So yesterday Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine goes on sports radio and among the tidbits drops a bomb.
During a game a rookie named Middlebrook committed two errors in the same inning. Upon arriving back to the dugout he was greeted with a sarcastic “nice inning” from Valentine. Soon after the manager he was rebuked by “ownership” for uttering that unkind remark at a player.
How did it get to ownership? The snitch lives. I told you so. And he’s not the press’s snitch, he’s Larry’s snitch.
You can say what you want about Bobby V but it is hard not agree that ownership (lLarry) is either setting him up or watching as others set him up to be a joke.
Stay strong Bobby. The fans are with you. It’s not about your managerial skills or your over the top Fabian image. It’s about how the a-holes, including many in the media, are treating you.
Good for you Booby by letting this out as an illustration of the day to day shit Larry is saddling you with.
Listening to Dennis and Callahan this morning you would suspect there was a bag man involved somewhere. Seriously, did anyone hear them this morning. They were like Bagdad Bob playing to Lucchino’s Saddam. They blamed everyone but Larry and when callers suggested some fault in the Red Sox mess should be aimed his way D and C ridiculed them.
Seriously, their loyalty beyond what is expected from the flagship station. Plus they assigned blame to Henry and Werner. Also Cherrington, Epstein, and maybe even Dick O’Connell (blast from the red sox past). It was bizarre.
Anyway rather than mentioning the governor’s choice between two lousy ones re: the crime bill, I thought I’d just remind everyone that Larry Lucchino is still a dick.
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what’s larry’s motive here? HE was the one who overruled cherington to hire bobby v. the guy who looks worst when bobby v finally gets shown the door is larry, no?
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Maybe Larry is just listening to the audio feed of the dugout.
In any case, while I am no fan of the ownership’s behavior in the last year or so, and I don’t think the fans are especially on Bobby’s side either.
I must not know a lot of fans, then, because I don’t know anyone who thinks Bobby was a good idea or that he’s doing a good job.
If I have my pulse on Red Sox fandom, I’d say there’s a consensus that people don’t necessarily blame Bobby for the season, but they don’t think h’es a part of the solution, either.
Bobby’s got to go. And so does Lucchino.
just to hear Tito talk. I don’t have anything against Bobby V., but Tito wasn’t really the problem.
When they lost John Farrell, they lost the guy who kept the pitchers–the root of last year’s problem–in line. Big failures may require big changes of heart, but not necessarily big changes in personnel. The ownership blew it when they fired Francona. Maybe they should have changed pitching coaches, but that should have been it.
Here is what happened in 2011. This is from a person who heard it from a person who was in a position to know. Neither of these people is one to engage in idle gossip.
The media has not reported this.
Early in 2011 Francona started “chasing tail” (as they say). Anything and everything. His wife found out and threw him out.
He got depressed. He started taking meds. He got more depressed. He stopped talking to all the players except Pedroia.
Pedroia would bring the lineup card to the umps. After a while Tito was letting Pedroia do the lineups himself. Players started taking advantage of the situation (the beer & fried chicken). Varitek tried to step in as the captain and players told him to pound sand.
The September collapse was inevitable and Tito was the cause.
See, much more interesting that discussions about snitches (and I agree, Tom- Yawn).
But that’s good to know.
Whatever was happening with Tito does not entirely explain the collapse of the pitching staff. I think the loss of Farrell is a better explanation for that. And if Tito was the whole problem, how come things aren’t better now that he is gone?
and dragged Lester down with him.
Regardless of whether Merrimack’s story is true– and I think it may be– Francona blew it last year. He is still the best Red Sox manager of my lifetime, and probably yours, but he sure didn’t show it last year.
I also give a lot of credence to the Farrell theory, because the problem is 100% pitching. Not Valentine, not Youkilis, not Lucchino, who does not play baseball, but pitching. Neither of these theories is incompatible with the other. A good manager has a good staff.
Thank goodness there has been the Tour de France, and especially the Olympics to give us something–ANYTHING– to watch other than crappy TV or political coverage this summer. College football cannot arrive soon enough after the London closing ceremonies, and my team is LOUSY this year.
Go Orioles!!!!
Trolls gonna troll.
If we had stuck with Duquette Yankee fans would still be chanting “1918″.
One has to wonder whether you even live in MA….
Glad The Duke ran Mo Fraud Vaughn and Roger Clemens out of town. He got Derek Lowe, Jason Varitek, Pedro Martinez, Noma G, Wakefiled, Johnny Damon, Manny Ramirez. Need I say more?
Not many people give the bulk of the credit for 2004 to Dan Duquette. In fact, just about no one does. And saying that you “didn’t like the Red Sox” after Duquette left, just means that you were never really a Red Sox fan. I don’t know why you feel compelled to comment.
Why don’t you try that line of argument out on WEEI?- You will be soundly mocked, and deservedly so.
Butch from the Cape died in 2003.
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