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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

The casually insulting Torre drops acid again passing through town

Punctuated for all to see with a 'shrug'...Don't hurry back, wacko.
  • From Bob Klapisch column, 1/29/09, NorthJersey.com on the Torre book:

"Each one of these depictions reveals a casual, insulting quality to Torre’s personality that seems almost incomprehensible."...

For in the book, Torre reveals Damon's private issues in the spring of 2007 in which the Yankee outfielder, devastated by the death of teammate Cory Lidle in the plane crash over Manhattan the previous fall, was having serious reservations about wanting to play anymore. Those reservations, although resolved in the spring, were compounded when Damon was playing hurt much of that season, the result of not having kept himself in the best of shape that winter.

You can understand if Damon didn't feel a little thrown under the bus by that. But this was Torre's story and he was still stickin' to it Tuesday night, while doing his level best to at least defuse it by bringing his co-author, Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci into the conversation.

(How playful of Torre--he doesn't admit it or deny it). sm
  • (Bill Madden, continuing): (Torre): "I don't think it's any surprise Johnny had torn emotions.
  • I felt for him.
I don't think it's an issue. It was something he was struggling with and the (Torre teases, now hinting at negative knowledge about Damon communicated to him by players). sm

portraying him as a player who was disliked by all his teammates

  • that will be out there now for life,

7/8/09, NY Daily News, "In New York to play the Mets, Dodgers' Manager Joe Torre Can't Turn Page"

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