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Author: | J Kaufman [ Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:55 am ] |
Post subject: | Today's bowdlerizing |
Quote: In 1999, Steinbrenner erupted after Irabu failed to cover first base during an exhibition game, calling him a fat toad. [Times]Quote: "That's not a Yankee," the disgusted owner said of the beleaguered pitcher after a missed play during one spring-training game in April 1999. [New York Post]"Irabu looks like a fat, pussy toad out there." Quote: Former Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu, whom George Steinbrenner infamously labeled "a fat pus-sy toad," was found dead in his Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. home Thursday. [Daily News]Quote: Rather, he always wore the label that late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner stuck on him after Irabu failed to cover first base during an exhibition game: "Fat ... toad." [AP]Quote: After an impressive debut with the Yankees that summer, he was a disappointment to the Yankees and himself during three seasons in the Bronx. Instead, he was forever tagged with a label from late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who called him a “fat ... toad” after Irabu failed to cover first base during an exhibition game. [AP via Washington Post]Quote: The volatile Yankees owner, who had criticized the beefy Irabu for being overweight, became enraged after the pitcher failed to cover first base on a ground ball during the exhibition game and called him a "fat ... toad." [Reuters]
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