Torre is back... edit... NOT

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1 year with option for 1 year. option may be team option.
a pay cut, but no numbers out yet

[stormstarter28]

link?

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radio.

breaking news. WFAN. conference call later today i believe

[JordanIB]

Sounds like he's repeating the report that just came over WFAN.

[dlk9s]

Yay, so now we get to hear all the "will Torre be back" [censored] a year from now.

[Franchise 60]

Yea I also heard it on WFAN.

Correct move.

[yeotaJMU]

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Correct move.

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agreed

[Karak567]

I've done a lot of thinking about this in the last 2 hours and have come to this conclusion:

The Yankees SHOULD have resigned him at 7.5 mil with a team option for 7.5 mil that is gt'd if he wins the AL. This keeps the players happy, encourages Posada, Rivera and A-Rod to resign and doesn't put a mark on the organization.

What they did is just classic Steinbrenner. It was a complete slap in the face of Torre. Asking him to accept a pay cut is asking him to admit "I'm not as good as I used to be." It's a joke. A lot of us are too young to remember the old days of the menacing Steinbrenner, but I know from studying Yankee history that he used to do this [censored] to managers all the time. How many times did he fire and hire Billy Martin for Pete's sake?

this is the old George coming out for one last time

Instead they have put a mark on the organization and pissed the players off. Who is closer to Torre than Posada and Rivera? Stupid [censored] move.

If they were going to insult him and low-ball him then they should have told him right away they didn't want him back then this stupid 10-day process. That would have been ok in everyone's eyes.

[AzDesertRat]

Is Billy Martin still alive? He could hire and fire him one last time before he doesn't know what he's doing any more.

[Karak567]

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Is Billy Martin still alive? He could hire and fire him one last time before he doesn't know what he's doing any more.

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He's dead.