Torre Doesn't Mind Missing All Star Game

From ESPN:

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Joe Torre doesn't mind that he was left off the coaching staff for the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. He might not have accepted an invitation anyway.

"I'm with a new team now," Torre said Friday night after his Los Angeles Dodgers were beaten 4-2 by the Los Angeles Angels. "[Yankees manager] Joe Girardi is a coach for the All-Star Game, and deservedly so. They usually take the local city's managers as coaches. Besides, I'm not sure that if I got a call, I would say yes. Going over there at this point in time, I may serve as more of a distraction than to go over there and help the manager win a ballgame."

National League manager Clint Hurdle, who guided the Colorado Rockies to their first pennant last year, decided not to add Torre to his coaching staff for the game on July 15.

"I have no problem with that," Torre said. "I mean, anything that happens at Yankee Stadium is a spectacle, and I'm sure that it's going to be a very special time there. But I have no emotional feelings about it at all."

"I mean, I spent so many days and games in that ballpark and so many special nights -- postseason," Torre said. "I mean, I've got a bucket full of memories. The All-Star Game certainly is going to be a spectacle, but I'm certainly satisfied with the time I put in there."

As many times as Torre says he's "satisfied" with his time in New York, I don't believe him, he's clearly bitter about the way he was treated last offseason.

I think it's a shame he's not going to be there.