Zimmer Unhappy With Steinbrenner

New York Yankee coach Don Zimmer lashed out at owner George Steinbrenner for saying it was up to Joe Torre to fix the team.

“I got fed up reading all the things about our manager who has won four World Series in seven years,” Zimmer said Wednesday. “That’s a joke. Then again, he’s the boss.”

Steinbrenner has said that he had given Torre everything he had asked for, so it was the manager’s responsibility to make sure the team started playing better.

“For seven years here it was Tampa’s team. That’s all we heard. ‘We’ll pick the team, we’ll pick the team,’ ” Zimmer said, referring to the fact much of the Yankees’ management team is based in Tampa, Fla. “All of a sudden we’re losing, and it’s suddenly Joe’s team? That’s unfair. I respect him. He’s still the boss. But that doesn’t mean I can’t say something.”

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Seven men who said they were molested as bat boys at the Boston Red Sox spring training camp at Tampa settled their lawsuit against the team for an undisclosed amount.

The men were seeking more than $3 million in a 2001 federal lawsuit.

From Associated Press