Report: Yankees Offer Girardi Manager Job

AP:

The New York Yankees reportedly have offered Joe Girardi the job to succeed Joe Torre as manager.

Girardi beat out Yankees great and bench coach Don Mattingly, the early favorite, and first-base coach Tony Pena, who had the most managerial experience of the candidates. Girardi spent this season as a Yankees TV announcer after he was fired by the Florida Marlins last year.

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Comments

[JohnKemp]

11:28 AM on 10/30/2007

The Yankess could put Casey Stengel, Billy Martin, Joe Torre AND Joe Ghiradi on their bench.

Managment is not their problem; pitching is.

[3fingerbrown]

10:02 AM on 10/30/2007

Further proof that King George has been ousted. Mattingly was George's guy from the beginning and was hired as a coach with assurances from the old man that he was being groomed as Torre's replacement.
You gotta feel for the guy: he's spent his life in baseball being a year too early or a year too late. He spent his whole career with the Yanks without winning a championship, he retires, and the teams wins the following year. Then he spends four years on the bench waiting for Torre to go, and the year Torre decides he's had enough turns out to be the same year that the owner who promised him the job is eased out of power.
What was the name of that book--"Why Bad Things Happen to Good People"? They should put Donnie's picture on the cover.

[VivaZapata]

05:20 AM on 10/30/2007

Both Mattingly and Girardi have the right demeanor to handle the fans and the press, and both are intelligent and would plan out a good strategy, but Girardi would be quicker to tell the Steinbrenners what to do with their, usually shoot from the lip, critical-of-the-manager statements. Go Mets!

[GrouchoMarxist]

10:55 PM on 10/29/2007

I think Girardi is a good choice for the Yanks. He should be an excellent in-game manager and a good clubhouse guy. As long as he's learned his lesson from Fla. and doesn't wear the arms off his pitchers, he should do okay.

[cae]

09:06 PM on 10/29/2007

Maybe we'll see Don Mattingly later, but at this time I thought Girardi was the better choice. But NY still loves Don Mattingly!

[lisakaz]

08:55 PM on 10/29/2007

I'd prefer to see Mattingly. He had the kind of demeanor needed. But Girardi will be better during the game and Torre blew first place this year. All the talking heads who say otherwise didn't watch the games. This season was the year for me that I felt Torre should leave.

Anyway, good luck to Mr. Girardi, my fellow Wildcat alum.

[starrianna]

07:29 PM on 10/29/2007

He's kind of hot!

[DoctorDonut]

05:40 PM on 10/29/2007

GOODBYE JOE...HELLO JOE!

http://www.theweeklydonut.org/index.php/category/ny-yankees/

[argentino]

05:39 PM on 10/29/2007

Loved Joe Torre...Joe Girardi is a great choice

[JerzGirl226]

05:34 PM on 10/29/2007

Go fuck off,bolobill. Everything is not a damn conspiracy. Congrats to Girardi!

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

05:22 PM on 10/29/2007

The Dodgers could have made a play for Joe Girardi. They did not.

They would prefer to buy out their current manager's contract to chase Joe Torre.

What am I -- and the Steinbrenner family --missing?

[bolobill]

04:51 PM on 10/29/2007

Actually, Boros said a few weeks ago that he would recommend that A-Rod opt out. But, it was the Yankees who made the announcement that he had minutes after the Red Sox won last night. A bunch of chumps -- that is what the Yankee organization is under these clowns -- totally lacking in any kind of class.

[ymax]

04:47 PM on 10/29/2007

Good luck Joe.
You will need it.

[bolobill]

04:18 PM on 10/29/2007

The New York Yankees are a team with no class. Only the Yankees would be such chumps as to make two major announcements timed to steal thunder away from the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series. I am not a Red Sox fan, but resent this terrible Yankee organization behaving this way. Bud Selig, a terrible commissioner, should, at the very least, fine them for this action.

[CountryBeforeParty]

04:20 PM on 10/29/2007

Ummm... only one, and that was Torre turning down the offer.

ARod leaving was not an announcement by the Yankees, slimeball agent Scott Boras made the announcement.

[Nommo]

08:39 PM on 10/29/2007

It's really not that big a deal, no one was paying attention anyway. Besides, as CBP pointed out, the announcement was made by that little tapeworm, Boras.
As for class, the Red Sox organization has never had any--from Frazee to Yawkey and the rest of 'em.