the 2007 ALDS. The Indians have already gone up 2-0 in the top of the first inning. The Yankees have to win to keep the series going. If they loose, it's the Indians and Red Sox in the American League Championship Series.

Steinbrenner has announced in the press that he is going to fire Joe Torre if the Yankees don't win the series. What a horrible, classless thing to do. It's probably a publicity stunt and Steinbrenner is just trying to generate press for the club, but if not, it is as petty and childish a thing a person can do. Someone should kick him in the nuts.

If the Yankees lose...and if Steinbrenner fires Torre, I hope the city of New York reacts with such anger and indignation as to hit this jerk where it hurts most - in the pocketbook. I hope every season-ticket-holder turns in his seats and demands a refund. I hope the crowd boycotts the start of the 2008 season. I hope the press fries him and supports Torre, who has been every bit as good for the game of baseball as Steinbrenner has been bad.

Torre is a classy, talented, honest professional who deserves better than Steinbrenner's cheap-shots and low-class style. It's probably only because of Torre's personality that he's been able to survive working for George Steinbrenner as long as he has. He would be better off somewhere else and whichever team rushes to hire him will enjoy tremendous success. But this isn't the way to do it.

No Torre, no Yankees. Please, New York, show that you've got class even if "The Boss" doesn't. Let an empty Yankee Stadium tell Steinbrenner just what you think of his pathetic style.