Over the last few days, there’s been a lot of talk about the Vote for Manny campaign. Many baseball fans are voting for Manny Ramirez to make the 2009 All-Star Game — for various reasons. Some fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers want to see him play, while other baseball fans believe that Ramirez’s selection could force commissioner Bud Selig to make changes to the All-Star format.

Vote for Manny - Joe Torre Won't Do It (Image: Zuma Press)

However, don’t expect to see Dodgers manager Joe Torre vote for his suspended outfielder. When asked about Ramirez playing in the All-Star game, Torre had a simple retort.

Said Torre: “No. I think if you asked Manny, he’d give you the same answer.”

Torre later went on to talk about how the point of the All-Star game should be to reward the players who played the best in the first half of the baseball season.

Although Torre said that Ramirez himself wouldn’t accept a starting spot in the National League All-Star outfield, the suspended native of the Dominican Republic hasn’t addressed the issue as of yet.

Joe Torre has a new book coming out in the beginning of February that is called “The Yankee Years” in which he supposedly gives the dirt on his days with the Yankees. Reportedly, there’s talk in the book about how Alex Rodriguez’s teammates called him A-Fraud and how Rodriguez has an intense rivalry with teammate Derek Jeter.

While the book is undoubtedly going to be interesting, Joe Torre going public with the inside scoop of the clubhouse is a low blow. For a manager with so much respect around the league, it’s a surprise that he’s breaking one of the unwritten rules that what happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse.

What kind of trust will his Los Angeles Dodgers players have in him? It’s only human nature that the players will have to wonder whether what they do in the clubhouse will make Torre’s next book.

All in all, “The Yankee Years” is going to simply be a money grab for Torre. It’s a disgrace to Torre’s legacy and is unfair to the Yankees that went to war with him over the years.

You’re better than that, Joe Torre.