"I have no reason to not trust Joe," Damon said Tuesday. "I enjoyed playing for him. He showed me a lot with the way that he handled the media, the way he handled the team. I was able to go and talk to him at any given time, so yeah, I can trust him. Unfortunately, a book comes out and there's always going to be questions. But you know what? Until Joe does something crazy to me, he's fine in my book."Regarding the whole A-Fraud thing:
Bernie Williams was also on hand tonight at the Thurman Munson awards dinner and had this to say:"It seems like New York always has a big story going on, and fortunately, Alex can deal with it," Damon said. "He's dealt with so much in the past, and he's going to have to deal with questions his whole career because he's that good of a ballplayer. That's part of it, and he'll be just fine.
"Alex has been a good teammate. When he disappears, at least you know he's disappearing to the batting cages, to the gym, and he's not somewhere just avoiding people. He's there. He's there working."
Another former Yankee who was not on hand tonight but still managed to make the news was Paul Quantrill. He had this to say about Torre's book:"I haven't read the book," Williams said. "I need to see what the context of the things that were said and how he said them in the book to really have an opinion."
"It's hard to speculate on the way that I feel," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, I had a very close relationship with him over the years, and I don't really see that changing."
So that's that. A few different perspectives on Torre's book. Take them for what they're worth."Whatever his involvement is with this book, Joe Torre is the No.1 guy," Quantrill argued. "People may understand that he didn't say that, but even being Joe Torre, being the greatest manager, blah-blah-blah, he's walking a thin line. When you start exposing anything from the clubhouse in general, whether it's about a dickhead like 'the fraud,' or anything, it doesn't really matter. It's that you opened up and said it.
"You are part of a book and guys don't usually come out of it in a positive light, especially if they're still active. To me, it's pretty straightforward. It doesn't matter if you're a slapdick like Brian McNamee or Jose Canseco, or whether you're Joe Torre. There are certain things, whether it be about Alex or whether it be about any player, the sanctity of the clubhouse is something that we all try to live by. It blew me away that an active manager is even involved in a book talking about the daily grind."
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Did Paul Quantrill just call A-Rod a dickhead, then proceed to call McNamee and Canseco "slapdicks"?
Q also said: "It blew me away that an active manager is even involved in a book talking about the daily grind"
That right there is the question that Joe can't answer, and it's the thing that's burning me up about this. He uses the right phrase: "daily grind." There's a lot that goes on behind the closed doors, so to speak, and I don't care if it sheds light on things or not, you don't talk about, and you ESPECIALLY don't talk about it to 1) make money and 2) try to make yourself look better. Torre did it for both of those reasons.
I think this says a lot about what Joe really cares about, and by trying to protect his image, he's actually done the opposite and exposed himself to be a self-centered, arrogant man who's more concerned about himself than anything else.
Quantrill called A-Rod a dickhead???? Wow.
hahahaha yes he did.
Damon is smart he is says anything negative about Torre it will become more of a media distraction at spring training.
The beauty of this whole "Mr. Keep it in the House letting out all the darkest secrets" controversy is that any player who has a different opinion can write a book of his own to rebut The Yankee Years.
Who can think of a better way to pump up the withering publishing industry?
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