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.It would be the first time Torre has been back in the Bronx since the Yankees lost the 2007 division series to the Indians. Along with the Brewers, the Dodgers are the only teams that have yet to visit the Bronx since interleague began in 1997.
So you're in the crowd for the series opener and Joe Torre comes out to turn in the lineup card, do you cheer or do you boo?
I'm cheering.
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How do you not cheer? He was behind a dynasty team. Because he wrote a book? If you actually read the book you'll see it's not what the media hyped it up to be. If you're a true yankee fan you'd cheer for him.
I recall shaking my head when they hired Torre wondering what the hell they were doing. But he was just what they needed and I for one will be standing to applaud him.
Those four Championships sure mean an awful lot to me and oldest son was only seven when the Championship run started, so they meant the world to him.
cheering all the way.........
i'm definately cheering for him!
you have to cheer...
MASSIVE cheers.
I'm surprised there isn't at least someone who said they'd boo. So many fans, for some reason, despise the guy and blame him for everything bad that's happened to this team since 2001.
And yes Anon, the Torre book was nothing like the media made it out to be and was also a great read.
I hope there's another we want Torre chant when he comes back just to stick it to the front office.
yeah i think if anything fans would love the chance to boo an anouncement of ownership on the field.
I will boo him. Torre was a lying cockroach. Who is responsible for the single most embarrasing moment in yankee history, the collapse against the red sox.
Please, you give Joe a standing O
i give more blame to tom gordon than torre for the sox collapse.
I think the bigger story is that a true yankee Don Mattingly is coming back.
Definitely cheer.
Torre FTW, can't wait for that day to come.
I disagree that "The Yankee Years" was no big deal. Joe betrayed the clubhouse trust by writing that book. Just because he picked on people that weren't exactly popular doesn't make it any better.
Oh, and how's Joe's notion (one of the running themes of "The Yankee Years") that the Yankees were a better team without A-Rod working out this season?
Cheer, don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
Well said, Miller.
Lisa, did you read the book? I thought it was great. Everything "bad" that he said was pretty much common knowledge anyway.
Greg, I usually agree with most of your takes, but not this one!
I did read the book. I thought it was self-serving nonsense. Joe still doesn't think he did anything wrong in 2004, or really any time over the last 12 years. It made me sick to my stomach.
And lots of stuff in the book was not common knowledge, including the Roger Clemens linament, Kyle Farnsworth crying, the A-Fraud stuff, or Kevin Brown in the fetal position. Of course, none of Joe's Guys got such embarrassing revelations written about them.
And for a book which claims to be a definitive look at that era, why not let those who are slammed in the book get their own chance to speak?
I've called Torre J-Fraud in my blog, as he is more of a phony than A-Rod. All his talk about "trust" and "what happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse," and he writes that book.
I'd better stop there, or I'll be here all day! Take care.
Lisa
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i know what some of you guys are saying, but it's hard for me to forget everything we accomplished while he was here...
for me it'd be hard not to cheer..
let's all bash the guy who speaks the truth! how dare he tell his story after being snuffed by steinbrenner and co.!!!
i'm thinking of having a torre jersey custom made.
Why would anyone boo? Seriously, that would be the last thing on my mind.
Read the book and have no problem what was discussed. I found no violation of the player's trust, infact anumber of players (Cone, Mussina contributed to the stories. The only thing that was really discussed was how the Yankee organization got away from the winning formula with a bunch of over aged, over paid players that did not win in October. it was always about the pitching and Torre points out how the organization moved away from that.
As for the way he was treated by the organization at the end - well we see how the organization has treated its fan base so who do you believe?
I will stand and cheer for Joe and Donnie Baseball when they both return as I have these past 2 years in LA.
Lisa a lot of other guys, including some major club house figures did some talking to Verducci for the Torre book too. David Cone and Mike Mussin were both brutally honest about the club houses they sat in. Are they frauds too?
Take a look at Johnny Damon's comments about the clubhouse under Girardi vs. Torre after last night's game. Do you think Damon's happy about how Joe betrayed his confidences in the book?
And I wonder what Damon thought this spring about the book's revelation that one of his current "old guard" teammates went to Joe and told him to get him traded because "guys can't stand him." Like that's a good standard for trading somebody - because a player isn't in with the in-crowd. Good grief.
Take a look at what Damon said during the off season. He was one of the most vocally critical of Giradi's distant style of managing and his disregard for the opinions of veterans, whom he had no control over. Of course everything is all feel good now, he's in the middle of an eight game winning streak and a career year.
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