I can think of some players who should be sent out of town.
Yeah, well Zito should be kicked out of here, but they just can’t seem to stomach eating that salary. Same with Rowand…
Joe
I’m just wondering if anyone will give the Dodgers anything for Eugenio Velez.
Anything at all.
Hello?
<crickets>
84 minutes until the playoffs! That is all.
With his historic record setting talent? I think other teams would be foolish not to try to trade for him after the remarkable record he set. Matt Kemp may have missed 40-40 and the tripple crown but Eugeni0 for 43 made even bigger history by shattering the record for the worst hitless streak in major league history. He’s a freakshow. Some team will snap him right up. Think of the draw!
Apparently, it’s official now that Francona’s option will not be picked up (just heard that during the broadcast of the Rays/Rangers game).
Hey, I’m a Red Sox fan and I’m livid over this. This collapse about lack of performance by the players, with the exception of Jacoby Ellsbury and Marco Scutaro. Francona doesn’t play on the field. Everyone bears responsibility for what happened, but it is mostly on the players.
Scapegoating Francona is the stupidest thing this ownership group has done in 10 years at the helm. I’m incredibly upset over this and I don’t think they’re going to find an adequate replacement.
The only way this offseason could get worse is if the rumors of Theo being interested in Chicago are true. This could turn the whole organization upside down. Changes need to be made, for sure, but not this kind.
It is difficult for me to imagine the Dodgers letting him go. But I’ll get over it. Somehow.
I hate the TBS graphic. It’s too busy and cramped.
Can i just say that, after forking over $120 for MLB.TV, i’m pretty fucking annoyed that they want to ding me for another 6 bucks just for the extra camera angles during the playoffs.
Nobody says anything about the Rays 0-6 start?
Right, people (like me) said the Rays were doomed last winter, after losing so many key players to free agency. The system turned out to be deeper than most of us thought, though.
Which is good, but, I think you’ll agree, not notable. It might be for a Billy Beane team, of course.
Your point, please?
I suspect his point is that regardless of how crummy the Red Sox played in September, Tampa still had to play well enough to catch them.
Which they did.
I suspect his point is something else, but the point is that Boston collapsed much more than TB got hot.
Hard to see Tito go, he’s still the best manager in the game, but the fact is still that he lost control of the clubhouse, and, remarkably, has said so. The players, especially the ones Tito should have been able to count on to provide leadership, are still primarily at fault, for lacking sufficient determination and team spirit, sure. The exceptions are so few that it only emphasizes the problem. The front office saddled him with too many guys who had enticing numbers in their spreadsheets, and were willing to radically overpay for to the extent that they had to stint on too many other guys they needed. Theo needs to go too, taking his “new school” loser staffers with him, and then the team needs restore the scouts and baseball people who can read a guy’s heart back into power.
Too many guys got lazy and fat and injured, just like last year although not as badly. Too many vets forgot they had to work to win, instead of coasting on their World Series glory, now receding into history. Wake, Papi, Tek, this is on you, too.
Six of one; half a dozen of the other.
I dunno, if you want to put heads on the guillotine because shit happened, that’s up to you, but it seems to me that that is your point. You want someone to blame, and you want heads to roll. The Red Sox are a fine team, and it just didn’t work out for them this year. But maybe if you cut off some heads, it will act as encouragement for the others. Firing a manager who won you two world series and has a .574 winning percentage in Boston should certainly improve things.
“It just didn’t work out” is hardly a useful explanation for anything.
As a fan of another AL East team, if the Red Sox want to fire the GM who built the best teams and the only World Championships they’ve had in any of our lifetimes, after firing the manager to managed them, I am A-OK with that.
It’s hard to tell which moves have been Epstein’s and which Larry Lucchino’s or even John Henry’s, with the notable exception of the Beckett-Lowell deal, without which there probably wouldn’t have been those 2 WS wins. That was Lucchino’s (Epstein’s contract wasn’t renewed, he left the office on Halloween wearing a gorilla suit to disguise himself from the press, and didn’t get rehired for months later), and Epstein has said he wouldn’t have done it.
Anybody could spend Henry’s money on useless free agents just as stupidly. Boston’s strength had been scouting/drafting/player development, until the last year or two when there was nobody left to help the big club.
As a Jays fan, you should envy Boston’s revenue, not its GM.
How about “It’s not you; it’s me”?