George不喜歡Pettitte不是什麼新聞 http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/oconnor/2003-12-11-oconnor_x.htm 看看這篇usatoday的舊聞, 可以看看2003年Pettitte離開洋基和太空人簽下3年31.5M 的合約前, 大老闆根本沒什麼積極想要留下Pettitte的作為, 對照他簽下Roger Clemens , Mike Mussina, Jason Giambi和Sheffield完全是兩樣情。當時George的腦袋裡大概想 著Pettitte應該除了洋基那裡都不會去。 節錄這一小段 His broken heart. No matter what he claimed Thursday, the day he signed with the Astros for three years and $31.5 million, Pettitte was driven away by a boss who still didn't know what he had after he lost it. After failing to recruit his own free agent in the immediate wake of the World Series, Steinbrenner had one last chance Wednesday night to show his best pitcher and one of the game's best citizens a little overdue respect. The man who has opened his vault to the likes of Raul Mondesi, Sterling Hitchcock, Weaver and Drew Henson slammed it shut for the 31-year-old pitcher who's collected more playoff victories (13) than any ace dead or alive. "We hate to lose Andy Pettitte," Steinbrenner said in his much-too-little, much-too-late statement, punctuated by his warning that those already crowning the Boston Red Sox shouldn't "bet the house." Did Steinbrenner even once pick up the phone to tell Pettitte he wanted him back in the Bronx? "No, he did not," reported the new pride of the Astros. Steinbrenner only covets his neighbor's sports cars. He falls over himself in pursuit of Roger Clemens, Mike Mussina, Jason Giambi and Sheffield but treats the ultra-professional homegrown stars who have won him multiple championships like ill-behaved children in need of a timeout. Bernie Williams was made to sweat out his last-second deal. Derek Jeter wasn't even given a news conference for his $189 million deal. Joe Torre managed a World Series without a contract. Now Torre will have to manage a season without Pettitte, the Yankee who gave birth to a bygone dynasty by winning his indelible Game 5 duel with John Smoltz in the 1996 World Series. It was a moment Steinbrenner honored by once going Mount George over a photo of Pettitte's son in a Mets cap and by once trying to trade Pettitte in a midsummer night's fit. Torre jumped in front of that train, inspiring Steinbrenner to say it was time for Pettitte to "show what kind of man he is." He's a man of his word, Pettitte proved Thursday. A family man who needed to break from the dysfunctional one that forbids public displays of affection for its own. "Sunday night at church was when I saw Andy at peace with this," Tom Pettitte said. "He was watching his three kids in a Christmas play, and I saw true contentment in his eyes. Until that time, he was torn between two places. I mean, how do you leave a place where you've spent so many years?" Father and son talked about staying with the Yankees and making a run at Whitey Ford. The pitcher prayed, talked to Jeter and fielded frantic calls from Yankeeland he dismissed as "last-minute desperation." "How could the Yankees not pay more attention to him," Ford said. "I remember the first time I saw Andy in spring training. He was warming up down the right-field line and I watched him for 10 minutes and said, 'I think that kid's going to be a Yankee for a long time.' " 下面2003年Whitely Ford的話講得最妙... Ford was told Pettitte should've been a Yankee for life. "Yeah," he said, "if only someone used his head." George Steinbrenner lost his instead. 另外2003/10/24的報導, 季後洋基第一優先應該是簽回Pettitte, 但USAtoday裡的一則新 聞中卻寫著Pettitte 1999年差點被George交易到費城人隊, 最後是Cashman, Torre和投教 Mel費盡唇舌才努力留下了Andy。舊聞如下: Pettitte almost dealt 2003/10/24 The New York Yankees probably will make signing pitcher Andy Pettitte their No. 1 priority this offseason. But there was a time when owner George Steinbrenner wanted to trade Pettitte - and almost had a deal that would have sent him to the Philadelphia Phillies midway through 1999. Before the trade was finalized, general manager Brian Cashman, manager Joe Torre and pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre were on a conference call with Steinbrenner, saying the trade would not be a good deal for the Yankees. "I remember him saying, 'You better be right, or you know what's going to happen,' " Cashman says. Who made the most convincing argument to keep Pettitte? "Who knows who he listened to," Cashman says. "Joe, Mel and I fought to keep Andy Pettitte." By Mel Antonen --

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