Joe Torre is a class act.

Go Braves! (we remember ya, Joe!)

the front office of the yankees ain’t fit to shine Scheurholtz’s shoes.

Not that i thought about it or anything.

In my opinion they’re shooing away the wrong guy. Cashman should be the one who is replaced. Year after year an aged pitching staff burns us in the post season, and when you finally think “Well, that’s it, this year they will definitely pick up a young, hot-shot pitcher.” It never happens.

Yep. He paid Clemens over $4 million per win. That’s just nuts, and it isn’t Torre’s fault.

Since then:
1 He lost his last 2 World series including to the mediocre Florida team.
2 He is the ONLY manager in history to blow a 3-0 series lead (vs. Red Sox) in the playoffs.
3 He has lost in the playoffs five years in a row never making it back to the World Series.
4 He never made it past the first round in the playoff three years in a row.
5 With the Yankees talent my pet parrot could take them to the playoffs. So there.

MaiDee on October 19, 2007 at 9:31 AM

And what other team has a better record than the Yankees for the past 12 years? 12 straight years in the playoffs and you consider that a failure, a reason to fire? Let’s hope you are not judged by the same standards at your work.

There’s no question that Steinbrenner didn’t want the negative press of directly firing the beloved Torre, so he extended an insulting offer sure to be rejected.

The only question remaining is how poorly the players take to Steinbrenner’s lack of guts or class. Hmm, not really, I’m sure every one of them already new Big George for what he is. The second worst owner in professional sports.

Despite 7 years of failure including losing in the first round for three years in a row with the most expensive team in baseball history, the guy wes fortunate not to be fired outright.

The Yankees have a great nucleus of young talent and they also have some extra baggage. Some cleaning is in order. There may be a couple of lean years but they will be back.

But, as they say, you can’t fire the whole team so the manager takes the hit.

But the hit for what? That second-half surge was remarkable. So Joe Torre got them into the post-season when, at the All-Star break, it looked like their season was over, and he gets the raw deal?

I think they’re confusing Torre with A-Rod.

I’m a METS fan, but Torre did not deserve that invitation to decline.

Then again, I’m sure that it was designed that way. The Yankees, out of respect for all he’s done, make a concilitory, but modest, offer and Joe declines the offer to save face. They part on respectable, not bad, terms.

Nice play, Steinbrenner(s). But we all know who got shafted here. Thankfully, though, he leaves with his dignity intact.

In my opinion they’re shooing away the wrong guy. Cashman should be the one who is replaced. Year after year an aged pitching staff burns us in the post season, and when you finally think “Well, that’s it, this year they will definitely pick up a young, hot-shot pitcher.” It never happens.

*sad wave* Thanks for the memories Joe, don’t take away too many of our guys when you land your new job.

Yankees publicly humiliate Torre into quitting

Next time someone wants to publicly humiliate me with a 5 million dollar contract plus incentives, I’ll be waiting.

I’m a Yankees fan, and Torre had to go. Losing in the first round for 3 consecutive years with all the talent that team had is a joke. He absolutely blew Game 2 with his handling of the pitching staff, taking Pettite out too early, being WAY too concerned with pitch counts in the postseason.

Michael Kay on ESPN Radio said it best: Torre had the best job: when everything goes well, it’s because of him. When everything went bad, it’s everyone BUT him.

And if the Yankees don’t make the playoffs next year? Big deal. Losing…no getting blown out 3 consecutive years in the first round is unacceptable.

I need to pack that away for a rainy day.

Yankee fans have a memory.

So what was it someone here once said about civilized discourse?

someone on October 18, 2007 at 8:52 PM

Willie Randolph was the heir apparent prior to taking the Met job…after That Which Shall Remain Nameless (for AP), though, I want no part of Willie as Yankee manager.

Short term, give me Piniella Lite (Girardi). Given his track record with ownership (i.e. his beef with Miami owner Jeff Loria which led him to being fired after winning NLMOY), I sense he won’t put up with any nonsense from Steinbrenner or any of his minions. The corporate choice, though, will likely be Donnie Baseball. Here’s hoping he keeps Bowa as bench coach if that happens.

I have no doubt that this was what we in the car business call a “left-handed firing”. Steinbrenner had to save face after issuing that last ultimatum, and he did so by making Torre an unacceptable offer. Anything less would have confirmed to all that the old man really lost it. No biggie. Torre walks right into the booth, and straight to Cooperstown. All will be forgotten when he unveils his monument at the new Stadium.

Thank you, Mr. Torre.

P.S. For all his Yankee hate, there was no way AP was going to turn his back on an old Met.

He has been screwing over the Yankees for too, too many years.