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Word. It ain't his fault. If it were any other team, just getting to the divisional series would qualify as a reason to celebrate. Look at the Tigers. You think that if they were to have lost to New York, Leyland would get canned? Hell no. The Tigers would still call it a successful season.
This is what pissed me off about the Yankees: as various pieces from the 1996-2001 teams started to retire/get traded/whatever, Georgie started adding the wrong pieces to fill the void.
Switch Giambi, Arod, and Sheffeld for Paul O'Niel, Scott Brocios, and Tino Martinez. Then we'd be talking about a different story...
But then again, Torre chose to start Jared F-ing Wright, and he put Gary Sheffeld at first base...
Joe had a good run regardless.