Rudy Giuliani May Lose His Yankees World Series Rings Instead of Giving Them to His Loser Son

I bought my twin sons their first Texas Rangers hats when they were just under two years old. It was a huge deal. I’d been the lone Texas Rangers fan in my life up until that point. With my boys in those hats, I had people I could share my love, frustration, disappointment, and excitement with. The Texas Rangers were losers for most of my life and I stuck with them regardless. Then, in a turn that was nothing short of miraculous, the Rangers won their first World Series in 2023.

I have purchased and been gifted an absurd amount of World Series merchandise over the last year and change. A lot of it, like a couple of hats, will be worn until they fall apart (and then some). Others are being saved for my kids should they want them when they’re older. One such piece is a replica World Series ring. The actual ring my Rangers were given costs around $10,000. Mine was significantly cheaper. Regardless, I’m excited to give that hunk of silver and cubic zirconium to my boys one day, and I will be allowed to because I haven’t defamed anyone to the tune of $148 million.

Enter Rudy Giuliani, who faced a defamation suit from two former Georgia election workers. To say the former mayor has had a significant fall from grace would be an overstatement, because he has always sucked. Still, the fact that he seemingly has no spot in Trump’s new administration, when white supremacist tattoos and rape allegations won’t sink some of the other candidates, speaks volumes about Giuliani’s toxicity. Giuliani is crumbling, and now he’s trying to hold onto his past.

Giuliani was the Mayor of NYC when the Yankees won the World Series four times in five years. Then-owner George Steinbrenner wanted to gift Giuliani four rings to commemorate his time as mayor. Rudy ended up paying for them, claiming he wanted to gift them to his failed politician son Andrew. Thanks to the defamation suit, ole Rudy may have to give up his precious rings instead of bequeathing them to his yuppy larva.

This is already a satisfying story. Giuliani deserves all of this punishment and more. But the added element of it being the Yankees makes it even better. We don’t need to get too much into the quotes, because no one is interested in Giuliani’s lament, but one did stick out to me. It seems Rudy hasn’t worn the rings in twenty years. The reason why is a classic example of a “Yankees” fan. “I stopped wearing them after the Yankees stopped winning because it was no longer working,” he explained at some point. “And then I wasn’t using them anymore.” In addition, Andrew hasn’t worn one since 2009, the last time the Bronx Bombers won the World Series. That sounds like a lack of commitment to me!

The Yankees appeared in the most recent World Series and the amount of brand spanking new Yankees hats in NYC and NJ popped up overnight. The area is not new to that kind of fairweather fandom, but it gets dialed up to 11 when the Yankees are in the playoffs. However, the pinstriped team lost this year (badly) and the hats disappeared just as quickly. As someone who has worn Rangers hats into the ground, including during a span where we lost two consecutive World Series, I take that kind of shoddy support personally!

I was already feeling a kind of smug schadenfreude from this story, but seeing Rudy pull a rich man’s version of “I stopped wearing the hat when they lost” makes it even sweeter. He and his (loser) son don’t deserve memorabilia, a place in Yankees history, or even seats in the bleachers. They deserve the public humiliation and fall from grace that we are currently witnessing (much like the 2024 Yankees and, to be fair, the 2024 Rangers. But I haven’t taken my hat off once).