Torre Reform

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"Don't worry about this one. If you miss it, we lose." -Caddyshack

"His job is on the line. I think we're paying him a lot of money.
He's the highest-paid manager in baseball, so I don't think we'd
take him back if we don't win this series." -George Steinbrenner 

Newsday / Paul J. Bereswill



When Joe Torre gets the official bitch slap that has been promised by his felon owner, the Yankees will have chucked into the dumpster a manager like no other. Sure, there are managers who make better decisions, think deeper into the game, and inspire players more, but not under conditions anything like New York. Joe Torre did more than any other manager working today could have. He worked with overpaid, spoiled, elderly athletes.

He worked under the public humiliation heaped-on by Steinbrenner. Only God and Billy Martin have any idea how the private conversations went - and they aren't talking; probably because they're fighting.

After winning the World Series four times, going into a dozen post seasons, and steering his team to an amazing comeback in the 2007 regular season, Joe Torre won't be spending much time in the unemployment line; that is, unless his taste for the game has been forever spoiled by the taste of money being jammed down his throat.

AP Photo/Kathy Willens



He'd make a fine Secretary of State. Think how different the world would
be with a baseball mind in that job, rather than a football fan. I'm hoping
he writes a book, or manages the D-Rays and spanks the Yankees
in 2008.

Whatever happens, Joe's life is about to get better.

October  8, 2007

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cleveland	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0		6	13	0
NY Yankees	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1		4	12	0

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I never Met a team who Sox more ...

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Maybe he's just been busy ...

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The bogosphere never sleeps, baby.

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Despite official denials, and repeated insistences that it's dead, dead, dead, the blogosphere is abuzz again with rumours* of Nationals Post sightings. Johnny Sanchez, the host of the popular late night radio show, "WTF Are You Doing Up?" and the low watt, daylight-only, pirate web site Boneless Monkey, made oblique references to his own personal run-in with The Post. "I was standing over here," he said, making a circular hand motion with his left hand, "and Postie, why he was right here," he continued as he made a similar motion to his right, "and I was like, 'hey', and he was was all like, 'You didn't see me. Do you have a dollar?'".







Johnny Sanchez, radio host
known for his on-air pantomimes

Others have pointed to what they call "typical Nationals Post clues" in and around town as signs of life:

Underground Iraqi scientists say these are clever signals

While photographing his wife and mother near the Washington Capital, Nigel Graham inadvertantly captured the image of a Mysterious Passerby walking just behind her. Back in his darkroom in Brighton, England, Mr. Graham isolated and enlarged the passerby, and the image became a worldwide overnight sensation.

Nationals Postie, or one of Monet's shittier efforts?

While authorities continue to repeat the party line that The Post has gone the way of the dodo, dinosaurs, and decency, it should be noted that additional security has been put in place in Atlanta for the upcoming Nationals/Braves series.



Authorities controvert the statemen above, saying the trim package would not have the chrome upgrade.



* British spelling used to show classiness.

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Nationals Post Sighting Debunked

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Officials say that the recent sightings of The Nationals Post are a hoax, and reiterate that the popular and beloved source of merriment and baseball joy and happy good fun stuff is dead and rotting in the ground. Authorities urge everyone to calm the hell down and go back to whatever it was you weren't doing.


"Poppycock."
says Evan Zanders,
world class debunker




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NO! IT ... CANNOT BE!!

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Very sad

We're sorry to report that The Nationals Post, having achieved all its goals and aspirations, died on 1 August, 2007.




That does look comfortable.