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Torre Leaves Yankees

I'm a Boston Red Sox fan. So for me, I must disclose, there are only two things that matter: that the Red Sox win the World Series and that the New York Yankees don't.

Yankees manager Joe Torre has been one big reason why Sox fans could never count the Yankees out for the past 12 seasons. And now he's gone. The pending departure adds a new twist to the teams' rivalry.

On Thursday, the Yankees' brass offered Torre a one-year contract at a reduced salary based around performance incentives. On Morning Edition, Tom Goldman talked about how Torre saw this offer as an insult and turned it down. Many believe that Torre became the fall guy for the Yankees' failed strategy of just buying the biggest names they could find, rather than developing from the bottom up — the strategy of this year's National League champs, the Colorado Rockies.

So now the question becomes who will manage the Yankees? Bench coach and former Yankees' first baseman Don Mattingly is a leading contender, but even he has said that whoever replaces Torre will have a really tough job. As Mark Feinsand wrote on Blogging the Bombers, "You won't realize how good Torre was until you go through a season without him."

2:50 PM ET | 10-19-2007 | permalink

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Torre was the wrong person to be blame for the recent poor showing by the Yankees (Yanees loose the head of their family). Yankees should find an antidote to Beckett, who has caused them two championship defeats. In my opinion ,Yankee miseries will continue next year too without good pitching.
anser azim, Chicago

Sent by anser azim | 3:41 PM ET | 10-19-2007

I feel sorry for the Yankees. My man Carl said it best, http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39215b8f3910115ba59668e0048

Sent by Greyzzz | 2:02 AM ET | 10-22-2007

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