Joe Torre Will Return to Yankee Stadium Tonight

Soon-to-be former Dodgers manager Joe Torre, who announced this weekend that he will not return to LA in 2011, and is considering retirement, giving his bench coach Don Mattingly the managerial job in LA, will join Mattingly at Yankee Stadium tonight for the unveiling of George Steinbrenner's monument in Monument Park.

This marks the first time that either Torre or Mattingly return to the Bronx since they left for LA after the 2007 season. Mattingly returning is not a big story, since he is beloved in the Yankee organization, but Torre's return is a huge story.

Torre left on bad terms in the Bronx. His book chronically his Yankee years threw people in the Yankee front office, including GM Brian Cashman, under the bus. Torre and Cashman have watched their friendship deteriorate the last three years, and Torre was neither invited, nor mentioned in the Yankees good-bye presentation to the old Yankee Stadium two years ago.

Earlier this summer, when the Yankees visited LA, only Derek Jeter, Joe Girardi, Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte, and Jorge Posada greeted their old skipper. Alex Rodriguez who hated Torre ignored him for a couple days until the media pressured A-Rod to take photos with him.

"It will be great to see them. I am looking forward to that," Pettitte said. "Joe means a lot to the organization. It's a good thing for Joe and the organization. He should be part of the organization for a long time."