Does The House Of Cards Crumble Now?

Joe Torre turned down the New York Yankees' 1-year, $5 million dollar offer yesterday, meaning for the first time since 1995, somebody else will be their skipper on Opening Day. Torre still would have been the highest-paid manager in baseball, but it also would have been a $2.5 million dollar pay cut.

We don't yet know what impact, if any, this will have on the Yanks keeping guys like Alex Rodriguez, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, and Andy Pettitte. But it's not going to help, that's for sure.

As for Torre's future managerial aspirations, his wife, Ali, left the press with this.

"It's always difficult to say goodbye, but there's always hello."

Hmmm.