Owners John Henry and Tom Werner returned from the Olympics in London Saturday night, but they did not witness any gold-medal performances from the team they own.
As dramatically as Pedro Ciriaco had stroked an eighth-inning pinch-hit homer to give the Red Sox a 3-2 lead that became 4-2 on a Cody Ross RBI single, Alfredo Aceves gave it all away and then some when he served up a three-run homer to Joe Mauer in the ninth as the Twins went on to a 6-4 win before a stunned crowd of 37,914 at Fenway.
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The fish rots from the head down. Start with the manager. He is calling the shots not his coaches. Your logic is flawed
Thank god for John Tomase, calling the Aceves pitch one that could be called either wqay instead of the fantasy absorbed and Sox aplologist Nick Carfaro who called it a definate strike. Jerry Remy and I must have been looking at the screen the wrong way. One of the reasons the Sox players are such babies is that guys like Nick, Sean McAdaam (he actually made an excuse for Beckett the other day, must be writing a book with Josh on how hard is is to survive on $100 million dollars), Peter(do his feet actually touch the ground)Abraham, Butch Stearns and Steve Buckley, all of whom for years have invested in kissing the players buts to get stories instead of just working harder to get an angle. BUCKLEY EVEN RECOMMENDED THAT TERRY BE A HALL OF FAME CANDIDATE. After all, baseball can't be overshadowed by Bill Belichick. The media is just as much to blame for management's and player's arrogance by indulging them ad naseum.