Matt: If my blog is so hard to read, I invite you not to read it. I have opinions and I’m going to express them here from time to time. I’m not some blind loyalist to the Yankees or a mouthpiece for the owners. Sorry, not how it works.

I understand that it’s a blog, so I’m not commenting about the posts. Rather, I’m commenting about what I perceive to be a bias against the new leaders of the team. This is problematic because it colors how things are reported to us, the audience. I understand that you (Pete) is a person and can get attached to other people (like Joe Torre). But if you keep this up, you will lose credibility in the things you write, not only on this site, but for the newspaper as well.

Joe Torre did some great things. But he didn’t do what the Yankees wanted him to do, which is lead them to WS titles. So they offered a lower contract. Teams and businesses do it all the time. He refused. It wasn’t a fairness issue. It was a pride issue. He said he was insulted by the incentives, and that he was being held to an impossible standard. However, it seems disingenuious to say “I deserve to be paid X, but I’m not responsible for whether we win or not.” Either you’re responsible, or you’re not. If you can’t deliver what is being asked, then you either take a lower amount, or decline the job. That’s all there is.

Both sides made their decisions. Taking snipes at the new ownership for what you deem to be an unjust treatment of a former manager may make you feel better, but it serves no other function. Please move on.

Who said that Torre “had to get to the World Series”? Getting to the World Series would have maxed out his compensation and vest him in his option for 2009 — but he was still making a nice chunk of change and could have had his contract renewed for 2009. Yeah, we don’t want to be rehiring a manager year-to-year, but there was no telling whether Torre would have been offered a longer term deal next year.

You are correct that the whole thing turned into a public relations nightmare — but that is because (1) the Yankees came forward and announced the offer they made to Torre and his rejection of it in a very clumsy fashion and (2) the media’s love affair with Joe Torre led to unwarranted cries of outrage. As I have posted before, a pay cut to a sports celebrity that guarantees they are the highest paid in the field even though their performance has not been at the level anticipated and allows them the opportunity to make even more if certain goals are achieved is NOT insulting on its face.

Joe Torre found it insulting and rejected it. That is his right. I think he should have accepted it. What’s the phrase — “cutting your nose off to spite your face”