Sunday, January 25, 2009

Joe Torre to Yanks: Frack You

I must say that I find the reports about Joe Torre bashing the Yankees in his new book hilarious. Let's set the stage for why I find this funny . . .
Since the Yanks won their last World Series, the franchise has made several stupid decisions that have come back to haunt them. To-wit:
1) Letting Andy Pettite go (before bringing him back);
2) Signing A-Rod;
3) Signing Randy Johnson;
4) Signing Jaret Wright;
5) Signing Carl Pavano;
6) Signing Matsui;
7) Signing Johnny Over The Hill Damon . . .
Well, you get the idea. Offering Torre a pay cut and a one-year contract was the perfect example of how stupid the Yankees have become. You don't force out a manager who took you to the postseason 12 years in a row. Sure, maybe the team failed to accomplish anything, but that was hardly Torre's fault. It was the fault of the organization for putting so much money into pitchers and players who were either not that good or well past their prime (you see that they learned their lesson with this year's free agent spending spree). The fact that some of those teams made it the postseason was remarkable. And Torre deserved nothing but respect for getting those sub-par teams to the playoffs. A manager who wins three World Series deserves a lot more than a pay cut and a one-year contract.
I'm glad to see that Torre is striking back and calling out the Yankees for dumb move after dumb move.
Man, looking at that list of those free agent signings, I can't begin to understand how Brian Cashman has managed to keep his job all these years. Looks like yet another dumb move by the Yankees . . .

2 comments:

Malach the Merciless said...

Hey we got our first spammer!

SoLow said...

I agree with you. Unfortunately, as a Cowboys fan I'm seeing the same trends - teams full of high priced (and high profile) free agents don't normally equate to championships.