Maybe it's time to hire Billy Martin.

When Bill Hall can question your team's heart ... and you can't argue with him ... maybe it's time to hire Billy Martin again.

If George exhumed Billy Martin's skeleton and propped it up in the corner of the dugout, I think it would inspire the team more than Torre.

If Torre's management style is no longer working, it's time to adapt. Stubbornness and inflexibility are being praised as consistency:

"Not that he needs much prompting on the subject, but apparently Steinbrenner began all but chanting the late Martin's name after Kay raised the subject on the YES postgame show after Friday's loss to the Twins. Kay said that maybe Torre should throw a fit in the clubhouse in classic Martin fashion, maybe turn over the food spread or something to try to awaken his slumbering team.
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Torre and the people close to him think just the opposite. Torre has said repeatedly he won't change his style just because someone wants him to show more emotion, and yesterday his long-time pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre scoffed at such a notion.

'He's been through a lot with these guys, some of them for 10 years,' Stottlemyre said. 'For him to suddenly try and be something different, these guys would see right through that.' "


Torre evidently doesn't like losing so much that he cancels batting practice:

"Me? I don't like it," manager Joe Torre said after the Yanks lost for the ninth time in their last 10 games and the seventh in eight on the road trip to fall to 28-30, still seven games behind Baltimore atop the AL East.

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Torre already made a drastic managing change by the time he addressed reporters after the game - he's decided to cancel batting practice before tonight's series finale against the Brewers.

"There's nothing else you're going to tell them, nothing else they need to know," he said. "Let's just not pick up the bats till game time."

The way they're hitting, there is no reason to pick up the bats during game time. Ba dum bum.

I got an idea: If you're going to cancel batting practice, then how about bunting practice for Robinson Cano. Ten thousand consecutive successful bunts and he is benched until he gets it right.