Torre turns down offer....

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thoughts? i think it was time for him to go

Subject: Source... Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:32 pm

Torre rejects Yankees' contract offer
Manager walks away, ending 12-year reign as skipper

NEW YORK -- Joe Torre turned down a one-year contract offer to continue managing the Yankees, the team announced on Thursday.

In a shocking turn of events, club president Randy Levine announced during a conference call with reporters originating from Tampa, Fla., that Torre rejected a contract that would have paid him a base salary of $5 million, with $1 million bonuses for each level of the postseason the Yankees reached next season.

Those bonuses would have meant that Torre could have earned as much as $8 million in 2008.

Levine said that if the Yankees made it to the World Series next season, his contract would have extended to 2009, with a base salary of $8 million.

"We respect Joe Torre an awful lot; he is a great, great person and a great Yankee. All we can do as we try to go forward is make him the offer we thought was best for the New York Yankees," Levine said.

Torre arrived in Tampa earlier in the afternoon and met with Yankees officials, including George Steinbrenner and general manager Brian Cashman, at Legends Field, the team's Spring Training complex.

Torre was not present for the conference call. Levine said he had left.

"Based on my conversations with him the last few days, he understood essentially the arena that we were in," Cashman said. "I asked him on the plane down, I asked him last night on the phone, where his mind was at. He honestly didnt know."

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:01 pm

WOW! I was NOT expecting that.

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I wished torre did not turned it down..
I wished he accepted it... oh well.. time to move on

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:22 pm

Whoa....

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on second tought.. im having second toughts
im thinking Joe did the right thing cus he got disrespected

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:29 pm

Torre was RIGHT to tell Wackjob George to stick that
JOKE offer up his huge ASS!!

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:13 pm

Go Joe Torre! Its time for him to retire and quit putting up with that joke of a boss. If someone told me that if my team didn't make it to the World Series I would lose my job I would be like ok you coach the team then! Bye! That is just retarted!

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:48 pm

Torre

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:12 pm

mrsrabelo wrote:: Go Joe Torre! Its time for him to retire and quit putting up with that joke of a boss. If someone told me that if my team didn't make it to the World Series I would lose my job I would be like ok you coach the team then! Bye! That is just retarted!

That's always been the problem with Strangebrenner (as win calls him), he think's HE'S the manager!!
Just like Jerry Jones in Dallas with Football.

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:39 am

Torre = Class!

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:39 am

Whoever takes his place will have huge shoes to fill!

Subject: Re: Torre turns down offer.... Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:53 am

tigersaint wrote:: Torre was RIGHT to tell Wackjob George to stick that
JOKE offer up his huge ASS!!

Yeah even you could lead them to the playoffs right?