Breaking news: Torre to Dodgers
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Oct 29, 2007 
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The Journal News is reporting that Joe Torre will be hired as manager of the Dodgers. The announcement could come as soon as the next or two once a buyout of Grady Little is completed.
Don Mattingly is in line to join his staff. Torre also is interested in Kevin Long. I suspect Long will stay with the Yankees, but he is in demand.
UPDATE, 12:15 a.m.: The Times is reporting the story as well.
It has sure been a quite a few weeks in baseball. The job makes sense for Torre. He’s closer to his home in Hawaii and he knows Southern California from his time as an announcer for the Angels. It also makes sense for Don Mattingly given that his son, Preston, is in the Los Angeles organization.
If the Rockies made the World Series, how far away can the Dodgers be?
Here’s hoping Clint Hurdle names Torre to the coaching staff for the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium next season.
UPDATE, 2:44 p.m.: Here is the story for Tuesday’s newspaper.
Good luck Joe and Don. Now I have an NL team to root for.
GO DODGERS!
Good luck to Joe and Donnie. We’ll miss your class and dignity
WOW. I wonder if he will break the news when he is on letterman tonight?
I haven’t heard it on espn, yet
Since it’s been pointed out that I’m not a real fan for voicing my disgust with the dismissal of Joe – I will just state that I only wish the Dodgers were in a position to make the Yankees pay for their stupidity. But if this is true – good luck to Joe. His home town team as a kid – living in Hollywood will suit him well.
nice that Joe could find a home. Hope they don’t insult him with a measly 5mil contract. maybe he can take a$$rod with him for a security blanket.
Scott Proctor, watch out–better get that arm some jamba juice!
Is this confirmed by anyone? It seems awfully quick.
Poor Scott Proctor.
poor Scott Proctor
proctor should be on official watch
The real loser in this whole miss should be pretty clear now: Scott Proctor.
I’m insulted !!
Wait a minute! Isn’t Grady Little still the manager? Did they kill him or something?
Can’t wait for Clueless Joe to be exposed without a huge payroll advantage.
Poor Scott Proctor.
What??
So Torre will see Proctor again
And if Tsao stay with LAD, then Joe will become the manager who could work with all three Taiwanese pitchers(Kuo,Tsao,Wang) in MLB….
Nice scoop, Peter!
We have a world record classy mention. CLASS!! DEFAULT!! ARBITRARY!!! MEANINGLESS!! BUZZWORDS!! Classitudinationaryness!!! Dignifiedyclassitude!!
poor scott proctor
Hello the Journal News (pete and his paper) are the ones BREAKING this news you know reprts say that…. This means the reports are coming from the Journal news
Good work Pete
Big Question: Will Torre be able to coexist with Kobe???
wow! this is the day that just won’t quit.
would torre like to have arod join him ?
you betcha.
torre’s coaching staff? mattingly, guidry? long?
no ,there is absolutely no disarray with the yankees.
good think the dodgers don’t need a catcher. what about a closer? hope not.
Nice one, Rob. Your loyalty’s with Torre instead of the team.
Go root for the Dodgers, you joker. Or become a NY sports writer.
_Wait a minute! Isn’t Grady Little still the manager? Did they kill him or something?_
ESPN is reporting Grady Little is heading to Boston!
Peter, how come no one else is reporting this? Last night, others started reporting the A-Fraud thing right after Heyman…
Somewhere in LA, Scott Proctor is crying himself to sleep.
In the NL, I’ll be rooting for them both.
Must have come from the Letterman taping, right?
Good luck Joe
The stage is set….Yanks vs. Dodgers, New style vs. Old Style..A world series for the ages is upon the horizon for 2008
Yes,Poor Proctor never get a chance to rest his arm,Little also kind of used him heavily.
Scott Proctor—Dude, get out of Hollywood like yesterday!
All joking aside, I wish Joe the best of luck. I shall proceed to root for the Dodgers, except for two occasions:
1) when they play the Cubs,
2) When they play the Yankees, of course!
poor scott proctor
So Torre will be in LA and ARod will be in Anaheim. I hope they both tank.
Just wondering isn’t Torre still under contract until the end of the year. So, it looks like the Dodgers will have to get us some draft picks for Torre.
The emperor has no clothes.
I’ll def. be pullin for the dodgers in the NL. I think it’s funny how he’ll be reunited w/ scott proctor. I’m just hopin Mariano doesn’t follow Joe to LA. It wouldn’t surprise me, but hopefully the yankees offer him enough money that he’ll stay.
I guess we’ll see where Mo’s loyalty is stronger.
So Torre was pursuing Grady’s job while Grady still has it. Nice. Lou would have no part of that last year when it was Joe’s job to go after. Torre’s luster is fading.
“I’ll def. be pullin for the dodgers in the NL. I think it’s funny how he’ll be reunited w/ scott proctor. I’m just hopin Mariano doesn’t follow Joe to LA. It wouldn’t surprise me, but hopefully the yankees offer him enough money that he’ll stay.”
They have Saito, they don’t need Mo.
Somewhere Scott Proctor’s arm just got pins and needles. Seriously though, I know have an NL team to root for. If Donnie decides to go back to Indiana, perhaps Zim dusts himself off for another year? Don’t know how his health is for traveling… but it definately is intruiging.
Bet the Mets are kicking themselves right about now. Don’t think for a minute they weren’t entertaining doing to Willie what the Dodgers just did to Grady.
I think the Mets probably thought they could bring in Torre after 60 games next season. Obviously,
Torre didn’t stay unemployed that long. Good for him and for Mattingly. It’ll be weird seeing Joe and especially Donnie in Dodger blue for sure.
I hope Proctor is ready to go 2 innings on back to back nights starting opening day, lol. His fastball should be clocking 78mph by his 60th appearance of the season in the first week of June.
If Pettite or Mo follows Torre, then I will officially say that Cashman, Levine, Hank/Hal have had a really lousy off season.
There better not be any of those insulting incentives in his contract.
_The emperor has no clothes._
Yeah, they don’t wear much out there, being it’s sunny year-around.
Good for Joe and Don!!!
LA buying out Little and hiring Torre has been rumored for days. Glad our hometown paper got it first – officially.
I guess A-Rod isnt going to that California team, for sure, now lol …
We got Wilson Betemit
Kim Jones is reporting that she knew Torre would go to LA because he had a deal in place two months ago
Saito’s actually quite good. I think his ERA and WHIP this year were better than Papelbon’s. I forget the actual numbers, but I think he and JJ Putz are the only 2 (that I can remember…) that are better.
Scott Proctor better double up on his winter workouts.
“Yeah, they don’t wear much out there, being it’s sunny year-around.”
I think I’m going to be sick.
anyone have this confirmed with another source. I know Pete is usually reliable, but still I’d like to see another source.
Does this take the dodgers out of the running for Arod? My guess is that the two don’t want to hang out with eachother anymore
Talk ’bout PRESSURE cookers!
Will Torre be able to juggle the massive egos of Paris, Lindsay, and Britney?
Scott Proctor, peace be with you.
Pete,
On a side note, can you confirm that John Henry and Scott Boras sat next to one another at the recent Celtics/Cavaliers game on Friday night 10/26/07?
Arod is going to Boston people. Pete needs to go all Woodward and Bernstein and find the mole inside the Boston front office who will reveal what went down this weekend. Somewhere, somehow, deal terms were discussed and agreed upon.
My feeling is that if they went to the game together and kept running into one another during the World Series in Boston and Colorado as has been reported, Arod’s opt out announcement was meant to coincide with Boston winning the series as a double whammy to the NY Yankees organization and their fans. I’m sure Boras and the Red Sox thought it would be cute to announce Arod is leaving NY on the night they won the Series.
The timing of it got screwed up as Boras got a little giddy knowing that the Red Sox will go 10 years and 300 million and give Arod SS so he can set the all time record for HR’s as a SS finally.
I just want to make sure what I heard is correct about Boras and Henry “coincidentily” sitting with each other Friday night at the game.
My prediction, Arod will do the dog and pony show and go to a few towns like SF and LA and then around Turkey Day he’ll sign with the Sox just to make it look less obvious.
There’s a huge story here about collusion and back channel dealings with Boras and the Sox.
I don’t believe this Gammons nonsense about Arod returning to Texas for a second. It’s all smoke screens.
_Kim Jones is reporting that +she knew+ Torre would go to LA because he had a deal in place +two months ago+_
That’s IT!
Kim is my new stock broker!
OK. Firstly, regarding 10:46 PM, shame on me for not reading the other 32 comments mentioning Proctor before adding my own. Secondly, kudos to Peter and his audience for being that quick, smart, and on the money.
I guess we’ll see if Joe remembers the art of the double-switch and answers all those critics of his in-game management. And too bad the Dodgers have no place to put Bonds. I think Torre could manage this guy as well or better than anyone else.
Per Sweeney Murti this afternoon on WFAN
Torre and A-Rod did a 180 in their relationship in 2007 season and the two are really good with each other now.
How can real Yankee fans not root for this new Dodger team? I think A Rod will join them for sure.
this is a nice situation for Torre. tons of young talent coming up through the LA system.
not sure if 2008 is the year, but this team could be pretty good in a year or 2.
good on him. wish him the best.
good on the yankees for getting girardi.
sometimes change is best for everyone.
“I just want to make sure what I heard is correct about Boras and Henry “coincidentilyâ€? sitting with each other Friday night at the game. ”
you do know Boras represents more than one client, right?
he represents Matsuzaka and JD Drew.
G. Love-
why would henry and boras collude in public with 300 million at stake? if no one saw them getting together, it’d make more sense. i haven’t seen anything where the red sox owners are upset at boras however.
if the red sox do sign arod ,they will have the uber team they said they had no interest in being.manny comes off the books after this year so it wouldn’t surprise me to see arod go there.
When did Torre’s contract expire? Thought it was Oct 31?? Tampering??
hmmm: I was saying that too, before the blog cut me off. Just because Boras is hanging out with Boston folks doesn’t mean anything about A Rod. If we saw Mrs. Rod hanging out with them, then we’d have to do some wondering.
Seems you really have a scoop here Peter. Don’t find this on any other site.
My condolences to Scott Proctor’s arm.
GO DODGERS!!
Not too sure about bringing in all these skanks, but anything is better than that moron grady gump.
Dodgers vs. Skanks in 08
GO DODGERS!
THINK BLUE!
You’re naive if you think that Boras and the Red Sox front office are not both pompous and arrogant enough to do it out in the open.
No one in Boston, outside of Gammons, have really had anything negative to say about Boras’ misstep.
The “odd timing” remark by Lucchino was hardly an indictment.
I hope he goes to the Red Sox. Arod will destroy that clubhouse and he’ll be locked into a 10 year deal in Hell.
I just hate that the Red Sox may have negotiated a deal when they were not allowed to.
At least we’ll get their 1st round pick as compensation. Hopefully, it’s the next Ruth.
I love Torre and Mattingly but I can’t root for the Dodgers. I guess I am too loyal to the Yankees and I’d rather have the Yankees say “you should have stayed” than hear Torre and Mattingly succeed and say “good riddance”.
Dying to see what Joe is paid!!
Good for Torre but its gonna really suck to see Donny in another uniform. But its only the Yankees fault so…
Contracts are often signed with an “effective date”. The “effective date” of Torre’s contract obviously won’t take effect until his contract with the Yankees’ expires.
Secondly, Torre has said all along, he be interested in the Dodgers’ job “if it became available”. Apparently, it became available.
Third, what do you folks care about Torre? He was run out of town. Yankees’ fans have their own issues to fuss over.
Proctor… No
Bill Madden from the Daily News just said on TV that the Yankees front office was happy and celebrating A-Rod’s opt out this morning. That’s not what Hank would have had us believe with his statements today.
bobcat, 90% of the posters in here are wishing torre luck. what are you talking about? i personally will wish him luck but cant root for the dodgers over the yankees. is that wrong? jeeze.
Hmmmm….
(Cut to dream sequence)
Dodger game circa 2008…
Mo closing out a game – then Jorge coming out to congratulate him – with Joe & Donnie coming out of dugout to shake their hands on a job well done…
(Shades of Nettles & Gossage celebrating as Padres in ’84)
pat – i hope that is an exaggeration. no need to be celebrating. they should be busy preparing monster contracts for posada, rivera, an extension for pettite… and now even a deal for kevin long.
I had never watched baseball until the 1981 WS when I saw Ron Cey get beaned and come back to play. I became a Dodgers fan and then, living where I do, couldn’t see any games. I started watching the Yankees in 1985 when a friend who used to play with Dave Winfield in college got a satellite so we could watch Yankees games. I’ve been an avid Yankees fan since, but I can make the Dodgers my second team!
I’m for a Yankees/Dodgers WS! But it would have to be “The Yankees Win” for me!Dodger blue just doesn’t come close to that midnight blue interlocking NY!
I imagine it will be a looooonnnggg time before the Yanks deal with Bora$ again.
It makes sense for a Brooklyn boy to end up with the Dodgers. I’m sure Joe was a Brooklyn Dodger fan as a kid. They’ll spin this one very nicely.
You see how all those nice things Pete said about Joe have paid off…he got to scoop the story. Well done intrepid reporter.
Madden also said his story in tomorrows paper will lay out where A-Rod is going to be playing next year. Madden said he was the one who got the Hank quotes from Sunday night and spoke with Hank again today and there is 0% chance the Yanks deal with A-Rod now.
henry is an interesting owner in the sense he doesn’t expect to be right all the time. he goes for probability winning out over the long run. lugo and drew didn’t work out. neither did gagne, but matsuzaka eventually did. beckett did dragging lowell along for the ride.
nothing the red sox do surprises me. i do think they would sign arod. 75 homers in a year would probably win over a few red sox fans.
on the other hand arod going there would be like a pearl harbor for the yankees. they’d have to declare war on the red sox. then the gap would close again. right now without arod the yankees are about 7-8 games back of the red sox. if the red sox add arod, the yankees would be about 12-15 games back.
thanks for staying straight G.R.
G Love: they can do it in the open if they want, and then say they were discussing Matsuzaka or Drew. Because Boras has other clients with Boston. It’s not like he’s Jerry Maguire with only one client. So it’s not really arrogance. It’s irrelavent.
Who cares what Torre does…On to the Yanks..I just read in an article that Girardi would want(i forgot his name) a teammate from the Cubs as his pitching coach. The whole point of getting rid of Guidry was for Eiland to be there because he is close with Hughes and Joba and they are very comfortable with him. I know Girardi is allowed to pick his own coaches but it would be nice if the Yanks can see if he is ok with that. Plus bringing back Pena and or especially Kevin long because I know everyone liked him, would be good because with the vets on this team I dont think they would it or it would be a good thing to bring a new manager and totally new coaching staff in.
randy l…. are you for real? i disagreed with some of your posts before but they were all valid points. i think you’ve gone over the edge now.
I guess the word that Torre is an awful in-game manager and the master of ruining arms hasn’t spread to the west coast yet.
“I imagine it will be a looooonnnggg time before the Yanks deal with Bora$ again.”
he represents about 70 something mlb players . how could the yankees not deal with him?
when boras clients drop down in the draft, the yankees are one of the few teams that can sign them. i think boras in inextricably linked with the yankees.
I guess the Dodgers thought Arod was truly concerned about the Yankees managerial situation before ownership shorted Torre. Don’t the Dodgers realize Arod likes to lie and that he doesn’t care to play for Torre at all. If Alex did want to remain with Torre and only Torre, he would’ve bolted the minute the Yanks fired Torre. I feel like the Yankees have known Alex’s true intentions for a while now and the 5 year 150 mil extension offer was a gift to Boras in exchange for the inside track on other Boras clients (namely Mark Teixeira). The Yankees effectively set the market for Boras and Arod. The bidding will start at 8 years 230 million. The Giants will win the sweepstakes with the Dodgers coming in a close second. The Torre factor’s irrelevant.
Wow… Joe T was run out of town!! Yeah right !! I guess (if confirmed) it was ok for him to pull the rug from under Grady..
Grady L took all his folks to LAD and that amounted to nada.. infact Sox won after that…
Hope the same happens with Torre..
Not only will Scott Proctor be happy to see Torre, but I’m sure Esteban Loaiza will, too.
Kim Ng is the Assistant GM there, as well.
boston dave-
so give me your anlaysis of how far behind the red sox the yankees are now that arod is gone. why don’t you ask hmmm how many games the swing is if arod went to the red sox. he’s pretty good with that stuff. i’m thinking it’s a 4-5 game hit with arod gone, and a 4-5 game swing if he goes to the red sox.
so i exaggerrated. it’s only a 10-12 game swing.
Posada, Mo, Petitte and A-Rod (maybe not A-Rod) to the Dodgers.
Jeter’s going to be traded there for prospects – watch.
The Yankees Organization is going into an overhaul, and I suspect a lot of changes to the line up between now and next season. :/
“i think boras in inextricably linked with the yankees.”
Yes, like some kind of weird, ungodly parasitic relationship.
PS: Poor Scott Proctor.
He outta have the surgeons harvest the ligament now while it’s the offseason and stick it on ice for when it’s needed.
randy l – if the teams remain exactly the same as they are right now, minus the arod switch, fine. otherwise only a fool would even start that topic right now.
Sorry Proctor
mo in dodger blue? who knows.
mike – i hope you’re kidding… and wrong.
randy l – you are right about boras and the yanks at least
mo in dodger blue? who knows.
3 years from now Mattingly ends up being named manager of the dodgers.
What really stings about all of this is seeing mattingly wear another uniform….sad day
Mo is 3 months older than Takashi Saito, who is unsigned as yet for 2008.
Could be interesting.
Now, when the Yankees suck next year with Wilson Betemit their 3B striking out 200 times, I’ll have a team to root for.
F.You Hank, you and the rest of the Idiot Sons who inherit the earth.
My best to Torre and Mattingly and the Dodgers.
boston dave-
i figure that arod is worth about 5-6 games over an average third baseman. what do you figure?
The Dodgers have one of the best closers(Saito) and one of the best catchers(Martin) in the NL. I don’t see them shelling out big bucks for Mo or Jorge.
randy l – are we talking about 2008? just checking because i like to wait and see who will be on the team before i make predictions. i will yield to your wonderous speculative powers in this case. i simply cannot predict how many games the sox should be up over the yankees right now for…. 2008. considering the yankees won just as many games before they had arod as they did with him, its not as easy as you’re trying to make it. shocker, i know.
Is any other news outlet reporting this?
Can’t believe I chose this big news day to be trapped in a remote location for 13 hours!
Very excited about Joe Girardi! Arod and Boras, thanks for helping us cleanse out the bad karma. I’m very excited about rebuilding. Even if we don’t make the playoff next year, so what, I don’t have an expiration date on my plan as a yankee fan.
Good luck Joe Torre and Donnie Baseball. I will root for the Dodgers if you guys end up there.
In fact, all at a sudden many teams to root for:
1. Yanks
2. Whoever Sox are playing
3. Dodgers if Joe and Don end up there
4. Whoever Pay-Rod’s team is playing
as many have said, now i’ve got an NL club to pull for.
i hope he does well out there.
Why does every single poster on this board have everybody jumping ship to go play for the Dodgers? I guess this is now the LoHud Dodgers Blog. You better change the color scheme Pete.
Just heard you on WFAN, Pete. Nice job!
Gotta love the Schmoozer too, even though he is a Muts fan.
The New York Times is reporting this as well.
As for Scott Proctor, he praised Torre when he was traded. He was a minor leaguer until Torre gave him a career.
According to Tyler Kepner, Aaron Boone is a free agent.
Take that as you will.
I love Joe T but why’s he repeating everything he already said 3 times again on Letterman!
It’s a late night talk show, you’re not supposed to dissect how the Ian O’Connor call was so suspicious and all that stuff. Too much info! As much as I think Yanks should rule the world I don’t think the national audience knows who Ian is and what you’re talking about!
Can’t wait to watch you coach another team but no more interviews please!
Donnies son is in the Dodger oraganization and was a high draft pick a year or 2 back……this is unbelievable….would it really surprise anyone if Mo left…they might as well let Posada walk now 2 being he is 37…Can’t wait to see The “Great” Girardi do his magical thing next yr..What does this Yankee scholar have in mind?? what a joke Cashman is…he knows zilch about players and only about stats…
I Hope George rolls over in his grave when Matt Kemp and James Loney lead the Dodgers to a World Championship….Mattingly’s first ring will be Dodger blue
I guess the fact that the Dodgers previously hired Grady Little doesn’t say much for their judgment.
Joe, nothing but the best to ya in sunny california.
AS soon as Arod takes his prissy boy antics to those idiots
they’ll slap him back into reality, including the ravenous fan base. I can’t wait to see that fur piece grow on his chin to fit in.You know to they have to look dirty,wild, and crazy to keep their image!
PFFFT… Clown
When Letterman asked Torre about teams, interesting response about Dodgers.
Dodgers- they have someone under contract
Angels-they have a pretty good manager
D-Rays- they have a manager
Sounds like 2 teams have a manager and the other has a contract to deal with. He also said don’t believe everything you read. Was he talking about Pete?
The Dodgers bullpen pitchers better run.
Hahaha I just saw this, and I am extremely amused that half-way around the United States, Scott Proctor still could not escape the grasp of Joe Torre’s bullpen handling.
Good luck Torre. I’ve always liked the Dodgers. Really rooting for him now.
Somewhere, Proctor’s arm is shivering. This is almost too funny.
Grace, don’t forget about Hu. He has shown a lot of promise this so far. Hopefully he’ll become a regular
boston dave-
this blog is so slow hank must be running it now.
okay dave, but your future as a forecaster is in serious jeopardy.
i’ve been saying the same thing about the yankees since last winter that they are in disarray. if you go back, i was all over marty miller before most had even heard of him. i called the hughes injury before it happened. i was unhappy about wang throwing so many sliders because he’d lose his sinker. i said it was a mistake not to extend rivera and hughes. you may disagree with me ,but if you look back i’m saying the same things i’ve said all year.
arod is a great player. there is nothing good about him leaving, but the yankees can still be good in 2008. girardi would have been my choice if i had one. so there’s hope for 2008. but it doesn’t change the fact the yankees are a mess at the top.
*i mean extend posada
Big Question:
What number will Torre wear – number 6 (his Yankee number) or number 9 (the number he used from 1969 to 1995) ??
note: he couldnt use number 9 in New York as that retired by Roger Maris. 6 was/is an upside down 9.
Dodgers actually have pitching, though. :/
Penny, Schmidt, Lowe. Wells is going to be gone… cause lol. But, I mean, if Pettitte decides to follow Torre around, then that’s a fearsome pitching staff in the NL. Just needs offense (RF, 1B).
Since when does Torre live in Hawaii? I thought he lived outside NYC!
If this is true then good luck to Joe and Donny. I hope they find success with the Dodgers. Hopefully we can meet in the World Series. Josh Beckett is scum.
whiners.. do te red sux fans miss pedro, nomar, lowe, and others from the 2004 title???????????
the point is times change you root for a team not the guys in most cases.
BTW no way jorge backs up russel martin……….
yeah mariano will play for the dodgers because it is so close to NY(his home) and panama!!!!!!!!!!!look at a map brain surgeons…..
i live in LA the dodgers can compete because the NL is so bad..
they need a 3B, a CF, and a lF..
they also need 2 starters….they will compete but the NL sucks……….
phony yankee fans converting into dodgers fans.
Kudos to you Mr T,for landing on your feet. May California love you like we do in the big apple.Mr T is like a timex, he takes a lickin and keeps on tickin!
Damon sold his house in NY, right?
Damon to LA. *Loves speculation, especially ONE DAY AFTER THE WORLD SERIES.*
Renteria to the Tigers was unexpected though.
OMG, I can just see Giambi, Mussina, Farnsworth, and Pavano all bolting to the Dodgers!
Hey clueless we’re wishing him luck and hope he does well. If you think that’s phony then you’re a muppet.
yo news flash you slap heads… this isn’t the lower hudson dodgers blog. no one cares if they need a closer.
The LA Yankees
October 30th, 2007 at 1:02 am
OMG, I can just see Giambi, Mussina, Farnsworth, and Pavano all bolting to the Dodgers!
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LOL !!!
yeah giambi is from west covina in cali, maybe he wants to go home???? how about moose also he went to college in the bay area????
If Guidy and Kevin Long end up there too (but no Mo and Po please) I’ll make a Dodgers jersey in their colors except it’ll say Yankees West.
The next update I’m expecting is Pete informing us that he’ll now be writing for the LA Times, or better yet the Tolucan Times. God speed Pete, Torre might need you on the west coast.
Giambi for Looney and Furcal ..works for me LOL
Good for Torre, this honestly makes me feel good.
I guess I’m rooting for the Dodgers in the NL now!
Pete’s on ESPN LIVE!
Just listned to you on ESPN Pete. Great job reporting this story or breaking it. Fantastic work…
peter is a star… good work peter…
I like your rebuttal to the daily news guy..
the journal news is big time….
dodgers yanks WS…………..
I will sign up for that anyday……….
Pete Ab. the next Buster Olney only his news is true
Hah i was just watching it as well. Go Pete!
I just got a quote from Scott Proctor..
“Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!! Not Joe!!! I thought i was thru with him! My arm cant take it, save me! Anyone! “
Joe Torre will be exposed for the horrible manager he is. No 200 million dollar payroll in LA. As the yankees make the postseason once again, Joe torre will be sitting at home watching …..
A NEW NYY ERA 08
No more dumb people running a team.
pete, look at you breaking the story on ESPN, good job bud.
Dah…just missed you peter. Turned on the TV, it was already commercials.
*Breaking News – “Scott Proctor goes to Los Angeles Police Dept. reportedly ordered an immediate restraining order on Joe Torre”
Pete with the national spotlight
The Dodgers have a good bullpen and several good young everyday players in Martin (C), Loney (1B), Kemp (RF), and Ethier (LF), but their starting pitching, overall hitting, and bench sucks. 2007 everyday players Jeff Kent, Nomar Garciaparra, and Luis Gonzalez are hasbeens. Rafael Furcal and Juan Pierre are so-sos on their way to being hasbeens.
All these guys are getting older, not better. Most will be worse. Kent led the team with 20 HR while Martin led the team with 87 RBI.
Projected 2008 rotation:
Penny/ Lowe (so-so)/ Schmidt (bust)/ Billingsley (???)/ TBD
Projected 2008 starting eight:
C-Martin*
1B-Loney*
2B-Kent re-signed?
3B-Garciaparra
SS-Furcal
LF-Ethier*
CF-Pierre
RF-Kemp*
*In his third M.L.B. season.
Projected 2008 record: 72-90
Penny, Lowe, the bullpen, and at least half the kids with asterisks next to their name above will not be as good as 2007 hence the 8 more losses/ 8 less wins. The team will get more of the same from the hasbeens and near hasbeens. Who’s signing with a team who has one really good starter (Penny) and whose best all-around hitter is a catcher going into his third season?
I don’t see Torre being able to do anything with this team save collect two headache-filled paychecks.
Congrats on the scoop Peter — just heard you on ESPN.
Brandon ur funny man! Good stuff.
God I can’t stand these muppet fans like Clueless Day. Just a real skid mark on our fan base.
“Torre might as well take a year off or retire, THE DODGERS SUCK”
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
First, a rotation of Penny, Lowe and a healthy Schmidt in the NL West is devastating.
Second, I wonder what third baseman who has an agent with ties to Los Angeles the Dodgers might be able to acquire this off-season?
If you consider that the Dodgers are now battling with the LAAA for the LA market, ARod might be worth $30mm/year to them…
I think I’m going to have to start a west coast version of No Maas now that Torre’s headed to the Dodgers…I think I’ll call it…No Howe. What do you think?
Peter, you go boy! ESPN they like you Peter.
I can’t stand people like you who think Joe Torre makes the yankees a postseason team. I can’t stand people who give Joe Torre credit for his 4 WS but he doesn’t get any blame for what has been in last few years. I been watching this team longer than u so kid you shouldn’t be talking about muppets you 96 run bandwangoner.
The Dodgers will finish 4th in the NL West next season:
1. AZ
2. SD
3. COL
4. LAD
5. SF
Now that he is managing in the NL, Torre will have a lot more opportunities to make bone-headed decisions.
I wish both Joe’s well. The Yankees have had their share of good Joe’s. And we are lucky to have another. As for Mr. Torre go forth and prosper in LA if that is the job you take. Those that are clueless, just do not enjoy the game and I have been a Yankee fan for many decades now.
With all the young talent in LA, a monkey could manage them to better than 82-80 next year. Torre will do just that and continue to be hailed as a brilliant manager. Funny stuff.
Though unless Joe Torre wakes up thinking it’s 1996, it might be a bad idea to put him in charge of a team that desperately needs a manager that will USE it’s young talent. Little leaving Billingsley out of the rotation for most of the year was a complete joke.
“I imagine it will be a looooonnnggg time before the Yanks deal with Bora$ again.”
I highly doubt that. He gets the best free agents and best draft eligible players in the game. There is no way around dealing with him.
Clueless I don’t care how long you have been watching the Yankees you are a muppet. The point is under his watch we won 4 world series which is more than any team including the Yankees could have hoped for. It’s too bad it hasn’t worked out since 2000 but the positives far out weigh the negatives you spoiled brat. It’s because of the putrid 80′s and early 90′s that I am so thankful for him. You muppet.
do you people who are saying posada might go to LA even follow baseball?
“I think I’m going to have to start a west coast version of No Maas now that Torre’s headed to the Dodgers…I think I’ll call it…No Howe. What do you think?”
best comment in this thread, by far…
oh, and good luck to joe in LA.
I hope St. Joe or his agent didn’t discuss his availabilty to manage a team that already has a manager under contract.
The way Dodgers treated Little is not much better than Yankees in Torre Affair. Joe beaware. Good luck, Joe & Donnie (a tough job ahead), nevertheless.
What is “The Journal News”? Never heard of it, so to be honest, I’ll believe it when The NY Times or ESPN reports it.