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It wasn’t that long ago that black men weren’t even allowed to play alongside whites, let alone own a piece of the most prestigious franchise in the MLB. Jay-Z is looking to become a minority owner in the New York Yankees, according to Time Out Magazine.
He’s already part owner of the New Jersey Nets, and almost bought into London-based soccer team Arsenal Football Club in 2005 before the deal fell through.
“I had invested in the Nets, and they (Arsenal bosses) asked me if I was interested in investing. But I get that from time to time,” Jay told London’s Time Out magazine. “Someone told me yesterday that someone else had a piece of the New York Yankees, ‘We wanna talk to you, yadda yadda yadda.’ I mean, I love the Yankees so I’m in the middle of following that through, but sometimes it comes to be nothing. That (Arsenal) was one of the times it came to nothing.”
All this will be worth if it I can just see George Steinbrenner through up the ROC diamond at a Yankees game…. .seriously.
I know I’m late with this one, but I had a busy weekend… I wanted to honor George Carlin in the only way I know how…. posting a hilarious sports related clip.
This bit on Baseball vs. Football is hilarious…. R.I.P. George…
Almost two months ago, I wrote a very popular article questioning the coverage of Ken Griffey Jr.’s 600th home run. Griff finally knocked number 600 out of the park today, and the classy fans in Florida gave him a proper ovation (although the crowd was really thin).
ESPN cut away from the Detroit game to show the modest celebration and the obligatory stat comparison with other all-time greats. I still stand by my original opinion that the media could have been a bit more helpful in the process of making this a special moment. But let’s enjoy the play in the video below shall we?
This moment marks a huge turn in the whole steroids-in-pro-sports ordeal. Up until now it’s just been about athletes looking for a way to gain an edge on their competitors, and possibly tarnishing their images or sport of choice. When someone died from years of steroids abuse, it’s been easy to just chalk it up to a self inflicted injury. If they wanted to take a risk to gain an edge… then they should rightfully suffer the consequences.
But now we’re to the point where people are being murdered for speaking to the authorities concerning steroids, and it leaves a really dirty residue on everything. Just a month ago David Jacobs spoke to the NFL and revealed the names of several players he supplied with steroids. This morning he and his girlfriend Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell were found shot to death in their home.
“According to ESPN the Magazine senior writer Shaun Assael, who had been in contact with Jacobs throughout May, Jacobs was reticent and nervous about the information he had and the people it implicated.
When explaining why he did not want to go public, Jacobs said: “The kinds of people I know about could put a bullet in the back of my head.”
As a fan… I’m like….. dude I just wanna watch the game. I don’t want to know people are being murdered because some knucklehead wants to score 70 points in a game, or hit five homers. It’s not really that serious.
Two MLB players have reached milestones. Manny Ramirez has joined the 500 HRs club, the 24th player to do so. Ramirez’s blasts, 499 and 500, came at Camden Yards. Congratulations! Stank-0 thinks Manny would have passed 500 a few years ago if not for the Green Monster in Fenway.
In other news, Ken Griffey Jr. is sitting at 599 career homers. Sportaphile.com has written about Mr. Best-Swing- in-the-Majors before. It is unfortunate that injuries stole Griffey’s prime or we would be talkin about Griffey, the HR king. Albert Pujols and Manny have the next best swings in baseball, ISO.
Stank-0 has a few questions, where do you think Ramirez’s final HR total will be? Griffey’s? Their place on the all time HR list?
It wasn’t that long ago that black men weren’t even allowed to play alongside whites, let alone own a piece of the most prestigious franchise in the MLB. Jay-Z is looking to become a minority owner in the New York Yankees, according to Time Out Magazine. 
This moment marks a huge turn in the whole steroids-in-pro-sports ordeal. Up until now it’s just been about athletes looking for a way to gain an edge on their competitors, and possibly tarnishing their images or sport of choice. When someone died from years of steroids abuse, it’s been easy to just chalk it up to a self inflicted injury. If they wanted to take a risk to gain an edge… then they should rightfully suffer the consequences.