May
15
The ousted heir-apparent speaks
ByJim 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.
Has anyone in history ever F’d up as much as Swindal?
you’ve gotta think absolutely not.
Caligula?
^ History FTW.
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.
What? Because Swindal would have gotten Santana or Haren. Sure.
uh, our current owner wanted santana and didn’t get him, right?
Swindal was known to give Cashman total control. It would eb the same team.
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.
i agree
He was going to have the Yankees handed to him, tough to blow that one