Divorced from Reality: Swindal Chooses Single Life Over Yankees

George Steinbrenner is a legendary figure. He transformed the Yankees from a second-division club back into the pre-eminent franchise in all of sports. Along the way he never missed an opportunity to grab headlines, whether for firing his managers, filming TV commercials or publicly calling out his ballplayers, like the time he called Hideki Irabu a "fat toad".

But we haven't seen much of Steinbrenner recently. He's 76-years old and reputed to be in bad health. He doesn't make many public appearances anymore and even fewer media interviews.

So, the logical question is: who will replace Steinbrenner as Yankees boss?

Back in 2005, Steinbrenner anointed son-in-law Steve Swindal to be his successor. Swindal is a general partner of the club and is also the Chairman of the Board of Yankees Global Enterprises, LLC. Swindal was responsible for signing Joe Torre to his latest contract extension and for eliminating the hoops that general manager Brian Cashman had to jump through in order to make anything happen.

But Swindal killed the Golden Goose. Well, he didn't really kill it but he decided to divorce Jennifer Steinbrenner, his wife of 23 years, ending any possibility that he might take over for The Boss.

Why on earth would Swindal pick now to have a divorce, when he is seemingly on the doorstep of the most visible job in all of sports? How bad could things possibly be to make divorce a viable option? The last time I had a feeling anything even remotely like this was in the horrifying pictures from 9/11, when people were jumping out of the windows from 50 stories up to avoid the terror inside.

Rumors have it that Swindal was cheating on his wife, leading to the divorce. What pussy could be so good as to risk losing the Yankees' top job over? Not even the thought of a threesome with Angelina Jolie and Maria Sharapova would be enough for me to risk losing out on the Yankees job. And I'm a Mets fan.