PARTY STARTS WITH GIRARDI

'SMART' JOE GOES FIRST; DONNY BASEBALL TAKES HIS CUTS TODAY

New York Yankees          

• DON MATTINGLY MEETS WITH YANKEES IN TOP-SPOT TRYOUT

  By GEORGE KING

  Don Mattingly, following in the footsteps of Joe Girardi, arrived this morning in Tampa this morning to plead his case to the Yankees Brass. The current bench coach arrived at 10 a.m. at the Minor...more >

• TEAM TAMPA SILENT ON PLAYER OFFERS

  By GEORGEKING

  TAMPA - Hank Steinbrenner refused to talk about where the Yankees are in regards to making offers to Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada and what the club's timetable for a face-to-face meeting with...more >

• BOSS' SON NEEDS TO REMEMBER THESE ARE THE YANKEES, NOT THE HANK-EES

  By JOEL SHERMAN

  HANK Steinbrenner was in a question-asking mood over the weekend when he posed this beauty to this newspaper: "Where was Joe's career in '95 when my dad hired him?" The Joe is Joe...more >

• FORGET TONY & BOBBY V

  AS GIRARDI INTERVIEWS, TWO NAMES FALL OFF YANKEES' MANAGERIAL LIST

  Post Staff and Wire Reports

  October 22, 2007 -

  TAMPA, Fla. - Cross two names off the list of the next potential Yankee managers. Tony La Russa took himself out of the running when he announced today that he's returning as manager of the...more >

• STEINBRENNERS OPTING TO TALK WITH A-ROD

  By GEORGE KING

  October 22, 2007 -

  The Yankees are making plans for a face-to-face meeting with Alex Rodriguez in the hope they can persuade their All World third baseman and cleanup hitter to stay in The Bronx and not opt out of his...more >

• JOE GOES FIRST

  YANKS GIVE GIRARDI THE INITIAL INTERVIEW

  By GEORGE KING

  October 22, 2007 -

  Don Mattingly is still perceived as the favorite to replace Joe Torre as Yankees manager, but the order in which the team will interview candidates has been altered. Joe Girardi will go first today...more >

• TALK OF DONNIE AS MANAGER COULD TURN INTO IDOL SPLATTER

  By MIKE VACCARO

  October 21, 2007 -

  EVER since the Yankees brought Don Mattingly back from his post-retirement Indiana repose, there has been a sense of inevitability surrounding the idea of him managing the team someday. It was the...more >

• BOSSES READY TO GO TO 'MAT'

  STEINBRENNER III PREFER MATTINGLY AT YANKEES' HELM

  By GEORGE KING

  October 21, 2007 -

  The Steinbrenner family's top choice to follow Joe Torre will be the first person interviewed for the vacant Yankees' manager's job. Don Mattingly will meet with Yankees brass this week...more >

• YOGI'S 10-RING CIRCUS UNBEATABLE

  By KEVIN KERNAN

  October 21, 2007 -

  REGGIE Jackson is Mr. October. Yogi Berra is Mr. World Series. Another Yankee-less Fall Classic begins Wednesday and Yogi will be watching. No one has more World Series memories than Berra, who owns...more >

• PRE-EMPTIVE $TRIKE

  YANKEES PLOTTING OFFER TO AVERT A-ROD OPT-OUT

  By GEORGE KING

  October 21, 2007 -

  While searching for Joe Torre's successor is certainly a big task, it's not the only one in the Yankees' universe. Despite not having a manager, the Yankees are preparing to make an offer...more >

• CALM AFTER THE STORM

  YANKS NEED TO FOLLOW LESSONS OF '95

  By JOEL SHERMAN

  October 21, 2007 -

  THE last time the sky fell on the Yankees in this way, a reign came out. Joe Torre actually became the manager after the 1995 season amid a Yankees offseason that was awash in similarities to this...more >

• IT SHOULD BE THE DON OF A NEW DAY

  By KEVIN KERNAN

  October 20, 2007 -

  I stopped at the Yankees Clubhouse Shop on 42nd Street yesterday - nice place, nice people - but there wasn't a Joe Torre jersey anywhere. There were all kinds of Yankees shirts - new ones, old...more >

• NO TIMETABLE TO NAME NEXT JOE

  By GEORGE KING

  October 20, 2007 -

  Joe Girardi, Tony Pena and Don Mattingly have been informed they are on the list to replace Joe Torre. “I have told them I am interested in interviewing them," GM Brian Cashman said yesterday...more >