No mourning from Space by Jared Carrabis
Bill Lee on Steinbrenner: 'If hell freezes over, he'll be skating'


This is just a guess, but I don't think former Red Sox left-hander Bill Lee likes George Steinbrenner very much.

When asked for his thoughts on the death of the legendary Yankee owner, Lee responded by saying, "As far as Steinbrenner's passing...good."

Lee, known for his crazy antics long before the days of Manny Ramirez and Julian Tavarez, continued to say, "I used to have nightmares about him. I was hallucinating one time, and I thought he came into my hotel room window, and then I realized I didn't have any windows. And I was on, like, the 38th floor."

Hallucinating on what, Bill? I'm sure that's a question for another day.

The 119-game winner went on to justify his disliking of the Boss. "Steinbrenner tried to have me banned from baseball," Lee said. "He said I was incompetent, and that I was bad for the game of baseball. Well, I'm not a convicted felon like George Steinbrenner, and he'll take that with him to his grave."

After he had made the comments above, he was sarcastically asked if there was any sadness on his part to hear of Steinbrenner's passing.

"No. I have no sadness. I'm Irish, I'm Catholic, and when you're gone, you're gone," Lee said with a smile.

Lee finished his rant with a witty line, claiming that, "If hell freezes over, he'll be skating."



As an added bonus, here's the interview that I did with Bill Lee back on February 25, 2010. As you can see, the man is one of the most knowledgeable baseball minds around, as we cover everything from steroids in baseball, to the use of maple bats, the art of pitching, and the Red Sox and Yankees rivalry. However, he's also capable of going off on random tangents, as somehow our interview ventured off into talking about squirrels. Skip to the 31-minute mark and enjoy Bill Lee in raw form:



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Published on July 14, 2010

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