When George Steinbrenner was alive there were plenty of people saying that he was an insufferable prick. Then he has a massive heart attack, keeled over, and took a dirt nap, now everyone is waxing poetic on how George Steinbrenner was a wonderful saint. Well finally someone has the balls to speak their mind, and that someone is Bill “Don’t Call Me Francis” Lee. In the video Bill Lee takes time out of his busy day of golfing and grazing on grass to say that he is happy that Steinbrenner is dead as the Baltimore Orioles and six-feet under. “If Hell freezes over he’ll [Steinbrenner] be skating,” Lee said. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Bill Lee, he is known as the “Spaceman” for being a real space cadet with his appreciation of Mao’s Communist China policy of population control and threatening to bite off an umpire’s ear in the 1975 World Series. He has written four books that you or I have never heard of with his counterculture ideologies. He is a proponent of marijuana and avid smoker. Here’s what the “Spaceman” had to say about his pregame rituals:
“I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That’s when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.
In 2007, Lee joined former major league players Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd, Marquis Grissom, Delino DeShields, and Ken Ryan on the Oil Can Boyd’s Traveling All-Stars. In June of 2008, Lee pitched for the Alaska Goldpanners during the annual “Midnight Sun” ball game played at night during the Summer Solstice.
I appreciate his blunt honesty, but what really bothers me is his overly white Polident bleached dentures. I can’t decide if he looks more like Secretariat or supposed comedian Rich Vos…
