Do you ever wonder what would have happened if Torre was 1-5 in his first six playoff series?

"That game the Red Sox won, coming from 7-0 behind?

There was a time when Torre's Yankees won like that."

Not to get all technical on you, but ... no.

In fact, those teams never gave up 7 runs.

"Incidentally, do you ever wonder what would have happened with the Yankees if they had just let A-Rod go?"

I think about it a lot.

The answer is easy. Fourth place, if not fifth place.

But you need to be more specific. When?

If Lupica is talking about letting ARod go before the '07 season, then one good thing could have come out of it. It would have been the end of Torre's playoff streak.

You know, Joe Torre: The 21st Century version of Bobby Cox.