Former Yankee bat boy, Luis Castillo, trashes Yankee dynasty

Here is a Luis Castillo that Yankee fans will not like.

Unlike the former Met with a similar name who dropped a pop up allowing the Yankees to beat the Mets in a game two seasons ago, a former bat boy for the Yankees named Luis Castillo is dropping a bombshell book that trashes the Yankee dynasty.

In an exclusive story from the New York Post, Castillo releases some interesting squibs about Derek Jeter and former manager Joe Torre. READ THE STORY!

He labels Torre an avid gambler who asked him once to run down to the clubhouse and bring him the results from a horse race.

"I jogged up to the dugout and gave them to Torre, who grabbed the paper and studied it like his life depended on it. When he had discovered the information he wanted, he turned to Don Zimmer and showed it to him. The older man's eyes lit up, and before I left, they were talking excitedly not about the next batter but the OTB results!"

In short, he makes Torre look like a guy who was more interested in gambling than in managing the team. In light of the current Alex Rodriguez scandal over gambling, and, of course, the Pete Rose gambling controversy of years ago, this is not a funny excerpt.

Granted Torre is retired, and it is probably true that players/managers gamble all the time; this is not something that Bud Selieg wants to hear, I am sure.

Castillo then tweaks Derek Jeter as a practical joker and seems to take issue with the fact that Jeter yclept him "Squeegee" for a nickname.

"Hi," I said. "My name is Luis Castillo."

Jeter frowned, narrowed his eyes, and said, "Nah."

I was thinking, no what? Why did he say no to me? But I didn't say anything, I just stood waiting. Jeter looked me up and down some more.

"That's it!" Jeter said. "Your nickname is Squeegee . . . You look like a squeegee." He smiled.

"What!""

Castillo is clearly offended by Jeter and his practical jokes, and throughout the excerpts, Squeegee boy waists no time in ripping the 3,000 hit shortstop.

Castillo even goes on to rip Alex Rodriguez as a cheap and insecure human being:

"A-Rod irritated the other players because he was so high-maintenance. He required his personal assistant to position his toothbrush on a certain part of the sink, specifically the edge near the right-hand cold water tap, leaning with bristles up over the basin. The first time he ordered me to do this, I couldn't believe my ears when he said, "And put some toothpaste on it."

Probably the strangest thing we had to do for A-Rod was lay his clothes out on the table so he could get dressed. You had to lay out these items in a predetermined order: socks at the head of the table, followed by undershorts, undershirt, shirt, pants, and then shoes. I had to carry his clothes from his locker to the trainer's room, where he liked to get dressed away from the prying eyes of the media."

Clearly, Castillo is an opportunist. He knows he can make some money by tossing some incredibly outrageous claims about the Yankees. Once again A-Rod, Jeter and many other current and former Yankees will be forced to answer questions about the book and the petulant Castillo.

Castillo has no shame. The fact that he took offense to being called Squeegee is utterly silly. Hey kid, you are the bat boy, not a member of the team. But don't tell that to Castillo, who feels entitled to be respected by Derek Jeter. Not to mention, Castillo throws around claims in the book that he received thousands upon thousands of dollars in tips from ball players -- which I find hard to believe.

There were no excerpts by the Post on steroid use from the likes of Roger Clemens, and Andy Pettitte, but if Castillo is the greedy little man I think he is, then don't be surprised to see steroids mentioned in the book.

What should players do in the future? Ignoring bat boys all together is probably a good idea. I would love to know if some of these outrageous claims are true, or really just made up by Castillo to make some money in a bad economy.