Even teammates called him 'A-Fraud'

by Travis G on Jan 25, 2009 4:42 PM EST in New York Yankees News

Joe Torre says in a new book, set to be released February 3. That's just one nugget that we'll learn about from Torre's days as manager for 12 seasons.

Another:

The Post, which purchased an advance copy in a New York bookstore last week, reported that Rodriguez "developed a 'Single White Female'-like obsession with Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him."

Likely to be a hot read when it's released.

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Out of character for Joe

I guess he really wants this book to sell. I never pictured him as a guy that liked pointing fingers, but it seems he critiziced the yankees a lot in this book. As for A-rod, this is pretty much old news. It was a well known fact that jeter and a-rod had something going on and that there was some kind of tension with a-rod in the locker room. I hope nothing really disturbing comes out of this book.

by steelersfan86 on Jan 25, 2009 6:29 PM EST reply actions

Who knows

what Joe has been hiding behind his seemingly expresionless face

"Hey Derek do you actually drive the Edge?","I don't drive that piece of crap!"

by Da Shiz on Jan 25, 2009 6:37 PM EST reply actions

The real Torre?

So its come down to Joe taking a shot at ARod by quoting others in the clubhouse. Is he that insecure that he sold out for money? How will his Dodger players react to a manager who does this sort of thing?

Sorry Joe, after all the tears and hugs and family BS…we now learn you cannot be trusted…so long.

Shame, would have been nice to see him at the Grand Opening. Now ? I don’t think so.

We did better 'cause we got better...Yogi

by mickey07 on Jan 25, 2009 8:01 PM EST reply actions

I want to read the book

before passing judgement.
Context is important. Both “Why was he saying that about Arod?” and “How much of the book is negative?”

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Jan 25, 2009 8:09 PM EST reply actions

Picked this link up at LoHud

SI:

I think it’s important to understand context here. The book is not a first-person book by Joe Torre, it’s a third-person narrative based on 12 years of knowing the Yankees and it’s about the changes in the game in that period. Seems to me the New York Post assigned this third-person book entirely to Joe Torre and that’s not the case. In fact, if people saw that Post story they probably noticed there are no quotes from Joe Torre in it. Joe Torre does not rip anybody in the book. The book really needs to be read in context.

The interviews with Torre were done specifically for the book but this is the result of hundreds of interviews with not only Torre but players, front office executives, executives of other teams, players on other teams.

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Jan 25, 2009 8:12 PM EST up reply actions

Read

that too jscape. It’s a 477 page book. The comments he makes or that are referred to by the press cannot be more than a 10-15 page peice. Maybe less.

by ProudYankee on Jan 26, 2009 9:50 AM EST up reply actions

i agree

there’s probably only 5-10% negative stuff, but the ‘juicy’ stuff seems awfully juicy. we’ll see.

by Travis G on Jan 26, 2009 8:15 PM EST up reply actions

Torre Book

Travis,

This looks like a very interesting book. I’m going to request it from the library as soon as it is published.

Adam

by acastigl on Jan 25, 2009 8:22 PM EST reply actions

Just another reason for the

baseball season to begin. …And fast.

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 26, 2009 11:20 AM EST reply actions

It seems like Torre..

..isn’t the source of all the really heavy stuff… which makes me glad to hear..

What worries me is more the all A-Rod stuff.. how is this going to affect him, head-case that he is already? It seems shocking to me that A-Rod is seemingly so hated- the guy seems is doufus no doubt, but he doesn’t seem to be a particularly bad guy… insecure maybe.

I just hope that he can shut it all out and put up his usual “odd numbered year” stats… not so much for A-Rod himself, as for the Yankees in general. They don’t need A-Rod slumping on top of all this other junk.

The Jayfiss Report ...one fan's rants

by NumberSeven on Jan 26, 2009 2:00 PM EST reply actions