November 01, 2007
And what sweet revenge -- manager of the Dodgers!
Joe Torre grew up in Brooklyn rooting against the Dodgers. Now, a half-century after they moved west, heÂ’s their manager.Torre was hired by Los Angeles to succeed Grady Little on Thursday, taking the job two weeks after walking away from the New York Yankees.
“Joe Torre comes with a great resume,” Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said on a conference call. “What he’s done the last 12 years is as powerful as any manager in recent memory.”
The winningest manager in postseason history, Torre moved from one storied franchise to another, agreeing to a three-year, $13 million contract. He becomes the DodgersÂ’ eighth manager since they left his hometown, where he rooted for the rival New York Giants.
“As a kid growing up, you didn’t like them,” Torre said on WFAN radio in New York before the hiring was announced. “As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because ... you either loved them or you hated them.”
There's a little Dodger Blue in every American, and to see Joe Torre end up in Los Angeles seems appropriate. And for hm to manage the two most loved -- and hated -- franchises in America is quite a feat.
Now if he could only have been hired by the Cubs, so that he could have helped them leap forward into the sort of post-season success that they haven't seen in a century.
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