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15 05 2008

The ousted heir-apparent speaks

Posted by: Ben K. in Asides, Front Office. Tagged:

Jim Baumbach tracked down one-time Yankee honcho Steve Swindal recently, and Swindal, now the head of a marine towing company in Florida, talked with the Newsday reporter. Swindal left the Yanks after a drunk driving incident and a subsequent divorce from George Steinbrenner’s daughter Jennifer. He says he still roots for the Yanks: “Honestly, I wish them the best. I’ll always be pulling for them, and I’d rather just leave it at that.” That’s a rueful quote if ever I heard one.

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Bo says:
May 15th, 2008 at 11:10 am

Has anyone in history ever F’d up as much as Swindal?

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TurnTwo says:
May 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am

you’ve gotta think absolutely not.

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pounder says:
May 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am

I wonder if things would have been different if he was in control today.Maybe Santana,maybe Haren?We may rue the day that he was fired.

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Relaunch says:
May 15th, 2008 at 11:26 am

What? Because Swindal would have gotten Santana or Haren. Sure.

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Adam says:
May 15th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

uh, our current owner wanted santana and didn’t get him, right?

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Bo says:
May 15th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Swindal was known to give Cashman total control. It would eb the same team.

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ceciguante says:
May 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am

i don’t think the quote came off as rueful. as much as you can read into printed quotes, i think he sounds pretty accepting of the situation. swindal’s probably worth a nice chunk of change, i doubt he has it so bad.

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A.D. says:
May 15th, 2008 at 11:49 am

He was going to have the Yankees handed to him, tough to blow that one

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