No Class

[Barry]

The boss and his elite crew of pin heads show their classless ways. They still have Torre hanging. I don't know why anyone would root for a team with these people pulling the strings.
Lets say the Yankees decide to keep Torre. If I were him I'd humbly accept then on opening day I would resign abd tell them where to go

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You're right Barry, BUT unfortunately baseball is just another Fortune 500 business. That's life in the land of big bucks!
As for accepting and walking away on Opening Day, that would be the epitomy of NO CLASS and so I don't think that would ever cross Joe's mind.

[Barry]

Thats why I said if I were him.

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I think that they are going to keep Joe Torre and give him more money. Maybe that is what the hold up is.

[CQuinn]

I've lost respect for Joe Torre...he should have resigned when George made the initial threat. He's selling his pride and I'm sure he already has enough money to last a life time. I doubt if any of us made $7 million in a lifetime let alone in one year. If money makes you kiss a-s in Macy's window I'm glad I don't have any.

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The only problem I have with that is.....George would win...he may know how to make millions, but he needs to leave the baseball to people who know what they are doing!

PS Can you think of any other MLB Team Owner in the last 50 years that has had all the negative press and BS drama?

[LARRY]

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LAtest Torre news from NY Times

Ten days after they were bounced in the first round of the playoffs, the Yankees have still not announced whether Joe Torre will be asked to manage next season. But it is clear, after their two-day organizational meetings, that they are not ready to cut ties.

Sports of The Times: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (October 18, 2007)
Chris O’Meara/Associated Press

The principal owner George Steinbrenner’s son-in-law, Felix Lopez, far left, and son Hank during a break on Wednesday in the Yankees’ team meetings in Tampa, Fla.
If the Yankees had decided to dump Torre, announcing it would have been easy. A decision to keep Torre is trickier. Retaining him at his present salary is different than keeping him at a lower one.

The three questions the Yankees face on Torre have not changed: Do they let him go? Do they keep him? And if they keep him, what would be the contract terms? In essence, the unresolved issue is how badly they want Torre back. That desire will be communicated by the size of the offer, if one is made.

As he left Legends Field for the airport yesterday, General Manager Brian Cashman alluded to the layers of a decision that was presumed to be straightforward.

“The decision that we’re talking about is obviously rehiring somebody, and then there’s a negotiation, if we do so,” Cashman said. “Those are the decisions we have to come to if that’s a direction we choose to go, and that takes time. It’s as simple as that.”

Torre’s three-year, $19.2 million contract does not expire until Oct. 31. But by leaving his status unresolved, Steinbrenner and his sons, Hank and Hal, could be exerting control over Torre — in effect, showing him who’s boss.

Torre’s popularity and early postseason success had made him all but bulletproof, and Steinbrenner has long feared the ramifications of letting him go. At 77, he is retreating from the spotlight and handing more responsibility to Hank and Hal. Keeping Torre could spare them the hassle of dealing with the uproar over letting him go.

Keeping Torre for two years — with Don Mattingly, a Steinbrenner favorite, as the bench coach and clear successor — would also give the team cohesiveness as it makes the transition from the current Yankee Stadium to the new ballpark in 2009.

Steinbrenner stayed at his Legends Field office until 6 p.m. yesterday, about two hours after Cashman; Jean Afterman, the assistant general manager; and Lonn Trost, the chief operating officer, left.

Randy Levine, the team president, and Felix Lopez, Steinbrenner’s son-in-law, stayed later. Gene Michael, a special adviser who was the architect of the Yankees teams in the 1990s, was also seen at Legends Field, as were Mark Newman and Damon Oppenheimer, the Yankees’ top player development executives.

Cashman said that the Yankees “hold Joe Torre in the highest regard.” When asked if he had talked with Torre during the meetings, Cashman said, “I keep up with Joe as a friend and a colleague.”

But Cashman added quickly that no decision had been made. When asked why it has taken so long, Cashman said people expected too much, too soon.

“Because we say what we mean,” Cashman said. “We said there’d be a cooling-off period and then we’d have some discussions. The media got a week-and-a-half head start on speculation. Our process just started. The media process started in advance of that. We’ve got to set our own pace.”

Steinbrenner has been seeking consensus on the Torre issue, but so far the only consensus has been to wait and gather more information. Asked if disagreements among the executives had delayed a decision, Cashman did not answer directly.

“I can’t tell you,” he said. “All I can tell you is, quite simply, when there’s a result, we’ll inform everybody. The bottom line is it’s going to take as long as it needs to take.”

Steinbrenner has still made no public comments since the division series loss to the Cleveland Indians. His last comments came in his interview with The Record of Hackensack, N.J., before Game 3, when he threatened to fire Torre if the Yankees lost the series. But the reason behind the threat may have also been significant.

“I think we’re paying him a lot of money,” Steinbrenner told The Record. “He’s the highest-paid manager in baseball, so I don’t think we’d take him back if we don’t win this series.”

Torre’s 2007 salary of $7.5 million dwarfed the next-highest figure for any manager, the $3.5 million earned by Lou Piniella of the Cubs.

At the time Torre signed his contract, the Yankees had won six pennants in eight seasons. But they have won no pennants since, and Steinbrenner may reason that he should no longer have to pay Torre a salary so far above his peers.

Once the Yankees decide on the manager, they can begin to shape his staff. Many in the organization are high on the Class AAA pitching coach Dave Eiland, who has worked extensively with the young pitchers who are seen as the foundation of the Yankees’ future.

Ben Shpigel contributed reporting from Tampa, Fla.