sort of funny. steiner pays a substantial amount for an "exclusive" contract with the yankees. the star player continues to disregard it and markets his jerseys elsewhere, exactly as he had when he was with the rangers when they had an "exclusive" agreement with meigray.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=220177643416

steiner admitted that it's possible that things could be snuck out of the clubhouse. this isn't about sneaking an item out the clubhouse per se. the star player has signed an agreement with another marketing company and provided them with items that steiner has already paid the yankees for! via their exclusive agreement, steiner paid for that '07 ARod BP shirt. not only did they not receive it, but ARod decides to personally profit off it by selling it to another firm. what sort of iron-clad exclusive agreement does steiner have when apparently star players are free to market their game-used jerseys with competing firms? if an item was snuck out of the clubhouse, then why wouldn't steiner attempt to take back whats theirs when the item is publically marketed? this occurred previously with another ARod BP and steiner's only response was "it could be legit. it's possible he snuck it out". well that's fine if he did, but i'm mystified by the fact that steiner doesn't attempt to repo items that belong to them vis a vis their team contract.

barry meisel apparently didn't believe ARod was pulling these sorts of shenanigans when he was with the rangers, despite the abundance of non-meigray ARod gamers out there with "game used" inscriptions and ARod LOAs. apparently when he switched to the yankees, he had no intentions of giving up his old habits, despite the fact that both meigray and steiner had "exclusive" team contracts.

rudy.