Wow...Torre SLAMMIN' the Yankees

[Marino]

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Oh well, I still have faith in him for the Dodgers.

[ab713]

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If this is true then what does that say to his current players about the type of person he is and how they should look at him from here on.

[TheMatrix31]

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From what's in that NY Post article, I don't see where you people are saying he's slamming the organization and its' players.

He says the PLAYERS called Rodriguez "A-Fraud". Why not wait until the book is released to see the full quotes about "primadonnas" and the "Single White Female" before passing judgment?

That article is a sensationalized piece of crap.

[Sandman42]

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From what's in that NY Post article, I don't see where you people are saying he's slamming the organization and its' players.

He says the PLAYERS called Rodriguez "A-Fraud". Why not wait until the book is released to see the full quotes about "primadonnas" and the "Single White Female" before passing judgment?

That article is a sensationalized piece of crap.

It's the NY Post. That entire rag is a piece of crap.

[Sandman42]

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From Verducci:

SI.com: Two New York newspapers are reporting that Joe Torre rips Alex Rodriguez and George Steinbrenner in the book, and that Brian Cashman was not as supportive of Torre returning as Yankees manager after the 2007 season as was previously believed. What can you tell us about these reports?

Verducci: I think it’s important to understand context here. The book is not a first-person book by Joe Torre, it’s a third-person narrative based on 12 years of knowing the Yankees and it’s about the changes in the game in that period. Seems to me the New York Post assigned this third-person book entirely to Joe Torre and that’s not the case. In fact, if people saw that Post story they probably noticed there are no quotes from Joe Torre in it. Joe Torre doe not rip anybody in the book. The book really needs to be read in context.

Anybody who knows Joe, especially during his time in New York, knows he’s a very honest man and he is very honest in the pages of this book. People also know Joe Torre doesn’t go around ripping people and he doesn’t do that in the pages of this book. There is a lot of information in this book over a tremendous period of baseball history. It’s been reported out by me as well as informed by Torre’s own insights into that period.

[SPTO]

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Well there you go. The Post is made to look silly ONCE again!

[Brandon13]

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Well there you go. The Post is made to look silly ONCE again!

Along with a few posters in this thread.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Oh man, I can see the chants now at Fenway with the first Yankee game there this season.

"A-FRAAAAUUUUUD, A-FRAAAUUUUUD"

[CMH]

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The article from the Post alone was horribly written.

NY is full of such scumbag writers. It's amazing how they'll take something and expand on it to the point of lies.

[SoxFan01605]

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Oh man, I can see the chants now at Fenway with the first Yankee game there this season.

"A-FRAAAAUUUUUD, A-FRAAAUUUUUD"

Lmao...was thinking the exact same thing...and I can promise that it will at least be present in my copy of MLB 09: The Show...lol

Also, speaking of the article, almost anyone "involved" has stated that all of this is out of context...including Cashman.

[ehh]

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SMH @ a thread being started based on a Post article.

[AUTiger1]

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I think it is wrong to "air dirty laundry" just because you are unhappy. However, I also think the Yankees as a whole were wrong to Torre as well -- for starters, they never mentioned him in the closing ceremonies at all.

Of course, we are hearing some "juicy" stuff now perhaps just to stir the pot, so to speak.

That's one thing I didn't understand and seemed to be a real shot at Torre. How they can go and not even mention him during that ceremony.

Oh man, I can see the chants now at Fenway with the first Yankee game there this season.

"A-FRAAAAUUUUUD, A-FRAAAUUUUUD"

[CMH]

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Let's make it clear because it still causes confusion.

Joe Torre wasn't mentioned in the closing because the Yankees only honored men that played for the team.

In retrospect, if Torre is upset, then Casey Stengel should be turning green and tearing down walls.

[TarHeelMan]

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Verducci is on WFAN with Francesa right now, and confirming that it's not "Joe Torre Unleashed" or anything like that.

Didn't run with it when I saw that the Post was behind it. The only time I would bother looking at that rag was if someone left it behind on the train... It wasn't even worth the 25 cents that it cost.

[CMH]

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I should add that Stengel was mentioned along with the early great teams. But, that was handled differently.

The Yankees clearly did not honor their recent championship teams by name. They didn't have guys walk on the field from those recent years. So, I'm assuming people wanted Torre to get special recognition.

He wasn't going to be mentioned on the screen because he didn't play for the Yankees. He wasn't mentioned elsewhere because the Yankees didn't make an extra effort to honor their most recent championship teams the way they honored the old champions.