I think Pinella is in for sure

You want him out fire him but you gotta pay him.
I'm sure Lou has been in touch, all the more reason I would make George fire him.

If you want Pinella that bad then make it happen and be prepared to pay because it will cost you a lot on a number of fronts so be prepared to weather the storm.

If Piniella is hired as the new manager of the New York Yankees, then Philip Hughes should spend the entire 2007 season with the Columbus Clippers.

As it is, there's no denying the fact that Piniella is a horrible at managing young pitchers. His track record with the Seattle Mariners and Tampa Bay Devil Rays during the 1990s and early 2000s is proof of that.

In the end, ultimately, Hughes would be mentally abused and physically overused via Piniella's impatience.

any more than Randy Johnson or Alex Rodriguez was the answer.  These impetuous moves we make when we lose a series and think that "X" is the magic answer is nonsense.  It's like someone is sitting there going "Oh I know, this guy will fix things."  And then that guy doesn't fix things or makes them worse (Johnson/Rodriguez).  

I think Torre made some bad decisions in the division series but I don't think Pinella is the answer.  

The yankees had a manager other than Joe Torre I was 7 years old...

If Jeter doesn't want him gone, he's not going to be gone.  If George wants anyone to be happy, it's the captain.

I do think he should have pitched Wang on game 4 and that he should have put Andy Phillips at first.  

I don't know what is wrong with Torre that led him to these decisions but someone should find out and fix it.

I do like the professionalism of this team and how everything (sans the SI article) stays in the clubhouse and I think Lou would undo all of that.  

They need to get more coaches into more active roles on the bench the way Zim was.  I assume the coaches and players knew that Wright and Sheffield were bad ideas.  Since me and everyone i know knew it, I assume they did.  I was screaming about Wright and Sheffield before the game.  hell, who couldn't see that loss coming?

I think Joe is amazing but some of his calls are just screwy sometimes.  He needs better people around him who can say "Hold it...let's think about this."  
 

Joe Torre's strength as manager of the Yankees has not been in-game decisions, which is something he has always had trouble with, beginning with his managerial career with the Mets, and continuing through his tenure's in Atlanta and St. Louis.  Torre's great strength as a manager was a manager of personalities, of egos.  He has had help through the years with the players he had playing for him earlier in his Yankee tenure.  Torre handled personalities and egos very well, was able to be a lightning rod for the ownership's ire, and kept a cool, calm demeanor in the clubhouse and dugout.  Of course, winning World Series helped keep the egos and controversies in check.  

A friend of mine, not even remotely close to being a Yankee fan (hating them, in fact), acknowledges that the Yankees early in Torre's tenure was a team, a true team, not just a collection of stars, like the current Yankees.  Is this Torre's fault?  Yes and no. If Torre is to get some credit for the titles, he should get some demerits for the team's failings.  

Will hiring a new manager cure the Yankees' ills?  Well, let's look at this realistically for a moment-- not Yankee fan/media reality but real-world reality-- here is a team that has won the division title every year for nine straight years and playing in five World Series with a record of 3-2 in those series.  Take a look at this for a moment.... 5 World Series appearances in nine years.... 3 World Series won in nine years.... Truth be told, Yankee fans, losing as your team has been losing should not be embarrassing, at all.  Your team was a part of history in 2004-- on the wrong side, however.  You lost to an Angels team in 2005 that has had your team's number for years, so that is not shocking.  In 2006, you got beat by good pitching.  Kenny Rogers' start was shocking, to be sure.  But Detroit was a good team this season, on the whole, who did play badly in their last 50 games.  Detroit's victory is not shocking, is not a sign of the end times, or anything like that.  It was a loss to a team that just played better-- which is how it works out most of the time.  Baseball has been like that for years, and will continue to be that way.

The fact that the Yankees haven't won a World Series since 2000 is not terrible, shocking, embarrassing, unfathomable, or any other adjective you want to use in that vein.  I mean this in a baseball-reality sense.  In a Yankee fan/media reality, the end is nigh.  What does that tell us?  The fault lies not in your stars but in yourselves.  

They will be back one day.  That day may not come that soon but it will happen.  The Yankees have too many resources at their disposal to not reach the promised land again one day.  You do have a little work to do.  Sheffield should be a goner, you will need some pitching (who doesn't nowadays?  That is another subject for another time....), and you will need a little luck.  And there are probably other little things that need to happen.  

For fans who have forgotten, or fans who have never experienced this, just remember, or get to know, the drought that existed from 1982 to 1994.  In that timespan, there were no World Series, no Division titles, and only a couple of season where these were possible.  Hey, let's go back farther than that, where the previous drought was from 1965 to 1975.  We can go back farther than that, the timespan of 1901 to 1920.  This proves that the Yankees don't win the World Series every year.  

They'll be back.  When the time, and the team, is right, they'll be back.  Once in awhile, it's good  to know how the other half lives-- you'll appreciate the titles more.