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Thank You, Joe Torre

by: Hopeful

Fri Oct 19, 2007 at 05:09:30 PM EDT



This is not about New Jersey politics, but it is about a man who has seemed like part of the family to so many of us in New Jersey.

Today Yankees fans are facing  the sad reality that we have seen last of a baseball immortal in our uniform.  Joe Torre will be going to the Hall of Fame for an astounding record of success:

  • The 1998 Yankees, winners of 125 games, certainly the greatest team of my lifetime and perhaps ever.
  • Four World Series titles
  • Six American League pennants.
  • Ten division titles.
  • Twelve straight playoff appearances.
  • A team that draws more than four million people to the stadium a year, when everyone thought it was impossible to get three million to go to the Bronx.
  • Epitomizing calm, class and dignity.

    We will remember these years for the rest of our lives, and, more likely than not, wishing that we could have them back.  How foolish so many have been to take them for granted.  Thank you, Mr. Torre, for giving them to us.

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