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TORRE: GIRARDI HAS THE MO-JOE

Joe Girardi has seen his Yankees under-perform and be hurt by injuries, had a veteran player express his displeasure with his role and an owner occasionally spout off.

His predecessor with the Yankees can relate to all of those things, and insisted yesterday that despite the hole they are in, Girardi can get them out of it.

“Joe’s doing fine,” Dodger manager Joe Torre said. “There’s no handbook on this stuff. You deal with it as your personality allows you to. Joe is bright and has experience. He knows what the expectations are and the players respect him.”

True, but that didn’t stop Jorge Posada from voicing his displeasure about not catching.

“At the end, we’re all gonna be judged on how many wins and losses [we have],” Torre said. “Emotionally, he can handle it.”

Torre yesterday was at the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, where both he and Girardi were on hand for Torre’s Safe at Home Foundation fundraiser.

And while Torre will be in New York for tonight’s All-Star game, he won’t be in The Bronx.

“My being in uniform at Yankee Stadium would have caused more distraction than was needed,” Torre said. “To me, the game is all about the ballpark and then the players who made the club, and that’s where all the attention should be.”

And he’s not sure if he’ll be back before they tear down the Stadium.

“When I left Yankee Stadium, I had a sense it was going to be the last time I left there,” Torre said. “There’s no reason to look back. I don’t think I need to see it one more time just to get that nostalgic feel for it … but there are no absolutes.”

Girardi is trying to build something to be nostalgic about, and even though the Yanks are in third place in the AL East at the break, the current manager believes that will change.

“We have to score some more runs than we did in their first half,” Girardi said. “To me, it’s [about] players playing up to their capabilities. If we do that, I think we’ll be there in October. The big thing is, we have the people in that room to be successful. We just need to play better.”

If they don’t, Hank Steinbrenner will likely let Girardi know about it, much like his father did with Torre.

“You deal with your bosses,” Torre said. “That’s what a big part of the job is.”

dan.martin@nypost.com