Some of it has been misfortune too. Carl Pavano anyone? Also, the talent has forgotten how to hit in the postseason the past two years

Absolutely correct. But those are things beyond the manager's control and things that all teams go through. Injuries and slumps are part of the game.

NEWS FLASH: The Yanks offered Torre a one year contract and he turned it down!!! He's gone from the Yankees.

I just saw it on TV (are you watching Oprah??).

He turned down a one year deal for 5 million + incentives, which would kick in with each round of the playoffs the Yanks make next year. Looks like he's gone.

I was flipping channels just as they interrupted Oprah.

Good for Joe! And as far as Georgie goes -

He's gone, Cashman just made an announcement that it's time for the Yankees to "move on as quickly as possible."

I will miss him terribly, as will millions of other fans, not to mention his players. Players like Jeter, who have never played for anyone else, are bound to be in for tough time dealing with the changes ahead.

I have big time respect for Joe. Good for him. F*** the Steinbrenners and their messenger boy Johnny Ola, er, Brian Cashman.

If you live in the NY Metro area, turn on WFAN, they're going into it in great detail.

Good for him. I don't blame him for wanting out. I wouldn't want to work for someone who kept telling me I was going to be fired. What are the chances he will go to another team?

Steinbrenner =

Goodbye Joe, we will miss you terribly! Thanks for the great memories

We should've seen it coming:



He may not win as Manager of the Year, but he just got my vote as Baseball's Man of the Year!

It's a lousy way to let him go. I'd respect Yankee management more if they just fired him, rather than let him twist in the wind for 10 days. Then to make him be the one to turn down a pay cut was just wrong. I don't care how much you make, who wants to take a pay cut? I negotiated contracts for close to twenty years, first as a shop steward on a negotiation committee, then as a business agent, and I'll tell you this: Every single time management asks you to take a cut, they want you out. It was just a cheap way to let him go.

PROGRAM ALERT

According to WFAN: Joe to do Letterman tonight.

Holy crap, I didn't expect that!!!

Fuck Steinbrenner after all the money they're wasting on pieces of shit pitching!!

Good for you, Joe! You're gonna be TERRIBLY missed

Good for Joe!

At the very least, The Yankees should have offered him the same money. A cut in pay is a slap in the face to Torre.

The Yankees played this one beautifully. "Let's put the ball in Torre's court, but deflate some of the air in that ball so that he looks like he cannot throw it." Manipulative pricks. They knew damn well that Torre could NOT accept a cut in pay. Not because of the monetary loss, but more of it being principle and a loss of pride. Had he accepted a cut in pay then it would be like admitting that he has not done a good job as a manager.

And the Yankees knew this.

For all the greatness this organization has achieved throughout their existence and for all the legendary players that have played with them throughout their existence, it all is meaningless at the moment because right now, the way that front office of this organization handled themselves from the start of the playoffs, threatening the future of their manager in public while the games were still going on, they just may have reached their lowest point in their history as far as showing any kind of class goes.

What a disgrace.


You Go Joe!

Joe Torre's replacement is in a nearly impossible, no-win situation. If 12 straight playoff appearances, 4 WS wins and 6 WS appearances are not enough, then what is?

Exactly!

I just pray Girardi gets the job and not Mattingly. I love Donnie as a player but not as a coach. I'd feel more comfortable with Girardi in command than I would with Donnie.

Seriously, I love people who are like, "Way to go Joe, good job!"

The Yankees offered him a 1-year deal, which he turned down. Huzzah.

This is the end of an era, a sad day, for I have really no conscious memory of anyone else as the Yankee manager besides Joe Torre.

That being said...it was time for Joey Four-Rings to go.

I support Steinbrenner 110% with this decision. I only wish it would have been done sooner (i.e. the night they were eliminated by Cleveland).

Way to go, Joe! Good job!

Priceless!

Way to go, George! Great job!

Way to go Geoff, you drunk!

Oops.

Joe Torre brought an air of calm and class that will be missing from the team from now on.

DC, now I can definitely see Posada going over to the Mets next year!

The Steinbrenners showed themselves to be disrespectful, piggy little ingrates!

Joe Torre handled himself beautifully. He'll go out just as he reigned - with class.

Christ, I'll never understand it. Yes, Torre is a Hall of Fame manager. Yes, he is now pseudo-fired...gee, I wish I had the chance to turn down a $5 million dollar 1-year deal with the Yankees...he'd be the highest paid manager in the game, by a considerable sum.

If Posada wants to go, he can take his whiffle bat with him and head right over to Queens. Same with Mariano Rivera.

Both of those guys have been made quite wealthy with their contracts with the Yankees, and to act like they've been "disrespected" is complete hogwash.

Keep posting Torre's (fabulous) record, but it doesn't change the fact that this team was DOA at the start of the season, and without A-Rod, would have been in the basement. For the third straight year in a row, our team has been embarrassed in the playoffs. An air of calm and class? This team needed a friggin' torch under their asses this postseason, not sleepy Joe and his Bigelow green tea©.

We all applaud Cashman and the youth movement on the field. I say we do the same when it comes to the bench.

Give my regards to Joe (Girardi).

I completely disagree. If the team has been dead the past few years, you can thank some hires like Randy Johnson, Igawa and Kyle Farnsworth. The fact that they came as far as they did each season, you can thank Joe Torre for motivating his players and getting amazing performances from some of them.

WAY TO GO JOE!!!

GREAT RUN!!!


A Playoff Appearance every year as Yankee Manager!

Mission Accomplished!


And how did they show their appreciation? By threatening you while you're manging your team in a playoff and disguising their bullshit by making it sound as though that offered you a one year contract and that you turned them down. But what they failed to make clear to the public is that in actuality they offered you a take it or leave it cut in pay.

Classless organization.

Any chance that MGT will renegotiate with Torre?