We wanna look to the future, we gotta tear down the past. Babe Ruth was nothing more than a fat old man, with little-girl legs. And here's something I just found out recently. He wasn't really a sultan. Ah, what d'you make of that? Hey, check this out. Lou Gehrig's pants. Not a bad fit. Hey, you don't think that nerve disease of his was contagious, do you? Uh, I better take ’em off. I'm too important to this team. Big Stein can't be flopping and twitching.

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In thinking about the future, Steinbrenner besmirches great Yankees of the past.

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