Steinbrenner orders 5,000 'Yankees suck' T-shirts from Boston street vendor

By C. Schwetty Jacques
Sports Reporter

NEW YORK -- With his New York Yankees 13.5 games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox, team owner George Steinbrenner today ordered 5,000 "Yankees suck" T-shirts from a street vendor who peddles Red Sox gear on Landsdowne Street behind Fenway Park.

"It's true," Steinbrenner said in an interview this morning. "We do suck. The way I see it, why not make some money from it?"

Steinbrenner bought the shirts for $19.99 each from Babak Tehrani, who operates a push-cart on the souvenir-shop lined thoroughfare behind Fenway Park.

"Allah bless George Steinbrenner!" Tehrani exclaimed. "Now I can afford to quit my fourth job!"

Steinbrenner has stocked every Yankee Stadium souvenir shop with the shirts, which he's selling for $29.95. So far they've proven very popular with the famously fickle Bronx crowd.

Antony Spinelli, a 33-year-old lifelong Yankee fan, said he'd buy three of them, one each for himself his wife and his three-year-old son.

"It'll cost me $100, including tax, but it's worth it not to have to yell 'You suck!' before every play, you know what I mean? Spinelli said. "And the fact that they're Red-Sox red means those jerks will see 'em bright and clear from the field. I only wish they had one that said 'Yankees suck, especially Bobby Abreu.'"