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ShitPostQuokkaRome OP t1_j5anack wrote

Baseball Yankees fans seem to tremendously hate him - asking to someone better informed, could they explain why?

News is also interesting for the continuous development of the contamination/fusion of multiple across-sports teams into unified administrations, that we've so far seen develop last decade.

The source is official, it's Milan's own website

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dandystanley t1_j5c8b9s wrote

There is definitely a business side to the game that is an ugly aspect of things. The behind closed doors conversations about money and player evaluation should stay behind closed doors. Randy Levine does not seem to understand this. For some reason the Yankees ownership parades him out there as if he’s a public figure head of the team who has to make the statement that nobody else wants to have to make. That would be understandable if he did it in a way that was palatable. He does not do that. Every time he speaks publicly he comes off as a pompous douche bag that makes me hate my favorite team.

Two recent examples include his comments on defending the team’s high ticket prices for field and club level seats. He essentially said the high ticket prices are a way to ward off a certain clientele. As in “fans who do not look the part shouldn’t be allowed to sit amongst the elites”. That kind of thing. Also, in an arbitration hearing to determine the yearly salary of a pretty beloved pitcher, spent the entire hearing mispronouncing the players name. He was sitting in an arbitration case arguing to lower the salary of a guy whose name he couldn’t even be bothered to remember. Just a smug asshole all around

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ethanjf99 t1_j5i7pt2 wrote

I wonder if it’s intentional. Hal parades him around to be the bad cop.

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BaldDudeFromBrazzers t1_j5b7tlm wrote

AC Milan fans might as well stop watching soccer. I know I’m done with this shitshow

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johnnyss1 t1_j5d63b5 wrote

He worked for nyc (I think in Giuliani’s office?) and was responsible for negotiating with the Yankees for the new stadium. Then he worked for the Yankees immediately afterwards. You can draw conclusions just from that. He seemed to be hanks proxy when George passed and Hal took over. Levine now handles a lot of the player contracts and negotiates on the yanks behalf when arbitration cases occur. And for some odd reason, he gets a vote in major decisions in the front office (along with scouting, analytics, coaches, etc). Hal and cash love him since Levine has no issue taking the bullets and bad press. I can’t stand him.

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pac-men t1_j5faizp wrote

You know those friends you eventually have to “break up with” because they’ve gone so far down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole that they don’t even resemble their old self any more? Well for me that person said this about Levine, shortly before our break-up:

“Randy Levine needs to keep his JEW NOSE out of the Yankees operations.”

Not all Yankee fans are anti-semites. But from my one-guy sample size, I’m saying it might factor in to some degree. Shittily.

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