Bobby Valentine has made plenty of mistakes this season.
He is too honest for his own good when it comes to discussing the players with the media, telling the truth about them complaining about playing time (Kelly Shoppach) or their minor injuries (Carl Crawford). If somebody makes a mistake, he doesn’t pretend everything is fine.
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BRAVO!
'God bless Peter Abtaham; this column should be reprinted and read by all the players in a locked room and be asked to respond candidly and unemotionally: as grown ups not overpaid children; we are in the most serious depression since the Big One(soup lines) when I was born, people now are losing homes, unable to find work, succumbing to numbing depression.........WAKE UP! and make the Boston fans proud!
baseball playerss are the biggest prima donnas of all athletes. this team personifies it.
Peter Abraham : Daddy Players: brats I love the way he hard nosed the truth. The players, not just the Red Sox, have been wagging the league's tail for too long. Get contracts based on output, not potential. Pay them for what they do during the year, add it up, and write a check at the end of the year. Just like real people. Simple. That will get their attention.
A couple of obvious fixes: 1. Valentine should overhaul the coaching staff so that the guys he watns are on board. 2. Focus on rebuilding in 2013 and 2014. Phase in the kids and unload the veterans, if possible. But get some value. 3. Cherington should go. He was on the staff that made the poor decisions about players, he's done nothing to improve the team, and -- based on the way he's approached personnel decisions this year -- he lacks the big picture thinking needed to restructure the roster.
Many excellent points here. Pedroia should be gotten rid of just like they did with his fellow whine-bag, Kevin Usealess.
There should be a meeting with all owners, coaches and players present before tonights game to announce that they have extended Bobby Valentine's contract three years. This will send the nail in the coffin message to all the cancers on the team. They then can decide if and when they want to leave and I'm sure there will be somewhere between five and ten idiots who want out. My guess is Beckett, Lester, Little troll Pedroia, Gonzalez, Lackey, Crawford and Buchholz. Get what you can and start fresh, owners, take notice because we fans don't want another year of this crap where the inmates are running the asylum. Stop this nonsense NOW, and send the message to the cancers on the team before tonights game in Baltimore. Just do it!
Keep beating the drum, Peter, with truth and honesty as your drumsticks. As for fans, when enough of them stop attending games and the phony sell-out record goes down, the message will begin to get across to entitled players and enabling owners alike.
I concur with the globularities comment " As for the fans, when enough of them stop attending games and the phony sell-out record goes down, the message will begin to get across to entitled players and enabling owners alike. It's time for the fans to vote with their pocketbook.
Right on, Peter Abraham. Think again, Christopher Gasper. Send a message, John Henry. Extend Bobby Valentine. Anyone that makes unhappy, assure them you will ship them out to Kansas City as soon as a reasonable deal can be made. I'm tired on these millionaire crybabies.