Torre's Book Blasts Former Players

When you follow a team, it's usually a one-dimensional view. You glean snippets of a player's personality from interviews and dugout shots and you try to read body language. But that's about it. Rarely do you know team chemistry and who hates whom--unless a tell-all book is written. So thank you Joe Torre. I'm making a beeline for the bookstore on 2/2. Although there's probably zero chance that Torre takes a pop at phoney baloney Derek Jeter--otherwise we would have heard it by now. Some guys, such as Wells, you knew Torre disliked. Others, such as A-Rod, we finally get confirmation.

ON ALEX RODRIGUEZ: 'Alex is all about the game. He needs the game. He needs all of those statistics. He needs every record imaginable. And he needs people to make a fuss over him.'

ON KEVIN BROWN AND DAVID WELLS: 'The difference between Kevin Brown and David Wells is that both make your life miserable, but David Wells meant to.'

ON RANDY JOHNSON: 'It was sad more than frustrating when we got him, because I thought we finally had someone you could hook your wagon to, and that wasn't the case.'

ON CARL PAVANO: 'The players all hated him. It was no secret.'

Amen, Joe. Amen.