F*&! Joe Torre: It Has to Be Kismet

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.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

It Has to Be Kismet

that I can add a last regular season blog to report that on this night of the Yankees' disgrace, the New York Daily News is reporting that the decision to fire Joda has already been made, as has the decision to hire Lou Pinella, as a number of the readers of this blog have been wanting for some time. While I am sick about the way this came about, I am happy to say as a last regular season gesture that this blog and the contributors to it have been at last vindicated in the court of Yankee opinion. Apparently the one thing brian cashman, the Tampa crew and George himself, when cogent, can agree upon, is the very thing that has provided the foundation for this forum. They have joined us as we say with one voice and hopefully fo the last time: Joe Torre is F*&!ed; F*&! Joe Torre.

To paraphrase my wife on Passover--
NEXT YEAR IN THE PROMISED LAND

4 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Sweet Lou is exactly what this team needs, the kind of hard-nosed, no-bullshit guy who will simply sit players who aren't producing. Lou always came through in the clutch--as Joe V. says, his Differential was quite high--and he can bring that attitude back to the Bronx, where (except for Jeter) it was nowhere in evidence this postseason.

I'd love it if this is indeed true.; 12:19 PM
Anonymous said...: I'd love it if this is indeed true.

In case the subtext of this remark wasn't clear, I fear that Torre will again wriggle out of trouble, as all the pundits come to his defense and George is convinced by Cashman et al that to fire him would be to return to the "bad old days" of George the Terrible.; 12:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Aarrgh! Say it ain't so, George.; 10:41 AM
Anonymous said...: Well, at least this blog won't have to change its name.; 12:49 PM