Posted on 11/01/2007 4:45:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Torre Heads West Ex-Yankees Manager To Lead Dodgers
POSTED: 5:23 pm EDT November 1, 2007 UPDATED: 6:43 pm EDT November 1, 2007 LOS ANGELES -- Joe Torre was hired Thursday to manage the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking the job two weeks after walking away from the New York Yankees.
Torre moved from one storied franchise to another, getting a three-year contract. He takes over a team that finished fourth in the NL West this season and hasn't won the World Series since 1988.
The 67-year-old Torre becomes the Dodgers' eighth manager since they moved west from Brooklyn for the 1958 season. Torre grew up in Brooklyn, rooting for the rival New York Giants and detesting the Dodgers.
"As a kid growing up, you didn't like them," Torre said on WFAN radio in New York less than an hour before the hiring was announced. "As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because ... you either loved them or you hated them."
Torre guided the Yankees to four World Series championships from 1996-2000, and they made the playoffs in all 12 years he managed them. After New York was beaten in the first round by Cleveland last month, the Yankees offered him a one-year contract with a paycut.
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good luck to both joes.
Yay!!!! Welcome to Blue Country, Joe!!
In other news all of the Dodger relievers filed for free agency. Scott Proctor was last seen balled up on the floor of the club house crying and screaming.
The Dodgers have always been my favorite National League team. I used to listen to them on the radio before they left Brooklyn.
Joe Torre is a class act. Ditto on Steinbrenner.
Joe, Joe...they aren’t called “Da Bums” anymore.
Torre ping.
LOL... I just finished posting to you on the WS thread.
THANKS for this ping. I just turned on local news and awaiting the sports segment...
Geeze...you can’t go much lower than the Dodgers.I guess the next 3 years will flesh out Joe’s IRA so he can retire to a country club development in Florida.
3 years, or less.
The Dodgers will be World Champs, again.
True Blue here... when it comes to baseball, that is...:)
P.S. to Past Your Eyes... Vin Scully still calls Dodger games.
We’re pretty happy in L.A. about the news re Torre.
Wait a minute.....they have to interview a minority candidate. Never mind
Sure...you could. You could be a Red Sux man. LOL
LOL.
I was a Celts fan...as long as they weren’t playing the Lakers. :)
Say It Ain’t So, Joe!
Geeze...you can’t go much lower than the Dodgers.I guess the next 3 years will flesh out Joe’s IRA so he can retire to a country club development in Florida.
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Now that’s just funny. Joe’s been making, what, 3 or so mil a year for the last dozen years, and you think he’s taking a job for retirement income?
He could easily have retired now, or 5 years ago, and he’d have been well set for life.
Good for Torre. He was treated shamefully and he pulled up and found a new place. I’m glad to see him shake the dust off his feet and move on.
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