Terry Francona was a real gentleman who had the nerve to expect that a bunch of coddled, over paid mercenaries (excepting Pedroia, Ellsbury, Yook, Lester, Paps and a few others) could at least keep up the pretense that they cared for each other enough to not completely unravel into the disgrace that was September's collapse.
Francona was indeed the wrong manager for this bunch, 3 of whom make as much as the entire Rays team that played as if they loved each other and cut these fat cats down to make the MLB playoffs.
Hats off to the Rays... and that other team a couple hundred miles down south of here for that matter. I am not watching any baseball, with football in full swing and hockey on tap. But I want to congratulate the organization with whom Francona ultimately lands. He's a class act. Meanwhile, here in Boston all is as it should be as the pre-2004 Red Sox are back. Time for the pink hats and young ones to learn what b ball used to be like round here.
"In a news conference Friday evening, Francona reiterated that it was his decision to leave, but added that ownership never told him they wanted him back. Instead they asked him for his thoughts, and his thought was to leave." --ESPN
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Francona was indeed the wrong manager for this bunch, 3 of whom make as much as the entire Rays team that played as if they loved each other and cut these fat cats down to make the MLB playoffs.
Hats off to the Rays... and that other team a couple hundred miles down south of here for that matter. I am not watching any baseball, with football in full swing and hockey on tap. But I want to congratulate the organization with whom Francona ultimately lands. He's a class act. Meanwhile, here in Boston all is as it should be as the pre-2004 Red Sox are back. Time for the pink hats and young ones to learn what b ball used to be like round here.
"In a news conference Friday evening, Francona reiterated that it was his decision to leave, but added that ownership never told him they wanted him back. Instead they asked him for his thoughts, and his thought was to leave." --ESPN
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I've been a Yankees fan since 1966, so you know I have no great love for the Sox. Winning is about professionalism and ability, and over the years, I've seen a lot of Bosox teams with the ability, but only a couple of Series-winning years where the professionalism was on full display. From the stories coming out, it seems that once again this was the major issue this year. It's the manager's job to 'manage' the players, and Francona took that hit. Like you say, a class act, just as Carl Crawford was when he told it like it was post-game 162. But now, you have someone like Gonzalez, a great hitter, who stood across the locker room from Crawford whining and making every excuse known to man about why the team didn't make it this year. Classic example of ability minus professionalism. And the problem continues, no matter who comes in to manage in Francona's honorable wake.
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