"HANK, GOD BLESS HIM, WASN'T AFRAID TO CALL THE SOX ON IT." Boston Globe, Shaughnessy

"Hank's not-so-thinly-veiled remark is a broadside at the SS Red Sox, which still features

• the name of former Senator George Mitchell on the company masthead. Mitchell is listed as "director" of the Red Sox.

• His is the sixth name from the top, directly below Lucchino's.

• It's a hideous conflict, recklessly allowed by Mitchell, the Sox, and Selig.

Hank, God bless him, wasn't afraid to call the Sox on it."

• Shaughnessy references Hank's comment:

"They [the Red Sox] had plenty of players doing that stuff, too. It's just that those players weren't mentioned in the Mitchell Report."

• From Boston Globe column by Dan Shaughnessy, "Hank Steinbrenner is Yanks' new Voice," 3/1/08

***I made a similar point yesterday in, "Everyone is Afraid of ESPN--except Hank." Hank has no reason to tiptoe around the truth. He's not a Director of the HOF like his father, and my guess is he doesn't aspire to be. ie He doesn't really give a rat's ass what Selig, DuPuy, etc. think.

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