Torre Will Not Be Back With The Yankees
 

The man went out at the top of his game.
Torre turns down Yankees' one-year offer

Manager rejects offer to take pay cut, leaves after 12 seasons at helm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21333866/
Mixed signals surround Mattingly, Yankees

Agent refutes report that N.Y. bench coach doesn't want managerial job

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21321593/

He got 1 year with less pay; I don't blame him. The best part is that he flew down to tell George.

-Rudey

and boston won last night.... ugh...

I don't blame him at all though. Sad :(

Uh false?

This typical of The George isn't it?

Joe Torre did a heck of a job for the Yankees but he did not get into the World Series with all of the overly priced players.

Joe, come to Kamsas City, they need help!

He was offered over $13,500 a day - every day - even on days he didn't do anything - for minding a bunch of guys hitting a ball with a stick - even if they didn't do a good job (or if he didn't do a good job), and he considers it an insult and a slap in the face.

Got it.

Good for him.

I was really sad today, I have to admit. When I saw him on the news crying I actually ended up shedding a few tears myself. He's the only manager I've ever known as a Yankees fan, and it's hard to see him go. But I don't blame him--they pretty much forced his hand. I hope Mattingly takes over, though. He said publically that he wasn't ready, though, so I'm not sure that would happen.

Uh true.

This is his best managerial season in a very long time. To get that team to the playoffs was a pretty huge deal as far as I'm concerned.

I feel like the 96 team was his best job, considering the mean talent level and the way he actually utilized the kids . . . this year he did a fine job as well, but it's not like there were many tough decisions. Melky Cabrera is just better than Johnny Damon at this point, plus injuries really made decisions for him.

I think, if you look at the Yankees roster, it was about a 92-94 win team . . . most places' preseason projections agreed. Torre put them in a great spot, but it wasn't revolutionary like the 96 season.

I guess, now that I write this, that I'm agreeing with you completely in the "best season in a long time" - one thing I am proud of Yankees fans for: most of them are siding with Torre here. They should, even with his flaws. Rivera and Posada are likely gone without him, and ARod's situation has gotten more press than it likely deserves, but there may be some massive turnover in the Bronx. It'll be interesting to see how it shakes out.

As a Sox fan, though, there's nothing I would like more than to see Joe Girardi back in the pinstripes - that will guarantee a massive arm injury for one of the trio of Kennedy, Joba and Alan Horne, if not all three. Sign his ass up!

While Joe took a paycut to only $5 Mil. ,I should be so lucky, it seems it may have been more like a kick in the rear. It is personell to him.

Yeah I agree with you for sure about the players siding with him. I like that a lot. I think the '96 season was managing at its finest as well, I just didn't feel like this was a "down" year for Torre, so to speak.

Haha, and good call about Girardi. I'm a Sox fan as well, been one for as long as I can remember.

There was/is a great deal more that was going on behind the screens/curtains/scenes.

One of the NY papers got hold of, by way of RoIA, the Yankee expense reports.

Not very pretty for an organization that shows itself off as a class act.

Nickle and Dim-ed Joe and players while the board play rather loose.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...rs_for_ro.html

http://www.goodjobsny.org/Yankees_2005_%20Expenses.htm

http://wcbstv.com/sports/yankee.stad....2.312915.html