Thursday, February 5, 2009
Torre On Letterman
He explains a couple things, including the A-Fraud thing. Unlike previous attempts to explain it, this time he does not make it seem that it was just a joke.
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Tyler Kepner demonstrates that it never was a joke:
Understand this: Torre is not being forthright with his explanation about the infamous A-Fraud reference on Page 245. In his publicity tour for the book, Torre has repeatedly explained that A-Fraud was something said right in front of Alex Rodriguez, by the coach Larry Bowa, a playful reference to whether he was going to play well that night and be A-Rod, or play poorly and be A-Fraud.
Here is the actual passage, as written by Torre and Tom Verducci: “Back in 2004, at first Rodriguez did his best to try to fit into the Yankee culture – his cloying, B-grade actor best. He slathered on the polish. People in the clubhouse, including teammates and support personnel, were calling him ‘A-Fraud’ behind his back.”
Behind his back is the literal opposite of “in front of him.” Torre says he read the book numerous times before publication. Surely he is aware of this important difference.
Yes, I post that in the article below.
The only reason I think this Letterman segment is important is because it's the first time Torre himself also said it wasn't a joke.
Oh, sorry, I saw this post on SportSpyder and missed the other one.
Shocked, shocked, Torre is to find out there is backlash against his book. What a massive back peddle.
Now its about only when Alex was new and later it became a joke. "See it was funny the whole time." What a piece of work.
I think people need to stop being baited by the Daily News and Post about this book. I'm half way through and I'm finding this book to be much more than what the New York media is portraying it to be. The Alex and Mussina stuff is so minute in relation to the whole context of the book that this shouldn't be an issue any more. It seems to be more of a historical perspective of the how the old school culture of baseball completely changed around the Yankees from the late 90's into the new millenium, from a team and manager's perspective.
"It seems to be more of a historical perspective of the how the old school culture of baseball completely changed around the Yankees from the late 90's into the new millenium, from a team and manager's perspective."
That's pretty much exactly what the book is. At least every review I've read says that, and from what I've read of the book so far, that's what it seems to be.
Does he still have canser? He looks really good if he doesn't.
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