Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners: 12 Keys to Managing Team Players, Tough Bosses, Setbacks, and Success
True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
More photos » by Matt Slocum - AP "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" Browse more photos » All that talk of Joe Torre leaving after his contract expires after next season may have been premature. T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles TImes brings the news that Torre and the Dodgers are working on a contract extension: "We were talking about my coaches and I've...
Pinstripe Alley (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In an article he wrote for the NY Post - Right before Game 5 (of the 2003 World Series), I had back spasms. I threw five or six warm-up pitches and told pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre to get another pitcher ready because I wasn't going to make it. Mel was like, "No, you can do it." I threw maybe 10 warm-up pitches total in the bullpen -- I spent most of the time lying on my back -- and said,...
Rattler Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm sensing a pattern at MLB Network today. 6:30 a.m. World Series Highlights 1943-The NY Yankees Look for Their 6th Title in Eight Years as They Take on the St. Louis Cardinals 7:00 a.m. World Series Highlights 1947-Joe DiMaggio and the NY Yankees Face Off Against their Crosstown Rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers 7:30 a.m. World Series Highlights 1949-Yogi Berra and the NY Yankees Take on Jackie Robinson...
True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
More photos » by Gene J. Puskar - AP Joe Torre telepathically tells Don Mattingly that he didn't have any professional managing experience before he got his first MLB managing gig. Browse more photos » The topic of the moment at Dodger Thoughts is manager heir-apparent Don Mattingly and whether or not his lack of professional managing experience is an issue. At some point it occurred to...
sylvesterj8236 | 11/07/2009
PHILADELPHIA – Time out! Jorge Posada pops out of his crouch, stands up in the catcher's box and raises both arms above his head. Hang on, everybody. He's going to need a minute to chat with his pitcher. And then, here it comes ... BOO!! Restless fans, jeering loud enough to hear all over Philadelphia. "I don't care," Posada said. "It's just a big situation. Every time I got out
Sliding Into Home (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Last night the New York Yankees did something that they haven't done in nearly a decade. They reversed the trend of steady decline I've seen since I first became a fan in '04, they gave many young fans their first championship, they won one for the Boss, they vanquished the demons of '04 and '01 by pummeling an old villain, and they proved to everyone that the ghosts have moved across the street. What...
PaulKatcher (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Back in the middle of this decade, when I was writing this site with gusto and entertaining 6,000 visitors a day, Yankees fans took a lot of shit. And for good reason. We had the highest payroll but couldn't produce a championship. We blew a 3-0 ALCS lead . We saw A-Rod try to slap his way on base , sun shirtless in Central Park, kiss himself in the mirror , conspicuously escort a stripper into a...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Manager Charlie Manuel says demoting the slugger to lower in the batting order is not the answer to his lack of hitting. Joe Torre caused quite a stir in 2006 when he dropped Alex Rodriguez to the eighth spot in the New York Yankees' lineup. The Yankees were facing playoff elimination and Rodriguez had one hit in 11 postseason at-bats that year, but the relationship between Torre and Rodriguez was...
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In the first official move of the winter, per Mike Graham of Treasure Coast Newspapers via Talking Chop, Frank Wren & Co. have signed former Yankees and Dodgers reliever Scott Proctor to a split contract for 2010. Joe Torre worked Proctor to death in not one but two different organizations, as he appeared in a [...]
ShysterBall (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Ladies and gentleman, the man on which Joe Torre depended to stave off elimination in the NLCS : Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla accidentally shot himself in the right leg, the Dodgers confirmed Tuesday, but the wound is believed to be minor. Whatever. I couldn't get too mad about that, even if I was a Dodgers fan. What I can't abide, however, is the fact that one of my NBC colleagues stole the Warren...
True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Mattingly Withdraws From Nationals; Being Groomed For Torre Succession? Don Mattingly has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Nationals' managing job, declining to interview with Washington, according to Alden Gonzalez and Ken Gurnick of MLB.com. They speculate: "The move could be an indication that Mattingly and the Dodgers are making progress on a new contract that would formalize...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Thirteen years after Joe Torre won his first World Series ring, his former player and assistant, Joe Girardi, was on the verge of winning his first as a manager.
copyranter (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
( click ad, scanned from SI) Both vanquished from the playoffs, Joe Torre and Terry Francona sit down in some polite cafe to talk, not baseball, but yoga and tofu and psychotherapy. Where the fuck have you gone Earl Weaver and Leo Durocher ( RIP )? Previous baseball ad posts : A-Rod's got milk and big pants . The official hooch of the Yankees . Bud sez watching Mets games requires nine innings of drinkability...
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Being a Yankee is impressive, sure. But to be a 'True Yankee' -- well, that's the realm of the Gods, beyond comprehension of mere mortals. Except Larry Dobrow, who ranks 'em. So bye, Joe Torre, and hello, A-Rod.
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The Lakers celebrate their NBA Finals victory. AP Photo/Matt Sayles I’ll admit it. I’ve been pretty down since the final out of the NLCS. I simply could not shake my visions of Joe Torre sadly sipping his Bigelow green tea, Matt Kemp listening to sad early 90s R&B love ballads (in my mind it's Toni Braxton) and Andre Ethier staring dejectedly out the window of his plane back to Arizona....
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sylvesterj8236 | 11/07/2009
PHILADELPHIA – Time out! Jorge Posada pops out of his crouch, stands up in the catcher's box and raises both arms above his head. Hang on, everybody. He's going to need a minute to chat with his pitcher. And then, here it comes ... BOO!! Restless fans, jeering loud enough to hear all over Philadelphia. "I don't care," Posada said. "It's just a big situation. Every time I got out there, it was big."...
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PITTSBURGH – Outfielder Manny Ramirez was out of the Dodgers' lineup Monday because of a sore left hamstring, the same problem that forced third baseman Casey Blake to return early to Los Angeles to be treated by a team doctor. The Dodgers, with their magic number for clinching the NL West stalled at one after their 11-1 loss in Pittsburgh, also were without infielder Ronnie Belliard who injured his...
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