Joe Torre's "tell-all" book.

[bassrique]

I'm a little surprised that Torre did this, but I must say it looks like I'll enjoy the dirt.

Sunday, January 25, 2009
Reports: Torre bitter in tell-all book
ESPN.com news services

Joe Torre didn't need "incentives" to lead the New York Yankees, so he left.

Torre's incentives to expose the salacious side of his former team is another story.

According to two newspaper reports, Torre blasts the team he managed to four World Series titles in a book set to be released Feb. 3.

Teammates frequently called Alex Rodriguez "A-Fraud," and the third baseman was obsessed over his rivalry with shortstop Derek Jeter, "The Yankee Years" reveals, according to the New York Daily News and New York Post.

In the book written by Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci and published by Doubleday, Torre also says Yankees general manager Brian Cashman "betrayed him on several fronts," the Daily News reports.

It's in stark contrast to Torre's former stance, in which he said Cashman supported him throughout 2007 negotiations, which ultimately failed.

And it goes beyond the widely reported 2007 meeting in which Cashman met with the Steinbrenners to discuss Torre's future with the team, a talk in which the GM was said to have stood pat as the drawbacks to extending Torre's tenure were discussed.

In a later confrontation with Torre, Cashman confirmed he was quiet when the subject of offering Torre his desired two-year deal instead of one came up, the book says.

After completing a three-year, $19.2 million contract with the Yankees, Torre signed a three-year, $13 million contract to manage the Los Angeles Dodgers in Nov. 2007, the same month the book deal with Verducci was announced.

His Dodgers deal came two weeks after having walked away from the Yankees when they offered a one-year contract worth $5 million plus $3 million in performance incentives he termed "an insult.''

"I don't think incentives are necessary," he said then. "I've been here a long time and I've never needed to be motivated. Plus, in my [previous] contract, I get a million-dollar bonus if we do win the World Series, so that's always been there."

According to the Daily News, Torre is scheduled for the "Late Show With David Letterman" on Feb. 3, as well as a book signing that day at the Yogi Berra Museum in New Jersey.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print...198&type=story

[oldrocker]

"...one-year contract worth $5 million plus $3 million in performance incentives he termed "an insult.''

I would love to be so insulted

[Lesfunk]

I'm a Red Sox Fan but I respect and Admire Joe Torre. He led the Stinking Yankees to four World Series championships and always represented himself and his organization with class. The Steinbrenners are scum.

[TallLankyBastyd]

I was hoping Joe would take the Dodgers all the way to the World Series just so he could have a great laugh at the Steinbrenners.

The Yank-mees organization is scum, Steinbrenners... scum, Alex Rotriches... scum, Every ex-Seattle Mariner (aka Yankee farm team) turned Yankee... SCUM!!

Sorry... I'm just not much of a Yankee fan...

[Jared Lash]

Not much of a tell-all if you are telling people things they already know.

[StanFan]

Originally Posted by TallLankyBastyd

I was hoping Joe would take the Dodgers all the way to the World Series just so he could have a great laugh at the Steinbrenners.

The Yank-mees organization is scum, Steinbrenners... scum, Alex Rotriches... scum, Every ex-Seattle Mariner (aka Yankee farm team) turned Yankee... SCUM!!

Sorry... I'm just not much of a Yankee fan...

It seems like all of the MLB is a farm team to play for the Yankees the way they sign players.

[MJ5150]

He's just mad he was snubbed at the ceremonies for the final game in Yankee Stadium.

-Mike