Perhaps it's an oversimplification to suggest that it all boils down to what would Joe Torre do?
His team did, after all, blow a 3-0 playoff lead to the Boston Red Sox not so long ago, and the Yankees and their skipper, for all their financial might, have not won a World Series in quite some time.
That said, the New York manager deals with enormous pressures every season, with a collection of superstar egos in his clubhouse, with a massive and voracious press corps, with an interfering owner prone to making matters worse.
And it's impossible to imagine Torre under any circumstances challenging one of his players to a fist fight.
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