More shit from the Torre book is in the papers, and I still have no idea why he even wrote this book. And such juicy stuff, too - wow, players didn't like Pavano? David Wells was a pain in the ass, Randy Johnson didn't bake cupcakes everyday? Gee. Illuminating stuff.
And why so close to his time here - it's only been one season since he coached here, and he's willing to do this shit? How much money could he possibly be getting for it - more than he could get after he retires going around giving speeches about the glory days? What's the point?
I do have a feeling he's going to draw a line between his latter teams - All-Star-laden behemoths of individual performers - and his championship teams - "team players" who weren't great but were happy to fill roles. Why? Cause then he gets the credit as the genius coach. Nobody wants to have to say "Yeah, we won cause we had great players hitting the shit out of the ball." Never mind these "no names" included a Hall of Famer at short, a second baseman who was a premiere leadoff hitter for almost a decade, two AL batting champions in the outfield, a great rotation and the best closer in history, along with a few hired mercenaries (Strawberry, Justice et al.) Oh yeah, and a 1B whose rbi totals during that time include 117, 141, 123, 113. Hmm. Yeah, what a fucking genius. How'd he ever do it?
Torre either owes somebody something fierce, or this book is pure spite that he'll regret in about three years.
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It's payback. They burned him, so he's burning them. They insulted him publicly, so he's insulting them publicly. He's burning bridges, but obviously he doesn't give a fuck. Good for him!
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