Torre gets the thumbs up
Yankees fans rejoice (well, not really as you got knocked out of the first round of the playoffs), King George has decided that Joe Torre isn’t the problem behind his $200M choke. The New York Post is reporting that Steinbrenner felt Lou Pinella was close to a deal with the Nationals and also didn’t want to pay Torre $7M to lounge around in the sun so after a couple of days of deliberation, he has decided to keep Joe Torre.
We secretly were hoping that Steinbrenner would fire Torre so that the Yankees would implode next year. Hell, imagine if the Yankees missed out on Lou Pinella and had someone like Dusty Baker coaching them. That’d be high comedy. A $200M payroll with 20 wins. But alas, it seems the Yanks will retool their lineup and come out firing in 2007. Check out the links below for reaction from around the blogosphere.
Links:
[NY Post]: HE’S JOE-ING NOWHERE
[Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon]: A. Rod, Tigers, and Torre
[Dan Shanoff]: Can We Stop the Torre Talk, Now?
[Into the Woods]: Where do we go from here?
[Baseballistic]: Yankees Problems Aren’t Torre-Ential — They Start Upstairs
[Working Life]: Wait ‘Til Next Year–With Torre
