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10-19-2007, 02:35 AM
After all he had accomplished -- four World Series titles, 12 straight years in the playoffs, almost certain entry into the Hall of Fame -- and after all the indignities, this was one Joe Torre wasn't going to stand for.
He wasn't going to take a pay cut from the New York Yankees (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=nyy), no matter that he still would have been the highest-paid manager in baseball, and he certainly wasn't going to prove himself all over again.
Torre walked away Thursday, turning down a $5 million, one-year contract --
$2.5 million less than he made this season, when the Yankees failed to make it past the first round of the playoffs for the third straight year.
MORE (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3069115)
He wasn't going to take a pay cut from the New York Yankees (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=nyy), no matter that he still would have been the highest-paid manager in baseball, and he certainly wasn't going to prove himself all over again.
Torre walked away Thursday, turning down a $5 million, one-year contract --
$2.5 million less than he made this season, when the Yankees failed to make it past the first round of the playoffs for the third straight year.
MORE (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3069115)