The Yankees made him an offer that would have kept him the major leagues’ highest paid manager, easily. But the writing was on the wall, and to me it seems like he was just done dealing with the Steinbrenner bullshit. So in the end, Joe Torre walked away from the Yankees. And I say good for him, because a man that did so much for a team with big payrolls, bigger egos, and the demands of all that tradition deserved better.
But turn the page. The hunt begins in earnest now. Will it be Joe Girardi coming down from the broadcast booth to show that his NL manger of the year wasn’t a fluke? Will Donny Baseball make the move over from bench coach and make his attempt at assuring a place in Cooperstown through the managerial ranks (which I say has been an organizational plan of inevitability since the day he retired)? Some outsider of high notoriety, perhaps?
For certain, it’s going to be an interesting ride. The Bronx Zoo is back in business.
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