Yankees Go Down in Four
It seems that the one thing you can count on these days (in baseball at least) is that the Yankees will choke in October. For the 3rd (?) year in a row, they're out of it in the first round. Rather than blaming it on the fact that he's aggregated too many superstars and their supersized egos (the best teams and the best Yankees teams have few superstars and a bunch of solid players), Mr. Steinbrenner will blame Joe Torre and fire him, probably immediately.
If you love baseball and you aren't a bandwagon fan, the Yankees are the team to hate. They're worse than Microsoft (and I reserve that level of insult for the truly corrosive). Baseball needs revenue sharing and salary caps; the KC Royals need to win a pennant again; the Yankees need to be just another team.
And despite the fact that I categorize them as "inherently evil," I find it very, very difficult to criticize their skipper. He's a fantastic baseball man, and a man of integrity. (Only a fantastic manager could manage those egos, including the boss').
How long will Torre be on the job market before he gets an offer? Let's put it this way: I think it's very likely that someone will get fired just to make room for him. If only he were going to the Mariners (sigh).
But there's no chance of that.
Zero.
Dodgers?