推 Annrod:Joe應該留下。 看樣子強者他朋友說錯了，小王果然還是 10/09 21:56
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推 ragirl:Proctor人真好 10/09 22:39
推 JKCCF:王不是會幫洲際盃冠軍賽開球 前幾篇說王不會回台灣 10/09 22:53
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只翻YANKEES NOTES的小王部分:
‧Guidry wants to return, stating he fully enjoyed his first season as pitching
coach.
"I think there's some things that we need to concentrate on to make it a better
club," Guidry said. "I hope I get a chance to say a few things about that."
He would not comment on whether he'd work for another manager.
"I don't know because that hasn't happened yet. I'll make up my mind when I'm
duck hunting one morning."
First base coach Tony Pena said he'd stay unless the "right situation" came
along.
‧ Chien-Ming Wang said he could have pitched Game 4 if he was asked to. He
plans to stay in New York for a couple of weeks before returning home to
Taiwan. He will rest and resume throwing in January.
王建民說他可以第四場上場先發，如果有被要求。他預定留在紐約幾週，然後回台灣。
休息一陣明年一月會開始練投。
"I think that Joe should stay here," Wang said.
「Joe應該留下。」小王說。 (No. You stay there!)
‧ Lidle, a free agent, is looking for either a two-year deal or two years with
an option for a third. He plans on talking to teams with agent Jordan Fegan
after the World Series.
‧ Proctor publicly defended A-Rod and hopes he's back with the Yankees.
"He's a great teammate," Proctor said. "He just wasn't hot at the right time."
— Jon Lane
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10/08/2006 7:03 PM ET
Yankees return home to rumors, questions
Players and coaches react to reports of Joe Torre's ouster
By Jon Lane / YESNetwork.com
NEW YORK — If not for the job Jim Leyland did in Detroit, Joe Torre would
receive serious Manager of the Year consideration. But because Leyland's Tigers
humiliated Torre's Yankees in the Division Series, and that it's now been six
straight years without a world championship in the Bronx, the Torre era is
apparently coming to an end. The New York Daily News reported Sunday that Torre
is expected to be fired, unless he resigns first or team officials talk
principal owner George Steinbrenner out of making the move.
The man expected to be hired: Lou Piniella.
Neither Torre nor general manager Brian Cashman were at Yankee Stadium Sunday
to comment. But during an appearance on WFAN-AM in New York, Daily News
columnist Bill Madden told Mike Francesca that Steinbrenner was more upset than
at any point of his 33-year tenure as Yankee owner.
Steinbrenner's anger was clear in a statement released through publicist Howard
Rubenstein.
"I am deeply disappointed at our being eliminated so early in the playoffs,"
the statement read. "This result is absolutely not acceptable to me, nor to our
great and loyal Yankee fans. I want to congratulate the Detroit Tigers
organization and wish them well. Rest assured we will go back to work
immediately and try to right this sad failure, and provide a championship for
the Yankees, as is our goal every year."
Despite every regular missing time to injury — Hideki Matsui and Gary
Sheffield were each sidelined for four months — Torre led the Yankees to 97
wins and captured the AL East by 10 games, clinching with 11 days left in the
season. Many believed a Subway Series was imminent and that the Yankees would
roll over a Tigers team that folded down the stretch.
"We were all pretty surprised at how not ready we were for that series," said
Cory Lidle, one of the Yankees' midseason acquisitions. "I don't think we took
the Tigers for granted. I just think they were up for it more than we were."
When asked to elaborate, Lidle felt it was because the Tigers were in a fight
to win the AL Central while the Yankees were prepping for the postseason.
"They were fighting tooth and nail down to the last game of the season," Lidle
said. "We clinched pretty early and maybe we were just in cruise control a
little bit too much."
Whatever the reason, the Tigers' arms stoned the Yankees' mighty offense. Since
Johnny Damon's three-run home run in the fourth inning of Game 2, the Yankees
were outscored 17-3 and shut out for 20 consecutive innings. Kenny Rogers,
previously 0-3 with an 8.85 ERA in nine postseason games, pitched 7 2/3
scoreless innings in Game 3. Game 4 starter Jeremy Bonderman needed just 35
pitches to take a perfect game into the sixth.
"They outplayed us. They out-pitched us. There's not much else you can say,"
Torre said Saturday night.
Torre, 66, has one year and $7 million left on his contract, and many felt this
was his finest managerial job considering what he had to endure. There were the
injuries. He had fifth starters named Shawn Chacon, Kris Wilson and Sidney
Ponson. Carl Pavano was a $39.9 million distraction and embarrassment. Then
there was the melodrama involving Alex Rodriguez.
How Torre handled the adversity is why he's so universally respected.
"I do not think that anybody in baseball would have done a better job than Joe
did this year," first base coach Tony Pena said. "To be honest with you, I was
asking myself how Joe was able to deal with everything. I don't think that
anybody can ask Joe to do more than what he did.
"For anybody to find somebody to manage this ballclub the way Joe Torre did,
and has done for 10 years, it's going to be very, very tough to find somebody."
Piniella, 63, led the Cincinnati Reds to a world title in 1990 and the Seattle
Mariners to three ALCS appearances. He took a year off from managing after
leaving the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and is a former Yankee who worked twice under
Steinbrenner as manager and general manager. Even with his vast experience and
knowledge of the New York media, Torre handled the daily crush and massaged the
egos of his high-priced stars in his own special way.
"He handles the media in New York better than anybody," Scott Proctor said. "He
definitely knows how to handle the guys that are the caliber of players they
are better than anybody."
But if the reports are true, Proctor will have to listen to a new voice. The
Torre firing and Piniella hiring would start a major revamping of an
underachieving team. All pitching coach Ron Guidry hopes is that the changes
are calculated, starting with the skipper.
"I think you'd have to think about what you really want to do to make sure you
don't make a mistake," Guidry said. "The job that he did here with this team is
probably the best job I've seen him do. I hope there's a lot of consideration
to make sure that the right decision is made."
Jon Lane is an editorial producer for YESNetwork.com. He can be reached at
jon.lane@mlb.com.
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