Joe Airs Yank's Dirty Laundry

OK. So maybe you have been under rock for the last couple of days and haven't heard. "The Yankee Years", a book written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci, is due to on book store shelves Tuesday, February 3.
In it, Joe seems to air the dirty laundry of that classy Steinbrenner empire known as The New York Yankees. Joe takes swipes at everyone from Brian Cashman to AROD. In the book Joe claims that players on the team had a myriad of issues with star players. A-ROD is referred to as "A-FRAUD" by many of his teammates, according to Saint Joe- and that's just the beginning. Joe claims Brian Cashman, Yankee GM and Steinbrenner buffoon, hung him out to dry (oops another laundry reference) when it was time to negotiate the skipper's new contract. Joe also says everyone on the team hated Carl Pavano. How could they? Carl was never around, spending nearly his entire Yankee "career" on the DL, appearing in only 57 games over four years. Pavano must have been a real pr*ck to have earned such scorn in such a small time frame.
Seems that Joe's doctor also told old Georgie Porgie that Joe had prostate cancer before he told Joe. AHHHH! Yankee class and tradition! Oh, to don the Pinstripes!

All this has us asking one question: "Why"? With all the money Joe has earned in his career, why would a guy perceived to be a "player's manager" and always told his players and the media

"everything stays in the clubhouse" write the book? What's an extra million bucks or so to one of MLB's highest paid managers in its history?

I wonder if Joe ever read his own book he wrote a few year back entitled:
Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners: 12 Keys to Managing Team Players, Tough Bosses, Setbacks, and Success written by Joe Torre and Henry Dreher.

Who knows what's true and what's not. I guess we'll have to wait for the book to come out. One thing is for sure. It is a brilliant marketing campaign launched by the publisher to leak juicy tid-bits then launch the sale of the book two days after the Superbowl. Hardly a coincidence, wouldn't you say? I bet A-ROD et. al. are looking forward to their first day of spring training when The Bronx Zoo hits Florida. I know I can't.
-- Steve