i also agree.  being a baseball team manager is about playing the right players, batting them in the right order, and dealing with the players' BULLSHIT.  torre does a great job doing that along with dealing with steinbrenner.   it's too bad there are too many bitches on the yankees (arod, mussina, giambi, to name a few).  francona has done well, but i'd be extremely excited to have torre managing our bench.  hell, torre taking care of manny...manny is a cake walk for him.  manny'd be showing up at noon on gamedays.   torre deserves a hell of a lot more credit than he seems to be getting lately.  a-rod on the other hand...oh man i love larry luchino.