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How do you feel about Joe Torre's book? Is he wrong for "airing the laundry?" I personally don't have a problem with it, he is no longer with the team and has no obligation towards them, especially how he was treated. How Cashman kept his job is beyond me, Baseball is alot more than opening a wallet and handing out million dollar bills like you print them yourselves. I would love to see a Davey Johnson book, Mazzone already said his biggest mistake was coming here. I think the people of New York willl find it interesting how it is to work for the Steinbrenners, just as we would love to hear about Angelos

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How do you feel about Joe Torre's book? Is he wrong for "airing the laundry?" I personally don't have a problem with it, he is no longer with the team and has no obligation towards them, especially how he was treated. How Cashman kept his job is beyond me, Baseball is alot more than opening a wallet and handing out million dollar bills like you print them yourselves. I would love to see a Davey Johnson book, Mazzone already said his biggest mistake was coming here. I think the people of New York willl find it interesting how it is to work for the Steinbrenners, just as we would love to hear about Angelos

I don't think it's the classiest move - to release a tell-all, but, on the other hand, no one in New York seemed overly offended by the account.

Mazzone pulled an absolutely classless move by trashing his former employer. Prospective employers don't look so favorably on this behavior as it means it could happen to them too.

I don't care what it's like to work for Angelos, to tell the truth. I know it can't be great because of the obvious. I'm much more interested in a book that would convince Peter to sell the team to Geppi, Ripken and Co.

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I don't think it's the classiest move - to release a tell-all, but, on the other hand, no one in New York seemed overly offended by the account.

Mazzone pulled an absolutely classless move by trashing his former employer. Prospective employers don't look so favorably on this behavior as it means it could happen to them too.

I don't care what it's like to work for Angelos, to tell the truth. I know it can't be great because of the obvious. I'm much more interested in a book that would convince Peter to sell the team to Geppi, Ripken and Co.

amen brother

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I refuse to make judgements about a book I haven't read. Context is very important when evaluating the meaning of a few cherrypicked quotes designed to hype a book.

I just read the transcript of an interview he gave with Larry King, he kind of talked around the contoversial things, he even said calling George a tyrant was a compliment.

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Like what?

Nothing too inflammatory. Nothing about the O's. He started calling the 15 day DL the 15 day Pavano. He said Pavano's body rejected pitching just like a transplant recipient's body rejects a new organ. He was very supportive of Torre.

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My favorite thing about the whole book was when they were interviewing different people about it at a benefit. Posada and Jeter said typically vague supportive things. Then, Buck Showalter shows up, and says something to the effect of, "I'd never write a book if I had any hope of working on the field again." Not doing it justice, but I thought it was a brilliant moment.

And just a hunch, but I think, in a few years, Torre will look back on this book as what tanked his reputation.

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Decided to read the Torre book first. Just finished chapter six. Thus far, chapter six makes the book, talking about the Moneyball revolution and the re-birth of the Red $ox.

Makes the Orioles' floundering during this period all the more depressing.

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