The Yankees obviously felt that Joe Torre needed them more than they needed Joe Torre. Good for him for walking on the insulting deal that they offered him. While I would love to be insulted with a five million dollar payday, the point in the nether world of baseball salaries is that a paycut is never warranted.
It certainly was not warranted in Joe Torre's case. The Yanks started the year in a funk and ended it in a blaze before predictably losing the Cleveland series. Not because Joe wasn't a first-tier manager but because the Yanks upstairs-brain-trust didn't supply him with enough pitching in the off-season. A play-off team with good pitching that can somewhat cap the prodigious Yankee offense will win a post-season series with them every time.
I'm a Red Sox fan, but I take no satisfaction in seeing the Yanks descend into turmoil. Posada, Rivera, Rodriguez are each free agents and are quite apt to sign elsewhere. They have been a great organization with a great history that formulated the term Yankee Pride. I think the way they treated Joe Torre is a Yankee shame.
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I fully agree. It's disrespectful and I felt that Joe Torre, while sometimes compared to Darth Sidious, was a classy, professional manager. Have you seen and heard Joe Girardi?
The guy is an asshole. Also, Steinbrenner's sons are big jerks too. Joe Torre deserved better than to be jerked around like that, after all he has done for the Yankees.
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