A-Rod's Yankees Contract Receives Approval From MLB, Union

MLB, MLBPA Approve Yankees' Deal With Rodriguez

THE HEIR APPARENT: In a Q&A with the N.Y. POST’s Steve Serby, Yankees Senior VP Hank Steinbrenner said, “I don’t want to compare myself with my dad. The fact is, I’m a much easier Boss; I’m very slow to fire somebody. It would have to be for a very good reason -- if they cross me or the company. Once I fire them, they stay fired. … Someone once said … I tend to shoot from the hip like my dad. I’ll analyze things as well, just like he did at times. You don’t get to be as successful as he’s been without analyzing things. He was always thinking.” Steinbrenner added, “The Yankees are the Yankees -- no football team, or any other baseball team, compares. I haven’t been anywhere in this country where I haven’t seen Yankee hats, Yankee license plates all over the place. It never ceases to amaze me how many Yankee fans there are nationwide” (N.Y. POST, 11/25). In N.Y., Bob Raissman wrote when writers call, Steinbrenner “picks up or returns the call. When he talks, the man usually puts plenty of meat on his quotes.” But Orioles Senior VP/Baseball Operations Jim Duquette said that Steinbrenner’s “loose lips are ‘a disaster’” for Yankees GM Brian Cashman. During a recent appearance on SNY’s “Daily News Live,” Duquette said Steinbrenner “tells everyone their plans before they do it. And it costs (the Yankees) a ton of money. And it’s going to cost them down the road” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 11/25).

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