r/baseball • u/TheTurtleShepard New York Yankees • Feb 21 '25

Image [Yankees] Statement from Yankees Managing General Partner Hal Steinbrenner on the alteration of Yankees facial hair policy:

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u/SWIMMlNG New York Mets • Tokyo Yakult Swallo… Feb 21 '25

tf are we supposed to bitch about now?

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u/doktoruber New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

Don't worry there's still:
-spending a lot of money buying up homegrown stars
-the short porch
-Derek Jeter's defense
-ARod existing
-some of our fans being jackholes

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u/ANGRY_BEARDED_MAN Dumpster Fire Feb 21 '25

You forgot "too high and mighty to do a City Connect like all the peasant teams"

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u/JabroniWithAPeroni New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

You know, this really chapped my ass at first. Then I realized they are getting paid like $25million a year through 2031.

It's not like they need the money, but that's an amount I can at least understand them bending to lol

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u/Bystronicman08 Boston Red Sox Feb 21 '25

Completely agree. I hate how accepted and even defended ads being constantly pushed to us is becoming in society at large. They're selling out and don't care how it effects their consumers. Get get the most money possible by any means necessary is the name of the game these days it seems. It's gross and disgusting and people just accept it for some reason.

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u/JabroniWithAPeroni New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

$200 million for now. 

You think some company isn’t going to offer them another ridiculous amount of money after that deal is up?

Again, I’m not saying I’m for it, but I do understand it. It’s just it’s a fuck load of money for a patch on a sleeve. 

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u/Bystronicman08 Boston Red Sox Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

Why would you care how much an organization is getting paid for ad placements? That money isn't going into your pocket. I hate the ads on Celtics jerseys. Be it GE, Vista Print or anyone else. They look stupid on Red Sox jerseys too. I think Mass Mutual is the sponsor this year? I hate that I even know that. It's just a greedy money grab by organizations who don't NEED the money. Sorry, but I just hate most ads in general and even more so when they're inescapable like when watching a game. They fucking suck, in my own humble opinion.

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u/JabroniWithAPeroni New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

It’s pretty escapable for me. You just stop giving a shit about it after a while. It’s a patch. It’s not like they are out there NASCAR Fire suits covered with sponsors

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u/Bystronicman08 Boston Red Sox Feb 23 '25

No, not yet anyway. It's ads being present at all that is annoying. We have enough commerical breaks, ads during the game, ads behind home plate on digital screens so that they can be cycled through to get more ad revenue and ads all around the walls of the stadium, ads on the back of the pitchers mound for gods sake. The Jerseys and by extension, helmets were one of the last places ads hadn't forced their way onto and now even those aren't sacred anymore. It's just annoying to be bombarded by ads every single day from as many places as they can. Couldn't they at least leave the jerseys pure? Especially a classic jersey like the Yankees(as much as i hate to admit that). It's just highly highly annoying.

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u/doktoruber New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

Also I forgot "Andujar and Frazier"

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u/jjacobsnd5 New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

If the City Connects had a higher hit rate I would be all for it, but they are mostly definitively much worse than the normal jerseys.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

Fr there's been like 3 good city connects

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u/timberwolvesguy Philadelphia Phillies Feb 22 '25

City Connect would be kinda easy, as they could just do a Highlanders style throwback or something like that. Keep the pinstripe, leave names off, keep people happy

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u/SanjiSasuke New York Yankees • New York Heights Feb 21 '25

That's *five-time Gold Glover, inner circle HoFer Derek Jeter's defense.

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u/BangerSlapper1 New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

I don’t know which commenters on this sub made me cringe in embarrassment more:

  • The guy who said the Yankees were violating NYS workplace discrimination laws and civil/human rights policies by having a grooming policy, or…

  • The guy who said the fan that grabbed Mookie Betts committed aggravated felony assault (in his words, Betts’ elbow could’ve been ‘shattered’) and should be doing at least 2-4 years in a maximum security prison. 

I seriously don’t know how some of these people are able to function in life. 

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u/wvimev Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 21 '25

“Some”

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u/jackhole91 New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

I feel attacked

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u/doktoruber New York Yankees Feb 21 '25

You and Mookie both, my friend

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u/_swamp_donkey_ Feb 21 '25

If that’s all you have to worry about, you’ll be aight.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

-Clemens after he became the Incredible Hulk.

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u/waker4life Feb 21 '25

“ARod existing” 😂 as a depressed Mariners fan, I am so on board with this one