You Can See Where This Is Headed
The Yankees are apparently ready to start censoring their players in the future. The money quote is this from an "unamed official": "Up to now, we have always operated our employer-employee relationships on a basis of trust. But we never expected what we got from Joe. We may have to get a little tougher on this issue."
It is silly to get tougher on this issue and it is silly to react at all. Torre is the one who comes off the worst in this and it is easy to question Verducci's motives in this book. (Verducci used to work for the YES Network, but was fired after writing this. I think the Yankees would have been best served by just ignoring this and letting Torre try and explain why he felt the need to do this in the first place.
But, they didn't do that and now I wonder when the Yankees take the more obvious step. When do they take #6 and put it on the back of someone else? We always assumed that Torre would return to New York someday and have his number retired, but I think that is a distant dream now. The Yankees are pissed, Torre is hurt and I don't see how either side moves past this.
Maybe with time the two sides will reconcile, but I have a feeling that #6 will have been given away long before that.
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"Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a Yankee official said yesterday . . ."
I guess muzzles are for players, coaches and managers only.
Posted by: Greg | January 30, 2009 11:38 AM |
If the rest of the book is anything like the excerpt I just read in Sports Illlustrated? Then Torre is still a very, very good man in my book. There is nothing vicious in what I've read, just some excellent insight as to what happened and why.
Reminds me, in some ways, of Stottlemyre's book. Whether the fans and the owners can ever see their ways clear to honoring Joe in some way is something I can't predict, but I do know that I am still a Dodger's fan (first pro game I ever saw as a boy) and will be even more of one now that Torre is there.
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