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Yankees are done — Joe Torre too?
By Ed Valentine on October 9th, 2007 12:10 AM |
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I am too stunned — and too tired — to think straight right now.
The New York Yankees season is over. The Joe Torre Era in the Bronx might be over. The A-Rod Era in the Bronx might be over. It’s entirely possible, especially if Torre is gone, that several other Yankee stalwarts have played their final game in New York.
I’m in disbelief. I was sure the Yankees would win Game 4. Sure that Chien Ming-Wang would pitch well and the Yankees would be playing Wednesday in Cleveland for a berth in the ALCS. That, of course, didn’t happen. The Indians won, 6-4, and will play the Boston Red Sox for the right to advance to the World Series.
In New York, it may as well be winter. Another dark, dreary discontented off-season has begun too soon.
Right now, I can’t think about all the reasons why this happened. After three straight first-round playoff exits I should be used to this.
But, I’m not. The Yankees season is over. The storms around the Bronx, though, are just beginning.
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I am not a Yankees fan. I am a Mets fan.
Now that that’s out of the way…How can you fire Joe Torre? People are delusional if they think it was a straight line from DiMaggio and Mantle to Jeter and Rivera. The Yankees were a dead and desolate franchise in the 1980s. People too young or too short-minded forget that. The sort of success that has followed Joe Torre over the last 12 years is unprecedented.
Mark it down. If Torre goes, things will only get worse.
However…if Torre does go…I hate to admit it, but…he brought it on himself. Wang on short rest? Mussina to the rescue? Where were the kids that got you here, Joe? That Phil Hughes was a safety net for Roger Clemens in this series is criminal. Ian Kennedy’s late-season success was likewise clearly under-valued by the organization.
Yankee fans don’t want to hear it, but sometimes The Fall is the best thing for an organization. Firing Torre isn’t the answer, but wake up Bronx! The new guard has arrived…it’s time to embrace them.
I agree with you that it’s going to get worse before it gets better in the Bronx. I had no problem w/Wang in Game 4. He won 19 games and was supposedly the ‘ace.’ Anyway, Torre will go and all the people who have complained about him for years will then figure out how good he was at his job.
I also agree without Joe Torre things will just get worse. Jeter,A-Rod and the rest respect Joe and hae followed his footsteps in playing hard and being honest. This is not a goog time to let Joe Go.