{"id":12532,"date":"2020-06-22T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ken-griffey-jr-may-never-stop-hating-the-yankees\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:16:00","slug":"ken-griffey-jr-may-never-stop-hating-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ken-griffey-jr-may-never-stop-hating-the-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ken Griffey Jr. may never stop hating the Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ken Griffey Jr. may never stop hating the Yankees<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 21, 2020 |<\/span> 10:16pm <\/p>\n

\n Ken Griffey Jr.\u2019s famous distaste of the Yankees reemerged Sunday during the airing of a documentary about the Hall of Fame slugger.<\/p>\n

The bitterness began when former Yankees manager Billy Martin had an employee order a young Griffey Jr. to pipe down while he was in the Yankees clubhouse with his father, Ken Griffey Sr.<\/p>\n

Griffey Jr. felt he was singled out as other players\u2019 sons were also making noise. Griffey Sr. blamed the incident on a grudge he thought Martin had against him for being a part of the Reds team that swept the Yankees in the 1976 World Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the only time where Griffey Jr. thought he was being unfairly targeted while his father played in Pinstrip<\/a>es from 1982-86.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother instance was I came up to visit my dad and it\u2019s just me and him,\u201d Griffey Jr. said on the premiere of \u201cJunior,\u201d the MLB Network documentary that chronicled his life journey as the son of an MLB player to becoming a Hall of Famer. \u201cAnd a security guard came up and says, \u2018Hey, George [Steinbrenner] doesn\u2019t want anybody in the dugout.\u2019 My dad\u2019s like \u2018What? He\u2019s my son.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Griffey Sr. then told his son to go into the clubhouse, but to first look at third base where former Yankee \u201cGraig Nettles\u2019 son [was] taking groundballs at third base,\u201d the 50-year-old Griffey Jr. recalled, app<\/a>earing shocked at the moment even three decades later.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd at that time my dad was 38 years old, he was like, \u2018I ain\u2019t fighting this no more. I got someone a little younger and a little better,\u2019\u201d referring to Griffey Jr, who only a few later would become the Mariners\u2019 first overall pick in the 1989 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n

The documentary then cuts to a scene from the 1995 ALDS between Griffey Jr.\u2019s Mariners and the Yankees.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome play for the Yankees, bro,\u201d one fan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Griffey Jr. responded while signing autographs. \u201cIf the Yankees were the last team\u2026 if they were the only team that gave me a contract\u2026 I\u2019d retire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffey Jr. went on to demolish the Yankees in five game<\/a>s, hitting five home runs alongside seven RBIs and an OPS of 1.488 in the series.<\/p>\n

In 1999, The Post reported that Griffey Sr. tried to get his son to stop hating on the Yankees and to forgive Steinbrenner in light of a potential trade.<\/p>\n

It never happened.<\/p>\n

The Yankees then tried to acquire Griffey Jr. in 2003 to no avail. He didn\u2019t become a free agent until 2008 with the Reds, but returned to Seattle.<\/p>\n

That season, Griffey Jr. was asked his favorite memory of Yankee Stadium, which was on the way out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s leaving Yankee Stadium,\u201d Griffey Jr. said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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