CAPTAIN WINS DIAL-A-BERNIE SWEEPSTAKES
CAPTAIN WINS DIAL-A-BERNIE SWEEPSTAKES
By GEORGE KING
February 22, 2007 -
- TAMPA - Joe Torre and Brian Cashman can't get Bernie Williams on the phone, but Derek Jeter can.
"I have talked to him, he called me back," Jeter said. "I don't want to talk about what we talked about. It appears he is not coming [to camp]."
Repeated efforts by Torre and Cashman to get an answer from Williams, who was invited to camp on a minor-league deal, have failed.
"It's sad but not surprising that I haven't heard back from him," Torre said.
While Williams is working out at home in New York and willing to help the Yankees, it won't be without a guarantee he will make the team. And that won't be forthcoming, according to Torre and Cashman.
It's fitting that the aloof Williams isn't retired but isn't in camp.
"Half the time you don't even know he is here," Jeter said. "Bernie can be in the corner one minute and a week later you see him in the corner and you haven't seen him any time between. It's typical Bernie in terms of not doing everything by the book."
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Asked to respond to yesterday's Post exclusive in which Gary Sheffield said Torre "took the fire out of me" by not starting him in last year's Game 3 of the ALDS, Torre refused to get into a back-and-forth with his former right fielder.
"Every player is allowed, and I certainly respect, their opinion. You would like to believe that every player you manage would always have nice things to say to you," Torre said. "I really don't comment on things like that. It takes away from people being able to say what they want to say and feel the way they want to feel. You do the best you can and hope you touched everybody. If it doesn't always work that way, so be it. If that's the way he feels, that's the way he feels."
Today is a day hitters loathe. That's because they face pitchers in batting practice for the first time. Even though the hurlers will be working with an "L" screen in front of them, the hitters will moan about their hands stinging when they make contact.
On the main field will be Chien-Ming Wang, Andy Pettitte, Mike Mussina, Kei Igawa, Carl Pavano, Phil Hughes and Humberto Sanchez.
"They will throw 30 to 40 pitches and the hitters will have a wonderful time," Torre predicted.
After two days of batting practice, Jason Giambi is happy about how his surgically repaired left wrist has held up.
"It's good. I swung a little harder today," Giambi said. "I will take it easier [today]."
Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
By GEORGE KING
February 22, 2007 -
- TAMPA - Joe Torre and Brian Cashman can't get Bernie Williams on the phone, but Derek Jeter can.
"I have talked to him, he called me back," Jeter said. "I don't want to talk about what we talked about. It appears he is not coming [to camp]."
Repeated efforts by Torre and Cashman to get an answer from Williams, who was invited to camp on a minor-league deal, have failed.
"It's sad but not surprising that I haven't heard back from him," Torre said.
While Williams is working out at home in New York and willing to help the Yankees, it won't be without a guarantee he will make the team. And that won't be forthcoming, according to Torre and Cashman.
It's fitting that the aloof Williams isn't retired but isn't in camp.
"Half the time you don't even know he is here," Jeter said. "Bernie can be in the corner one minute and a week later you see him in the corner and you haven't seen him any time between. It's typical Bernie in terms of not doing everything by the book."
*
Asked to respond to yesterday's Post exclusive in which Gary Sheffield said Torre "took the fire out of me" by not starting him in last year's Game 3 of the ALDS, Torre refused to get into a back-and-forth with his former right fielder.
"Every player is allowed, and I certainly respect, their opinion. You would like to believe that every player you manage would always have nice things to say to you," Torre said. "I really don't comment on things like that. It takes away from people being able to say what they want to say and feel the way they want to feel. You do the best you can and hope you touched everybody. If it doesn't always work that way, so be it. If that's the way he feels, that's the way he feels."
Today is a day hitters loathe. That's because they face pitchers in batting practice for the first time. Even though the hurlers will be working with an "L" screen in front of them, the hitters will moan about their hands stinging when they make contact.
On the main field will be Chien-Ming Wang, Andy Pettitte, Mike Mussina, Kei Igawa, Carl Pavano, Phil Hughes and Humberto Sanchez.
"They will throw 30 to 40 pitches and the hitters will have a wonderful time," Torre predicted.
After two days of batting practice, Jason Giambi is happy about how his surgically repaired left wrist has held up.
"It's good. I swung a little harder today," Giambi said. "I will take it easier [today]."
Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
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