Why they lost?
It's not Torre. I guess George realizes that $202 million doesn't buy what it used to.

The Yankees won championships in the 90's by virtue of a team they built when Steinbrenner was kicked out of baseball. Jeter, Pettite, Posada and Williams. Guys like O'Neill, Martines and Brosius, who never sought the limelight but knew the value of playing hard as a team every game, were added.

George returned and he eventually is attracted by big names, self promoters and prima donnas, who were portrayed as stars, but never won anything: Giambi, Mussina, A-Rod, and most recently Abreu. Plus, Sheffield, the antithesis of the Yankee of the late-90's, has been a complainer and whiner wherever he's been. And Johnson was just too old.

A great assembly of individual talent? You bet.

A great team? Hardly.

Anyway, it's good that we don't have to listen to the garbage about the greatest hitting lineup anymore.

Fire Torre? Bring in Piniella to scream and rant to motivate the boys. If $200 million doesn't motivate them, a funny looking clown, who kicks dirt and rips bases from the field, isn't going to do it.

By the way, the biggest reason Detroit won- and I haven't seen it mentioned- was that they completely removed the Yankees' biggest asset from the series: Rivera.