Bugg Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 MadDouche and FatGuy previewing a book about the Yankees by Post writer george kings to be released shortly claims that in 2005 A-rod made a comment to Jeter about an error, and they had to be seperated. Further, Jeter treats ballboys and other lowly people like crap, including Miggy Cairo. Not really a suprise. Jeter's image is as crafted as Tiger Woods or Jordan. Anyone that thinks Jeter is a great guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed. If you're Jessica Biel, he'll talk to you. But otherwise- Jeter and Torre had both better wake up. If A-rod doesn't play well, this team isn't winning anything. Don't like him, fine. enough crap. Just back A-rod up and stop acting like a couple of fairies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn306 Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 You get the feeling it is going to be a real fun summer in the Bronx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangenious420 Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 You get the feeling it is going to be a real fun summer in the Bronx. For who us? Or all the people who hate the Yankees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 I'd just assume they hold a joint presser calling each other a-holes(which A-rod came closest to)than keep up this idiocy. And if Torre cannot make lemonade out of these lemons, given his futility mananging A-rod and the pitching staff, he should've been fired a long time ago. Torre is manager of the Yankees, all 25 guys, not just the shortstop. His big selling point is managing egos, and yet he cannot sit down with his 2 biggest stars and hash out this mess once and for all. Enough of this "Father Joe"BS; he cannot do the one thing which is supposedly his expertise. Go back to Hawaii. If we're gonna bring Hughes along, I'd rather have Joe Girardi launching him than watching Torre destroy his confidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn306 Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I agree with Bugg on this one. Torre cannot sit there and give us the company "Everything is fine" line. Now I haven't seen the book I don't know if this guy is some kind of hack but there is just too much garbage going on that started basically from the minute that they walked into camp. Either get it taken care of or get A-Rod out of here. Speaking of A-Rod, HBO will doing a piece on him on their Real Sports series Monday night at 10:00pm. If it is anything like the Daily News is reporting it should be an interesting Tuesday on the FAN. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/502008p-423343c.html A-Rod talkin' like Mr. Cub With options open, Alex is still batty over 'father' Piniella Alex Rodriguez faces decision on future as he can opt out of contract after season, but Yankee currently appears to have mind on Cubs and their new manager Lou Piniella. There's nothing like the possibilty of being reunited with now two-time AL MVP Alex Rodriguez to bring out the Sweet in Cubs skipper. While Alex Rodriguez has demonstrated a penchant for self-analysis, the media has provided ample evidence that this is a two-way couch. We hang on A-Rod's every word. The season is still a month away from opening. Look what already has happened. Rodriguez held that circus-like book signing at Barnes & Noble. Then, there he was in Tampa revising the description of his relationship with Derek Jeter. This was followed by analysis of the "friendship." Media Freuds said the process of baring his soul was good for Mr. Rodriguez. They described it as a "cleansing." Measuring A-Rod's words and actions has taken on added importance in determining his future. This is apparent even to those who speak before they think. The door to hyperinterpretation has been left wide open by Rodriguez and his agent Scott Boras. For the purpose of financial flexibility, and maybe peace of mind too, Rodriguez has not taken the option of opting out of his Yankees contract (worth $25 mil per) off the table. As long as the option to opt out at the end of this season is available, there will be buzz over whether A-Rod already has another destination in mind. Speculation will mount Monday night (10 p.m.) when Rodriguez appears on HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel." If you come away sensing the Yankees third baseman has the Windy City on his mind you will have plenty of company. During a profile of new Cubs manager Lou Piniella, who managed Rodriguez for seven seasons in Seattle, A-Rod is interviewed by Frank Deford. While Deford never asks Rodriguez to compare Piniella to Joe Torre, it is abundantly clear the managerial qualities - and style - A-Rod enthusiastically attributes to Piniella are not subscribed to by the Yankees manager. Rodriguez also tells Deford that Piniella "has been just like a father to me." During the piece, Piniella picks up a bat with the inscription: "To my second mom." The bat was sent by A-Rod to Piniella's wife, Anita. Visions of Piniella wigging big on umpires, something Torre never does, still register positively with Rodriguez. A-Rod has a serious look when he says: "But that type of passion went right on through us as players. For me it worked 100%." For Rodriguez, Piniella is a man of radical contrasts. The sensitive side of Piniella, his ability to coddle players, also motivated him. A-Rod says during his rookie season in Seattle, Piniella blasted him for swinging wildly at a sequence of Dennis Eckersley sliders. "I remember being 18, almost in tears," Rodriguez says. "... I just felt like, 'Get me back in my senior high school uniform.' Then sure enough (Piniella) gives me a big kiss on top of my head. He goes, 'Son, I love you. I love you. I just want you to do well.' "From that day on," Rodriguez says, "for the next 12 years, he's been just like a father to me." Rodriguez calls Piniella a "great" teacher. He tells a story about finishing up a postgame spread after a night game, showering and making his way out of the Mariners clubhouse. Doing his own Piniella impersonation, A-Rod says: "'Come here son, let's work on your swing.' ... This is now 1 o'clock in the morning. I can remember it like it was yesterday. He (Piniella) will be there in his underwear and T-shirt, maybe smoking a cigarette, and we'll stay there until 2:30-3 o'clock in the morning talking about a swing." Piniella admitted he cried when Rodriguez left Seattle. "No, I didn't know that (he cried)," Rodriguez says. "That was the toughest thing I've ever had to do in my life. I'll be honest with you, it was a relief once (Piniella) left Seattle because I knew the torture stopped a little bit ... I'm free." If he decides to opt out, Rodriguez will be "free" again. The emotion he displays while speaking about his former manager and mentor leaves a distinct impression that reuniting with Piniella would be a dream come true. And yet, yesterday, Rodriguez told Daily News Yankees beat writer Mark Feinsand a reunion with Pinella is not likely to be in the cards. "He's on a different team in a different league," Rodriguez said. "My memories of Lou are in the present and the past, not the future." The HBO spot is not the first time A-Rod has taken us on a tour of his Piniella pedestal. Last June, after belting a 12th-inning, game-winning two-run homer off Braves reliever Jorge Sosa, Rodriguez told Yankees radiocaster Suzyn Waldman he had spent the prior evening in his Park Ave. condo talking "hitting" and "self-confidence" with Piniella, who was in town doing promotional work. On that occasion, Rodriguez said the sight of Piniella was like seeing "an angel from the sky." After that June meeting, speculators wondered how Torre felt about Piniella being A-Rod's spiritual/hitting adviser. Now, with the Yankees manager perhaps more sensitive knowing George Steinbrenner was ready to pull the plug on him in in October and plug in Piniella, will A-Rod's upcoming Sweet Lou tribute rub Mr. Torre the wrong way? "I don't take it as (a slight) if it is. It doesn't bother me at all," Torre said yesterday. "We look for whatever way to make players better. If they can do this on their own, find someone that gives them that secure feeling, so be it." Pretty good analysis, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 MadDouche and FatGuy previewing a book about the Yankees by Post writer george kings to be released shortly claims that in 2005 A-rod made a comment to Jeter about an error, and they had to be seperated. Further, Jeter treats ballboys and other lowly people like crap, including Miggy Cairo. Not really a suprise. Jeter's image is as crafted as Tiger Woods or Jordan. Anyone that thinks Jeter is a great guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed. If you're Jessica Biel, he'll talk to you. But otherwise- Jeter and Torre had both better wake up. If A-rod doesn't play well, this team isn't winning anything. Don't like him, fine. enough crap. Just back A-rod up and stop acting like a couple of fairies. he should treat cairo like crap because thats exactly what he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dierking Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 25 players, 25 cabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 25 players, 25 cabs. Chemistry is overrated anhd usually made up after the fact. The next last place team populated by great guys will be a first, all will be the first championship won by total a-holes. Which is again why Torre is not the wonder manager the press would have you believe. This really pisses me off-if Torre's supposed to deal with messes like this, why is this still happening?And Why does he still have a job? Because kidna see the same trainwreck at the end if this is going to be allowled to fester. Reminder-Tony Larussa, the micromanaging strategist the press lamppons, won a World Series last year with Jeff Freaking Weaver in his rotation against a rotation featuring Kenny freaking Rogers, whom Torre had no use for but declined to shake on the pinetar cheating thing because he' such a gentleman. So when Padre Joe starts with al his happy horsepsit, ask him why this isn't being adressed again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsis Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 when a-rod is a cub and we have joe schmo at 3rd, everyone is gonna be surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 when a-rod is a cub and we have joe schmo at 3rd, everyone is gonna be surprised. I won't be. They shoulda traded arod when they had the chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dierking Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 Chemistry is overrated anhd usually made up after the fact. The next last place team populated by great guys will be a first, all will be the first championship won by total a-holes. Which is again why Torre is not the wonder manager the press would have you believe. This really pisses me off-if Torre's supposed to deal with messes like this, why is this still happening?And Why does he still have a job? Because kidna see the same trainwreck at the end if this is going to be allowled to fester. Reminder-Tony Larussa, the micromanaging strategist the press lamppons, won a World Series last year with Jeff Freaking Weaver in his rotation against a rotation featuring Kenny freaking Rogers, whom Torre had no use for but declined to shake on the pinetar cheating thing because he' such a gentleman. So when Padre Joe starts with al his happy horsepsit, ask him why this isn't being adressed again. What was your origninal point again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted March 3, 2007 Author Share Posted March 3, 2007 What was your origninal point again? A supposed "great manager of egos"(and utterly deficient in managing a pitching staff) would've had this 6th grade nonsense settled a long time ago. Is this all about winning baseball games or feeding Jeter's already overfed ego? There are any number of situations in life where people who hate each other can work together. Is Jeter such a wilting violet he cannot stick his image for the baseball season? And apparently Torre cannot or will not tell Jeter as much. Why isn't Lou Piniella here? This season is pretty much on track for another piss poor end. And as above, when some replacement value 3rd baseman is a black hole in the lineup and dropping balls left and right, you guys will understand what a mistake treating a-Rod like garbage has all been. Seriously-you have David Wright, Aramis Ramirez(on their good days) close to A-rod. Rolen is always hurt; Eric Chavez is good for a half season slump each year. So tell me-who plays 3rd base-some #7 slap hitter with a hole in his glove-when A-rod's gone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 Torre cannot sit there and give us the company "Everything is fine" line. Why not? Lou's predecessor did that in Chicago after the shameful unraveling in 03 and he got to hang out for 3 more seasons of direct deposits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 25 players, 25 cabs. Not true. The Yankees have 23 hall of famers and 2 rookies. The 2 rookies have to share a cab. They are only making like 400k each. Have to cut corners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 ARod has stated that he will not void the contract. He is owed a lot of money. Can he get more? Who knows but he will be coming off his first World Series championship. If he voids that contract his legacy will be tarnished even more. ARod was cool about switching to 3b. That was selfless. But the stuff he said about Jeter years ago really was unncessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 ARod has stated that he will not void the contract. He is owed a lot of money. Can he get more? Who knows but he will be coming off his first World Series championship. If he voids that contract his legacy will be tarnished even more. ARod was cool about switching to 3b. That was selfless. But the stuff he said about Jeter years ago really was unncessary. He said he wants to be a yankee. NOT that he wouldn't void the contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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