As early as Tuesday, Joe Torre will be announced as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.  This due to the fall-out from failed negotiations with the New York Yankees, as Torre was forced out as manager despite his desire to continue to manage in the major leagues.  Here are some details,

 The New York Times, quoting two major league officials who requested anonymity, also reported Torre’s imminent hiring but did not give a timetable.Torre has been on the market since turning down a one-year offer to remain as manager of the Yankees on October 18. He had been with the Yankees for 12 seasons, winning four World Series championships and leading the team to the playoffs every season he was in charge in the Bronx.

Along with the possible hire of Torre, it is being reported that his bench coach, Don Mattingly, may be joining him in the same role that he manned for one season with the Yankees after spending three seasons as their hitting coach.  [LINK TO STORY]

Man.  Interesting times in the Bronx.  As Torre is being introduced in L.A., former Yankee player and Florida Marlin manager Joe Girardi could be simultaneously introduced 3000 miles away as the new Yanks coach.   How does this bode for Alex Rodriguez’s probable road westward?   Hmm.

The Alex Rodriguez situation with the New York Yankees got a little more catty and probably irreconcilable.  Major League Baseball and the Yankees lashed back at Rodriguez and agent Scott Boras for their ill timed annoucement they’d be opting out of the last three years of A-Rods contract.  The annoucement came via email and during the middle of game four of the World Series.  Good one, fellas.   

First the MLB clawed back at Boras/Rodriguez on the timing:

“We were very disappointed that Scott Boras would try to upstage our premier baseball event of the season with his announcement,” Bob DuPuy, baseball’s chief operating officer, said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.  “There was no reason to make an announcement last night other than to try to put his selfish interests and that of one individual player above the overall good of the game,”

Then Hank Steinbrenner joined the mauling, when asked if the Yanks would negotiate with A-Rod now, after the Boras/Rodriguez strategy bumble:

“No chance. Not if it’s made official.”  [LINK TO STORY]

Well, A-Rod,  ya kind of blew that “good faith” thing that happens when contracts end and are renegotiated with long-term business partners.  Can you really blame anyone for all the negativity?  I thought you had some serious leverage at first, but now I recant my lame perspective.   I don’t care how many home runs you can hit in the regular season, there has to be league-wide backlash due to your arrogance.  Plus, you’re no Derek Jeter and definitely no leader.

After the Boston Red Sox completed their little league dismantlement of the National League’s entrant into the World Series tournament, Alex Rodriguez apparently wasted no time to throw wind on the New York Yankees off-season wildfire by announcing his intent to become a free agent.   Rodriguez contractually had ten days after the end of the World Series to opt out of his contract, but apparently needed ten minutes:

Some details:

“I got a call from Alex tonight, and he is going to opt out,” Scott Boras, Rodriguez’s agent, told The Post last night during Game 4 of the World Series. “He was just too unsure with new ownership talking about a transition where the organization is going right now. He is not sure what is going to happen with [free agents] Mariano [Rivera] and [Jorge] Posada, and if Andy Pettitte is coming back. He needs more time to assess where the Yankees are going in the future.”  [LINK TO STORY]

Yikes.  Talk about leverage.  You’re Alex Rodriguez and stand to make $150 million over the next five-years.  You’re agent is a wolf in wolf’s clothing – Scott Boras. The dreaded Boston Red Sox just won their second series title in four years.  The Steinbrenner family ownership is in transition….

Umm….Yanks, you’re invited to a barbecue, the coals are all fired up, and we’re serving ridiculous contracts on a skewer.   With a side of scalloped GM Brian Cashman and Yankee pride.   BYOB.

Other A-Rod stories of interest:

Alex Rodriguez a husband and father, again

Will Barry Bonds break A-Rod’s record 800 home runs?

Alex Rodriguez’s wife has respect for Yankee Stadium

Over at Epic Carnival this weekend:

Dwarfing A-Rod’s recent indiscretions off the Yankee diamond –by a tape measure home run –were George Herman “Babe” Ruth’s Sultan-of-Swingers antics back in the 1910’s and 1920’s….

Link: Babe Definitely a Bigger Whore Than A-Rod

….not that there’s anything wrong with it, but a former clubhouse assistant is willing to talk about it.  Paul Priore is soliciting for a co-author on Craig’s List (!) to get his story of lewd and steamy man-on-man Yankee pride published.  Here’s the listing:

I am a former clubhouse assistant who was employed by the New York Yankees from 1996-1997. Before that, from 1976-1995, I worked directly for my father, Nick Priore, who, in turn, worked for the Yankees in a variety of positions, from 1956-1998, including clubhouse manager. My father also worked for the New York Mets, from 1998-2005, as an assistant clubhouse manager.

I have many fascinating “insider” stories to tell about the New York Yankees, some of which are rather seamy. I would like to find an experienced co-writer to work with me on an explosive, “tell-all” book about my experiences at the New York Yankees, which will include detailed and vivid descriptions of the many things that I witnessed, overheard, or was otherwise privy to, during the time period that I worked for my father or directly for the team. The right candidate needs to have major literary contacts, and cannot be afraid of participating in what is bound to be an extremely explosive and controversial book.  [SOURCE]

This is the same dude who sued the Yanks almost 10 years-ago for harassment and being taunted as a “faggot” by the bombers, as reported by THE SMOKING GUN,  so you figure out the truth….

Note:  We at PartMule are equal opportunity reporters, never biased, always mix up the facts, and tend to have bad spelling and grammar.  I would not be doing my job if I didn’t talk to you about the fudge packer homosexual gentlemen’s allegations and lose the opportunity to bash report on America’s team.

Suuuuupppper!

A tourist on an East Coast baseball pilgrimmage got his neck snapped at Yankee Stadium last week when a fan in the upper deck tumbled into him.   Apparently, he is resting uncomfortably, and his family tour plans are obviously off due to his traction:

Paul Robinson, 53, of Kirkland, Wash., was sitting in the stadium’s steep upper deck with his wife and 13-year-old son last Sunday when an unidentified fan standing above him took a violent tumble down several rows of seats.

The man crashed into Robinson’s head, breaking his vertebrae, then came to rest in the next row.

“It felt like my head had been ripped off,” Robinson told the Daily News from his hospital bed.

EMT’s took Robinson to the hospital, where surgeons put a screw in his neck to help it heal.

The man who fell was dragged away by his friends and never bothered to apologize or check how badly Robinson was hurt. The family believes he was drunk.  [SOURCE]

That sounds very sweet.  I nice Sunday afternoon ballgame in the summer.  Out from the Northwest with wife and son.  Peanuts, popcorn, and paramedics. 

Talk about getting caught off-guard?!  The drunkard might-as-well-have ran down and just cold-cocked the dude, with his friends pissing on his wife and kid to finish off the task.  Then to leave the tourist limp and basically headless?  Shameless.