Although Verducci wrote in the third person about Torre, Papa Joe has stood by everything written and contends that the truth about life in the Yankee clubhouse during his manager years needed to be unveiled.
I have yet to read the book, but I've been keeping up on the controversy.
I'm pretty surprised that Torre broke the sanctity of the clubhouse while he is still managing a Major League team, but it's probably not as surprising to anyone who has had insider info on the inner workings of the circus that has become the Yankee organization.
In my opinion, Torre became an enigma in himself and many of the egos in New York and Tampa could not cope with him stealing that much spotlight. Hank and Hal wanted some credit for having the ability to open up a wallet and throw money around, but wanted Joe to take the heat if the big-money veterans couldn't gel in the clubhouse.
Joe Torre's tenure as a Yankee may be somewhat tarnished as a result of this tell-all (but I bet there's a whole lot more to tell) book, but his legacy cannot be denied.
It is also ironic that Torre will probably make more from the popularity of this book than the Yanks offered him to manage last season.
Sometimes the drama gets to be so much that an honored figure like Joe Torre breaks a little bit. Sure he loses a little bit of that impeccable image, but he doesn't look as bad as the Yankees do.
As for A-Rod, or A-Fraud, or is it A-Roid (his nickname on the back pages of the New York tabloids changes daily), his is the image that is becoming tarnished.
It's bad enough for the superstar that he can't hit in the playoff clutch, but his recent admission of using steroids will put a question mark next to everything he has done in the game, and everything he ever will do.
The Yankees, in my opinion, were hoping to see A-Rod ultimately break the all time home run record as a Yankee sometime down the road, and that could have played into why they were willing to break the bank for A-Rod even after he made an idiot of himself by opting out of his contract.
Now, even if the guy does approach the record, no one is really going to care because, after all, it has now been revealed that he is an A-Fraud.
To be fair to Rodriguez, it's not right that his name was revealed while no others, especially considering the tests from 2003 were supposed to be confidential.
However, on a good note, judging by the below pictures, A-Rod is still rounding second base pretty often, but unfortunately, we already know that he can't perform in the clutch.
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