A-Rod Has Bigger Things to Handle Than Joe Torre's Book!

Well, the Yankees' hope for a quiet Spring Training just blew up in their faces, thanks to Joe Torre. Let's face it: The Yankees will never have a quiet Spring Training! Not in my lifetime, anyways.

I hope for his sake that A-Rod avoids the issue the way he did with Jose Canseco's outrageous allegations that he took PEDs and steroids. He handled that situation perfectly. Please Alex, handle this one like a pro again. I beg you.

The moment the players arrive and handle the media they are going to be bombarded with The Yankee Years and its aftermath. If Torre was trying to screw with the Yankees, he couldn't have done any better!

Everyone from Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Joe Girardi, Brian Cashman, Hal Steinbrenner and A-Rod are going to have to devote precious time to sorting all the details out in this book that was released. A-Rod is going to be the one who will really have handle these murky waters with skill because of Torre's book.

From the very top to the bottom of the Yankee hierarchy there are going to be statements and press releases abounding because of The Yankee Years.

Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett should all send Joe Torre a "Thank You" card. Their every move won't be dissected with such alacrity by the press as other big-name free agents have been in the past.

Even Hank Steinbrenner may want to say a comment or two about the book. (I hope and pray nobody puts a microphone around him for the next 50 years.)

Joe Torre was such a powerful force in Yankeeland that this simply can't be tossed under the rug. If someone like a Carl Pavano or a Jaret Wright wrote a book blasting his teammates, no one would care. No one would bother to blink an eye.

What else makes this book release sad is that Joe Torre may never get his just due as one of the absolute and iconic legends for the New York Yankees now. We may see a Yogi Berra standoff before Torre sets foot in the new Yankee Stadium. Torre should have his number retired. We may never see that in Torre's lifetime now. That would be a shame!

Seriously, Joe Torre is in the realm of Miller Huggins, Joe McCarthy, and Casey Stengel. He will always be remembered for the way his Yankees ruthlessly handed the rest of Major League Baseball beatings on an annual basis.

Torre's Yankees played the game with class (for the most part) and he always seemed above the fray that engulfed the teams he managed from George Steinbrenner and the New York media.

For the record: I think anyone who comments on this book and Joe Torre better read the book first. Personally, I am going to hold judgment until I read the book. It's a long book and many people are already making this out to be another Ball Four for the "Yankee betrayal" that the pages will unleash. I doubt this book sniffs that much controversy, but we'll see.

Also, Tom Verducci and Joe Torre must be loving the attention this book is already garnering. In works like this, there is no such thing as bad publicity. Seriously, kudos to the advertising wizards that came up with this strategy. The Yankee Years is going to be a top seller.

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