F*&! Joe Torre: IF YOU STILL DON'T THINK JOE BLOW IS COMLETELY INEPT,

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, April 25, 2007

IF YOU STILL DON'T THINK JOE BLOW IS COMLETELY INEPT,

then you tell me what in the world Meyers is still doing on this team. He can't get anyone out.He's a specialist in allowing lefthanded batters to break up the game and ensure Yankee defeats. First Ortiz in Boston now Crawford in Tampa Bay. Any idiot cansee Meyers has got nothing left at all. If you can't grasp that obvious fact, you shouldn't be allowed to manage Little League. To put Meyers in with the game on the line is, quite simply, to refuse to win. Meyers must be cut and Torre must go with him. This is a fact too indisputable to require argument or eloquence. I don't know about the players but Torre deserves to be in last place. And so it would seem do many Yankee fans. The comments on ESPN were all about how awful Vizcaino is. But all he did was give up an intentional walk to set up the DP and then get an out. Instead of lettingn him finish the inning, Torre goes to Mr. Automatic Disaster himself. Then he talks about how we have to keep plugging. Of all the poor personnel decisions the Yankees have made recently, failing to fire this moron when they had the chance ranks first.

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...: I'm glad I've been busy enough this past week that I've only been able to see snippets and box xcores of these last five games.

I can't possibly add a thing to Joe V.'s trenchant commentary, which says it all and then some.

The conventioanl wisdom will say" the Yankees have looked awful and suffered some terrible defeats, against tampa et al., in April / may the last 3 years. True enough.
But were they scoring so many runs in those games and still losing? Joe's point about the pitiching differential and the fact that Boston still barely won those three games has really come imnto focus in seeing them get spanked by the Jays the last 2 nights. The Red Sox are obviously not that great themselves--even at home. It's that the Yankees realy are that bad. How discourgaing must this be for the batters? No matter how many runs they score it just isn't enough.

I think we should all hope for the Red Sox to sweep at the stadium this weekend, after, or course, losing to TB tonight--perhaps I'm being naive, but I do wonder whether that could be the final push--for Torre to resign or get fired. The biggest problme with that scenario though is that Mattingly takes over, and I don't have confidence he's any better, and I don't trust george to go after Girardi. Just think: we could have Lou in pinstripes right now....--BGW; 11:19 AM