Maureen Dowd, who last week wrote a column on Miami’s Hoops Cartel wrote about George Steinbrenner’s opinion of Seinfeld, and apparently Steinbrenner really is just like the version of himself portrayed on Seinfeld.

According to Dowd’s column, Steinbrenner didn’t want to be appear in the show and was confused when he say George Costanza’s name in the script:

“I thought you said this doesn’t involve me?” he bellowed.

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“Then,” Steinbrenner demanded, “what are all of these references to ‘George’ in the script?”

Sussman was stunned but tried to explain: “ ‘George’ is George Costanza. He is a character on the show. He is a friend of Seinfeld’s, and he plays the role of one of your employees.”

Steinbrenner acted incredulous, intoning: “I thought you were smarter than that. Don’t you see? This is how they are trying to get at me. They have named their character after me.”

Read the whole thing here.

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