Between electronic and personal communication with Yankees fans, I appreciate there's a sizeable lobby with whom Joe Torre has used up all of his goodwill. That's your prerogative. The customer is always right.
But I'm curious: Do you in the anti-Torre crowd think now is the right time to ditch the manager? Can you project a tangible improvement upon the departure of Torre and the arrival of Don Mattingly, Joe Girardi, Larry Bowa or someone else in the manager's office?
It's not as though the players are clamoring for the manager to be gone; to the contrary, captain Derek Jeter spoke up passionately Sunday on Torre's behalf. And should Torre get canned, I don't see those players being scared straight into playing better. There is no evidence that the Yankees are not entering games prepared.
In-game management? Girardi and Bowa might be better tacticians; Mattingly is unproven. But the former pair come with their own baggage (Girardi's controlling nature, Bowa's tendency to clash with his players), and besides, I'm not sure how much strategy helps when your starting pitchers can't give you length or protect leads.
But perhaps many of you disagree. Let me know what you think.
Comments (5)
The right time was the offseason, when Pinella was available. I'd give Torre another 15 games to get it straight, then admit the mistake and make Bowa the interim manager. If he turns it around it is his job. If not, Girardi looks like the long term option. Mattingly is not a fit, and would create monsterous problems upon failure. Likely to create a falashback to the Boss' firing of Yogi. Who cares what the players want? They are not delivering. You cannot fire players, that's why the manager goes. And in this case it is a year overdue.
keep joe
If anyone should be fired it should be Cashman...he's the one who signed Brown, Johnson, Wright, Pavano, Farnsworth. etc
Go retro rules and make Jeter player/manager. Or resurrect Scooter. Seriously, why blame Joe? Why blame Cashman, who predicted the raping of the farm system for "win now" would lead to this. Blame King George, who could never pass on rolling the dice. Nah, make the s/c coach the scapegoat. King George couldn't possibly be to blame...besides, he can't be fired. I'll bet the press doesn't have the guts to take this stand.
to be honest this team stinks and has since the last world series they won. They remind me of the texas rangers of the past five years (all bats no pitching), they have to score 20 runs a game to win. Theres also too many egos on this team and i think the chemistry will not never be what it should be for world series champs. Look at the past five years the champs have been teams that are hungry and want it. Even when the yankees had the dynasty in the late 90's they were a team that mentally you just couldnt break, they were a gritty team not afraid of getting dirty, its been a long time since theyve last had that. The yanks are in trouble