Rich Eisen Channels George Steinbrenner for Some HEATED Advice for Yankees Owner Hal Steinbrenner 

George did care about the fans. Didn’t always do it right but he had the passion.

To be fair, the Yankees dynasty was built by gene Michael at the time that George was forced into a hiatus..

Amen Rich thank you so much. My sentiments exactly. Miss George. How Hal could not keep his dad's legacy and the New York Yankees the evil empire.

One thing has stayed the same, Brian Cashman.

Michael Kay adding the “for some reason” in his question just shows how much of a Yankee boy/Corporate clown he is. I also love that Hal thinks the pinnacle of Yankees baseball is how they were playing in May 2023.

Rich is unfortunately leaving out crucial context. That "attitude" from George Steinbrenner didn't cause the Yankees to start winning. They continued to be a garbage team until Steinbrenner was banned from participating in the day-to-day management of the Yankees in 1990 because of his conduct toward Dave Winfield. It was only after he was banned and out of the way that Yankees GM Gene Michael gained the freedom to start building a winning team. By the time George was reinstated in 1993, the Yankees had begun posting winning records again.

Yes, certainly there is an injury problem. But this team's problems are deeper than that. They have a bad baseball problem. They don't play the game right. Aside from an occasional stolen base by IKF, it's nothing but wait for a home run. That will always be bad baseball, and especially in the post-season.

It's a shame Hal will never hear this...

I heard the whole interview it’s clear Hal is satisfied with the results he doesn’t care you can clearly hear it in his voice no passion for winning, nothing like his dad! Fans need to stop supporting them until he is forced to make changes or sell the team!

I like the way Hal talked. He isn’t irrational as to making decisions. He doesn’t allow emotions to control his mind... that’s a good thing.

About not winning a championship in a certain decade, the Yanks did not win one in the 80s either. Nor did they win one until 1923. So, there have been four decades when they did not win the World Series.

Couldn't agree more Rich.

I'm so glad I've been proven right that this Yankee team was never gonna win a World Series with Judge and Stanton.

Well said

General George expected his Yankees to go 162-0, sweep through the playoffs and win the World Series in a 4 game sweep…then comeback the next season, and do it again…that’s the kind of commitment and attitude I want from my owner…out of touch or not, it’s about winning, and the Yankees are way, way over due.

Not a Yankee hater, not a Yankee lover. But baseball is better when NYY is in the mix.

Yanks problems begin with their overrated GM. He gets a new deal because we are contenders every year. Contenders for the playoffs maybe. But with a 260 million plus payroll you should win. He signs and trades for injured players. Tampa GM gets 100 million yet they whup our butts regularly. They keep their young players stuck in the minors. Why is Florial stuck in the minors. Giradi got canned because he couldn’t get us a Championship but Cashmans still here. 13 yrs later.

Hal better call up Patrick bet David for some advice

I love Rich. Great for an LA guy

Billy Martin: Hire! Fire! Hire! Fire! Fire him from another team!!! 😂

He described the typical Yankee offense perfectly: Succeed in hitting a bunch of homeruns - win some games. But in between, absolutely *feeble* offensive displays that often result in just 3 or 4 hits the whole night. I've been a Yankee fan my whole life; but now it's gotten to the point that I'm genuinely not enjoying watching or listening to them anymore. Their style of hitting - taking big homerun swings *all the time* - is boring to infuriating to me.

George Steinbrenner and the "new" DH rule was the reason I became a Yankee fan. Born in Brooklyn, I was literally in the middle of National League hell. Between the Mets fans and living less than a mile from the site of the old Ebbets Field, you did not wear pinstripes in my neighborhood. I didn't care. George brought the fire and the passion and the desire to win which, as a nine-year-old, was exciting to me. 50 years later, the Yankees are still my heart, but since George's passing, I can't watch baseball any more. When he surrendered control to his sons, everything changed. George was a fan. Hal is a CEO. That's the big reason for the drought.

George was a Purdue Boilermaker, can Rich accept that ?

The non stop excuses for this team...just shameful😔

Hal DOESNT care about WINNING its ALL about making money. That’s why this roster is populated with a struggling rookie and a washed up third baseman. Thirteen YEARS of loosing doesn’t bother him that’s why Cash is his GM

“ THIS TEAM NEEDS AN ENEMA”

Revisionist history. In between The Bronx Zoo era and the Torre era, there was a full decade of futility where this team missed the playoffs each year, where the fans, players, press and employees couldn't stand George, where George was banned from baseball. No, you don't want to go back to that.

Like it or not these are words of Wisdom.

Remember when Yankees were up 3 games to 0 going into the 9th. Do I have to go any further.

Vince Lombardi was correct. Winning is the only thing. Mr. Lombardi hated losing. No one ever said we're number two.

Rich expressing how Yankee fans are feeling. Maybe if he called Hal and played that tape of his Father he would not be so confused why fans are upset. Cashman would not have been allowed to keep making the bad decisions he has made if George were still around.

As a Yankee fan I am so fed up with Hal. I don’t see the Yankees being what they were unless he’s gone/wakes up from how mid he runs this team. The organization needs a shake up.

Facts!!

AMEN

Rich is 100% right.

Eisen for Yankees GM!!!

Hal, cmon man. Do you even watch the games? Please just keep your thoughts to yourself in the future. Man, you are lost.

What's a championship? Is it a pennant, because they didn't win a World Series in the 80s.

Imagine getting salty when the Yankees have 3 times the payroll of the rays and Os and being below them 🤣

If you want to applaud George for writing checks, fine. Buf the guy was a complete idiot personnel wise. He would have traded Jeter if he weren't talked out of it. The best thing that ever happened to the Yankees was him getting suspended and allowing the front office to build a team properly without the meddling. There has to be a happy medium between George and Hal

5:16 - "They just finished the first decade in the history of their team without winning a championship." Not true, the Yankees didn't win one in the 1980s. But, they did at least win a pennant that year (1981).

Until cashman Boone and the entire analytical department, we have no shot. Hal needs to wake up

I love Dave Winfield...Mr. May Is funny tho 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The organization needs to be torn down from at absolutely every level. I honestly don’t believe an owner can be engaged with a team at all, and not be absolutely livid at the tens of millions of dollars in salary that the Yankees have wasted in recent years.

Has no clue. This is the state of the Yankees now. No shame. Yankee boy Michael

A 54 yo Yankee fan, who has experienced 7 WS Championships and 9 games lost in the course of those 7 championships including 1 back-to-back and 1 three-peat is ranting about what now? Respectfully, I don't accept your outrage or George Steinbrenner being a good role model. He was an A-hole in the 90s and the Yankees were trash in the 80s. Yankee fan being a Yankee fan.

Fire Cashman and hire a good GM.

They need to take talent from the Rays and Astros.

I laugh when people talk about how they are tired of toxic masculinity but then point out all of the individual places where alpha males are the missing ingredient.

Preach, Rich.

Either make sweeping changes Hal, I mean fire Cashman, Boone or sell the team!

Back then the Yankees would sign you, if you had talent. Trever Bauer would have been a Yankee now if George was here!

We gotta get healthier. The Yankee mantra since…???…early 80s at least.

Until Cashman is no longer in charge of the baseball decisions. Nothing is gonna change with with team.

Give the team to Jennifer to run. She has bigger balls than Hal

Confused……. I think that’s the theme of this year for the Yankees…… the team as a whole is confused…. This lineup is confusing….. management is confused….. and this is why the Titanic of the Yankees is sinking

They need a last place losing record this year... maybe that will finally cause a change.

Hal only cares about money,,,that's it!

We need new staff from scouts to the front office. Out with the old. God, i want a no nonsense winner like jeter in front office

Hey rich load this up for the jets owner at the end of next year when they stink too haha

They didn’t win a championship in the 1980’s either. So this is the second decade

I think Champion pride stop after George. Now is just getting in only. We need pitching and hitting for many many years. wait up and smell the coffee.

Speaking for all baseball fans that aren't Yankee fans, GOOD. I don't feel bad at all. And I guarantee the rest of the country doesn't have one shred of sympathy.

If George was alive today, he'd fire his own son, then send him to trade school.

George was an egomaniac who only knew how to solve problems by throwing money at them, and it started with the historical signing of Reggie Jackson. And Rich knows this. Do you really think that he had a magic wand and could will the team to victory with his heavy-handed ownership? You don't know sports if you think that's the case. Notice how that didn't work after Reggie, and the team didn't have another parade until 'Steingrabber' was suspended from baseball and Stick Michael took over, and built the Jeter Dynasty.

Its only a GAME !......They lost all the good MoJo from the old stadium , no reason to build a new stadium

go get Shohei

Miss the boss

It's good the Yankees are out of it. Great for baseball when the most boring, overhyped, overly talked about teams like the Yankees and Red Sox are irrelevant so we can talk about actually good players and the success of other teams. If you guys are gonna talk about baseball, talk about all the fun teams that aren't in NY or Boston that are killing it, like the Reds, Diamondbacks, Orioles, Rays, Giants, Rangers, or Braves. Those stories are a million times more interesting than flogging the same ESPN style garbage about the Yanks and the Sox.

hal doesn't get it the way his Dad did.

That why hal is clueless. Just sell the team to the one who cares.

Excuses, excuses, excuses. Tired of hearing it.

Show me a good loser…….and I’ll show you a loser…….

There's got to be changes from the top because the Yankees are horrible. They're number 27 in league in batting averaging at .229 😮

Go Chiefs

The whole FO is woke and unmotivated set in their ways no energy no creativity no respect from players

As an Astros fan. They could go another 15 years without winning anything and it still won't be long enough for me. U won titles when there were 16 teams in 1956 congratulations...

😂😂😂

Hal reminds me of Pinocchio. Only if he was a boy and only if he had thoughts and emotions…

Boone needs to go

His Son doesn't know anything about Baseball ! He just inherit his title. Chico Escuela knows more about besbol then ,what's his name does ...BESBOL BIN BERI BERI GUD TU MEEEE. !

Yankees stink! So glad they only have one Series victory in 20 yrs

We need to start boycotting Yankee games.. or have the bleacher creatures stop chanting all these underperforming players … and turn all their backs to the field

2nd decade…they never won in the 80s

Rich, you're being a combination of disingenuous and revisionist. You know damn good and well that George Steinbrenner, revered as he is for being such a strident advocate for winning at all costs (and a color character at BEST, and a dirty, convicted crook at worst, wouldn't fly in today's MLB. They'd run him outta the league if he pulled that stuff today. Not to mention, the scales of the balance of power in professional sports have tipped. Let's just accept it: the era of pinstripe domination is over. Jeter, Petite, Posada, Bernie Williams, Boomer Wells, Roger Clemens, those guys ain't walking through that door. Competitive balance is good for baseball. I love that the small market teams can hang with the big spenders. Buying championships ain't the way anymore. And I say ALL this as a Bronx born and raised.

Michael Kay can't say what others are thinking because he's a yankees YES man. Or boy rather.