Posted on 10/29/2007 11:14:55 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
ESPN NEWS Reports tonight that Joe Torre is going to be the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers with Don Mattingly to be named as his assistant.
Can you fix how Yankees is spelled...it’s late...added the wrong letter in there.
Yow! Big news indeed!
That would be...
Y-A-N-K-S-T-E-R-S
...if you catch my drift. Torre is a decent guy, who deserved better than he has gotten IMO.
Perhaps others feel differently. They should say so and why if they do. They may be right.
I’m glad he’s going to the Dodgers. They’ve tried everyone else.
Report says Girardi was original guy wanted for the Dodgers position but when the NY offer came in they went for Torre...also Mattingly’s son is in the minor leagues in the Dodger organization as well so it began to fit like a glove for them.
I once blocked Don Mattingly’s shot in a HS basketball game. Yes, the very same Don Mattingly mentioned here.
Hahaha...he is one of my favorites. He just needs a little bit more time in the coaching ranks before getting the keys to a team. At age 67 I don’t expect Torre to be with LA for longer than 3 yrs...possibly leaving his Dodgers position then to Mattingly.
Maybe he’ll take Jeter with him.
Next, sign A-Rod!
yitbos
Jeter ain’t goin anywhere...and if he did go anywhere it would be Detroit.
I met Don Mattingly. What a truly nice person. He has high school records that still stand in Indiana.
But you fail to point out that he scored 40 points on you that night!
Should be former manager of the first playoff round losing New York Yankees
Damn, you are old
Take K-Rod too...
Jeter is under contract through 2011.
Now I could see A-Rod going to the Left Coast to either the Dodgers or the Giants.
Note to Lerners: So far, so good. Remember Washington D.C. is not an informal farm club for the Yankees, Mets, or Red Sox.
I think Jeter is going to be a career Yankee. He is a fixture.
I’m orginally from new york, was a huge Mattingly fan growing up. He had a hall of fame career going until his back blew up in 1990. I was hoping he’d get a ring as a coach with the Yankees. But he’ll proabably get some in LA now first as an assistant and then as Torre’s replacement when Torre retires.
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