Torre in as new Dodgers manager!

[Pepsei]

this is the second time joe torre got little fired... lol

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: jonmcc33

Originally posted by: moshquerade
A-Rod will follow him.

Good, so he can choke in the post-season for another team instead.

i'm curious, IF mariano had NOT blown the game 4 save against boston and NYY had gone on to kill the St Louis Cardinals in the WS, would ARod still be a choke?

if i remember correctly, he had a great first 4 games of that series.


amazing how people forget that ARod isn't the only one responsible for the yankees not winning in the post season the last 4 years. shoot, this past playoff run, it was clearly Wang and Jeter that were the goats, not ARod.

 

[techs]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3090266

Joe Torre was hired Thursday to manage the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking the job two weeks after walking away from the New York Yankees.

Torre's contract is for three years and slightly more than $13 million, ESPN.com's Jayson Stark reports, citing a baseball official who has seen the deal.




Espn has posted it like its solid news. So I'd say its done.

 

[anxi80]

see ya in april joe! good luck!



:music: beat l-a! beat l-a! :music:

 

[aplefka]

Great. From the team I hate most to the second team I hate most. Joe Torre, can't you ever be the good guy?

 

[FoBoT]

awesome


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[TangoJuliet]

in the Torre press conference he announced that Mattingly and Bowa will follow him from the Yanks.....kind of expected

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: jman19
Good luck Joe!

The Dodgers will still likely be garbage though, that lineup has NO pop.

Of course, they are in the NL, where any team can get lucky enough to get swept by the AL :laugh:

Out of the last 12 WS, its AL - 7 & NL - 5 with 3 of the series going 7 games ... not exactly dominance, although right now the AL is no question the stronger league.

On-topic, Torre won't win like he did with the Yankees in LA, but the Dodgers were close this year & until the clubhouse fell apart in September they were right in the thick of the NL West.

 

[oddyager]

Originally posted by: jjsole
I hope he does a better job lighting a fire under his players' arse when needed than he's done with the yankees these past years. Everyone loves Torre, but w/o the $150-200 million payroll, he's had fairly average coaching career.

The Yankee payroll was actually much less and much closer to the rest of the MLB during their championship years. It wasn't until the last few years when they weren't winning in the playoffs Stenbreinner opened the vault up.