^^ Beckett is an absolute machine. Personally I think he\'s a shoe in for Cy Young
agreed. Beckett>pap= unstopable.
^^ Beckett is an absolute machine. Personally I think he\'s a shoe in for Cy Young
He definitely should after this season. Its great to see him pitch. He always looks like he is having a catch with the catcher.
^^ Beckett is an absolute machine. Personally I think he\'s a shoe in for Cy Young
agreed. Beckett>pap= unstopable.
Beckett>Okajima>Papelbon= fogetaboudit
Bottom line: The Yankees
**** up. Now, they have no choice but to go to LaRussa on bended knee.
Ya I don\'t think it\'s time for Mattingly.... Girardi might work tho- seems like strong silent type- kinda like torre but way younger
But I\'m a sox fan so it don\'t matter what i think
the last thing they Yankees need is the Mattingly curse.
How good a Manager are the Yankees letting go? Even those that hate the Yankees think this is a mistake.
Joe Torre is the essence of Evil, and he looks like the Devil. But he\'s definitely a great manager.
Leith - as much as I hate to see Torre go, we knew that it was only a matter of time before either he would retire or Steinbrenner would send him packing. I think that his record speaks for him, but what more could you ask of the man to accomplish in 12 seasons - 12 post season appearances, 6 world series appearances and 4 world series championships. I do think that the offer yesterday served two purposes; I think Steinbrenner wanted him gone and I think that Torre probably wanted out on some level. I\'ve always said that a coach can only do so much, then it\'s left up to the players to do the rest. The Yankees just did not perform well enough to stay in the hunt the last couple seasons. But Torre will surely be missed.
As for his replacement, I\'m not sure who I would want to coach the team
Mattingly - My all time favorite baseball player. I don\'t think that there was a Mattingly curse, it\'s just that they didn\'t have the right team during his tenure. My concern is that he really doesn\'t have any managerial experience and I can see he and Steinbrenner having it out if he doesn\'t perform well immediately, which might leave you with a situation like Yogi, where you don\'t see Donnie in a Yankee uniform for along time. Sone day he\'ll be ready, but not now.
Girardi - I think that he might be the man for the job. I personally wouldn\'t like it because I get the feeling that he would be a player\'s coach and I don\'t think that would work in a club house that has several of his old team mates potentially on the team. But if I had to guess who they\'d end up with, this would be my guess
LaRussa - I don\'t like the guy and wouldn\'t want him in pinstripes.
But I\'m sure that a decision will be made fairly quickly.
I can\'t believe how terribly Torre was treated. A guy who did as much as he did for that organization deserves way better. Taking two or three days (however long is was) to deliberate and decide what they wanted to do is bullshit. He deserves better than to be strung along like that. Not to mention Steinbrenner\'s dick comments.
If I were a NY fan I would be truly sad to see him go and seriously ripshit regarding the way he was treated.
As a life-long Yankee fan, I will deeply miss Torre, but there\'s not much you can do when Steinbrenner wants something or something done; it\'s just going to get done whether we like it or not.
It is the way in which it was done that I am referring to...
Of course, they could always bring back Stump Merrill.
Please don\'t, that would be the equivalent of the Jets bringing in Rich Kotite to replace Mangini for the rest of the season.
I say we try and get Buck Showalter, he\'s only an advisor for Cleveland.