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take the best manager in the game,add the biggest wallet in the biz,and presto!
A no-brainer...Steinbrenner would be a nut if he didn`t make a play for LaRussa...

LaRussa the best manager in the game? Hardly. He's got a marquee name and that's what matters to Steinbrenner.

Beg to differ. This would be a mistake of Art-Howe-with-the-Mets proportions.

LaRussa is not the right fit for the team or the city.

I say hire Don Zimmer!

Joltin' Joe Giradio

Girardio I meant.

Regarding La Russa becoming the Mgr of the NYY, in a word: NO!

It doesn't matter... with that roster (or what's left of it) plus the 20 mil saved at 3b, I could fill out the lineup card and make the postseason. It will come down to guts in the playoffs again. Next year the nucleus will be younger, and the ghosts that haunt the high salaried players will mostly be gone. In '09, the last year of the Stadium, the Yankees sweep through the playoffs.

Art Howe? Hmm, let's see..how many World Championships has Art Howe won ..someone remind me? La Russa has been doing it for years on a mid-small market nudget. I'd love to see what he could do with a $200 million team. Of course, if they don't get some better starting pitching, and better situational hitting, it won't matter. The Yanks, as consituted, are built to make the playoffs, not win a 5 or 7 game series. They have no dominant starting pitcher (someone the other team fears facing twice- Beckett, Sabathia, Carmona, Webb, etc) and their hitters tend to feast on teams 3-5 starters during the season, which you won't see in the playoffs. The Yanks record over the past 2 years has been awful against 1-2 type starters (Halladay, Beckett, Bedard, Kazmir, Lackey, etc). I think Joba has to move back to the rotation, as he seems to be their most dominant (stuff-wise) starting pitching prospect since Guidry (Mariano was not that dominant as a starter when he came up). Plus, maybe the NL-style of La Russa or Girardi will get them to steal, hit and run, etc. Torre started relying on the 3-run HR. Earl Weaver style, despite having some good team speed.

How many DP's could have been avoided against ground ball, contact type pitchers like Byrd and Westbrook had the Yanks had the running game going a bit?

Tony will be another Joe. He is an experienced manager dealing with a nut in management that thinks money buys everything. Sometimes good old experienced healthy players helps a talented line up like the yanks. Tony is solid but it would be a huge mistake for Tony.

oops '08

LaRussa truly is the only guy that makes sense for this job. Older teams heavy with fading stars need certain kinds of managers, managers they can respect, managers like Torre and LaRussa. If Tony can bring Dave Duncan, Yankee pitching gets an immediate upgrade.

Girardi is not the guy....yet. Let some of the talent he played with on the Yankees move out/on etc first. Don't forget that his problems in Florida were rooted in his inability to get along with upper management and that is not a positive sign in any manager in any industry. He can be revisited AFTER LaRussa.

I'm not at all questioning LaRussa's managerial accumen or on field tactics. I do however question his mettle. I don't think he can handle the Yankee clubhouse, and I DEFINATELY can't see him handling the NY media.

Tony would not do well in that time of environ....I however, would flourish in that pseudo-communista organization.

I will be happy to lead and serve as Steinbrenner's toady

Chicken you have been inhaling too much of your own droppings. The Yankees are a bonified, full blown, capitalistic dictatorship and don't you forget it, Baba Looey!

LaRussa has more DUI's than Torre so, he does have him beat in that category.

If LaRussa mentioned that he wants the Yankee job before Torre is released, then Tony is truely a ****.

If Torre spread his 4 Championships over 12 yrs instead of winning them all up front, we woulnt even be having this conversation.

He's going down a dark shaft without a lantern.

I love a cold damp pit..it's good to clear ones head of personal gain agendas...

Watch out for the Geek's Chicken...

A big maybe on Tony. It is going to be Steinbrenner's call, noone saw Torre coming...