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Footballguy
NY POST
As Yankee fans go, I was never the biggest Torre fan and I was ready for a shakeup 5 years before it happened..... I get the whole, "He's so relaxed he keeps everyone even keeled" thing... But, we all know he was never the greatest "manager". IMO this guy stepped in ####. The Yankees made him. He came along at a time where tons of managers could have walked away with all that money and fanfare....
I think it's an insult and total disrepsect to come out with a book ripping players and people still in the game - come out with the book 10 years from now and it's one thing but, for now on Joe Torre is a #### to me..... He should have left a long time ago if he had these feelings and IMO the Yankees were right in being luke warm on keeping him... They should have just fired him a long time ago.
So, does this mean, that if the Yankees ponied up some more money, Torre would have sat here, taken it all and still worked with all these primdonnas???? Stupid Joe, I think that makes YOU the scorned FOOL looking for another dollar or else you cry.
TORRE RIPS 'A-FRAUD' & BOSS' BRASS BOZOS
January 25, 2009
Scorned skipper Joe Torre is blasting the Yankees - calling many of his former players prima donnas, confessing he stopped trusting the powers that be years before he left the team and charging that general manager Brian Cashman betrayed him.
In an explosive new book called "The Yankee Years," Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called "A-Fraud" by his teammates after he developed a "Single White Female"-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.
Torre, who left the Yankees and became manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 2007 season, says Cashman never told the brass that the manager wanted a two-year deal and instead remained silent during Torre's tense final sitdown with the bosses.
The book also reveals that, during spring training in 1999, team doctors revealed to owner George Steinbrenner that Torre had prostate cancer - even before informing the manager himself.
The 477-page tell-all, which The Post purchased from a city bookstore last week, is written by co-author Tom Verducci, a longtime Sports Illustrated reporter.
Torre recounts his 12-year career in New York through interviews. It is being published by Doubleday.
A father figure in the dugout, Torre became the second-winningest manager in Yankee history, bringing the team into postseason play every year from 1996 to 2007.
Torre spent years trying to bring out a winning performance from A-Rod, the highest-paid player in baseball, which from all reported accounts included a lot of hand-holding and battling the insecurities and demons Rodriguez struggles with.
And while the Bombers would win four world championships under Torre's watch by 2000, there were years of tension over management's choice of players and the growing silence between him and Yankee brass.
Torre's exit in the fall of 2007 came after a 20-minute meeting over his contract with Steinbrenner and other Yankee officials at the team's Tampa, Fla., office.
At the time, the skipper was coming off a tough and highly scrutinized season. He was seeking a two-year contract with the possibility of a buyout.
The Yankees - in a leadership crisis as Steinbrenner dealt with health issues and his sons, Hank and Hal, tried to step into the void - would only offer a one-year deal at a 30 percent pay cut.
Torre felt that if he didn't get a multiyear deal, the intense media scrutiny would continue.
When he announced that he was leaving the team, Torre told reporters that he found the offer insulting but that he considered Cashman one of the few officials in the meeting to have his back.
Time has clearly soured those sentiments.
As Yankee fans go, I was never the biggest Torre fan and I was ready for a shakeup 5 years before it happened..... I get the whole, "He's so relaxed he keeps everyone even keeled" thing... But, we all know he was never the greatest "manager". IMO this guy stepped in ####. The Yankees made him. He came along at a time where tons of managers could have walked away with all that money and fanfare....
I think it's an insult and total disrepsect to come out with a book ripping players and people still in the game - come out with the book 10 years from now and it's one thing but, for now on Joe Torre is a #### to me..... He should have left a long time ago if he had these feelings and IMO the Yankees were right in being luke warm on keeping him... They should have just fired him a long time ago.
So, does this mean, that if the Yankees ponied up some more money, Torre would have sat here, taken it all and still worked with all these primdonnas???? Stupid Joe, I think that makes YOU the scorned FOOL looking for another dollar or else you cry.
TORRE RIPS 'A-FRAUD' & BOSS' BRASS BOZOS
January 25, 2009
Scorned skipper Joe Torre is blasting the Yankees - calling many of his former players prima donnas, confessing he stopped trusting the powers that be years before he left the team and charging that general manager Brian Cashman betrayed him.
In an explosive new book called "The Yankee Years," Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called "A-Fraud" by his teammates after he developed a "Single White Female"-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.
Torre, who left the Yankees and became manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 2007 season, says Cashman never told the brass that the manager wanted a two-year deal and instead remained silent during Torre's tense final sitdown with the bosses.
The book also reveals that, during spring training in 1999, team doctors revealed to owner George Steinbrenner that Torre had prostate cancer - even before informing the manager himself.
The 477-page tell-all, which The Post purchased from a city bookstore last week, is written by co-author Tom Verducci, a longtime Sports Illustrated reporter.
Torre recounts his 12-year career in New York through interviews. It is being published by Doubleday.
A father figure in the dugout, Torre became the second-winningest manager in Yankee history, bringing the team into postseason play every year from 1996 to 2007.
Torre spent years trying to bring out a winning performance from A-Rod, the highest-paid player in baseball, which from all reported accounts included a lot of hand-holding and battling the insecurities and demons Rodriguez struggles with.
And while the Bombers would win four world championships under Torre's watch by 2000, there were years of tension over management's choice of players and the growing silence between him and Yankee brass.
Torre's exit in the fall of 2007 came after a 20-minute meeting over his contract with Steinbrenner and other Yankee officials at the team's Tampa, Fla., office.
At the time, the skipper was coming off a tough and highly scrutinized season. He was seeking a two-year contract with the possibility of a buyout.
The Yankees - in a leadership crisis as Steinbrenner dealt with health issues and his sons, Hank and Hal, tried to step into the void - would only offer a one-year deal at a 30 percent pay cut.
Torre felt that if he didn't get a multiyear deal, the intense media scrutiny would continue.
When he announced that he was leaving the team, Torre told reporters that he found the offer insulting but that he considered Cashman one of the few officials in the meeting to have his back.
Time has clearly soured those sentiments.
It's just that sports is the last vestige of where its frowned upon.I don't like Torre much, but I'm sensing a measure of ungratefulness on the part of Yanks fans. Personally, I think you'd want to read the book before blasting him, but that's just me...
The Yankees will miss Torre for years to come, he was the glue that held the Yankees together on the field. As a Twins fan, I was glad to see Torre go to the NL and beat up on teams over their.
