It is almost laughable to think that Yankees skipper Joe Torre could be fired. The man who has won four Baseball World Championships in his tenure as manager of the New York team has been nothing less than consistent, year after year. He has coached the same team since 1995, and made six trips to the World Series.

In our hearts we all want to be winners. Joe Torre is associated with those winners who are able to make their mark in New York City. His name is as synonymous with the city as former mayor Rudy Giuliani. Anybody who questions his ability to coach should look at all the banners the Yankees hoisted during the 1980's and early 1990's, when he was not the manager. They won nothing, and unless you were conscious in the 1970's then you forgot about Yankees' pride or greatness.

Torre belongs in the white and pinstripes of the Yankees. In the last eight years his team has been in five World Series and won three of them. This does not sound like a record of mediocrity or one that should cause owner George Steinbrenner to make a change! Maybe if King George of New York had kept pitchers Rogers Clemens and Andy Pettitte, then the Yankees would not have been absent from the World Series the last two years, but still they made the playoffs without a true pitching ace. If Torre does not return to New York in 2006, he will be the number one prospect for any general manager in the universe!

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