Hal Steinbrenner denies report family will sell New York Yankees

[madinmaryland]

In the aftermath of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ sale for $2.175 billion, reports swirled that Hal Steinbrenner could soon sell the New York Yankees, potentially for as much as $3 billion, sources told the New York Daily News‘ Michael O’Keeffe and Bill Madden.

But Steinbrenner denied the rumors cited by the Daily News in a statement tweeted this morning by CBS’s Jon Heyman.

The Daily News quoted one baseball official as saying, “There has been chatter all around the banking and financial industries in the city for a couple of weeks now” that the Yankees were considering a sale.

Multiple “insiders” told the paper that it was a good time for the Yankees to sell, in light of the high price a group including Magic Johnson paid for the Dodgers and Steinbrenner’s desire to lower the payroll. Other sources said they believe Steinbrenner doesn’t care about baseball as much as his late father, long-time Yankees’ owner George Steinbrenner.

Read more: http://tracking.si.com/2012/05/24/steinbrenner-new-york-yankees-sell/

Here's hoping that he sells them to Danny-boy Snyder!!

[PoliticAverse]

1. Apple should buy them, then they can be the Big Apple Yankees...

Let's go Mets!!

[madinmaryland]

2. Then all of the Yankee players would be imported from the Chinese FoxComm team!!

[bluedigger]

3. Snyder would be good - no problem hating him!

As long as it isn't George Soros or Mark Cuban, or some such, I don't anticipate any problem keeping my Yankee hate on!

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Dan Snyder? That's terrible, Md/Md

We should arrange for Bush the Frat Boy to buy the Yankees. That'll fix 'em good for a long time.

[Gemini Cat]

5. Good idea. I like it.

Let him screw up the skankees the way he screwed the country.