A Joe Torre Team, Hot in September? You Don't Say...

The match between Joe Torre and the Yankees was as close to perfection as one could want in today's baseball world: twelve years of service, twelve playoff appearances, ten AL East titles, six World Series appearances, four World Series wins.  Last October, after all that success, all the Yankees could muster was a bad faith contract offer.  Of the contract offer from the Yankees, Torre said, "The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing...If somebody wants you to do a job, if it takes them two weeks to figure out, yeah, we want to do this, should do this, yeah, you're a little suspicious. I like to work with people—there's a certain trust that has to be earned and forged in order to have the commitment to follow...it wasn't the type of commitment that 'we're trying to do something together,' as opposed to 'let me see what you can do for me.'" From '96 to '07, Torre's managerial reign in the Bronx, ... (link)