Joe Torre and horseracing

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Joe, you were offered $5 million . It's a little tiresome to here you complain about an offer that gives you the highest paid managerial job in baseball. Joe, you have lost your sense of reality and you are not the boss so take that and shove it. You do whatever you want but you do not own the Yankees. Go cry somewhere else dude.

How could anyone not understand that the offer was incredibly insulting? Its not the 5 mill outside of the fact that he got his team into the playoffs and now has to take a paycut. Its more the of the fact that it was an incentivized contract for only 1 season. Do you realize what that can do in a clubhouse? Who can do a job effectively knowing that the hook is always there?