Torre turns down the Yankees

Can't go on forever.

Well I keep holdin' on to yesterday
I keep holdin' on enough to say
That I'm wrong
I keep thinkin'that I'm lonely
But it's only missing you inside
Days that we were once together
Seems they'll never come alive
So I keep holdin' on to yesterday
I keep holdin' on enough to say
That it's wrong
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Lord I don't know when I'll see you
I can't reach you anymore
If I'd only known I'd need you
Then I'd keep you like before
I keep holdin' on to yesterday
I keep holdin' on enough to say
That I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
To keep holdin' on
My yesterdays have all gone by...

 

I don't think we're talking about feeding his family here. It's a pay cut, for one thing. It is also a one-year deal, which leaves him more vulnerable to being fired in mid-season next year if they do get off to another crappy start.

Again, they knew he wouldn't take it. This was just so they could try to deflect some of the bad PR onto Torre. Classless and gutless move by the Yankees.

Edit: Yeah, what Lester said

 

That's great.

Posada can be replaced by Wil Nieves. ARod with Wilson Betimet. Andy Pettitte with one of the young arms. Who replaces Mo? And which available manager can handle the pressures of being the Yankees manager with the dignity Torre did?

If you think Valentine or LaRussa can, you are sadly mistaken.

 

Exactly. Enough was definitely enough. You can only shit on someone so many times before they realize they're better than that.

 

I'm not disagreeing with any of that. I'm just pointing out that $5-mil guaranteed is higher than any other manager in baseball. Should he collect on all of the bonus money, he would make more than he received the year before.

I don't disagree that this is the Yankees putting on a show, but I didn't really expect anything other than this when the season ended the way it did.

 

Would La Russa eschew the DH and bat the pitcher eighth?

 

La Russa would be eschew-ed up by the media and the Steinbrenners. Plus, he's never managed in front of fans as maniacal & willing to canibalize their own as Yankee fans. Fuck the "Genius."

 

Look we made it through Horace Clark and Mel Hall -- we'll get through this.

 

Plus he'd make more than this season if the Yanks made the World Series.

 

Torre is such a martyr. He better not go anywhere else or people will remember he's not a particularly good manager.

 

He may not be the greatest game manager ever, but no one could have handled that NY clubhouse atmosphere as well as he did.

 

Amen, Beaker. Only Francona approaches Torre in the managing fragile ego dept.