Joe Torre says Pettitte not going to the Dodgers--Ken Davidoff

(Newsday, Ken Davidoff): "Joe Torre has spoken with Andy Pettitte, the Dodgers' manager confirmed to Newsday, but doesn't foresee Pettitte heading West for a reunion with his former manager.

• "I don't think that's going to happen," Torre said Thursday, in a telephone interview.

Torre was speaking to promote a new DVD set, "The Essential Games of Yankee Stadium," featuring six classic Yankees games....

While Torre and Pettitte have a strong relationship built during those championship years, Torre said that he didn't initiate contact with Pettitte this offseason, and that he thinks Pettitte's strong desire is to return to the Yankees. Pettitte, nevertheless, has refused to agree to a $10 million salary for 2009,...

• "I talked to Andy," Torre said. "His agent had called the Dodgers to find out about interest, and that's when I called him. I had talked to Andy much earlier, asking him to come to my (Safe at Home) Foundation dinner. He was always married to the Yankees, the excitement playing for the Yankees.

"I called him only because his agent called (Dodgers' GM) Ned (Colletti). I certainly would've kicked myself (if I hadn't called)."...

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