Yankees What Happened To Our Don?

At the end of the day, it would have been nice to send Joe Torre out on the shoulders of his players, being carried from the field after one last trip to October, one last dramatic seven game Fall Classic, and one last trip around the stadium.

But even though this is Hollywood, the place that patented the Hollywood Ending, we aren't on the set of a movie, and there will be no fairy tale goodbye.

Joe Torre leaves on his own terms nevertheless, old enough to have seen it all and yet young enough to still enjoy the memories.

It is fitting that Torre, who first appeared on the major league scene fifty years ago as a 19 year old kid with the Milwaukee Braves, retires the same year as Bobby Cox, the venerable Braves manager.  

Torre is one year older than Cox, and made his debut as a manager in 1977, one year ahead of Cox. Torre managed the Braves in the mid-1980's, taking over one year after Cox was fired from his first stint with the team. And Cox won his only World Series in 1995, one year before Torre would win his first with the Yankees. 

And while it seems that these two baseball sages, these two elder statesmen of the game, were always missing each other by a year, of this there can be no doubt: in five years time, these two legends of the game will be standing side-by-side, God willing, as the newest inductees into baseball's Hall of Fame.

Joe Torre shockingly announced he will retire from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and hands  the reins to successor Don Mattingly today  with two weeks left in the regular season.

It's a move that caught everyone by surprise considering that the Dodgers may want to interview others such as Tim Wallach, but nevertheless Mattingly is the incoming manager while Torre is nothing but a lame duck on the West Coast.

This offseason is promising to be quite the boiling one when it comes to managers and vacant team openings. As for Joe Torre, where will he end up going next season?

You can bet he'll end up with a big market team with a playoff bound roster that is destined for the World Series. Remember he is retiring from the Dodgers, not baseball, so whether he is or isn't we look at Torre's possible destinations this offseason. 

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