The Los Angeles Times asked sports figures at the Super Bowl what they thought of joe Torre’s disclosures in “The Yankee Years,” and it wasn’t good for the current Dodgers manager.
Lisa GUerrero writes, “The news of the Yankee Years and the bits of the book that have been released have done wonders to build sympathy for Alex Rodriguez within the fraternity of pro athletes, a group that he is not very popular with to begin with.
A player that I spoke with here who didn’t want to be named told me, ‘Look, Alex is a jerk. Torre’s insights are probably 100% accurate about how his teammates feel about him, but there’s no reason to air that dirty laundry in a book.’ ” Former Giants Super Bowl MVP says, “Everyone has an opinion, Anderson said, ‘but a manager shouldn’t share his in a book.'”
Guerrero is married to pitcher Scott Erickson, who was with the Yankees in 1996. He “acknowledged that many of those stories about Rodriguez are true. He takes issue with the fact that Torre or anyone writing about certain players’ bad behavior, but then chooses not to write about others.”
Summing up, Redskins Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien, said, “What happens in the locker room should stay in the locker room. I feel sorry for the Dodgers.”