Torre: One-Year Offer Was An Insult
19th October, 2007 - 5:09 pm
AP - Joe Torre knew he wasn't wanted.

So when the Yankees offered him a one-year contract with a hefty paycut, performance-based bonuses -- and no room to negotiate -- he was insulted and figured he had no choice but to walk away.

"The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing," Torre said Friday at a packed news conference. "There really was no negotiation involved. I was hoping there would be, but there wasn't.

"If somebody wants you to do a job, if it takes them two weeks to figure out, yeah, we want to do this, should do this, yeah, you're a little suspicious," he added. "If somebody wanted me to manage here, I would be managing here." [READ]

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