Joe is staying. Now,
Bill Madden (veteran reporter with a good reputation) of the
NY Daily News who first said he was going coyly said on
Daily News Live! today (SNY) that there is some unknown reason (buy Wednesday's paper!) compelling it. Whatever. Madden is right: "[T]o bring him back for the final year on his contract would be to essentially excuse the way this Yankee team bowed out so dispassionately." Or, to have lower expectations. An "elite" team doesn't collapse repeatedly like this, especially with such a payroll.
