Lupica

Mike Lupica's politics sometimes crowd out the sense he makes as a columnist. But nothing makes more sense than this, about the Yankees and Joe Torre:

If the Yankees weren't going to go for Lou Piniella after last season, they shouldn't think about having somebody else managing next season, whether they make the playoffs or not.

Torre himself has already called this his toughest season. But the Yankees have come out of it, and been the best team in baseball for more than a month, and are making the run they had to make now. For all the pitching problems they had early, they were too good not to make a run. No matter how many people wrote them off.

True enough. With Piniella, Jim Leyland, and Tony LaRussa taken, there is no one--no one--with the necessary stature to guide the Yankees should Torre be fired.

Don Mattingly, Joe Girardi--no and no.

It's all-in with Torre.

Lupica here.