Thursday, April 29, 2010

Joe Torre has a horse in the Kentucky Derby.

Oh, and the Dodgers are going through the motions:

"The fallout prompted Colletti to call Kemp into a postgame meeting that also included Manager Joe Torre.

'I wanted to explain to him that I didn't single out Matt Kemp,' Colletti said. 'I was asked a question about it. It's not one guy's responsibility. It's a team effort. It's a team effort when it goes in the right direction. It's a team effort when it doesn't. It starts with me.'

Kemp declined to talk about the meeting, but Stewart said the reason Colletti offered for saying what he said wasn't a valid one.

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Torre avoided taking sides.

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Stewart was less restrained.

'A man panicking is what it sounds like to me,' he said of Colletti.

Stewart said Colletti should take more responsibility for the Dodgers' 8-13 start.

'He hired the manager,' Stewart said. 'He hired the coaching staff. The players on the team were selected by him and the coaching staff.' "

I caught Torre in a pregame interview.

Torre talked about Darryl Strawberry and Cecil Fielder. Torre said that the 1996 Yankees adapted their strategy based on the changing personnel on their team. This is an important managerial approach, Torre said.

Unclear if Torre could name five players on the 2010 Dodgers.

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