Hank Steinbrenner quotes!

OK all in the turmoil that is Yankee Universe right now. New Manager, we alienated one of the greatest Yankees EVER in Donnie Baseball, no more A-Rod, AND George Steinbrenner's son Hank becoming my new favorite quotable in Yankeeland. I am pulling these quotes from the NY Times baseball section.

On A-Rod-- "It's a shame, but we are all in agreement: myself, my dad, my brother, all the baseball people," he said. "If you don't want to be a Yankee and paid what you're being paid, we don't want you, that's the bottom line. You'd be hard-pressed to argue that point. If you don't understand the magnitude of being a Yankee and understand what that means, and being the highest-paid player in baseball, I think it's pretty obvious."
"I don't understand Alex's point of view, Of course, he had hinted many times the past two years that he had questions about staying a Yankee. I guess he was serious. But being paid what he would have been paid, you would think at the same time there would be pride in being a Yankee."
"I mean, come on, Every ex-Yankee I've ever talked to says the same thing: 'Are you kidding me? Everybody wants to be a Yankee.' And it's not the cheap Yankees, either. It's the Yankees who will pay whatever we have to pay. But when he opts out, that is telling us he doesn't want to be a Yankee."

On the new manager-- "This is not Iran, Everybody needs to relax. We will have another fine manager. We've got a lot of top prospects, and that's going to bode well for the Yankees for the next 10 years, hopefully. Everybody needs to relax and enjoy what's to come."

and these are just from the last week! I can't even find my favorites about Torre!!

How much am I loving Hank Steinbrenner?!!

I hate that Donnie is leaving but I do understand his point and I think Girardi will do well, but man did we just pull another Yogi?!?! I hope not, Don Mattingly is THE YANKEE of my childhood and I want him to have a championship in pinstripes.

On to my personal A-Rod feelings- I hated when we got A-Rod, yes I enjoyed him this year, but I always thought he was too needy. This year not so much. I actually believed his "I can't believe I played for 2 other organizations, this feels like home" I was willing to embrace him. We were going to offer him a BUTT -LOAD of cash. He wouldn't even sit down with the Steinbrenners! Then to say "Alex didn't know the direction the Yankees are going in and wated to give himself the time." (not exact quote but)
PLEASE- if he had even waited 12 hours he would have known the Yankees new manger. And HE HAD 10 DAYS AFTER the WS to make this decision. The opt-out was still available to him until NOVEMBER 7.

So when taking all this into account I say So long A-Rod, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out