What will come first: a writers strike or a deal with Joe Torre? Perhaps neither. What seemed like a nearly done deal for the former Yankee manager to join the Dodgers appears a little more tentative. Dodgers GM Ned Colletti would only say that there's interest. "I don't ever classify anything as close or far," Colletti said today in the LAT. "It's either done or not done, and it's not done." He added that "it's so early in the process, in some ways," and then warned that the situation could change in the next several hours. Now try figuring that one out.