Joe Torre rejects Yankees offer

[OzSome]

Originally Posted by HOOT

Could the Blue Jays really afford a $5M+++ coach?

They are gonna have to. Blue Jays been signing talents but those talents were not being used properly because the team is so cheap when it comes to the manager. I guess it is not fair to Blue Jays season holders to keep hyping them up early in the season then at the end their heart gets broken because those supposedly good signing they have did not pan out hence out of the playoffs again.

[Dion]

Yankees management "routinely docked the paychecks of Torre and his athletes for the most picayune expenses."

The organization "had a penny-pinching policy toward expenses racked up by [Torre] and other team members on the road."

Example: In June 2005, the team's hotel bill for a four-day stay in Balto was $67,916. Yankees Traveling Secretary David Szen, who we're sure is extremely well-liked in the organization, wrote to the team’s payroll department, "Please deduct $84.38 from Joe Torre’s next paycheck. This is for the cost of incidentals at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore."

So you see, Torre really left the Yankees no choice but to force Torre to take a pay cut, with all those mind-numbing mini hotel bar bills to account for.

This also gives us a clue as to why Don Zimmer departed so abruptly from the Yankees staff a few years back. You'd think after 50 years in the big leagues the guy would've grasped that they already have towels at the hotel pool!

http://sportsbybrooks.com/yankees-wo...heck-14378.php

[CaramonLS]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ort/index.html

Torre to the Dodgers:

[HOOT]

Sounds like he is going to the Dodgers and possibly bringing A-Rod with him....