[NU Sports] Yanks

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Let us hope that the Yankees finish dead last under whoever the new manager is. Maybe some of the players whose option have run out will go play somewhere else.  My Detroit Tigers could use a couple of them.

John DeGroat
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From: "Jeff Beamsley" <jeff.beamsley at hilgraeve.com>
> I agree with you.  The Yanks showed their true colors yet again in their
> shabby send-off of Torre.
> 
> However, you have to take ego into account here.  Tony LaRussa has a lot of
> it.  He wants to go down in history as the best baseball manager ever.  He
> has been angling for this job for a long time.  Now that the opportunity is
> here, this is his last mountain to climb.  He won in Chicago. He won in
> Oakland. He won in St. Louis.  His swan song is going to be winning the WS in
> New York on the biggest baseball stage in the world.  
> 
> The timing couldn't be better.  The team is going to be rebuilt.  The Yanks
> showed this year that they have enough good young talent to build a team
> around.  LaRussa will continue to have an unlimited budget AND they are going
> to have a new stadium.  Don't think for a minute that LaRussa doesn't get a
> little wood every time he thinks about being the first manager to lead the
> Yankees to a WS championship in the new ballpark.  
> 
> Also the game is changing toward more of a National league model with small
> ball (pitching, speed, and defense) proving to be a better strategy that
> big-inning baseball.  LaRussa has proven he knows how to win with that model.
> 
> 
> Mattingly is clearly their manager in waiting, but he has already said that
> he doesn't think that he is ready now to take on the job.  He's been in
> organization long enough to know that it's going to take a year or two to get
> this team rebuilt to where they are going to be competitive.  The new stadium
> is scheduled to open in 2009, so the timing for LaRussa is great.  He
> rebuilds the team.  They open the new stadium.  He leads them to the WS.
> He'll turn 65 that year.  He maybe manages another year or so, turns the
> reins over the Mattingly who will be in his early 50's (Torre was 56 when he
> took over), and rides off into the sunset and into the hall of fame as the
> greatest baseball manager ever.
> 
> Does this all mean it is going to happen?  I don't know.  It is really hard
> to predict situations where the room is too small to hold all of the egos.
> But the entrails definitely point out the possibilities.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:33 AM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Yanks
> 
> Anyone who considers working for George Steinbrenner should be put into a
> strait-jacket and locked in a rubber-lined room.  He will eventually get
> there anyway.  If Tony LaRussa is smart, he'll stay right where he is.  Don
> Mattingly is a lifetime Yankee, so he might not be as smart. 
> 
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