Posts tagged as the yankees
The Boss Abides: George Steinbrenner as New York
George Steinbrenner at the end was not the man who once ruled American sport. His neck bubbled out into a series of rolling chins. His skin was sallow and plastic-looking. As he sailed out his years in Tampa, draped in Yankees pajamas for the entirety of the day, his mind had slipped away. "Great to see ya, Tommy," Steinbrenner said to his friend Tom McEwen when Franz Lidz visited George's Florida compound in 2007 to report a story for Portfolio. And then he said it again. Great to see ya, Tommy. Great to see ya. Great to see ya. He would repeat the phrase after every question. READ MORE
One Nation, Under The Roc, With Liberty And Justice For All...
A Complex mag gallery celebrates one of the great marketing moves in a career that should be taught in marketing classes at business school. Around the time Jay-Z was recording his 2000 album Roc La Familia, someone in his camp (Jay himself maybe?) came up with a handsign to represent his Roc-a-Fella Records label. It's simple: put both index fingers and both thumbs together to make a diamond. (Roc-a-Fella = "The Roc" = a "rock" = a diamond.) Much easier than those complicated finger-twisting gang signs from Los Angeles. Since Jay demonstrated it on the Roc La Familia cover, it's become a standard pose for self-aggrandizing in picture taking, and nowadays, you see all sorts of people throwing up the diamond in all sorts of situations. (Including Fran Drescher, yo!) And like on Friday, when the Yankees were celebrating their successful lobbying on behalf of the House health care proposal World Series win, A-rod did it as he saluted the crowd, as did Jay-Z, who was riding on his float. The best possible usage, of course, is when Chicago area newscaster Ryan Baker flashes it all subtle on air.
