It showed.

" 'Baseball wasn’t fun the last three years,' [Torre] said. 'The game was fun. The players were fun. But everything connected to it wasn’t fun. I was curious if it could be fun again.'

...

But the tedium of all that swirls around the Yankees had begun to wear him down, somewhere beneath the sad eyes. At times last season, Mattingly felt obligated to give Torre a poke, a reading of his emotional and physical temperature."

I know the job of professional baseball manager is torturous and tedious. Especially for the maanger of the New York Yankees. With the highest salary, by far, of any professional baseball manager.

"More than once, he said, he asked himself, 'Am I doing the right thing?'

He didn’t get a legitimate answer until the days before he left for Vero Beach, when his body began to feel right again, when the notion of another baseball season put him again on the balls of his feet."

Last season, it made headlines -- literally -- when Torre got off the bench and stood on the top step of the dugout.

During a game.

It was like he was actually paying attention to the actual game.