[gridlock]

Enough of that tedious World Series nonsense. Now on to what matters... The New York Yankees!

They made the right call here. Girardi is just what the team needs.

[SnakeDoctor]

The Yanks are in for a rough go for a season or two. A-Rod isn’t a player that is easily replaced. Without Clemens, A-Rod, Torre, Mattingly, and possibly Rivera, Posada and Pettitte ... it could be a rough year.

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[Alberta's Child]

I'm not sure he's the right guy for this team. I agree they need a "light a fire under their @sses" type of manager, but I wonder if a guy like him will end up turning off a lot of their veteran players.

Another interesting side to this is that Mattingly apparently won't come back as a coach after interviewing for the manager's job.

[gridlock]

In selecting Girardi, the Yankees set in motion Mattingly’s exit from the team. The former Yankees first baseman announced Monday he would be leaving the team. Mattingly had been groomed to one day replace Torre as manager. Mattingly said it was his goal to manage whe he agreed — at the request of the principal owner, George Steinbrenner — to become the Yankees’ hitting coach in October 2003.

Sorry, Mattingly... Nobody gets to Skipper the New York Yankees just because it is their turn. The Yankees have to do what is best for the team, even if that means saying "no" to Donnie Baseball.

It is a fine balancing act. On the one hand you have to so a certain amount of loyalty, even if you are the New York Yankees. On the other hand, losing out of loyalty to one man is not really an option.

[Verginius Rufus]

Where's the diversity? They get rid of Joe Torre, and hire another Italian-American named Joe.

If the Cubs can get A-Rod, maybe they can keep alive their string of winning the World Series in every year ending in "08"

[ryan71]

Managers, coaches, managers, coaches.

When are their overpaid, non-producing players going to be fired?

[JerseyDvl]

The real problem for NY sports is.....
THE CURSE OF HILLARY!!!!!

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Now on to what matters... The New York Yankees!

Like cheering for the dealer at blackjack.

[Gtown]

The old Chicago columnist Mike Royko used to pick the World Sreies favorite based on their “ECF” rating - the Ex-Cub Factor. The club with the fewest ex-Cubs had a distinct advantage.

It worked out this year: The Rockies, with ex-Cub LaTroy Hawkins in the bullpen, lost to the Red Sox, who have an ECF of 0. Before that, the Rockies bested the Diamondbacks, who had two ex-Cubs (and even dared to start one of them at second base).

Now the Yankees have done themselves serious damage, placing an ex-Cub in the manager’s slot on top of puka-bead-necklace-wearing Kyle Farnsworth in the bullpen.

[Clemenza]

Girardi is an overrated hack who COULDN"T EVEN BRING HIS TEAM OVER .500!

In other words, he belongs coaching a bunch of metrosexuals who play in a Third World slum.

Happiness is the Yankees moving to Vegas after the family sells them.

[big'ol_freeper]

Great choice. Girardi, like Torre, is a good guy. And of course his son is a fan of the World Champion Boston Red Sox and his favorite player is Big Papi.

Joe will be key for the Yankees ability to rebuild with young players.

[Dilbert56]

Girardi will be great with the “kids”, Cano, Cabrera, Duncan and the young pitchers. Who knows? Another “kid” might come up at third base now. They need more of a “hands on” coach than the veterans that are leaving.