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Thursday / March 28.
  • Yankees President Randy Levine is ‘Wild Card’ for White House Chief of Staff

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    By ADAM ZAGORIA

    Yankees President Randy Levine is being mentioned as a “wild card” candidate to replace John Kelly as White House Chief of Staff, according to MSNBC.

    MSNBC listed Levine among six candidates, along with North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, Mick Mulvaney, David Bossie, Steve Mnuchin and Matt Whitaker.

    “No one from the White House has called me about the chief of staff job,” Levine told the Daily News. “I respect the President but I’m very happy as the president of the Yankees.”

    He told the paper the report caught him by surprise.

    “I’ve been in meetings all day and my phone just blew up,” said Levine, who has been the Yankees President since 2000.

    MSNBC White House reporter Jeff Bennett said on air the search to replace Kelly was a “fluid situation.”

    “This is a fluid situation,” he said. “We do understand that the President has settled on a new list of top contenders to replace John Kelly now that Nick Ayers has taken himself out of the running.”

    Bennett went on to list Levine as “kind of a wild card” and a “longtime Trump backer.”

    The Levine news prompted all sorts of Twitter feedback from baseball fans, some of it focusing on George Costanza’s fictional role with the Yankees on “Seinfeld.”

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    Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle. A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

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