F*&! Joe Torre

Since Joe Torre breaks our hearts, this blog will break his balls. Every day of the season I will detail the errors, misjudgements, and omissions that make him the most overrated manger in the history of the game (even more than Tommy Lasorda!). But Joe Torre is not just one bum in hero's clothing (i.e. the pinstripes); he is the quintessential counterfeit of excellence, a figure who embodies the triumph of the ersatz that pervades every aspect of our culture. No organization in sport, nay in civilization generally, has manifested a committment to continuing greatness like the New York Yankees, a beacon to all, in every field of endeavor, that the best is always possible. How intolerable is it then that the Yankees should be managed by a mediocrity on stilts, a figure with a reputation for greatness without any of the attributes thereof. Beginning with Torre and ending with Torre, this blog will look to smash idols we create out of inadvertence, ignorance, and complacency.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

All Star Blues

Despite an exciting ending, I couldn't help thinking that this exhibition lost its relevance in the transition from print to televisual culture, or at least from local affilate to national cable transmission. It is there to allow fans to see life on the other side, i.e. the stars from the league the hometown team doesn't play. But with Baseball Tonight and Sports Center, not to mention interleague play and the player mobility that comes with free agency, there is no "other" side in the plenary sense, and so this game seems not only contrived and anti-climactic, bathetic in sum. No?

posted by joe valente | 1:15 AM

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