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The Rant In Dallas

12/29/2018 at 7:50pm EST

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Why all the fuss? Jim Lites, an expensive suit doing the bidding of a fellow who can afford to wear an even more expensive suit, didn’t even call Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin “fat puss-ie toads.”

Now that would have turned the Stars’ CEO’s wildly entertaining premeditated rant against the franchise’s two top-paid players into something almost Steinbrenneresque.

But no, this was no such passion-fueled tirade as the one the late Yankees’ principal owner once regrettably unleashed against the late Hideki Irabu. Wasn’t passion-fueled, but rather premeditated and likely more scripted than an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” And of course, it was delivered by a hired hand, not the owner himself.

We get it. Owner Tom Gaglardi is fuming over the uninspired play and disappointing production of Benn, the captain, and Seguin, the No. 1 center, both of whom are on lavish, market-based contracts Lites so identifies as not the problem that he feels compelled to insist no one resents the money after citing the money more than once.

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