Im I the only Yankee fan who wants Joe Torre to fail?

You are not the only Yanks fan angry about this.I'm a Sox fan but my Best Friend is a Yankee fan and is not happy about this new manager.Torry didn't abandon the Yanks on purpose though,it was all for the money.I think any manager or player will ditch a team they once loved only for the money.It seems like every a**hole in baseball is going to the dodgers (beside Nomar). I am really cheering for the Dodgers to lose because of the Sox traitor (I'm a Red Sox fan so you probably know who I'm talking about).I hope this be a lesson for Torry in future years when he doesn't make it to the playoffs and Manny ditches that team.

I am not too sure where you were getting your facts last year when this whole Torre-saga was going down but you seem to have it a little backwards. Joe Torre did not abandon the Yankees, the Yankee ownership (led by Hank Steinbrenner) drove him out of town. They publicly said that if the Yanks lost in the first round, Torre is gone. Despite the loss they caved in and offered him a BS contract. A contract that they knew he wouldn't accept. And the people saying it is only about the money, it also had a lot to do with respect. I would have done the same thing if I were in Torre's shoes.

Also, if the WS is Dodgers vs. Red Sox; Let's go LA!! As a Yankee fan, I could never bring myself to root for the Sox no matter who they were playing.

Ok first off, if you are a true yankees fan you would be rooting for the angels, and then the White Sox/Rays and then the NL team if the red sox get that far. As a true fan you just cannot root for the red sox. And secondly, Joe Torre is not a trader. Did you see the deal they gave him? They cut his salary, and then were going to give him bonuses if the team had made it to the ALDS, then the ALCS and the world series, although it was like a million for every playoff series, its just the man won 4 championships in pinstripes, had 12 straight postseason showings. He has said that he did not feel wanted in NY anymore, and that ownership just wasnt behind him anymore, so why would you want to manage somewhere like that? And its not like he went to an AL team that could beat the yanks in the postseason, and he didnt go within the same division. So i dont see anything wrong with what he did. Torre over Girardi anyday.

Wow, that's not my memory of the Torre situation at all. My recollection is that the Yankees made him an insulting offer as a way of saying "please leave." I give Torre credit for realizing he's a better manager than what he was offered.

It's funny, because as a Red Sox fan, I look at this the opposite way. A Torre win in the series makes the Steinbrenner Dynasty look stupid.

EDIT: You can't really compare this to one of us being offered a $5 million salary and turning it down. Try this -- your company says "We're going to cut your salary by 25% next year. You can get the other money back, but only if you are able to prove that you're the person in the country at your job." I'd certainly start looking for other jobs, where my employers valued my services more.

They offered him an insulting deal that they knew he couldn't acccept, then tried to spin it like they were the aggrieved party, just like the Red Sox did with Manny, Damon and Nomar. Of course many Yankees fans would want The Dodgers to fail (unless they play the Red Sox), a true Yankees or Dodgers fan should automatically despise the other club and want them to fail. It's baseball lore. But not because of the Torre situation.

All of you Torre bashers are full of crap. If you knew ANYTHING about the game you know that the Yankee ownership offered him a pitiful one year deal as an insult and forced him out the door. They didn't have the BALLS to fire him so they gave him a ludicrous offer that they knew he would turn down. He took the Yankees to 6 World Series in which he won 4 and I for one and pulling for him so that he can look at the Yankees and laugh. He won't do it out loud because he has too much class but inside he will be laughing his butt off. I think REAL Yankee fans are pulling for him too!!!

I would love to see the Dodgers and the Rays in the WS and see it go 7.................either way!!!

Are you kidding me, he abondoned the yankees, more like cashman and your boy, cry baby steinbrenner abondoned him. I can see how you want him to fail, its only natural to want someone from your team who leaves to fail, but get real. It was insulting with the offer they gave him. You don't offer one of the the top three managers in the mlb a one year deal, especialy if that manager lead you to the postseason for 13 years and not to mention winning 3 or 4 titles. Your question is a joke, and so were the yankees this year, so jump on the dodgers wagon, and watch what your old manager can really do with a good lineup of ballplayers and not over paid underachievers!!!!!

It wasn't the amount of money offered, nor the fact that the Yankees cut his pay, but the fact that after all he had done for the Yankees, management saw fit to insert incentive clauses in the contract, as if they would somehow make him manage harder. That was the insult.

Torre was not a trader. Cashman as GM made the trades. Nor was he a traitor, if that's what you illiterates meant to say.

You can't blame Torre. I don't think he went for the money as much as he just wanted to get away from the management. He took them to how many World Series championships? The way they treated him was disgusting. "Win or else, If you don't win we don't you back" After that how can you wonder why he didn't take the Yankees offer. I wish him all the success in the world.

That is not how I remember Torre leaving the Yankees. I'm a diehard Yankee fan and though painful my wish was to have the Yankees lose this year. I wanted the Steinbrenner's (Hal and Hank are idiots) to realize that they made a mistake when they let Torre go. Now Girardi plays the worst season in twelve years and he gets to stay? Bullshit. I hope the owner's realized their mistake when they let Torre go. Now all Torre has to do is to win to shove it in their faces. It wasn't his fault they lost, it was the Steinbrenner's blinded by the smell of their own money.