January 25, 2009
Torre's Revenge
Via BBTF, Susannah Cahalan and James Fanelli get an advanced look at Joe Torre's new book. It's not a kind look at the Yankees:
Scorned skipper Joe Torre is blasting the Yankees - calling many of his former players prima donnas, confessing he stopped trusting the powers that be years before he left the team and charging that general manager Brian Cashman betrayed him.
In an explosive new book called "The Yankee Years
", Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called "A-Fraud" by his teammates after he developed a "Single White Female"-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.
I'm a bit surprised by this. Not that these things went on, but that Joe would make them public. Torre's reputation is all class, and this calls that into question.
Update: Here's another post that agrees Torre is losing some of his classiness here.
Posted by David Pinto at
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On point, David.
I would like to compare Joe's whiny tantrum from this "gone Hollywood" book to how he believes one should act taken from his "leadership" book.
Finally, a tell-all baseball book I can't wait to read.
(Yeah, I'm a Red Sox fan. Torre was always my favorite Yankee.
Well, except for Mike Stanley.)
Finally, a tell-all baseball book I can't wait to read.
(Yeah, I'm a Red Sox fan. Torre was always my favorite Yankee.
Well, except for Mike Stanley.)
I guess he found the quickest way to reverse the love that millions of fans felt for him. It really shows his contempt for the fans and for the Yankees in general. He'll never have any support from any Yankee fan ever again. I wonder if the Yankees could prevent the Hall of Fame from putting a Yankees cap on Torre's head if he's ever enshrined.
Please. He's not making the cited topics public, he's just discussing what we've been reading about in the tabloids for years. And as for this reversing Yankee fans' opinions of Joe, why would that happen when most of them already hate A-Rod? He's giving them more ammunition, they should love that.
As a Yankee fan, I really don't care what Torre has to say. But you know what pisses me off about all this? That in an offseason where the biggest drama was how long it took for CC to sign, Jeter and ARod are going to walk into camp on the first day of spring training and have to answer questions about this BS, through no fault of their own. And the guy responsible for stirring up this new media circus won't even be in camp to deal with the fallout.
Torre is the one who was truly exposed as "a fraud" here. Wasn't he the "player's manager" that had the secret to handling the oversized egos in New York? Is it any wonder Cashman didn't back him up after seeing this expose?
Torre wore out his welcome a long time ago with some Yankees fans (Weaver for relief in the World Series comes to mind), so I'm glad he decided to tick off the rest of the fanbase as well.
Of course the Yankees will do what they can to prevent the HOF from having Torre go in as a Yankee. They're the same organization that wouldn't acknowledge his existence when they closed Yankee Stadium.
Verducci over at SI points out that those excerpts are out of context, and that the book is actually 3rd person, not 1st. Verducci suggests that those may actuallynot be Torre's own words.
Way to go Joe! Now we all know what we have long expected about A-Fraud. At least Joe has the guts to tell it like it is about that clown.