Thanks for the Memories Joe, You're Fired

Twelve straight years in the postseason, six World Series appearances and four championships... Great Work, Joe Torre! Your fired (well not officially, the Yankees just made him an offer he had to refuse).

"You are the best Joe," said the Steinbrenner family. "But, we really don't like you and want you to take a pay cut with a one year contract."

Wow, I am seriously dumbfounded. Thanks for the memories, but we want to start fresh. With who? Joe Girardi? Larry Bowa? Tony LaRussa? Don Mattingly?

I am no Yankees fan, so I am outsider looking in, but Mattingly as the front runner would scare the crap out of me. I always liked Donny Baseball, but remember he played on the Yankees during the dark ages. The Yankees lost the World Series in six games to the Dodgers in 1981. Mattingly was a rookie in 1982. Mattingly plays from 1982-1995 and the Yankees never make it to the World Series. The Yankees win the World Series in 1996.

Want to take it one step further. Mattingly came back to the Yankees in 2004 as the hitting coach, a year after losing the World Series in six games to the Marlins. All Yankee fans all remember 2004. Red Sox came back from a 3-0 hole in the ALCS and win their first World Series in 86 years.

Now, I am not saying, but I am just saying. Obviously, it is not Mattingly's fault that he is a curse. He just is. If the Yankees had all this information I did, they would just get rid of Mattingly and start winning rings again.

I won't necessarily bash the records of the other managers, because when Torre put in the Yankee pinstripes he wasn't exactly a genius. But Bowa, Girardi and LaRussa are not suited for the pressures of being a manager in New York. Bowa is a pyscho, Girardi is inexperienced, and LaRussa may be too controversial.

Besides, being the manager of the New York Yankees is unlike any other. There is the tradition, the pressure of the press and the fans. And, of course there is the Steinbrenners. It is bad enough there used to be only one, now there are two, maybe three of them to please. There is no other major league franchise that would treat a manager like Joe Torre in such a disrespectful way.