The Daily News has the story, Joe Torre and his LA Dodgers are slated for a series in the Yankee stadium next year. They report:
Joe Torre appears headed toward a Bronx homecoming in 2010.
Though next season’s schedule won’t be official for several weeks, an industry source told The Post yesterday that the Dodgers are preliminarily slated for a three-game, interleague series at Yankee Stadium, in what would be their first visit to The Bronx — barring a Yankees-Dodgers World Series this year — since the 1981 World Series.
As you can imagine, this means mixed feelings for many of the players who played under Torre.
Jeter is happy his former manager has found success in Hollywood — Torre led the Dodgers to the NLCS last year, and has the team in first place this season.
“He’s like a second father to me, and a lot of people that are in here,” Jeter said. “I’m happy that he’s happy. He’s given me every indication that he enjoys being out there in L.A.”
The Yankees faced the Dodgers in 2004, playing three games in Los Angeles. The Dodgers and Brewers are the only teams that have not played in The Bronx since the start of interleague play in 1997.
“It’s going to be great, because my first year in the big leagues [Joe] Girardi was the bench coach and Torre was the manager,” Robinson Cano said. “It would be great to see Girardi on one side and Torre on the other side. That would be fun.”
It certainly will be must-see TV, but as a fan I must admit to having mixed feelings myself. While I undeniably have warm memories of the early Torre years (as a Yankee fan, who wouldn’t) the overly dramatic way he left the team left a bitter taste in my mouth that lingers to this day. The idea that he was somehow owed more than the twelve years he served as Yankee manager (tied for second longest in Yankee History) is something I’ll never embrace. The confidences he breached in his book and the shots he took at people he owes his legacy to was disgraceful and sullied his Yankee heritage. After 12 years, I had enough of Saint Joe the Martyr to last a lifetime.
That being said, there are many current and former Yankees who have done things I don’t care for. Joe’s transgressions are fairly minor compared to others. You root for the laundry, and their exploits on the field. His accomplishments were the best of my lifetime as a Yankee fan who has been watching the team since the late 1970’s. I’ll stand and cheer for him when he returns to the Stadium.
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I’ll cheer him as well, but grudgingly. I just thought that for a guy who is supposed to be this classy gentleman, he slapped his name on a book that ripped a lot of his players.
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I will not cheer for him but, I won’t boooooo either.
What he did in trying to make the Yankees look bad when he quit was unconscionable. Yes folks, he quit when he refused the contract. The Yankees gave him an opportunity (when no one would).
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