the game to make it better. he made the yankees into a great franchise that people, baseball fans across the world, either love order hated. he developed passion for winning. and that, you know, how many times have you ever heard with the yankees, you know, you either love him or hate him. but he had the money in new york. he built his television deal so he would have more money. and he just kept making good investments and rebuilding the team. yes, he spent a lot of money, but he also had a good farm system, and he understood the importance of that as well. mel, what you re saying, we all have heard of george steinbrenner, even if we grew up on the opposite coast, we can be a fan of the new york yankees even though we re so far away, or around the world for that matter. how are the fans reacting today? whether they loved or learned to love to hate him? well, i think react wig grief, especially yankees fans. he meant a lot to new york.
yankees. he was a larger than life figure who will forever be missed. he reigned over baseball empire in the empire state. but ultimately, was steinbrenner good for the game or not? let s go to lynn burman from sports.com joining us live from new york. lynn, was he good or was he bad for the sport? well, i think when you put it on both sides of the ledger, it will all be positive when all is said and done. yes, he had his detractors and did some bad things. and those who have to pay a lot of money for tickets are going to blame him in part. but he did so much to raise the popularity of this game, not only in new york but all around the country. i think the value of every major league franchise has increased because of george steinbrenner. i grew up on the west coast and i became very aware of george steinbrenner in the 70s. he was certainly a figure when you talk about the mlb. what don t we know, though, about george steinbrenner?
i m looking forward to getting the insight on what s happening here. i understand the president just came out today. he was naming a new money man. who was this guy and what was it like? jack lou is well known. he handled the budget back in the clinton administration. it s an interesting story that secretary of state hillary clinton didn t want to give him up. she thought he was doing a good job over there. they had to go a lot of behind-the-scenes negotiating to get him. they finally got him over here. the key is that peter orzaz is leaving. it s important when you look at this outside debt commission the president has appointed. the chairman of that commission said this week that the growing
their lawyers won t let us talk about it. in the london arabic newspaper, the imam said this is foreign-funded. he will not say that in english. he will not say that in the united states. that is what we suspect. the problem with it is, you know, a lot of these morph mosqe funded with saudi money and with qatar money. talk to us about it. edina, if we look at the mosque. it includes a community center a gym. it s more than a mosque. and again, what you re saying, the objective sheer to reach out and provide a definition of what islam is in a broad sense? that s right. and i think that that s precisely what we need today. you know, i think that calling for understanding where this money will come from, i think that will be part of the public records process. you know, people have a right to know.
alleviated africa s debt. but we ll never know how much was due to the concert. then in 2007, this was live earth. that was designed to bring attention to global warming or climate change. what you see here is that these things that have happened ever send have been bringing attention. a little bit less focused on the money. it was clear that that kind of fund-raising, it can lead to problems and political challenges. mtv was just getting off the ground back then. everything started coming together. it was the big i back then. certainly a milestone in our history. it changed the way the music industry operates and what superstars try to do with their energy and their time and their status. to this day, we see this big i 25 years ago. how old were you when you were watching all this? i m old enough to remember. i do remember. i really do. thanks a lot, josh. an important review of the diabetes drug going on today. some studies saying it could be