Torre in Tampa

[davehughes14]

Saw on ESPN.com that the NY Post is reporting that Torre is in tampa to meet face to face with Yankee's officials.

Any guesses as to what this means?

[MizzouBravesFan]

Re: Torre in Tampa

He's going to re-sign.

George doesn't have the guts to get rid of him, that's why I lauged at his "ultimatium". It was such an empty threat.

[davehughes14]

Re: Torre in Tampa

Hey guys, sorry I didn't know how to post the link to the story.

[Sandman42]

Re: Torre in Tampa

Yep, he's probably going down there to work out the deals on a new contract. They wouldn't ask him to come down if they didn't want to offer him a new contract.

[CMH]

Re: Torre in Tampa

Apparently it's a one year deal with a second year team option.

[pinnacleguy2]

Re: Torre in Tampa

I bet they resign him, 2 years 4.7 million or something like that.

[davehughes14]

Re: Torre in Tampa

Apparently it's a one year deal with a second year team option.

Interesting. Any chance they could make an announcement today?

[ComfortablyLomb]

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Honestly, I think any manager who steps in Torre's shoes next year is going to have a brutal year. The team really seems like it needs a one year reboot where some of the young guys start to take over for the old guard and subjecting a new manager to that really isn't ideal. The guy could pretty much guarantee he wouldn't be around for 2009. Torre is a little bit similar to Francona in that while he's not perfect by any stretch he's definitely above average and tends not to be recognized it because there's just so much media scrutiny sometimes. That and I don't know who could be found to replace him... I don't see La Rusa really wanting the job.

[MaddenMan]

Re: Torre in Tampa

Hey guys, sorry I didn't know how to post the link to the story.

Click on your address bar at the top of the page and highlight the address link, hit CTRL-C (to copy) or right click and copy, paste with CTRL-V (to paste) or right click on a forum post that you are making and it will display like so:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3069115

Or you can use code by clicking here:

http://forums.operationsports.com/vB....php?do=bbcode

Like so:

Torre Arrives In Tampa

[davehughes14]

Re: Torre in Tampa

Click on your address bar at the top of the page and highlight the address link, hit CTRL-C (to copy) or right click and copy, paste with CTRL-V (to paste) or right click on a forum post that you are making and it will display like so:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3069115

Thanks for the info Madden.

[Porschebenz2001]

Re: Torre in Tampa

Honestly, I think any manager who steps in Torre's shoes next year is going to have a brutal year. The team really seems like it needs a one year reboot where some of the young guys start to take over for the old guard and subjecting a new manager to that really isn't ideal. The guy could pretty much guarantee he wouldn't be around for 2009. Torre is a little bit similar to Francona in that while he's not perfect by any stretch he's definitely above average and tends not to be recognized it because there's just so much media scrutiny sometimes. That and I don't know who could be found to replace him... I don't see La Rusa really wanting the job.

Truer words were never spoken. He'll be back. I think he will retire when he's done with the Yanks. Hopefully he'll be back along with Mo, Arod, and Bobby Abreu (in a short term deal).

[Picci]

Re: Torre in Tampa

He turned down the offer! WOW!

[Chaos81]

Re: Torre in Tampa

Wow!


That wasn't what I was expecting to hear with this conference call.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Nice report, Outside the Lines. For the last 10 minutes they've been saying that he'll be returning and accepted the offer.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Torre in Tampa

I can't believe it.