Joe Torre to the Dodgers...

#2
#2
Yeah it is.

Good, as long as the Yankees and Dodgers are doing everything they can to cloud this WS result, I will be happy.

Soon, the George Mitchell report will come out and this whole season and Red Sox's win will be long forgotten.
 
#3
#3
u add that with A-Rod and Bonds both signing with the Angels and it will be almost like this season never happened
 
#4
#4
I know the Angels have money but I find it hard to believe they could sign both.
 
#6
#6
Reported deal is 3 years, $14.5m. I would have thought only the Yankees were dumb enough to waste $5m per year on a manager, but apparently not.
 
#9
#9
getyopopcornready said:
wow that would be a big blow to the Yankees, i think this is the start of mediocrity for a while for the Yankees
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Torre and Mattingly leaving don't matter at all. Losing Rodriguez will hurt, obviously, but the Yankees are supposedly working a deal for Miguel Cabrera, and that would soften the blow tremendously. If there's any slide, it won't be for very long. A $200m payroll will turn any team into Rasputin.
 
#10
#10
Well to be honest, I'd rather have Cabrera than A-Rod. I think A-Rod's demeanor and the whole circus just weighed on that locker room in the last 4 years.
 
#11
#11
The numbers don't lie, I'll take A-Rod any day over Cabrera. The problem with the Yankees starts and ends with pitching not A-Rod.
 
#12
#12
There's more to baseball than numbers, that's why A-Rod's never even been to the WS, let alone won one.
 
#13
#13
For some reason Torre is my fav manager behind Cox...glad he found a team that I don't hate quite as much as the yankees. At least he didn't go to the mets or phillies
 
#14
#14
UTLCA said:
There's more to baseball than numbers, that's why A-Rod's never even been to the WS, let alone won one.
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I didn't realize baseball was an individual sport like golf. I guess Derek Jeter is slipping too since he hasn't won a series since 2000. It's funny how the fans loved A-Rod when he won several games early in the season then proceed to blame the same guy that hit .314 with 51 HR and 156 RBI for their post season problems.
 
#16
#16
jkell24 said:
It's funny how the fans loved A-Rod when he won several games early in the season then proceed to blame the same guy that hit .314 with 51 HR and 156 RBI for their post season problems.
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The media did praise him on his fast start, but NY fans continued to point to his playoff failures. He blows in the postseason.
 
#17
#17
The Dude said:
The media did praise him on his fast start, but NY fans continued to point to his playoff failures. He blows in the postseason.
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Rodriguez has an OPS of .844 in 39 postseason games. That's about 100 points lower than his regular season OPS, but I don't know that it "blows." For example, the sainted Derek Jeter has a lifetime postseason OPS of .846. If Rodriguez blows in the posteason, then Jeter does too.
 
#18
#18
As long as Boras makes it all about A-rod, he will never fit in with any team and will always be a distraction. It is obvious that the money is more important than the championships and that is fine if that is priority.

In a few years, when he has all the money he can stand and no championships, he will try to get on a winning team but noone will be able to afford him.
 
#19
#19
Vercingetorix said:
Rodriguez has an OPS of .844 in 39 postseason games. That's about 100 points lower than his regular season OPS, but I don't know that it "blows." For example, the sainted Derek Jeter has a lifetime postseason OPS of .846. If Rodriguez blows in the posteason, then Jeter does too.
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How many runs did Paywad knock in this postseason? The only number I can find is "1."

I didn't know this was a Paywad vs. Jeter debate.
 
#20
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The Dude said:
How many runs did Paywad knock in this postseason? The only number I can find is "1."

I didn't know this was a Paywad vs. Jeter debate.
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I'm not going to work particularly hard to defend Rodriguez, a player whom I too dislike tremendously. But you said that he "blows" in the postseason, so I just pointed out that his numbers are not actually that bad. His last three postseason series have been terrible, of course, but that's over a grand total of 44 at-bats. He hit very well in the five full postseason series he played in before that. The reason I brought up Jeter is because he's a player who's commonly thought of as a postseason god, yet he's hit almost exactly as well as Rodriguez in the postseason (albeit in about three times as many at-bats).

I don't like Rodriguez much, but if my team had to play a Game 7 in the World Series, I'd want him in the lineup.
 
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