Say It Ain't So Joe: Torre Book Fallout

Brian Cashman would like an explanation, and Alex Rodriguez has yet to comment on a book that is set to release February 3, 2009. Two New York newspapers are reporting that Joe Torre rips Alex Rodriguez and George Steinbrenner in the book, and that Brian Cashman was not as supportive of Torre returning as Yankees manager after the 2007 season as was previously believed. Senior SI writer and co-author Tom Verducci has came out and said, "I think it's important to understand context here. The book is not a first-person book by Joe Torre, it's a third-person narrative based on 12 years of knowing the Yankees and it's about the changes in the game in that period. Seems to me the New York Post assigned this third-person book entirely to Joe Torre and that's not the case. In fact, if people saw that Post story they probably noticed there are no quotes from Joe Torre in it. Joe Torre does not rip anybody in the book. The book really needs to be read in context." I am still interested in reading this ... (link)