Torre spent years trying to bring out a winning performance from A-Rod, the highest-paid player in baseball, which from all reported accounts included a lot of hand-holding and battling the insecurities and demons Rodriguez struggles with.

It's the Post, so isn't worth the effort of clicking or reading.

That is some investigative journalism there.

EDITOR: Go to the Borders on Ninth and buy this book. In about seven days, we’ll want a snarky summary for the newspaper.

CUB REPORTER: *adjusts fedora, gets press credential together, goes shopping*

writing a book where you crap all over ones you have managed in the very recent past.

It's the Post, so isn't worth the effort of clicking or reading.

Wouldn't ######## about ARod like this really jeopardize how his current players view him?

I have an of sites I won't go to, periodicals I don't read, and other media that I just don't consume.

Does this "enemies list" include ESPN?

Comparing the integrity and accuracy of ESPN to the NY POST is ridiculous. Please.

Every single journalistic scandal I can think of involves typical MSM, Democrat leaning entities

That's actually a good reason to like Jeter more than A-rod

The Clooney thing is actually a front.

I'm surprised Joe would write all that while still an active manager, and one with (presumably) hopes to manage for a few years yet. It doesn't seem like the best plan to keep the trust of your current players, writing a book where you crap all over ones you have managed in the very recent past.

Seems like he's really just going after ownership and upper management.

Has any active player ever spoken out to defend A-Rod in the press? I'm sure there must have been one at some point, but he's about as easy a target as there could be to rip on.

From the sounds of it, the only player he's crapped on is ARod,

The book also reveals that, during spring training in 1999, team doctors revealed to owner George Steinbrenner that Torre had prostate cancer - even before informing the manager himself.

is that even legal?

"I'd include a picture of him in the book, but his face melts camera lenses" is how I think it read.

I've never heard of it either, which surprises me a bit.

Wasn't there a line about Torre specifically in Ball Four? "I'd include a picture of him in the book, but his face melts camera lenses" is how I think it read.

There have been numerous controversies surrounding the Post:

* In 1997 a national news story concerning Rebecca Sealfon's victory in the Scripps National Spelling Bee circulated. Sealfon was sponsored by the Daily News. The Post published a picture of her but altered the photograph to remove the name of the Daily News as printed on a placard she was wearing.[32]

* On November 8, 2000, the Post printed "BUSH WINS!" in a huge headline,[33] although the election remained in doubt because of the recount needed in Florida. Like the Post, many other newspapers around the country published a similar headline after the four major TV networks called the election for Bush.

* On March 10, 2004, the Post re-ran as a full-color page one photo,[34] a photo that had already been run three days earlier in black and white on page 9, showing the 24-story suicide plunge of a New York University student, who had since been identified as 19-year old Diana Chien, daughter of a prominent Silicon Valley, California businessman. Among criticisms levelled at the Post [35] was their having added a tightly-cropped inset photo of Chien, a former high school track athlete, depicting her in mid-jump from an athletic meet, giving the false impression that it was taken during her fatal act, despite the fact that she had fallen face up.

* On July 4, 2004, the Post ran an article claiming to have learned exclusively that Senator John Kerry, the Democratic Party's Presidential nominee-in-waiting, had selected former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt to be the Party's Vice Presidential nominee. The article, under the headline "KERRY'S CHOICE," ran without a byline.[36] The next day, the Post had to print a new story, "KERRY'S REAL CHOICE", reporting Kerry's actual selection of Senator John Edwards of North Carolina as his running mate.

* On April 21, 2006, several Asian-American advocacy groups protested the use of the headline "Wok This Way" for a Post article about President Bush's meeting with the president of the People's Republic of China.[37]

* On September 27, 2006 the Post published an article called "Powder Puff Spooks Keith" that made fun of Countdown host Keith Olbermann receiving an anthrax threat from an unknown terrorist.[38] By reporting on the incident, the Post have actually broken the general Federal Bureau of Investigation protocol of not disclosing the event which could hamper their investigation. Keith Olbermann had some harsh words for the Post on his show after this.

* On December 7, 2006 the Post doctored a front-page photo to depict the co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group, James Baker and Lee Hamilton, in primate fur, under the headline "SURRENDER MONKEYS", inspired by a once used line from The Simpsons.

* In certain editions of the February 14, 2007, newspaper, an article referring to Senator Hillary Clinton's support base for her 2008 presidential run referred to Senator Barack Obama as "Osama" (Bin Laden)

* On January 20, 2007, the New York Post received some criticism[42] for running a potentially misleading headline, "'Osama' Mud Flies at Obama", for a story that discussed rumors that Sen. Obama had been raised as a Muslim and concealed it. The story itself never mentioned the Saudi terrorist.

* On April 23, 2008, the "Post" ran a story on Page 6 stating that there was a sex tape about to surface featuring actor/stuntman Bam Margera and Lindsey Hughes, fiancée of radio personality Gregg "Opie" Hughes, co-host of the Opie and Anthony Show. It also stated that Gregg Hughes was planning on taking legal action to prevent the tape from running on the Internet. Hughes himself said adamantly that there was no sex tape and he had never planned on taking any legal action against the phantom tape from surfacing. Also, on April 24, Margera confirmed during a phone-in to the Opie and Anthony Show that there was no sex tape and he had never met Opie's fiancée in his life. The Post printed a full retraction on May 5, 2008, after it was revealed that Chaunce Hayden of Steppin' Out magazine had supplied false information about the existence of the tape.

The New York Post has been criticized since the beginning of Murdoch's ownership for what many consider its lurid headlines, sensationalism, blatant advocacy and conservative bias. In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review asserted that "the New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem--a force for evil."[28]

Perhaps the most serious allegation against the Post is that it is willing to contort its news coverage to suit the business needs of Murdoch, in particular that the paper has avoided reporting anything that is unflattering to the government of the People's Republic of China. Murdoch has invested heavily in satellite television in China and wants to maintain the favor of local media regulators.[29]

Ian Spiegelman, a former reporter for the paper's Page Six gossip column who had been fired by the paper in 2004 [30], said in a statement for a law suit against the paper that in 2001 he was ordered to kill an item on Page Six about a Chinese diplomat and a strip club because it would have "angered the Communist regime and endangered Murdoch’s broadcast privileges."

Critics say that the Post allows its editorial positions to shape its story selection and news coverage. But as the Post executive editor, Steven D. Cuozzo, sees it, it was the Post that "broke the elitist media stranglehold on the national agenda."

According to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, the New York Post was rated the least credible major news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet to receive more responses calling it "not credible" than credible (44% not credible to 39% credible).

One source familiar with the book told ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick that it's "inaccurate'' to suggest that Torre used it as a forum to get even with the Yankees or settle old scores.

The source said some of the controversial angles being reported in the New York tabloids have been taken out of context or "overblown.''

"Joe is very honest in the book,'' the source said, "but he doesn't make any personal attacks. In terms of him name-calling, that's not his style.''

The book is not a first-person tell-all, but rather, a third-person narrative by Verducci, who interviewed dozens of players and team personnel while researching for the book, the source said.

Here's a letter to the New York Post
The worst piece of paper on the east coast
...
It makes no godd--- sense at all
America's oldest continuously published daily piece of bulls---
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Writers making violence in headlines funny
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get your story straight motherf-----
It always seem they make our neighborhood look bad
Here's a letter to the New York Post
Ain't worth the paper it's printed on
Founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton
That is 190 years continuous of f----d up news
...
Should have checked with me before you wrote it
Got it from another source and quote it

yeah--I wonder if Torre is going to give credence to this "True Yankee/Not True Yankee" horseshit, as a way to absolve himself from no rings since 00

FWIW, the article says that he rips several players for being prima donnas.

I'm not going to read the article in fullness, but I know that Joe had issues with Sheffield and Womack.

Lofton also didn't get along with him, IIRC.

Again, and this is news?

ARod is the universal scapegoat

I also think that the greatest likelihood is that those documents were authentic. Modern day word processors and fonts intentionally mimic older typewritten styles.

I remember reading in one of Bill James's books about how famously ugly Torre was considered during his playing days. It was a running joke among most of his peers, so the line definitely does match the day's sentiment. In his old age, he's become distinguished looking in a Paul Sorvino way. But I think it's because age caught up with that mug.

You know absolutely nothing about me, beyond that I believe/suspect the documents to be authentic.

In an explosive new book called “The Yankee Years,” Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called “A-Fraud” by his teammates after he developed a “Single White Female"-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.