Picked-up pieces while waiting for the Sox to finally admit the sellout streak is over when we see empty seats at Monday’s afternoon game against the mighty Royals . . .
John Henry says he’s writing a book. He has been talking about it around Fenway, and Tuesday night he sent me an e-mail that read, in part, “I’ve been writing a book . . . I’ll finally have my perspective in print . . .”
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Let's suppose you're a star youth player on the Dominican Republic. You are desperately poor, like most of your country and most of the boys you play with. You have survived a savagely Darwinian environment. In a country where hundreds of thousands of desperately poor boys try to rise to the top, you actually have a shot at making it to The Show. *** But you are undersized. Not your fault; you've been undernourished your entire life. But you know that you need to bulk up FAST, 'cause singles hitters drive Fiats; homerun hitters drive Caddys. *** You have the chance of a lifetime to bring yourself and your momma and your whole family out of grinding poverty. But you gotta bulk up FAST. *** Why would you NOT take PED's to give yourself a better chance to make it big? I can't blame the Latin players at all.
The % caught for performance enhancing drugs that are from Latin America (a diverse enough place that lumping all countries together a bit ignorant in this day and age - oriental anyone?) is very much out of place without stating the overall % of total players from the same region. In any publication of substance this would be considered poor journalism. -- Also, not sure the rationalizations that it's ok because the highs are higher and lows are lower, and everyone is doing it, pass the smell test. -- DS shines when telling local feel good stories. Unfortunately it is the minority of his writing, and not how he will be remembered.
That's terrible about Frates. ALS at 27 years old? Can't even begin to imagine being in his shoes. As far as John Henry, I'm not surprised. As brilliant as he must be with commodities trading, where he made his fortune, he seems to lack social intelligence. Numbers don't always tell the story. Sometimes you need to have an understanding of human nature to fix a problem. Lastly, glad to see you still don't hold Larry accountable for the dysfunction in the organization he oversees. The "smartest guy in the room" has created a circus and if his boss had any common sense he'd show him the door. You're great with sports and I enjoy your writing but you're clueless with respect to what constitutes a healthy organization.
Dan do yourself a favor and retire and move away. Your a very negative person and like the "FORCE" your trying to make us all come to the dark side.
Dan--You are the Master at "Piling on" when it comes to the Red Sox!
Dan: In your column, you question whether V should have thrown the beanbag after Well's homer in the ninth. Is it possible that some else is calling the shots?
Dan, if you read this ... were Sam and Peter teammates at any time? I'm a Prep guy, and know what a great kid Frates is.
"Personally, I feel giving the Sox players heat for not attending a funeral is piling on a little. Ryan Sweeney and Mike Aviles probably never met our beloved Johnny Pesky." Come on Dan, do you really think Padilla even knew who Pesky was? But he showed up to pay his respects. They should have placed everyone else on waivers that did not attend.