Steinbrenner Gets Fired

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George Steinbrenner didn’t disappoint in a radio spot for the Milwaukee Brewers conceived by agency Kohnke Hanneken.
The commercial, promoting the Brewers’ return to the National League, has the Yankees’ owner acting approporiately grouchy in a dialogue with Brewers president and chief executive officer Wendy Selig-Prieb.
It took a second take, though, for the ornery boss to get fully into character.
“He got angry [after the first take] because I told him he wasn’t acting angry enough.


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