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Who’s The Boss: Steinbrenner Vs. Springsteen

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I woke up yesterday morning to a text message from a friend alerting me that the Boss died in New York. I damn near had a heart attack before I realized he didn’t mean Springsteen.

For the 29 years I’ve been on Earth, this has been a point of contention for me. Who is the real boss? James Brown didn’t have to put up with people calling Pete Rose the “Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness.” Michael Jackson never fought Jose Canseco for the title of “King of Pop.” Why should Springsteen have to share the Boss moniker.

I mean, I guess technically he doesn’t have to share it now. But it’s important to distinguish whether the title is now returned in full to its rightful owner, or if Springsteen’s just borrowing a dead man’s nickname for the rest of his life.

Ladies and gentlemen, who do you think is the real Boss? Leave your comments down yonder.

G E O R G E		B R U C E
Rocky River, Ohio	Birthplace	Freehold, New Jersey
Helped purchase the Yankees on January 3, 1973	Years as the Boss	Released his first album on January 5, 1973
Changed managers 20 times in his first 23 seasons, 21 times in 37 seasons He changed general managers 11 times in his first 30 seasons In fact, only three employees have remained with the Yankees from 1973 to the present.	Employees fired	None. But he furloughed most of the E Street Band from 1990-1999
Forced Billy Martin into a dangerous state of anger and paranoia, 1975-79, 1983-88 Made mutton chops rebellious First owner to sell cable TV rights Appeared in 11 World Series in 37 years (30 percent), won 7 of ‘em	Career highlights	“Born To Run,” voted one of the 10 best American albums of all-time by Rolling Stone magazine, 1975 Released “Born in the USA,” which yielded 9 top 10 singles, 1984 Won an Oscar for the song “Streets of Philadelphia,” 1993 Released “The Rising,” still considered the definitive 9-11 album, 2002 Named the “one man President Obama would like to meet” in 2008 (he’s since met him quite a few times).
81 regular season games x 37 seasons = 2,997 games … plus posteasons.	New York performances	Bruce has Steinbrenner’s first season covered. 81 shows in NYC-proper starting at the Cafe Wha? in December of ’67. He’s played about 10x that number if you include the entire state of New York and Northwest New Jersey. He never played Yankee Stadium, but he played Shea thrice.
Steinbrenner was one of the best side characters on “Seinfeld,” a show full of awesome side characters	Lasting impressions:	It’s a toss up: Either Ben Stiller’s impression … or Sesame Street‘s.
$1.15 billion	Net worth as of January 1, 2010	$500 million
Hank Steinbrenner	Tiebreaker: Most recent contribution	“Working On A Dream”

Posted by Adam on Jul 15th, 2010 and filed under Baseball. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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